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More Data Is Yelling To Us That Inflation Is Falling

2025-07-17 01:39:54

To investors,

We got more data this morning that proves tariffs are not inflationary. The Producer Price Index (PPI) is a collection of different indexes that measure the average change over different timelines for selling prices received by domestic producers for the goods and services they produce. The PPI metrics came in lower on every single measurement this morning than economists’ expectations.

This important because PPI is seen as a leading indicator of CPI. And if PPI is falling, the market starts to price in lower inflation in the future. And the data is screaming at us that inflation is going to be lower than economists previously believed.

PPI month-over-month was 0%, PPI Core month-over-month was also 0%. Zero. Zilch. Nothing. Literally flat. Call it a narrative violation.

PPI and PPI Core came in under expectations for year-over-year numbers too. The reason? Tariffs are deflationary, not inflationary. That isn’t debatable anymore.

The tariffs have been in place for 6 months. We have a blanket 10% tariff on all US imports, yet inflation has not exploded higher as everyone predicted.

The shelves were never empty. The recession has been cancelled. And the doomsday predictors look insane in hindsight. But here is the more interesting conversation — what does a lower than expected PPI metric tell us about the future?

According to our handy economic analyst Chat-GPT, here are things to consider if PPI comes in cold:


1. Lower Producer Costs

  • Businesses are facing less inflationary pressure on raw materials, components, or production costs.

  • This could lead to lower prices for consumers down the line.

2. Disinflationary Signal

  • It suggests that inflation might be slowing in the economy.

  • This is generally seen as a positive signal for the Fed if they are trying to cool inflation.

3. Impact on Interest Rates

  • Markets may interpret it as less need for interest rate hikes (or a higher likelihood of rate cuts), which can boost stock prices and lower bond yields.

4. Corporate Margins

  • If consumer prices stay the same while input costs drop, profit margins for companies can improve.

5. Economic Growth Signal

  • It might also reflect slowing demand in the economy, especially if falling prices are due to weak purchasing activity rather than increased supply.


The most interesting part to me is about the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates. Lower PPI gives another data point to the Fed to get a cheaper cost of capital into the market. Will they listen? Probably not. But just because they won’t listen, doesn’t make them right.

The US economy is in much better shape than people want you to believe. Inflation is less of a problem than most people thought. And we are about to do our best impression of a growth economy to get ourselves out of this dire financial position we are in.

The unfortunate part is the growth is going to be stimulated by money printing and currency debasement. Which means stocks, bitcoin and gold are going MUCH higher through the second half of the year. Buckle up. The upwards volatility is just beginning.

Hope you have a great day. I’ll talk to everyone tomorrow.

- Anthony Pompliano

Founder & CEO, Professional Capital Management


Everyone Wants Bitcoin On Wall Street

Anthony Pompliano joins Squawk Box to talk about bitcoin hitting all-time high, what is driving the price higher, inflows into bitcoin ETFs, and why everyone wants bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Is In A Class Of Its Own

2025-07-15 21:06:39

To investors,

Bitcoin is in a class of its own. That was my message during a recent conversation with a friend. This individual was asking me about the difference between bitcoin and various altcoins. After running through the different technical differentiation points (bitcoin is truly decentralized, bitcoin operates on proof-of-work, bitcoin has a finite supply, and bitcoin has no known founder), it struck me that my friend was looking for a financial argument.

So I dug deep into bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana over the last few days. Here is what I found.

First, bitcoin has dominated the performance of the largest altcoins over the last year. Bitcoin is up about 96% in the last 12 months, while Ethereum is down about 10% during the same time frame.

Solana hasn’t faired much better — the 6th largest cryptocurrency is up about 10% in the last year, which is dwarfed by bitcoin as well.

Another way to think about these three assets is that bitcoin is hitting new all-time highs almost every day recently, while Ether is down 38% from its last all-time high in November 2021 and Solana is down 44% from its all-time high in January this year.

You could also look at bitcoin dominance for a data point. We watched bitcoin’s dominance fall from 2013 all the way through Q4 of 2022. Immediately bitcoin did a U-turn and has seen its dominance rise from a low of 38% to more than 63% today.

As I mentioned, bitcoin is in a class of its own. The decentralized, digital currency seems to have been intentionally created to serve as a reserve asset for billions of people. The store of value is doing an excellent job. As Opening Bell’s Phil Rosen pointed out yesterday, the S&P 500 is down 85% in bitcoin terms since 2020.

Bitcoin is the new hurdle rate. No other assets are able to keep up over the long run. And this is a big reason why we have seen the crypto Fear and Greed index go from a low of 15 on April 8th to a high of 70 for this year.

We are living through the good times right now. I am sure we will see bear markets in the future. But nothing feels better than holding on to an asset with volatility, especially when your contrarian trade becomes consensus.

And don’t let your friends make the mistake of confusing bitcoin and any of the altcoins. Hope you all have a great day. I’ll talk to everyone tomorrow.

- Anthony Pompliano

Founder & CEO, Professional Capital Management


Everyone Wants Bitcoin On Wall Street

Anthony Pompliano joins Squawk Box to talk about bitcoin hitting all-time high, what is driving the price higher, inflows into bitcoin ETFs, and why everyone wants bitcoin.

