State of the crypto market, Tornado Cash blacklisted, $COIN Q2 + The Blueprint Part 5 | E1531
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Sunny Madra and Vinny Lingham join Jason for a fully loaded crypto market breakdown (1:40). Topics covered include: Tornado Cash being blacklisted by the US Treasury Dept, Coinbase Q2 earnings, smart crypto regulation, fixing early-stage crypto governance, and more! Jason wraps the show with Part 5 of The Blueprint: Generalists vs. Specialists. (1:21:44)
(0:00) Jason intros today's segments: crypto roundtable and The Blueprint!
(1:40) Current state of the crypto market after the massive pullback
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(15:33 Tornado Cash blacklisted by the US Treasury Dept: what is it, what it means for "frozen" crypto assets & more
(27:12) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at https://linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups
(28:36) How large-scale spam attacks and hacks will change consumer behavior in the still-early crypto industry
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(38:32) How should crypto be regulated? Should the US create a new agency dedicated to digital assets? Should there be a new set of rules for crypto?
(48:39) Did Coinbase let customers down? $COIN Q2 earnings, responsibilities to customers, what Coinbase's platform might look like if altcoins are regulated as securities
(55:22) Pseudonymous and anonymous impact on high-profile crypto projects, how to fix early-stage crypto governance
(1:04:12 Interesting consumer-facing crypto projects
(1:21:44) The Blueprint Part 5: Generalists vs. Specialists
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody. We have a great show for you today. Molly's out. So I called in some more air support. |
| 0:05.2 | I have Sonny Mondra and Vity Lingam on the show. Two of the biggest crypto experts in the world and |
| 0:10.0 | they're both good friends of mine. We cover the entire crypto industry this year. The tornado cash |
| 0:16.0 | being banned by the U.S. Treasury Department and all these funds being frozen and what's the right |
| 0:21.7 | amount of regulation for our industry. Both startups and crypto Coinbase's Q2 earnings are out |
| 0:29.7 | and the boys seem to think that Coinbase might have lost their way and they have some suggestions |
| 0:34.4 | for Brian on how to tighten the Coinbase ship. Plus, there are a bunch of interesting projects |
| 0:38.6 | happening for consumers, including the NFT format, which will geek out a little bit. And then |
| 0:44.4 | it's Wednesday, which means another episode of the blueprint this week on going to cover |
| 0:48.4 | generalists versus specialists and who to hire depending on the stage of your startup. It's |
| 0:53.0 | going to be another great show. Stick with us. This week in startups is brought to you by Brave is |
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| 1:20.1 | go to LinkedIn.com slash this week in startups. And Visa, are you a small business owner? |
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| 1:34.0 | you run your business? Learn more at visa.com slash small business hub. All right, everybody. Molly |
| 1:42.0 | is on vacation, hard-owned vacation for her after putting in a great first six months here. Shout out |
| 1:47.1 | to Molly, follow her on the Twitter, Molly Wood. And I really added a lot of dynamic moments to the |
| 1:53.8 | first half of 2022. Really grateful that she's joined us here at this week in startups. Today, |
| 1:59.0 | I wanted to take on some of this crypto news. But in truth, I'm a crypto neophyte. I mean, I know a lot |
| 2:04.5 | about it. I've been covering it forever. I know enough to get myself in trouble, but I'm not |
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