Part 2: Brian Armstrong, Erik Voorhees, & Ryan Selkis on Binance’s Acquisition of FTX
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🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In Part 2, Ryan and David are joined by Brian Armstrong, Erik Voorhees, & Ryan Selkis to discuss what transpired today, how it’ll impact our industry, and what it means moving forward.
In case you missed it, we’ve already released Part 1 where Ryan and David recap everything that happened leading up to today, what’s unfolded thus far, what happens next, and what it means for the crypto space writ large.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
4:04 Ryan Selkis
11:45 Takes & Prices
https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1590088673726717952
https://www.coingecko.com/
https://ultrasound.money/
20:32 Erik Voorhees
42:00 Brian Armstrong
1:00:25 New CZ
https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1590103159506341888
1:02:45 Ultra Sound Money
https://ultrasound.money/
1:04:45 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
SBF Announcement
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590012124864348160
CZ Announcement
https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1590013613586411520
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you very much for joining us today. |
| 0:06.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:07.4 | Welcome to the second half of the live stream that Ryan and I did to cover the acquisition |
| 0:12.0 | of FTX by Binance. |
| 0:14.3 | The first half of the show, which we've already released on the RSS feed, covered the news, |
| 0:18.2 | covered the tweets, covered the events of what happened, what unfolded between Binance |
| 0:22.7 | and FTX between CZ and SPF. |
| 0:25.5 | In the second half of the show, we opened things up and we invited people on the show to |
| 0:29.9 | give their takes and their thoughts and their perspectives. |
| 0:32.1 | And who ended up coming onto the show? |
| 0:33.7 | It's pretty damn interesting. |
| 0:35.7 | First came Ryan Selkis of Missouri, followed by Eric Voorhees, followed by Brian Armstrong |
| 0:41.0 | of Coinbase. |
| 0:42.0 | And so these guests really ramped up over time. |
| 0:44.9 | And so this is the episode that you are about to hear. |
| 0:47.2 | And I just wanted to give you that context. |
| 0:49.0 | First you're going to hear Ryan Selkis of Missouri, who was calling in on his phone, followed |
| 0:52.8 | by Eric Voorhees, the guy that we had hosting the debate between SPF, one of the players |
| 0:58.8 | of the early parts of this story, followed by Brian Armstrong, who decided to call in |
| 1:04.1 | all the way from Japan to offer his perspectives and his takes as to what the hell is going |
| 1:10.0 | on in the crazy world of centralized exchanges. |
| 1:11.8 | And how Coinbase is not playing in those games, yet still moving the needle forward when |
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