The Bull Case for Rocketpool with Marceau & Ken Smith
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🗓️ 3 September 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, we welcome Marceau and Ken Smith, two Rocketpool community members to share everything you need to know about Rocketpool, staking, and the bull case for Rocketpool, ETH, & RPL.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
4:40 Guest Relationship to Rocketpool
5:45 What is Rocketpool
7:36 Rocketpool's Value Prop
9:45 Two-sided Marketplace
13:20 Rocketpool's Community
16:20 The Bull Case for Rocketpool
19:50 rETH
25:20 rETH Yield
26:30 Protocol Risk
31:05 Rebasing
38:26 Running a Rocketpool Node
43:45 Rocketpool Critiques
51:48 Institutions
57:20 Single Node Operators
59:45 Pools
1:06:00 $RPL Explained
1:10:15 $RPL Critiques
1:16:00 $RPL Bull Case
1:24:40 Closing
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Resources:
Marceau
https://mobile.twitter.com/marceaueth
Ken Smith
https://mobile.twitter.com/shtimseht
Rocketpool
https://rocketpool.net/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, Banclist Nation, to the Bullcase for Rocket Pool. |
| 0:15.8 | This is our semi-regular Bullcase episodes where I grab a community, grab a and they propose |
| 0:20.5 | a few community members to take the lead on who can present the biggest and best and |
| 0:25.5 | most bullish case for their respective project and token. |
| 0:29.2 | Today on the stream, we're talking to two members of the Rocket Pool community and Rocket |
| 0:33.4 | Pool is a community that's been around for a very long time. |
| 0:36.0 | They were one of the few projects that made it through the 2017 mania and through the |
| 0:41.3 | 2018-20, 2020 bear market and they were one of the few projects that I paid attention |
| 0:46.5 | to couldn't in my naive state of 2017 couldn't really tell what the difference between a |
| 0:51.5 | good project and bad project was and they were the ones that rose out of the 2017 with |
| 0:56.7 | a community of each staking enthusiasts supporting them all the way through and through. |
| 1:02.8 | The centralized team of Rocket Pool is about like five people and they've been this very |
| 1:06.8 | like grassroots bottom-up organization and this community has just come around this protocol |
| 1:11.4 | as something not just something that exists in the app layer but an app layer project |
| 1:16.4 | that also is very close to the metal of Ethereum and very core to the true ethos of Ethereum. |
| 1:21.9 | At least that's my interpretation of Rocket Pool and we will get Ken and Marso's takes on their |
| 1:28.7 | perspective of what Rocket Pool really is and what it means to Ethereum. Rocket Pool in this |
| 1:33.3 | current moment is also a bankless sponsor however that has no relation to whether or not we do |
| 1:38.3 | shows the community behind Rocket Pool is the reason why these two community members are here |
| 1:43.4 | and also as an added disclaimer, Bankless actually does stake right now 160 ether with Rocket Pool |
| 1:50.7 | on our on on a Rocket Pool node so those are our disclaimers. We're going to get into the show |
| 1:56.0 | and more right after we talk to some of these fantastic sponsors that make the show possible. |
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