How Traders Are Thinking About the Merge -- and a Potential ETHPoW Chain - Ep. 395

Unchained

Laura Shin

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Zhou, co-founder of Galois Capital, and Evgeny Gaevoy, founder and CEO of Wintermute, discuss how to trade the Ethereum Proof of Work fork, what the market is telling about the Merge, and whether the Merge affects Bitcoin. Show highlights: what will happen at the time of the Merge according to Kevin and whether there’s uncertainty when the ETH Proof of Work chain will emerge and how that affects trading opportunities the mistakes of the ETHPoW team, like repealing EIP-1559 what percentage of ETH market cap ETHPoW will accrue what the first few blocks of ETHPoW will be like what the strategies are to earn the ETHPoW airdrop and what the on-chain activity looks like whether there is an “up-only” monoculture in Ethereum what stETH is, how it should be priced and what the futures market indicates where the value of a chain comes from and the likelihood of ETHPoW failing catastrophically how to protect from replay attacks the price action of ETH after the Merge how ETH becoming deflationary affects Bitcoin’s narrative as digital gold how the ESG-friendly image of Proof of Stake could affect the narratives of ETH and BTC Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com Ava Labs a16z Kevin: Twitter Evgeny: Twitter Episode Links Previous Coverage of Unchained on the Merge: Preston Van Loon on Ethereum's Merge and His Lawsuit Against Treasury Arthur Hayes, Former Ethereum Skeptic, on Why the Merge Makes Him Bullish on ETH With the Merge, Will Ethereum Take Over Bitcoin’s Title as Digital Gold? Why Kevin Zhou Believes Ethereum Will Have 3 Forks After the Merge Post-Merge, If Lido Becomes Dominant, What Does That Mean for Ethereum? ETH Proof of Work: ChainID missing; and the request from Coinbase Kevin’s analogy CoinDesk article ETHPow Token Summary of Kevin’s thoughts ETHPoW team’s promise to abolish EIP-1559 ETHPoW first blocks Tether supports PoS Circle (USDC) supports PoS ETH Trade Ether’s backwardation Eth-Flexive by Arthur Hayes Whether Ethereum’s Merge is priced in Gauntlet’s view on the Merge BTC correlation with stocks ETH Post-Merge Dynamics: Onchain Wizard post Cumberland on the Ethereum dynamics after the merge Miles Suter on the implications of the Merge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, the merge is upon us.
0:03.8	After this show is published, Ethereum's merge, which will transition the blockchain to
0:07.6	proof-of-stake, will likely happen within about two days.
0:12.3	Earlier this summer, Kevin Zoe of Galois Capital raised the ire of many people in Ethereum
0:17.9	when he talked about the likelihood that an Ethereum-proof-of-workchain would come out
0:22.0	of the fork.
0:23.4	And in recent weeks, it does look like there's a movement behind this so-called Ethereum-proof-of-work
0:28.2	or ETH-POW-FORC, though how successful or how smooth it will be is anyone's guess.
0:34.8	In this episode, Kevin and Evgeny Geivoy of WinterMute, a large market-maker in crypto,
0:40.2	discussed different ways the merge could play out.
0:42.8	Honestly, they said so many things that surprised me, and we got to cover everything from the
0:48.2	potential ETH-POW chain to Bitcoin, Teeth itself, to DeFi, we talked about NFTs and more.
0:55.6	Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Shib even got to mention.
0:59.2	I hope you find this episode as thought-provoking as I did, and also that you have a happy merge
1:04.6	week.
1:05.6	When I catch you Friday, we should be in an Ethereum-proof-of-stake world.
1:09.8	Enjoy the show.
1:10.8	Hi, everyone.
1:15.0	Look at Unchained, your no-hype resource for all things crypto.
1:18.3	I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians.
1:22.2	I started coming crypto seven years ago, and as a senior editor at Forbes was the first
1:26.5	mainstream meter porter to cover cryptocurrency full-time.
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