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Why Is Bitcoin Going Higher So Quickly?

2025-07-14 19:44:43

To investors,

Bitcoin has been on a historic run recently. The digital currency had a weekly close above $119,000 last night. This is the highest weekly close in bitcoin’s history.

As our friends at Geiger Capital put it perfectly when they said “Hell of a candle. Price discovery.” And this is exactly how price discovery works. Bitcoin will be re-priced higher and higher until the net new buyers are exhausted.

So how high could bitcoin go during this price discovery?

You can see in the chart that back in November of 2024, bitcoin went from $70,000 to $90,000 in a matter of weeks after breaking through a previous all-time high. Bitcoin would run to $140,000 in the next 2 weeks or so if the asset followed a similar breakout of 30%. I am not predicting we will see $140,000 in short order. I am merely showing you what happened the last time bitcoin was in a similar price discovery phase.

This brings us to another question - what caused bitcoin to finally break out of the previous range between $100,000 and $110,000?

That answer is a little more complex. First, we know the bitcoin ETFs have seen significant inflows to start the month of July. Barchart highlights that last Thursday was the second highest day of inflows for the collective Bitcoin ETFs.

More than $1.2 billion of inflows for the bitcoin ETFs in a single trading session is incredible. It is hard to explain how successful the bitcoin ETF launches have been for Wall Street.

Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas does his best with this visualization of how dominant Blackrock’s IBIT fund has been. Eric writes “$IBIT blew through the $80 billion mark last night, fastest ETF to get there in 374 days, about 5x faster than the previous record, held by $VOO, which did it in 1,814 days. Also at $83 billion it's now 21st biggest ETF overall.”

Eric then goes on to explain the collective bitcoin ETF success by saying “total assets for all the spot bitcoin ETFs crossed $140b for first time as well.” These are monster numbers for products that are about 18 months old.

On top of the ETF inflows, bitcoin options expired at the end of June for the second quarter. As Jordi Visser told me on our weekly Saturday podcast — “at the end of every quarter there is a lot of open interest from people that are selling future production…volatility was compressed. Bitcoin volatility was below 40, so I think once we came out of expiration there was less sell pressure.”

So you can’t ignore the importance of option expirations happening a few days before the bitcoin breakout. But that isn’t the full story either. Jordi goes on to explain that short sellers had built up and got squeezed which reinforced the price movement upwards. He told me “there were a lot of shorts that had built up in the $110,000 - $120,000 area around prior all-time highs.”

Now this makes more sense. We have a confluence of events. Bitcoin ETF inflows were near record levels, bitcoin options had just expired, and short sellers had become too complacent, so they got liquidated on the way up.

It doesn’t matter how high we go in the short term. The professional investing world finally realizes bitcoin is not going away. These organizations and people are going to persistently bid the asset to much higher levels in the coming years. There will be plenty of volatility along the way, including bear markets. But make no mistake about it — Wall Street is capitulating.

They are waving the white flag. No one wants to ignore, fight, or ridicule bitcoin anymore. They all want to buy and hold it. What else should they do if they can’t figure out a way to outperform it? I continue to say it over and over again…bitcoin is the new hurdle rate. If you can’t beat it, you have to buy it.

And Wall Street is finally starting to listen.

Hope you all have a great day. I’ll talk to everyone tomorrow.

- Anthony Pompliano

Founder & CEO, Professional Capital Management


🚨 READER NOTE: ProCap BTC LLC currently holds 4,950 bitcoin, which are valued at approximately $601 million, based on $121,500 per bitcoin.

Based on Friday's closing price, $CCCM continues to provide one of the cheapest mNAV premiums to public market investors as part of the proposed transaction with ProCap BTC, LLC.


New Bitcoin All-Time High Means We Go Higher

Jordi Visser is a macro investor with over 30 years of Wall Street experience. He also writes a Substack called “VisserLabs” and puts out investing YouTube videos.

In this conversation we discuss why bitcoin is breaking out, how he knew it was going to happen, the next move for bitcoin, stocks, tariffs, and how the world will change with AI.

