POV Crypto Reunites with Christian Keroles | Layer Zero
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🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
David brings on his old co-host, Christian Keroles of POV Crypto. Long-time Bankless listeners know of POV Crypto, but if you’re unaware, it’s the podcast that David started with Christian before Bankless!
Christian is currently the General Manager of BTC Inc (Bitcoin Magazine & The Bitcoin Conference).
On this episode, David and Christian go back to their POV Crypto roots and debate many different sub-topics of the overall Ethereum vs. Bitcoin debate.
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Topics Covered
0:00 Intro
5:03 Who is Christian Keroles?
5:58 POV Crypto Pod
9:52 The BTC vs. ETH Community
11:07 Metrics of the Winner
14:20 Ideological Backgrounds
18:00 The 2020-2021 Bull Market
20:44 Cantillon Effect
22:55 ETH to $0
24:40 Ethereum Won the 2020-2021 Bull Market?
30:34 Is Bitcoin the Underdog?
32:00 Tornado Cash
33:47 Ethereum is Inside the Bitcoin Ecosystem
36:46 How Bitcoin is Changing the World?
39:15 Bitcoin & Energy
46:19 Distribution & Decentralization
48:44 Energy System Integration
54:47 Does Bitcoin Work If It Isn’t #1
55:39 HyperBitcoinization
56:25 Paradigm Shifts
1:02:20 Recreating the Financial System
1:04:57 Core Philosophical Differences
1:07:17 Disrupting Incumbents
1:08:26 Acceleration
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Resources:
POV Crypto Pod
https://twitter.com/povcryptopod
Christian Keroles
https://twitter.com/ck_SNARKs
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Layers0. Layers0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that |
| 0:11.9 | make up the Bitcoin community. Crypto is built by code, but is composed by people, and |
| 0:17.1 | each individual member of the crypto community has their own story to tell. The CypherPunks |
| 0:21.8 | understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it, and Layers0 focuses |
| 0:25.6 | on the people behind the code, because Bitcoin is people all the way down, and always |
| 0:29.3 | has been, which might be an offensive statement to many of the Bitcoiners. And the reason |
| 0:32.7 | why we're talking about Bitcoin today is because I have on my old co-host, CK Snarks, |
| 0:37.7 | of POV Crypto. So long time bankless listeners will probably have known about POV Crypto, |
| 0:44.1 | but it was actually the podcast that I started with CK, with the guest here, before starting |
| 0:49.3 | the bankless podcast. It was the precursor podcast, and POV Crypto point of view crypto was |
| 0:55.4 | me, the Ethereum, and CK, the Bitcoiner, and we also happened to be college friends. |
| 1:01.2 | So we were friends before we discovered Bitcoin and Ethereum respectively, and that allowed |
| 1:06.1 | POV Crypto to be a different kind of podcast. It got started in 2018, 2019, and it was |
| 1:11.9 | like a bear market darling of a podcast. People loved it at the time, and it was really |
| 1:15.7 | because it was something different, where two differing perspectives were able to come |
| 1:19.7 | to the same place, and sometimes aggressively yell at each other, yet still hug it out |
| 1:25.2 | at the end of the show every single time. So it was a nice relief, where it was a very |
| 1:29.0 | important conversation about the philosophical differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum, |
| 1:33.7 | from two people that very much believed in each other's respective cast. So the fact |
| 1:37.8 | that CK and I were college friends, I went to his wedding, we were friends, and so we |
| 1:41.9 | could yell at each other and then still be respectful, and you can actually move the |
| 1:45.0 | needle with conversations. So it hosted a lot of very important conversations, I say, |
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