124 - Is Mark Cuban Buying the Bear?
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🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Mark Cuban of ABC’s Shark Tank, owner of the Mavs, and seasoned entrepreneur and investor joins us for Round Two of Bankless.
Hear what Mark’s been up to since his first Bankless appearance, how he explains crypto to noobs (hint: he doesn’t), what he envisions next for crypto, how long he believes the bear will last and so much more!
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:50 What Mark’s Been Up To?
6:20 2017 vs. 2022 Cycle Differences
7:10 Mark’s Crypto Interest Development
16:56 How to Explain Crypto to Noobs
20:21 Macro Components to the Bear
26:10 ETH vs. BTC
30:37 Payments
32:51 What’s Next For Crypto?
34:20 How Long Will the Bear Last?
38:50 Where Mark’s the Most Optimistic
45:50 ReFi, Positivity, & Advice
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Resources:
Mark Cuban
https://twitter.com/mcuban
1st Appearance on Bankless
https://youtu.be/l3ptz8qvZcg
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:11.7 | This is how to get started, how to get better, how to front run the opportunity. |
| 0:15.2 | This is Ryan Sean Adams and I'm here with David Hoffman and we are here to help you become |
| 0:19.8 | more bankless. |
| 0:20.8 | Guys, we got a special episode for you. |
| 0:23.0 | We just pinged Mark Cuban and said, hey, Mark, do you want to come on the podcast sometime? |
| 0:26.8 | I know the playoff season is over for the Mavs and you want to talk some crypto. |
| 0:30.2 | We're in a bear market and he said, yeah, sure. |
| 0:32.0 | Right now. |
| 0:32.5 | Give me 30 minutes. |
| 0:33.5 | I know. |
| 0:34.0 | Let's do it. |
| 0:35.7 | And so we jumped on and we did it and David and I just recorded an episode with Mark Cuban |
| 0:41.0 | picked his brain about a number of things, how he feels about the current crypto bear market, |
| 0:46.0 | how he thinks we're going to recover if we will recover and where do we end up on the |
| 0:50.6 | other side in particular, what he's looking for from an application perspective from crypto. |
| 0:55.8 | So it was all of Mark Cuban's thoughts on where we are in this market. |
| 1:00.1 | And of course, you know, he's been deep down the rabbit hole in some of these protocols, |
| 1:05.0 | messing around with D5 protocols. |
| 1:06.4 | You guys heard in our original episode with him. |
| 1:08.6 | He's into Axi infinity in the game, Fy market. |
| 1:11.6 | He's also doing things with carbon credits and Clema Dow. |
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