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Additional Information and Where to Find It
ProCap Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ProCap Financial”) and Columbus Circle Capital Corp I, a Cayman Islands exempt company (“CCCM”) intend to file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Registration Statement on Form S-4 (as may be amended, the “Registration Statement”), which will include a preliminary proxy statement of CCCM and a prospectus (the “Proxy Statement/Prospectus”) in connection with (i) a proposed business combination, to be effected subject to and in accordance with the terms of certain business combination agreement dated as of June 23, 2025 (as may be modified, amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Business Combination Agreement”), by and among ProCap Financial, CCCM, Crius SPAC Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Crius Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, ProCap BTC, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ProCap BTC”), and Inflection Points Inc, d/b/a Professional Capital Management, a Delaware corporation (collectively with all of the related actions and transactions contemplated by such agreement, the “Business Combination”), (ii) a private placement of non-voting preferred units (“ProCap BTC Preferred Units”) of ProCap BTC to certain “qualified institutional buyers” as defined in Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or institutional “accredited investors” (as defined in Rule 506 of Regulation D)(such investors, “qualifying institutional investors”)(the “Preferred Equity Investment”) pursuant to preferred equity subscription agreements, and (iii) commitments by qualifying institutional investors to purchase convertible notes (“Convertible Notes”) issuable in connection with the Closing by ProCap Financial (the “Convertible Note Offering” and, together with the Preferred Equity Investment and the Business Combination, the “Proposed Transactions”) pursuant to convertible notes subscription agreements. The definitive proxy statement and other relevant documents will be mailed to shareholders of CCCM as of a record date to be established for voting on the Proposed Transactions and other matters as described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus. CCCM and/or ProCap Financial will also file other documents regarding the Proposed Transactions with the SEC. This communication does not contain all of the information that should be considered concerning the Proposed Transactions and is not intended to form the basis of any investment decision or any other decision in respect of the Proposed Transactions. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING OR INVESTMENT DECISION, SHAREHOLDERS OF CCCM AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES ARE URGED TO READ, WHEN AVAILABLE, THE PRELIMINARY PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS, AND AMENDMENTS THERETO, AND THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS AND ALL OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED OR THAT WILL BE FILED WITH THE SEC IN CONNECTION WITH CCCM’S SOLICITATION OF PROXIES FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF ITS SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD TO APPROVE THE PROPOSED TRANSACTIONS AND OTHER MATTERS AS DESCRIBED IN THE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS BECAUSE THESE DOCUMENTS WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT CCCM, PROCAP BTC, PROCAP FINANCIAL AND THE PROPOSED TRANSACTIONS. Investors and security holders will also be able to obtain copies of the Registration Statement and the Proxy Statement/Prospectus and all other documents filed or that will be filed with the SEC by CCCM and ProCap Financial, without charge, once available, on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, or by directing a request to: Columbus Circle Capital Corp. I, 3 Columbus Circle, 24th Floor, New York, NY 10019; e-mail: [email protected], or upon written request to ProCap Financial Inc. at 600 Lexington Ave., Floor 2, New York, NY 10022, respectively.
NEITHER THE SEC NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES REGULATORY AGENCY HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED THE PROPOSED TRANSACTIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN, PASSED UPON THE MERITS OR FAIRNESS OF THE PROPOSED TRANSACTIONS OR ANY RELATED TRANSACTIONS OR PASSED UPON THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THE DISCLOSURE IN THIS COMMUNICATION. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY CONSTITUTES A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
The offer and sale of the Convertible Notes to be issued by ProCap Financial pursuant to the Convertible Note Offering and the offer and sale of the ProCap BTC Preferred Units in the Preferred Equity Investment, in connection with the Proposed Transactions, has not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and such securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
Participants in Solicitation
CCCM, ProCap BTC, ProCap Financial and their respective directors, executive officers, certain of their shareholders and other members of management and employees may be deemed under SEC rules to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from CCCM’s shareholders in connection with the Proposed Transactions. A list of the names of such persons, and information regarding their interests in the Proposed Transactions and their ownership of CCCM’s securities are, or will be, contained in CCCM’s filings with the SEC, including the final prospectus for CCCM’s initial public offering filed with the SEC on May 19, 2025 (the “IPO Prospectus”). Additional information regarding the interests of the persons who may, under SEC rules, be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies of CCCM’s shareholders in connection with the Proposed Transactions, including the names and interests of ProCap BTC’s and ProCap Financial’s respective directors or managers and executive officers, will be set forth in the Registration Statement and Proxy Statement/Prospectus, which is expected to be filed by ProCap Financial and CCCM with the SEC. Investors and security holders may obtain free copies of these documents as described above.
No Offer or Solicitation
This communication and the information contained herein is for informational purposes only and is not a proxy statement or solicitation of a proxy, consent or authorization with respect to any securities or in respect of the potential transactions and shall not constitute an offer to sell or exchange, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or exchange the securities of CCCM, ProCap BTC or ProCap Financial, or any commodity or instrument or related derivative, nor shall there be any sale of any such securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, sale or exchange would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction. No offer of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act or an exemption therefrom. Investors should consult with their counsel as to the applicable requirements for a purchaser to avail itself of any exemption under the Securities Act.
Forward-Looking Statements
