What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp

podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Now let's kick this thing off. Eric Voorhees is the founder and

CEO of ShapeShift, a crypto trading platform that leverages 100% decentralized finance protocols

to execute all functionality for users without KYC.

In this conversation, we discussed centralization, decentralization, KYC, financial regulation,

privacy gains, commoditization of trading, Thorchain, Bitcoin, open source software, maximalism,

and religious fundamentalism. I really enjoyed

this conversation with Eric, and I hope you do as well. Before we get into this episode, though,

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Next up are my friends over at Exodus. Exodus is leading the world out of the traditional financial

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