Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary  is formerly an  Ultra UBS tradFI hustler turned crypto boss At Grayscale Investments, with a penchant for collaborative regulation, investment products that access that digital economy, and mid to advanced level icy skiing. We met in the airport lounge en route to Burkina Faso when she kindly offered me a breath mint and glass cleaner for my J12, neither of which I have returned. We immediately shared a bond of traditional leveraged Financed Sales, getting lost in the Metaverse, Wagner Operas  and subtly recognizing each other’s pedigreed pseudo ivy league existences. We would be long time friends. Allegedly.  I have a lot to learn from Ray, she is one of the few women leaders in crypto who strikes critical balance of a nurturing Managing Director with a side order of the perfect ingredients  of fear and obsession without being disturbing. It’s a common thread that everyone in the digital asset space holds a deeply unhealthy obsession with their CEO or counter dauphine. 

I could go on and on about premiums and discounts and the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust and the OJ lawsuit. But I take a pause to leverage my SOL and let Ray explain. In the meantime, I will  focus on my strengths of asking rappers for financial advice and educating the masses thru humor and selective fact checking. In sum, Grayscale is THE crypto asset manager, they offer 18  products, notably GBTC, and sued the SEC when it rejected its transition into an ETF.  According to Ray and court records that I didn’t read, the negotiations are going tremendously as the application is currently being reviewed; WAGMI.  Ray is enviously clear on her vision for Grayscale and her team both in and out of Grayscale Decentraland, which in Ray’s world is designed  with neo gothic / mid century furniture giving a Joan Didion meets Diana Vreeland aesthetic.  Ray drops vital liquid gold bars of advice on how to be a powerful, elegant yet woman in the workplace,  advice I wish I didn’t need as I was not planning on working and living off of my dwindling Filecoin ICO, and alimony. Alas, if you picked up anything from this episode is that Grayscale Bitcoin Trust is one of the first securities solely and passively invested in Bitcoin (“BTC”) that enables investors to gain exposure to BTC in the form of a security while avoiding the challenges of buying, storing, and safekeeping BTC, directly and this episode and anything we say is not not not financial advice. #GlitterLedger #WomenInCrypto #GBTC #SeeYouSeason3 #SeeYouInCourt

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