This communication contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws with respect to the Proposed Transactions involving ProCap Financial, ProCap BTC, and CCCM, including expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions, plans , prospects, financial results or strategies regarding ProCap BTC, ProCap Financial, CCCM and the Proposed Transactions, statements regarding the anticipated benefits and timing of the completion of the Proposed Transactions, the assets that may be held by ProCap BTC and ProCap Financial and the value thereof, the price and volatility of bitcoin, bitcoin’s growing prominence as a digital asset and as the foundation of a new financial system, ProCap Financial’s listing on any securities exchange, the macro and political conditions surrounding bitcoin, the planned business strategy including ProCap Financial’s ability to develop a corporate architecture capable of supporting financial products built with and on bitcoin including native lending models, capital market instruments, and future innovations that will replace legacy financial tools with bitcoin-aligned alternatives, plans and use of proceeds, objectives of management for future operations of ProCap Financial, the upside potential and opportunity for investors, ProCap Financial’s plan for value creation and strategic advantages, market size and growth opportunities, regulatory conditions, technological and market trends, future financial condition and performance and expected financial impacts of the Proposed Transactions, the satisfaction of closing conditions to the Proposed Transactions and the level of redemptions of CCCM’s public shareholders, and ProCap Financial’s expectations, intentions, strategies, assumptions or beliefs about future events, results of operations or performance or that do not solely relate to historical or current facts. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words “believe,” “project,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “strategy,” “future,” “opportunity,” “potential,” “plan,” “may,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “will be,” “will continue,” “will likely result,” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events or conditions that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this communication, including, but not limited to: the risk that the Proposed Transactions may not be completed in a timely manner or at all, which may adversely affect the price of CCCM’s securities; the risk that the Proposed Transactions may not be completed by CCCM’s business combination deadline; the failure by the parties to satisfy the conditions to the consummation of the Proposed Transactions, including the approval of CCCM’s shareholders; failure to realize the anticipated benefits of the Proposed Transactions; the level of redemptions of the CCCM’s public shareholders which may reduce the public float of, reduce the liquidity of the trading market of, and/or maintain the quotation, listing, or trading of the Class A ordinary shares of CCCM or the shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of ProCap Financial (“Pubco Common Stock”) to be listed in connection with the Proposed Transactions; the insufficiency of the third-party fairness opinion for the board of directors of CCCM in determining whether or not to pursue the Proposed Transactions; the failure of ProCap Financial to obtain or maintain the listing of its securities on any securities exchange after closing of the Proposed Transactions; risks associated with CCCM, ProCap BTC and ProCap Financial’s ability to consummate the Proposed Transactions timely or at all, including in connection with potential regulatory delays or impediments, changes in bitcoin prices or for other reasons; costs related to the Proposed Transactions and as a result of becoming a public company; changes in business, market, financial, political and regulatory conditions; risks relating to ProCap Financial’s anticipated operations and business, including the highly volatile nature of the price of bitcoin; the risk that ProCap Financial’s stock price will be highly correlated to the price of bitcoin and the price of bitcoin may decrease between the signing of the definitive documents for the Proposed Transactions and the closing of the Proposed Transactions or at any time after the closing of the Proposed Transactions; asset security and risks associated with CCCM, ProCap BTC and ProCap Financial’s ability to consummate the Proposed Transactions timely or at all, including in connection with potential regulatory delays or impediments, changes in bitcoin prices or for other reasons; risks related to increased competition in the industries in which ProCap Financial will operate; risks relating to significant legal, commercial, regulatory and technical uncertainty regarding bitcoin; risks relating to the treatment of crypto assets for U.S. and foreign tax purposes; risks related to the ability of ProCap BTC and ProCap Financial to execute their business plans; the risks that launching and growing ProCap Financial’s bitcoin treasury advisory and services in digital marketing and strategy could be difficult; challenges in implementing ProCap Financial’s business plan, due to operational challenges, significant competition and regulation; risks associated with the possibility of ProCap Financial being considered to be a “shell company” by any stock exchange on which ProCap Financial’s common stock will be listed or by the SEC, which may impact ProCap Financial’s ability to list Pubco Common Stock and restrict reliance on certain rules or forms in connection with the offering, sale or resale of securities, which could impact materially the time, cost and ability of ProCap Financial to raise capital after the closing; the outcome of any potential legal proceedings that may be instituted against ProCap Financial, ProCap BTC, CCCM or others in connection with or following announcement of the Proposed Transactions, and those risk factors discussed in documents that ProCap Financial and/or CCCM filed, or that will be filed, with the SEC, including as will be set forth in the Registration Statement to be filed with the SEC in connection with the Proposed Transactions.
The foregoing list of risk factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of the IPO Prospectus, CCCM’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and CCCM’s Annual Reports on Form 10-K that will be filed by CCCM from time to time, the Registration Statement that will be filed by ProCap Financial and CCCM and the Proxy Statement/Prospectus contained therein, and other documents that have been or will be filed by CCCM and ProCap Financial from time to time with the SEC. These filings do or will identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. There may be additional risks that neither CCCM nor ProCap Financial presently know or that CCCM and ProCap Financial currently believe are immaterial that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and each of CCCM, ProCap BTC, and ProCap Financial assume no obligation and do not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Neither CCCM, ProCap BTC, nor ProCap Financial gives any assurance that any of CCCM, ProCap BTC or ProCap Financial will achieve their respective expectations. The inclusion of any statement in this communication does not constitute an admission by CCCM, ProCap BTC or ProCap Financial or any other person that the events or circumstances described in such statement are material.

