SBF vs. Erik Voorhees: How Do We Regulate Crypto?
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🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
A debate between two crypto titans on how to regulate crypto. Whether to regulate crypto? Where do we draw the line?
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
7:36 Should Crypto Be Regulated?
23:50 Transparency
25:55 Showing Up & BitLicense
36:50 Erik's Issues with Sam's Post
52:12 The DeFi Regulation Debate
1:24:27 Why Regulation Now?
1:40:10 DCCPA
1:53:04 Stealmanning Eachother's Points
2:01:55 Closing Arguments
2:06:17 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
SBF
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX
Erik Voorhees
https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees
SBF Proposal
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1582835426116575235
Erik Voorhees's Rebuttal
https://www.moneyandstate.com/blog/response-to-sbf
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| 0:19.7 | Guys, on today's episode, we're going to give you a fantastic live stream that we just |
| 0:23.7 | did this Friday. |
| 0:25.2 | Very important listening. |
| 0:26.2 | Hope you enjoy. |
| 0:27.2 | Guys, we're super excited to host this live stream in conversation. |
| 0:30.5 | Maybe we'll call it a debate. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm not sure. |
| 0:32.5 | I think it'll be very conversational between Sam Bakeman-Fried, that's SBF and Eric Voorhees. |
| 0:37.6 | The topic today is crypto regulation. |
| 0:40.0 | David, I found myself playing a somewhat minor role in a conversation that happened on |
| 0:45.5 | crypto over the last week, I guess. |
| 0:47.6 | All of this happened. |
| 0:48.6 | SBF was the originator of a post. |
| 0:52.2 | His thoughts, his solutions on how crypto should be regulated, and the crypto community |
| 0:58.2 | had a great deal of response to this post. |
| 1:00.9 | I think leading one corner of the internet was Eric Voorhees, and giving an ethos-backed |
| 1:06.5 | crypto OG type take to what Sam Bakeman-Fried has said. |
| 1:10.7 | I know, David, that the best place to have a long-form discourse about this is not on |
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