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SotN#5 - HEDGED (WHERE INFLATION, CRYPTODOLLAR BAN, COINBASE IPO + SPECIAL GUEST!)

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

STATE OF THE NATION #5 - Tuesday, July 14, 2020

The State of the Bankless Nation is....HEDGED! The bankless boys discuss why.

Plus a special guest...Nic Carter from Castle Island!

Watch the video here.

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Covered:

  • TOPIC #1: WHERE’S THE INFLATION? - w/ Nic Carter
  • TOPIC #2: CRYPTODOLLAR BAN HAMMER! - w/ Nic Carter
  • TOPIC #3: COINBASE IPO
  • BONUS TOPIC: BANKLESS TOKEN DROP

We show:

  1. Nic's brilliant Cantillon effect effect meme
  2. Coinbase blacklisting USDC article
  3. Coinbase blacklisting USDC tracker
  4. FSB Paper describing stablecoins

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Episode Actions:

1) Read crypto dollars whitepaper by Nic & Castle Island

2) Check out bZx Token Drop to Bankless Token Holders 

3) Listen to David melodically read the protocol sink 

Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday!

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0:00.0

Well, Welcome to you episode 5 of State of the Nation. What we're doing today is talking

0:21.0

about what's happening in crypto like we do every week.

0:23.7

We related to big picture stuff and then we drop some insights and action items.

0:28.5

Today we have a very special guest with us.

0:31.8

We'll surprise you with who it is in a moment. We've got three or four

0:35.8

topics to cover that are most relevant for the Bankless community. Just as a

0:41.2

quick reminder, we do this every Tuesday. We release on YouTube. Then we also release it in

0:46.7

podcast version on Wednesday, so make sure you subscribe both to YouTube and the podcast. So you're catching up on that. The first question I always ask when we

0:57.2

kick these things off is the same. David Hoffman, what is the state of the nation today, sir?

1:03.0

The state of the nation is hedged,

1:05.0

and this is going to reveal some of the topics that we are about to talk about,

1:09.0

but it's a mixed bag.

1:11.0

We have all-time highs in stable coins on Ethereum and we also have all-time

1:15.7

highs in banned addresses of those stable coins on Ethereum. We have all-time

1:20.8

highs in the evaluations of Defi tokens and then we have absolutely all time highs in flatness for both ether and Bitcoin, right?

1:29.0

So there's a lot of, there's a tug of war going on between like it's really bullish sentiment and really worrying

1:34.9

sentiment and so the state of the nation is hedged.

1:38.0

All right so when you say hedged right so like crypto prices highly volatile, doesn't feel really hedged.

1:45.0

What do you mean by hedged David?

1:47.0

Yeah, I mean, there's this tug of war going on between like Defi, people are super bullish on Defi.

1:53.3

Chain Link just roared up to $8.

1:56.1

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