Bitcoin's Risk-Reward Is Off The Charts

2025-07-10 21:58:52

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To investors,

The holy grail of investing is to find asymmetric assets that present a more attractive risk-reward trade-off than other opportunities. Anyone can grab a significant return from time-to-time if they are willing to take immense risk. It is much harder to drive outsized returns when you account for the risk you are taking.

This is why bitcoin has become such an incredible asset for investors to add to their portfolio. Take a look at this chart that was shared by Bitwise’s Matt Hougan:

Quite literally, bitcoin is in a class of its own. There is not another asset even in the same zip code as the world’s largest digital currency.

Bitcoin has appreciated 93% in the last year, 1,096% in the last 5 years, and 38,122% in the last decade. The compound annual growth rate for the last 5 years is 64%. These are video game numbers for traditional investors.

But the more impressive part is how Bitcoin’s sharpe ratio stacks up against other assets. According to Case Bitcoin, bitcoin’s 5-year sharpe ratio is 1.34. Compare this to gold (0.96), stocks (0.81), and treasuries (-0.56).

See here is the thing — most retail investors ask themselves how high an asset can go. That is obviously an important question, but the more sophisticated investor asks themselves “how much can I make given the risk I have to take?”

And there is no better answer to that question than bitcoin. Literally nothing else compares. Bitcoin is the story of our generation. A decentralized, digital asset has grown from nothing into a multi-trillion dollar asset. You have the likes of Larry Fink, Paul Tudor Jones, and Stanley Druckenmiller all sharing the same talking points as your crazy libertarian uncle.

Bitcoin won’t stop going up until they stop printing money and it seems obvious now that they are never, ever going to stop printing money.

Hope you all have a great day. I’ll talk to everyone tomorrow.

- Anthony Pompliano

Founder & CEO, Professional Capital Management


Bitcoin Is Taking Over Wall Street

Anthony Pompliano and John Pompliano discuss everything that is happening with bitcoin, why bitcoin ETFs are making more money than S&P EFTs, US dollar collapse and what that means for asset prices, why Elon Musk wants to start a new political party, and how this all affects your portfolio.

Enjoy!


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  3. Bitwise Asset Management - Crypto specialist asset manager with more than $10 billion client assets and more than 30 crypto solutions across ETFs, index funds, alpha strategies, staking, and more. Learn more at bitwiseinvestments.com

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  6. Simple Mining offers a premium white-glove Bitcoin mining service. Want to grow your Bitcoin stack? Visit Simple Mining here.

  7. Gemini - Invest as you spend with the Gemini Credit Card®. Issued by WebBank.

  8. Core - Earn trustless Bitcoin yield. No bridging. No lending. Just HODLing. Begin Staking Your Bitcoin.

  9. BitcoinIRA - Buy, sell, and swap 75+ cryptocurrencies in your retirement account. Pay less taxes. Earn up to $1,000 in rewards.

  10. Polkadot - is a scalable, secure, and decentralized blockchain technology aimed at creating Web3. Innovation leader, making it a preferred choice for big names.


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The Bitcoin Invasion Of Wall Street Is Just Starting

2025-07-09 21:16:26

To investors,

The bitcoin invasion of Wall Street has just begun. We have seen the bitcoin ETFs become the most successful ETF launch in history, bitcoin treasury companies are some of the best performing stocks in recent years, and now real estate funds are starting to marry bitcoin with one of the largest asset classes in the world.

This is happening at warp speed because Wall Street doesn’t feel like they are under attack. Instead, the traditional financial players are racing to embrace bitcoin. They realize this new asset brings them new clients, new assets under management, and new revenue. The asset also comes with volatility, which brings potential profits for those who can position themselves correctly.

The legacy players aren’t fighting off the attack — they are encouraging it. They have opened the doors to the largest pools of capital and bitcoin is being invited in. This may not sit well with the hardcore bitcoiners who were originally attracted to the asset because it was outside the system. Those libertarian ethos still exist to a degree, for example nothing about bitcoin’s system has changed, but it is important that everyone participates if you want true mass adoption, including Wall Street.

As I continue to say, bitcoin is the only asset I am aware of where it becomes less risky as it grows in size. There were few sophisticated capital allocators who could gain exposure when bitcoin was $100 - 200 billion market cap. Now that the asset is measured in trillions, almost every capital allocator on the planet can put the exposure on.

And this is where the Wall Street invasion becomes important. Wall Street is exceptional at creating wrappers for different assets. The ETF is a wrapper around spot bitcoin. The bitcoin treasury companies are wrappers around bitcoin accumulation machines. The real estate funds are wrappers around tax-advantaged, income-producing bitcoin exposure. And there will be many more wrappers.

These wrappers will appeal to different investors for different purposes. Some want as much asymmetric upside exposure as possible. Others want downside protection. Some may want yield, while another group could be attracted to the long-term compounding.

Regardless of why an investor is drawn to bitcoin, the increase in demand is impossible to ignore. I continue to believe that bitcoin has become the new hurdle rate for the younger generation. These young people will ascend to positions of power and influence inside of the most important financial institutions over time. That means bitcoin will eventually become the hurdle rate for the world.

And if bitcoin is beta exposure, you won’t be able to look in any corner of the financial system without seeing bitcoin there.

The bitcoin invasion has just begun. But this multi-decade trend will be much bigger, and more important, than majority of people realize.

Hope you all have a great day. I’ll talk to everyone tomorrow.

- Anthony Pompliano

Founder & CEO, Professional Capital Management


Bitcoin Is Taking Over Wall Street

Anthony Pompliano and John Pompliano discuss everything that is happening with bitcoin, why bitcoin ETFs are making more money than S&P EFTs, US dollar collapse and what that means for asset prices, why Elon Musk wants to start a new political party, and how this all affects your portfolio.

Enjoy!


