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Welcome back to the breakdown.

It is Saturday, February 8th, and as usual, we are doing our end-of-week recap, where I string

together all the episodes from the previous week for your long runs, your errands, whatever

it is.

And we discuss really quickly to kick it off just what the idea or tenor of themes of the

week were. The week actually kind of started off a little slow. My first episode this week was about

things that had happened over the weekend. We had this issue around deep platforming with

zero hedge and we had this conversation from Ethereum about whether marketing mattered and we had

Brexit on Friday finally coming to fruition and we asked whether it actually was a thing that was

worthy of note in the crypto community. That episode is interesting, I think, because Pascal, the

CEO of Ledger actually joins for some comments and he's based in Paris. So I think it's worth

listening to, even though

it seemed like the week was starting off slow. The week got a little bit more interesting with

the launch of Handshake. Handshake is a censorship-resistant domain name service platform, basically.

It's a protocol that's trying to make websites uncensurable. And so we had the CEO of Namebase, which is basically the first domain registrar for

Namebase or for Handshake, excuse me, on to talk about why that matters.

Now, for a little bit of context, I first came across Handshake when Eric Meltzer called it

the second interesting application of blockchains after Bitcoin after money. Then the week started to go

in a little different of a direction. First, we had a huge amount of M&A activity and VC activity that

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