14 - The DeFi Exchange | Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss
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Bankless
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2020
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Episode: #14
June 1, 2020
Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss on Bankless!
The mainstream world knows them as Zuckerberg's bane from "The Social Network" but the bankless world knows them as multi-faceted entrepreneurs, early believers in crypto, and the founders the Gemini exchange.
Whatever you think you know about the Winklevoss twins you have to admit...these guys have an uncanny ability to see the future.
So what do they see in our future?
Future of crypto?
Future of DeFi?
Of the world?
They bridged technology to our social lives. They bridged crypto to Wall Street. What bridges are they building next?
Is Gemini the DeFi-friendly bank we've been waiting for?
We cover:
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- How Cameron & Tyler "see things" early
- What the Winklevosses first saw in Bitcoin
- The evolution of crypto banks
- JPMorgan is banking Gemini!!
- Big Banking vs Big Tech
- Is Gemini DeFi friendly?
- Why the Winklevosses are ETH whales
- What's the next crypto-sized opportunity?
Will the Winklevosses turn Gemini into a bridge to DeFi money protocols? Listen to the episode and decide for yourself!
Note: David and I skipped our Big Picture chat this week to get straight to the Winklevoss convo but we're releasing our Big Picture chat in a special Bankless episode coming to you on Wednesday June 3rd!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless where we explore the frontier Internet Money and Internet Finance. |
| 0:18.9 | This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front run the opportunity. |
| 0:22.9 | This is Ryan Sean Adams. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm here with David Hoffman, and we are here |
| 0:26.4 | to help you become more bankless. |
| 0:29.3 | David, how are you doing this week, my friend? |
| 0:32.3 | Doing really good. |
| 0:33.2 | Just came out of a fantastic interview |
| 0:36.0 | with the Winkle Voss Twins. |
| 0:38.1 | Getting the Winkle Voss on to the Bankless Podcast |
| 0:40.9 | was an absolute blast and picking their brains about how they think about |
| 0:45.2 | this space, where they think this space is going, and also where Gemini is going, was it really |
| 0:51.2 | insightful, really tip of the hat to the Winkle Boss Twins to building a really |
| 0:56.3 | awesome exchange and in my opinion building something that is going to be really successful |
| 1:00.6 | and crucial infrastructure into the future. |
| 1:03.3 | Ryan, what did you really enjoy about this interview? |
| 1:05.7 | Well, look, I think it was cool because, you know, who hasn't seen the social network, |
| 1:10.0 | right? |
| 1:11.3 | You know, it kind of felt like we were interviewing celebrities in their own right, but now the |
| 1:17.3 | Winkle Lost Twins are big into crypto and have really developed a compelling exchange offering. |
| 1:24.0 | But I like this because we were able to ask questions |
| 1:28.0 | that I think a lot of people in crypto haven't asked them. |
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