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Anthony Pompliano's ProCap BTC Transaction Currently Trading At One Of The Lowest Implied mNAV Premiums In The Market

2025-07-08 20:46:16

To investors,

A few weeks ago, I announced that my bitcoin treasury company, ProCap BTC LLC, entered into a definitive agreement for a $1 billion business combination with Columbus Circle Capital Corp 1 (Nasdaq: CCCM). As part of the proposed business combination, ProCap BTC LLC raised more than $750 million.

My goal with this business is to continue acquiring as much bitcoin as possible. ProCap BTC, LLC has been able to use over $500 million from its initial capital raise to purchase bitcoin so far. The company now holds 4,950 bitcoin in total.

There are a number of other bitcoin treasury companies available in the market as well. I had our team pull together a comparison of some of the companies, including capital raised, bitcoin held, and the mNAV premium, based on or derived from publicly available information and incorporating certain assumptions about the identified companies, implied mNAVs and transactions (some of which have not yet closed).

Here is the analysis:

You can see from the graphic that ProCap BTC, LLC which, will merge with Columbus Circle Capital Corp 1 ($CCCM) to create ProCap Financial, Inc., the go-forward public company after the closing, has raised the second most amount of capital to buy bitcoin from this list. To our knowledge, we are also the second ranked company on the list behind Metaplanet when it comes to capital deployed to purchase bitcoin.

While those metrics are interesting, we believe the more important metric for most investors in the market is the mNAV premium. This number can assist investors in evaluating whether a company is cheap or expensive on a relative basis to peers.

The graphic shows that based on the companies and transactions included in our analysis, ProCap BTC LLC has the lowest implied mNAV at 1.3x. This is substantially lower than any other company on the list, making ProCap BTC LLC’s valuation the cheapest in the ranking based on the implied mNAV metric.

If that wasn’t good enough, a key aspect of ProCap BTC LLC’s deal is that investors in Columbus Circle Capital Corp 1 stock who buy and hold shares as of the record date for the CCCM special meeting to consider and approve the business combination will have the right to redeem their public shares for the pro rata value of the trust. The pro rata value of the trust is anticipated to be approximately $10.00 per share as of the closing of the CCCM initial public offering in May. It is also anticipated that the pro rata value of the trust could be higher on a per share basis at the closing of the transaction by following certain redemption procedures that will be outlined in a proxy statement to be filed with the SEC in connection with the transaction.

This means CCCM stock holders have approximately $0.55 per share of downside (based on the approximately $10.00 per share redemption price as of the closing of the CCCM initial public offering in May). But if CCCM’s mNAV were to expand to match the next cheapest stock, Cantor Equity Partners at 2.2x, then the stock would be trading at approximately $17.82 per share.

As our lawyers like to point out, there is no promise that ProCap BTC LLC and/or Columbus Circle Capital Corp 1 will see any mNAV expansion or that the deal or post-closing company will be successful. There is always risk associated with investing in companies, regardless of whether they are public or private. But it personally feels good to be involved in a deal that is presenting the cheapest mNAV entry price for public market investors.

There is a lot of hard work ahead to build a successful company. I am excited to tackle the challenge. Hope you all have a great day. I’ll talk to everyone tomorrow.

- Anthony Pompliano

Founder & CEO, Professional Capital Management


Analyst Marko Papic Breaks Down Bitcoin, Gold, and Stocks Through Geopolitical and Macro Lens

Marko Papic is the Chief Strategist at BCA Research.

In this conversation we talk about what is happening in the market, why he is bullish, what is happening with the dollar, tariffs, bitcoin, gold, global conflict, and how all these different events impact your portfolio.

Enjoy!


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  2. Bitizenship – Get EU citizenship through Portugal’s Golden Visa, maintaining Bitcoin exposure. Book a free strategy call at bitizenship.com/pomp.

  3. Bitwise Asset Management - Crypto specialist asset manager with more than $10 billion client assets and more than 30 crypto solutions across ETFs, index funds, alpha strategies, staking, and more. Learn more at bitwiseinvestments.com

  4. Maple Finance - Maple enables BTC holders to earn native BTC yield. Learn more at Maple.Finance!

  5. Xapo Bank: Fully licensed bank that integrates traditional finance and Bitcoin. Earn up to 3.9% interest in BTC. Spend globally with a debit card that gives 1% cashback in BTC. Borrow up to $1M instantly with Bitcoin-backed loans.

  6. Simple Mining offers a premium white-glove Bitcoin mining service. Want to grow your Bitcoin stack? Visit Simple Mining here.

  7. Gemini - Invest as you spend with the Gemini Credit Card®. Issued by WebBank.

  8. Core - Earn trustless Bitcoin yield. No bridging. No lending. Just HODLing. Begin Staking Your Bitcoin.

  9. BitcoinIRA - Buy, sell, and swap 75+ cryptocurrencies in your retirement account. Pay less taxes. Earn up to $1,000 in rewards.

  10. Polkadot - is a scalable, secure, and decentralized blockchain technology aimed at creating Web3. Innovation leader, making it a preferred choice for big names.


