A cutout of US President Donald Trump holding a Bitcoin.

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“Most Americans have been trained and lied to by the big financial institutions that all you can do are traditional assets in your IRA or 401(k),”

Adam Bergman said on the On The Margin podcast. “And for the last fifty years that has not been the case.”

Bergman runs IRA Financial, a self-directed retirement custodian that says it administers more than $7 billion across upward of 27,000 accounts. This week it is launching a rebuilt crypto platform that lets investors trade nearly 100 tokens in real time inside a retirement account, in the same login that holds their stocks, real estate, gold and private equity.

“How did they get rich? It wasn’t just sitting back and…