Bitcoin, Freedom: Insights from Portal Asset Management’s CEO on PWN Podcast
Bitcoin, Freedom: Insights from Portal Asset Management’s CEO on PWN Podcast
📅 Published: July 2025
🎙️ Featured in: Making Wealth Meaningful Podcast (Private Wealth Network)
🎧 Bitcoin, Freedom and the Future of Money →
Why Bitcoin Is About More Than Money
In a recent episode of the Private Wealth Network’s podcast, Making Wealth Meaningful, Deryck Graham, CEO of Portal Asset Management, delivered one of the most grounded explanations yet for why digital assets, and Bitcoin in particular, matter to family offices.
“Bitcoin isn’t just a financial asset, it’s a foundation for freedom.”
– Deryck Graham
Graham joined fellow tech entrepreneur Jack Black to explore why Bitcoin may be the most important innovation in the evolution of money since the invention of public equities in 1602.
The conversation offers direct insight into how digital assets are transforming the way investors think about store of value, bitcoin, freedom, and the long-term risks of fiat-based monetary systems.
Graham shared his personal journey from tech entrepreneur to digital asset investor, and explained why Portal’s strategies are designed around long-term Bitcoin accumulation, not short-term speculation.
Drawing on this personal experience and institutional analysis, Deryck lays out a vision for a new financial paradigm, one driven by transparency, decentralisation, and a growing global community of believers.
🎧 Bitcoin, Freedom and the Future of Money
Host: Private Wealth Network
Guests: Deryck Graham (Portal) & Jack Black (G1 Tech Entrepreneur)
Key Takeaways for Investors and Wealth Stewards
- Fiat Currency Is Quietly Failing Wealth Preservation
“If I bought Sydney real estate in Bitcoin five years ago, I’d be down 89%.”
Deryck urges investors to reconsider their base currency. Instead of tracking performance in AUD or USD, Portal uses Bitcoin as its benchmark, and that shift reveals just how much value is lost to inflation.
“Start valuing your investments in Bitcoin. If I bought gold with Bitcoin, I’d be down 90%. Real estate? Down 89%,” he explains.
This shift in perspective challenges conventional thinking around investing, securities, and even how we understand exchange and value preservation.
- Digital currencies are redefining what we call money.
Unlike paper currencies enforced by governments, digital currencies like Bitcoin, stablecoins, and other cryptocurrencies are trustless, borderless, and programmable.
“We’re going into the world of digital assets, borderless, high speed, and very efficient,” Deryck says.
These attributes are already powering cross-border digital payments and remittances, and enabling trade in regions with unstable local currencies.
- Bitcoin is a direct response to broken monetary systems.
Both Deryck and Jack highlight how central banks are consistently expanding the money supply, weakening purchasing power over time.
“You get a 10% return per annum and think you’ve hit the ball out of the park. But if the dollar’s dropping 10% per annum, you’re just treading water,” Deryck says.
This calls for a new approach to protecting wealth, one not tethered to depreciating currencies or inflationary policy.
- Bitcoin is a Store of Value, Not a Payment Rail
“Why would you buy a coffee with an asset that’s appreciating 100% annually?”
Bitcoin’s volatility makes it a poor currency, but an exceptional store of value, especially for high-net-worth investors looking to preserve purchasing power across generations.
While traditional investors often equate volatility with risk, Deryck reframes it as a natural part of bitcoin adoption.
“It’s been the world’s best-performing asset for 15 years… volatility is how new assets grow,” Jack notes.
For long-term holders, Bitcoin transactions may fluctuate, but the asset’s trajectory has been consistently upward.
- Digital Assets Are the First New Asset Class Since 1602
“This is the first new asset class since the Dutch East India Company created public equities.”
Through funds like the Radiance Multi-Strategy Fund and Portal Digital Fund, Portal offers investors institutional-grade access to this asset class, with diversified strategies and deep risk management.
- Bitcoin enables meaningful wealth, by offering time and freedom.
“If you speak to Bitcoin accumulators, they’ll say it’s about generational wealth and creating freedom,” Deryck says.
Bitcoin is not just a technology, it’s a tool for reclaiming financial freedom, optionality, and time.
As Jack adds, “It’s just freedom for me… buying your children’s freedom to do what they want.”
- Investor Education and Support Are Key
In countries where local currencies are volatile or heavily controlled, such as Argentina, Nigeria, and Turkey, crypto adoption is accelerating as people seek more stable alternatives. These trends are no longer theoretical. They’re unfolding in real time, particularly in markets where trust in centralised systems has broken down.
Institutional investors are right to approach this space with caution. That’s why education and support are central to Portal’s offering.
Portal’s role extends beyond investing. It includes helping families, founders, and stewards understand the assets they hold, and why those assets matter over the long term.
These strategies are built not just on technical due diligence, but on providing clients with access to research, reporting, and informed decision-making.
Ready to Rethink Wealth in a Digital World?
Deryck describes Bitcoin as “the scariest asset ever created”, not because it’s dangerous, but because it’s transparent, finite, and beyond the control of traditional policymakers and central authorities. For forward-thinking investors, this represents a powerful hedge and a once-in-a-generation chance to gain exposure to the infrastructure of tomorrow.
“It’s not too late,” Deryck says. “We’re very early in this journey.”
Whether you’re a G1 founder, a next-gen steward, or an allocator rethinking long-term strategy, Portal helps investors preserve and grow wealth with purpose and discipline.
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