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Additional Information and Where to Find It
ProCap Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ProCap Financial”) and Columbus Circle Capital Corp I, a Cayman Islands exempt company (“CCCM”) intend to file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Registration Statement on Form S-4 (as may be amended, the “Registration Statement”), which will include a preliminary proxy statement of CCCM and a prospectus (the “Proxy Statement/Prospectus”) in connection with (i) a proposed business combination, to be effected subject to and in accordance with the terms of certain business combination agreement dated as of June 23, 2025 (as may be modified, amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Business Combination Agreement”), by and among ProCap Financial, CCCM, Crius SPAC Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Crius Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, ProCap BTC, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ProCap BTC”), and Inflection Points Inc, d/b/a Professional Capital Management, a Delaware corporation (collectively with all of the related actions and transactions contemplated by such agreement, the “Business Combination”), (ii) a private placement of non-voting preferred units (“ProCap BTC Preferred Units”) of ProCap BTC to certain “qualified institutional buyers” as defined in Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or institutional “accredited investors” (as defined in Rule 506 of Regulation D)(such investors, “qualifying institutional investors”)(the “Preferred Equity Investment”) pursuant to preferred equity subscription agreements, and (iii) commitments by qualifying institutional investors to purchase convertible notes (“Convertible Notes”) issuable in connection with the Closing by ProCap Financial (the “Convertible Note Offering” and, together with the Preferred Equity Investment and the Business Combination, the “Proposed Transactions”) pursuant to convertible notes subscription agreements. The definitive proxy statement and other relevant documents will be mailed to shareholders of CCCM as of a record date to be established for voting on the Proposed Transactions and other matters as described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus. CCCM and/or ProCap Financial will also file other documents regarding the Proposed Transactions with the SEC. This communication does not contain all of the information that should be considered concerning the Proposed Transactions and is not intended to form the basis of any investment decision or any other decision in respect of the Proposed Transactions. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING OR INVESTMENT DECISION, SHAREHOLDERS OF CCCM AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES ARE URGED TO READ, WHEN AVAILABLE, THE PRELIMINARY PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS, AND AMENDMENTS THERETO, AND THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS AND ALL OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED OR THAT WILL BE FILED WITH THE SEC IN CONNECTION WITH CCCM’S SOLICITATION OF PROXIES FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF ITS SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD TO APPROVE THE PROPOSED TRANSACTIONS AND OTHER MATTERS AS DESCRIBED IN THE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS BECAUSE THESE DOCUMENTS WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT CCCM, PROCAP BTC, PROCAP FINANCIAL AND THE PROPOSED TRANSACTIONS. Investors and security holders will also be able to obtain copies of the Registration Statement and the Proxy Statement/Prospectus and all other documents filed or that will be filed with the SEC by CCCM and ProCap Financial, without charge, once available, on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, or by directing a request to: Columbus Circle Capital Corp. I, 3 Columbus Circle, 24th Floor, New York, NY 10019; e-mail: [email protected], or upon written request to ProCap Financial Inc. at 600 Lexington Ave., Floor 2, New York, NY 10022, respectively.
NEITHER THE SEC NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES REGULATORY AGENCY HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED THE PROPOSED TRANSACTIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN, PASSED UPON THE MERITS OR FAIRNESS OF THE PROPOSED TRANSACTIONS OR ANY RELATED TRANSACTIONS OR PASSED UPON THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THE DISCLOSURE IN THIS COMMUNICATION. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY CONSTITUTES A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
The offer and sale of the Convertible Notes to be issued by ProCap Financial pursuant to the Convertible Note Offering and the offer and sale of the ProCap BTC Preferred Units in the Preferred Equity Investment, in connection with the Proposed Transactions, has not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and such securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
Participants in Solicitation
CCCM, ProCap BTC, ProCap Financial and their respective directors, executive officers, certain of their shareholders and other members of management and employees may be deemed under SEC rules to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from CCCM’s shareholders in connection with the Proposed Transactions. A list of the names of such persons, and information regarding their interests in the Proposed Transactions and their ownership of CCCM’s securities are, or will be, contained in CCCM’s filings with the SEC, including the final prospectus for CCCM’s initial public offering filed with the SEC on May 19, 2025 (the “IPO Prospectus”). Additional information regarding the interests of the persons who may, under SEC rules, be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies of CCCM’s shareholders in connection with the Proposed Transactions, including the names and interests of ProCap BTC’s and ProCap Financial’s respective directors or managers and executive officers, will be set forth in the Registration Statement and Proxy Statement/Prospectus, which is expected to be filed by ProCap Financial and CCCM with the SEC. Investors and security holders may obtain free copies of these documents as described above.
No Offer or Solicitation
This communication and the information contained herein is for informational purposes only and is not a proxy statement or solicitation of a proxy, consent or authorization with respect to any securities or in respect of the potential transactions and shall not constitute an offer to sell or exchange, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or exchange the securities of CCCM, ProCap BTC or ProCap Financial, or any commodity or instrument or related derivative, nor shall there be any sale of any such securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, sale or exchange would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction. No offer of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act or an exemption therefrom. Investors should consult with their counsel as to the applicable requirements for a purchaser to avail itself of any exemption under the Securities Act.
Forward-Looking Statements
