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Diaries of an ETH Maxi on Wall Street | Sam Jernigan

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Sam Jernigan, the “Unofficial ETH Maxi of Wall Street”, has been evangelizing Ethereum to institutional funds and billionaires from inside the house for the past five years.

Having the perfect blend of deep Ethereum knowledge and the full Wall Street experience, Sam guides us through how he became an ETH Maxi, why the lack of understanding of ETH in TradFi is the most bullish case for the asset and what the future holds for ETH institutional adoption.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
7:47 Defining TradFi
20:05 Ethereum’s P/E Ratio
23:49 Sam’s Background
40:44 Becoming an ETH Maxi
52:57 The State of ETH in TradFi
57:38 ETH Bull Case
1:06:11 The Flippening
1:12:11 ETH ETF
1:19:26 Security vs Commodity Debate
1:24:00 TradFi: Friend or Foe?
1:34:39 Regulation
1:46:07 Closing & Disclaimers

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0:00.0

The most bullish thing about eith right now is the fact that the

0:03.5

understanding of TratFi is that it's this crypto asset like Bitcoin

0:07.8

because I think when they fully understand it, it's going to blow their brains out.

0:18.0

Welcome to Bankless, where today we're exploring the diaries of an Eath Maxi on Wall Street.

0:21.0

Yes, David and I came up with that title and I think it's a perfect description.

0:24.3

As usual, this is Ryan Sean Adams.

0:25.9

I'm here with David Hoffman and we're here to help you become more bankless.

0:30.8

Our guest today is Sam Jernigan. He is the unofficial Eith Maxi of Wall Street.

0:35.4

Now those are his words. Sam's been evangelizing a theorem to institutional funds and

0:40.0

to billionaires, really rich people, from inside the house for the past five years,

0:45.2

and giving them the Eath narrative so the Eath killers don't take all of the marketing oxygen.

0:50.0

That was a discussion we had in today's episode.

0:52.1

And I think this was a fascinating look at the inside

0:54.5

baseball of Wall Street's crypto adoption and the Ethereum narrative. Where early is an expression

1:00.9

Sam kept coming back to and I definitely felt like that in the

1:04.8

episodes very early in Wall Street's understanding of the Ethereum narrative

1:08.4

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