HUGE! Grant Cardone is Pairing Bitcoin & Real Estate! Is This the Best Investment Strategy?

**Grant Cardone** (0:00)
So I have something very, very new and something old, something that cash flows, something that you can only use margin, very dangerous margin, Bitcoin, and real estate that you can use, long-term leverage. I got a physical asset and one that's not physical. You combine those two, you got a super being.

**Tony Edward** (0:16)
The banks are looking to use Bitcoin and crypto as collateral. So how would that change your strategy in a few years once this is all ironclad?

**Grant Cardone** (0:24)
Well, I'll be first to the market.

**Tony Edward** (0:31)
This episode is brought to you by iTrust Capital. iTrust Capital allows you to invest in crypto as well as precious metals like gold and silver via an IRA. And this gives you huge tax advantages. So you can invest in over 90 crypto assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and many more. You also get access to stable coins such as Circles USDC and Ripples RLUSD.
And as it relates to precious metals, you can invest in gold and silver, and these are the physical assets. So you're not investing in paper gold and silver. So on this platform, you can redeem the gold and silver if you choose to, and not many platforms offer that. Now, the big advantage to investing via iTrust Capital's IRA is the huge tax advantages. Many of you know you incur capital gains taxes when you sell at a gain. Well, you can minimize the effect of some of that by doing it via an IRA, especially if you have a long-term view on crypto, as well as precious metals. And you can buy and sell crypto in precious metals 24-7. It's low cost and no monthly fee. So this is a great option to get exposure to these two great asset classes. And in addition, they have a great custody solution. It's called Premium Custody Account. So it uses institutional-grade crypto custody, such as Coinbase Prime, which BlackRock leverages. iTrust also uses Fidelity Digital Assets, as well as Fireblocks, and it's a closed-loop system. So if someone hacks into your account, they can't withdraw funds. I believe this is the second safest way to custody your assets right behind self-custody, where you control the private keys. And within the custody account, you can buy and sell 24-7, it's low fees. So this is a great option for custody of your assets, and you can sleep at night knowing that you're getting the institutional-grade custodial services. So once again, two great products here from iTrust Capital, the IRA, where you can roll over your existing 401k or IRA to iTrust Capital's version, getting the huge tax advantages and the institutional custody. Folks, if you sign up with my link at itrustcapital.com/go/thinkingcrypto, you can get a $100 funding bonus. I have an account with iTrust Capital, so I encourage you to go check out iTrust Capital, learn about their services and see if it's right for you. Again, you can get a $100 funding bonus by signing up via my link, which is itrustcapital.com/go/thinkingcrypto.
Link will be in the description.
Hi, everyone. Welcome into the Thinking Crypto Podcast. I'm Tony Edward.

**Amanda Wickroft** (2:58)
And I'm Amanda Wickroft.

**Tony Edward** (3:00)
And joining us is Grant Cardone, who is a prominent businessman, real estate investor, and author. He's also the founder and CEO of Cardone Capital, a private equity firm managing over $5 billion in multifamily real estate assets. Grant, great to have you. Welcome.

**Grant Cardone** (3:16)
Hey, great to be on your show.

**Tony Edward** (3:18)
Grant, Amanda and I are related. We're excited to speak with you and to dive into real estate and crypto and much more because you're doing something pretty profound. You're merging Bitcoin with the world's largest asset class, which is real estate. But before we get to all of that, Grant, where did you grow up and what did you want to be when you were growing up?

**Grant Cardone** (3:38)
Well, I grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, a little refinery town, Southwest Louisiana, between Houston, really Beaumont and Baton Rouge, if you know that part of the world. I was raised by a single mom. My dad died when I was 10 years old. I'm an identical twin. My brother and I lost our dad when we were like nine and a half years old, which had a big impact on my life because now I have a mom that's raising five kids with no income and having to shuck and jive and manage and do what all the great single moms on the planet do to raise their kids. I grew up in a fear environment. There was not a lot of abundance or prosperity thinking. It was mostly doomsday, plan for a rainy day, save for a rainy day. That whole mentality in a refinery town where nobody ever got paid enough, and then when they did get paid, they went and drank it all on a Friday night.