This communication contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws with respect to the Proposed Transactions involving ProCap Financial, ProCap BTC, and CCCM, including expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions, plans , prospects, financial results or strategies regarding ProCap BTC, ProCap Financial, CCCM and the Proposed Transactions, statements regarding the anticipated benefits and timing of the completion of the Proposed Transactions, the assets that may be held by ProCap BTC and ProCap Financial and the value thereof, the price and volatility of bitcoin, bitcoin’s growing prominence as a digital asset and as the foundation of a new financial system, ProCap Financial’s listing on any securities exchange, the macro and political conditions surrounding bitcoin, the planned business strategy including ProCap Financial’s ability to develop a corporate architecture capable of supporting financial products built with and on bitcoin including native lending models, capital market instruments, and future innovations that will replace legacy financial tools with bitcoin-aligned alternatives, plans and use of proceeds, objectives of management for future operations of ProCap Financial, the upside potential and opportunity for investors, ProCap Financial’s plan for value creation and strategic advantages, market size and growth opportunities, regulatory conditions, technological and market trends, future financial condition and performance and expected financial impacts of the Proposed Transactions, the satisfaction of closing conditions to the Proposed Transactions and the level of redemptions of CCCM’s public shareholders, and ProCap Financial’s expectations, intentions, strategies, assumptions or beliefs about future events, results of operations or performance or that do not solely relate to historical or current facts. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words “believe,” “project,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “strategy,” “future,” “opportunity,” “potential,” “plan,” “may,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “will be,” “will continue,” “will likely result,” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events or conditions that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this communication, including, but not limited to: the risk that the Proposed Transactions may not be completed in a timely manner or at all, which may adversely affect the price of CCCM’s securities; the risk that the Proposed Transactions may not be completed by CCCM’s business combination deadline; the failure by the parties to satisfy the conditions to the consummation of the Proposed Transactions, including the approval of CCCM’s shareholders; failure to realize the anticipated benefits of the Proposed Transactions; the level of redemptions of the CCCM’s public shareholders which may reduce the public float of, reduce the liquidity of the trading market of, and/or maintain the quotation, listing, or trading of the Class A ordinary shares of CCCM or the shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of ProCap Financial (“Pubco Common Stock”) to be listed in connection with the Proposed Transactions; the insufficiency of the third-party fairness opinion for the board of directors of CCCM in determining whether or not to pursue the Proposed Transactions; the failure of ProCap Financial to obtain or maintain the listing of its securities on any securities exchange after closing of the Proposed Transactions; risks associated with CCCM, ProCap BTC and ProCap Financial’s ability to consummate the Proposed Transactions timely or at all, including in connection with potential regulatory delays or impediments, changes in bitcoin prices or for other reasons; costs related to the Proposed Transactions and as a result of becoming a public company; changes in business, market, financial, political and regulatory conditions; risks relating to ProCap Financial’s anticipated operations and business, including the highly volatile nature of the price of bitcoin; the risk that ProCap Financial’s stock price will be highly correlated to the price of bitcoin and the price of bitcoin may decrease between the signing of the definitive documents for the Proposed Transactions and the closing of the Proposed Transactions or at any time after the closing of the Proposed Transactions; asset security and risks associated with CCCM, ProCap BTC and ProCap Financial’s ability to consummate the Proposed Transactions timely or at all, including in connection with potential regulatory delays or impediments, changes in bitcoin prices or for other reasons; risks related to increased competition in the industries in which ProCap Financial will operate; risks relating to significant legal, commercial, regulatory and technical uncertainty regarding bitcoin; risks relating to the treatment of crypto assets for U.S. and foreign tax purposes; risks related to the ability of ProCap BTC and ProCap Financial to execute their business plans; the risks that launching and growing ProCap Financial’s bitcoin treasury advisory and services in digital marketing and strategy could be difficult; challenges in implementing ProCap Financial’s business plan, due to operational challenges, significant competition and regulation; risks associated with the possibility of ProCap Financial being considered to be a “shell company” by any stock exchange on which ProCap Financial’s common stock will be listed or by the SEC, which may impact ProCap Financial’s ability to list Pubco Common Stock and restrict reliance on certain rules or forms in connection with the offering, sale or resale of securities, which could impact materially the time, cost and ability of ProCap Financial to raise capital after the closing; the outcome of any potential legal proceedings that may be instituted against ProCap Financial, ProCap BTC, CCCM or others in connection with or following announcement of the Proposed Transactions, and those risk factors discussed in documents that ProCap Financial and/or CCCM filed, or that will be filed, with the SEC, including as will be set forth in the Registration Statement to be filed with the SEC in connection with the Proposed Transactions.
The foregoing list of risk factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of the IPO Prospectus, CCCM’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and CCCM’s Annual Reports on Form 10-K that will be filed by CCCM from time to time, the Registration Statement that will be filed by ProCap Financial and CCCM and the Proxy Statement/Prospectus contained therein, and other documents that have been or will be filed by CCCM and ProCap Financial from time to time with the SEC. These filings do or will identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. There may be additional risks that neither CCCM nor ProCap Financial presently know or that CCCM and ProCap Financial currently believe are immaterial that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and each of CCCM, ProCap BTC, and ProCap Financial assume no obligation and do not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Neither CCCM, ProCap BTC, nor ProCap Financial gives any assurance that any of CCCM, ProCap BTC or ProCap Financial will achieve their respective expectations. The inclusion of any statement in this communication does not constitute an admission by CCCM, ProCap BTC or ProCap Financial or any other person that the events or circumstances described in such statement are material.