The Chopping Block: Can Exchange CEOs Like SBF Be Crypto True Believers? - Ep. 416

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Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

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🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. Show topics: Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter – and its effect on DOGE the irony that people working in centralized companies want to decentralize Twitter whether Twitter is going to become like Facebook why Twitter has been the most pro-crypto among big tech companies why Tarun thinks Binance Pay is an impressive product whether it is possible to run a decentralized social media for billions of users the debate between Sam Bankman-Fried and Erik Voorhees about crypto regulation whether crypto exchange CEOs are true believers in the philosophy of crypto why Haseeb believes Sam Bankman-Fried is a very honest person how Reddit used a simple strategy to gain massive adoption whether it is necessary to rebrand NFTs Hosts Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures Robert Leshner, founder of Compound Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital Episode Links Twitter acquisition What Are the Potential Impacts of Musk’s Twitter Purchase? Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX, will receive between $50 million and $100 million from Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. Vitalik Buterin said Musk’s idea of charging $8 a month for a blue check on Twitter could “damage the blue check's anti-scam role.” Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said he would join Twitter’s board if Elon Musk asked him to. Crypto regulation Industry Leaders Debate How to Regulate DeFi Bankless debate between SBF and Erik Voorhees Alameda’s Balance Sheet Sparks Controversy Trojan Horse of NFTs? Reddit Onboards 3M Wallets as Trading Volume Soars Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Not as dividend, it's a tale of two puns.
0:02.4	Now, your losses are on someone else's balance.
0:05.2	Generally speaking, air drops are kind of pointless anyways.
0:08.0	I manage trading firms who are very involved.
0:10.7	I like that heat of the ultimate problem.
0:12.8	DeFi protocols are the antidote to this problem.
0:16.8	All right.
0:18.2	Hello, everybody.
0:19.1	Welcome to the chopping block.
0:20.3	Every couple of weeks, the four of us get together
0:22.0	and give the industry insider's perspective
0:24.1	on the crypto topics of the day.
0:25.9	So start with intros.
0:27.1	First of all, we got Tom, the DeFi Maven and Master of Means.
0:30.2	Next, we've got Robert, crypto connoisseur,
0:31.8	and captain of compound.
0:33.5	Next, we've got Turun, the Gigabrain,
0:35.0	and Grand Puba at Gauntlet.
0:36.8	And finally, got myself.
0:37.8	I've received the head hype man at Dragonfly.
0:40.6	All four of us have early stage investors in crypto.
0:42.6	But I want to caveat that nothing we say here
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