Better Home & Finance Holding Company

week one of the finals, and it kicks off tonight with our preview.

Thanks to better.com.au.

If you're going to have a bet, make sure you do it with Better.

Thanks for their support of the charity account.

But that matchup, is going to be outstanding.

And there's going to be points galore, but I think South's come home the better of the two teams.

And with better.com.au, looking at the odds for this one tonight, kicking off in now two hours and 15 minutes.

South's are $1.40. Knights are $3.00.

Well, I'll tell you what, Vishal Garg probably feels like he has had an out-of-space experience as well over the last month or so.

The founder and obviously board member of Better.com. He's going to be our special guest live here in a minute.

But before we do that, before we do that, are you ready for another chair nanigans? Oh.

always always are you ready now tell me everyone that you can't relate to this moment are you ready okay you're ready here we go you're welcome just so rude man i just hate it when people don't say thank you opening the door for them like that's my job You know what? I'm going to do something about this.

All right,

well, let's jump in here, Vishal.

There's a lot going on, obviously, at Better, and a lot of it has been out in the press.

Why don't you bring us up to speed on where things stand at this very moment and how you're doing?

Cause sometimes we have to do what we have to do, but you just providing that consistency of service and them knowing that you're going to be here.

Like when you call that one 800 number to like fidelity mortgage or whoever, or better.com or, that does them for 500 and ai you're not getting that experience you don't have anybody to call whenever they have tax questions or all florida's a public record state so they're getting massive junk mail that some of it looks real and i don't care how smart you are some people still fall for it and making sure your veterans know that hey at six months they just bought a list of who closed 210 days ago and you're going to get massive things and if it sounds too good to be true it probably is because they're trying to build it in on these people so i I think just that presence and attention and making sure your knowledge gets out there because nobody knows what you don't know.

And it's important.

Yeah, we live it every day.

You know what? Think about earlier on the podcast.

You know what I mean? Like if we go back and you go back and listen to like episode 20 and you're talking about dating, you know what? Let's just check back to better.com.

Let's see if we're talking about it.

We did this recently

what I mean? Now you're at a better place.

You're talking about your dating.

Literally, I turned on back to the better.com. You were talking about a date you were on.

And I know that date went well.

And mortgages, we also don't talk about those.

But Coinbase have teamed up with Better Mortgage to make a Bitcoin-backed mortgage more generally available.

You can pledge Bitcoin as collateral and borrow against it.

Crucially, you can skip a taxable event that you would normally trigger by selling.

I think this is really, really cool.

Better Mortgage and Coinbase just took their crypto-backed mortgage nationwide for Coinbase One members after closing their first ever Bitcoin-backed Fannie Mae loan back in June.

Here's how it works.

You get a standard confirming mortgage under Fannie Mae guidelines, but you can pledge crypto towards the down payment, and instead of selling it and triggering a taxable event, Coinbase One members can get approved and also get a lender credit worth 1% of the loan, up to $10,000.

it is 8 29 a.m pacific daylight time it is the what uh 27th day of august 2026 and this is episode 1381 of bitcoin and first up today coinbase and better mortgage have announced General availability of Bitcoin-backed mortgages.

So it looks like they've rolled out Bitcoin-backed mortgages to the general public.

Like I said, that's going to be first up today here on the Bitcoin And Podcast with me, your host, David Bennett, bringing you all the news about Bitcoin you can use and macro from around the world as well here on the Bitcoin And Podcast.

That and the fact that we've actually had the first quantum resistant Bitcoin transaction executed.

That will be the last of the show.

So let's go up to the front of and get to this one about Coinbase and Better Mortgage announcing the general availability of Bitcoin-backed mortgages.

This is out of Bitcoin Magazine.

Matthew DeSalvo is writing it.