Mark and Mat explain how Main Street and Wall Street have been pitted against each other in trading GameStop stock and why a Roth IRA or Roth 401k (tax-free) should be used when making large gains in an investment.

Mat, Mark, and special guest Aaron Halderman, SVP Directed IRA and publisher of the Noteworthy Newsletter discuss private lending basics with an IRA or solo(k). They go over secured versus unsecured, documents involved (note, deed of trust or mortgage), common terms/rates, legal considerations, how Dodd-Frank applies, and the basic self-directed rules and process when making lending investments from a self-directed IRA or solo 401(k).

Tax lawyers Mat Sorensen and Mark Kohler explain how you can own Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with a self-directed IRA. They outline the legal and tax issues when buying outside an IRA and how a retirement account such as a self-directed Roth IRA can be tax efficient. They outline the process of rolling over funds to a self-directed IRA, investing them into an LLC (IRA/LLC) and linking the LLC bank account to a wallet/exchange, and then using those dollars (fiat currency) for cryptocurrency on an exchange. They also cover the commonly asked storage questions and tax reporting items that commonly are asked.