The Chopping Block: Crypto’s Best and Worst in 2023 - Ep. 583

Unchained

Laura Shin

Business News, News, Tech News

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to The Chopping Block – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest news. This week, after an incredibly eventful year for crypto, The Chopping Block crew makes its picks for the best and worst of 2023, including its biggest winners and losers, biggest surprises, best memes, best or worst pivots, biggest flops, best comeback stories, favorite podcast guests and predictions for 2024. Hear why some in the gang consider Solana to be the year’s biggest winner, Circle the biggest loser, MicroStrategy the best and worst pivot, Coinbase the best comeback and a renewed boom in crypto lending one of the top predictions for 2024. Hosts Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Robert Leshner, founder of Compound Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures Disclosures Links Surprises: The Chopping Block: Was Crypto Just Debanked? What Is Depegging in Crypto and Why Does It Occur? Flops: The Chopping Block: Why the Azuki Elementals Drop Was a Big Flop The Chopping Block: Michael Lewis Swindled, SBF’s Effective Altruism Ruse, Ethereum Protocol Enshrinement The Block: Worldcoin unveils integrations with Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram and Shopify CoinDesk: Future of Solana's Hyped Saga Phone Is 'Under Internal Discussion' as Sales Figures Fail to Wow ApeCoin DAO Governance Winners: Unchained: SEC vs Ripple: Judge Rules XRP Sold on Exchanges Is Not a Security Anatoly Yakovenko on Solana’s Astounding Recovery and Its Future Plans Bitcoin’s Daily Transaction Fees Surpass Ethereum’s for First Time Since 2020 What Are BRC-20 Tokens? A Brief Introduction The Chopping Block: Wizards vs. Laser Eyes for the Future of Bitcoin Memes: Dexerto: What is TikTok’s viral NPC fetish? New streaming kink explained David Beckham’s memes Favorite guests: The Chopping Block: Top White Hat Hacker Samczsun Discusses the State of Crypto Security The Chopping Block: How This DeFi Hack Negotiator Gets Hackers to Return Stolen Money The Chopping Block: Why Vivek Ramaswamy Wants Less Crypto Regulation The Chopping Block: Coinbase’s Paul Grewal on Why the SEC Is Going After Crypto So Aggressively Others Unchained: Ledger Library Compromised, Causing Confusion and Panic in Crypto Community Vitalik Buterin Supports Integrating Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines Into Main Ethereum Chain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My biggest losers probably Luke Dash Jr. and Jack Dorsey because they've started this mining pool that tries to not process ordinal transactions and it has been a mega fail.
0:12.0	Not only have they had bugs in it, they've been unable to attract people.
0:16.0	Jack Dorsey, you know, got to be one of my like least favorite tech moguls because he just seems to make no sense.
0:24.4	Not a dividend. It's a tale of two quand. Now your losses are on someone else's
0:29.0	balance. Generally speaking, air drops are kind of pointless anyways.
0:32.0	I made the trading firms who are very involved.
0:35.2	I like that eat is the ultimate pump.
0:37.3	D5 protocols are the antidote to this problem.
0:41.2	Hello everybody, welcome to the chopping block.
0:43.0	Every couple weeks, the four of us get together
0:45.0	and give the industry insiders perspective
0:46.0	on the crypto topics of the day.
0:48.0	The quick intro, first you got Tom, the Defy Maven, and Master of Memes.
0:51.0	Hello.
0:52.0	Next you go to Robert, the Criticona sewer,
0:53.9	and Tsar of Superstate.
0:55.5	GM, everybody.
0:57.4	Then we've got Taroon, the Giga Brain, and Grand Pouba,
0:59.6	at Gauntlet.
1:00.9	Aloha. And finally, I'm perceived the head hype man at Dragonfly.
1:05.0	We are early-stage investors in crypto, but I want to caveat that nothing we say here is
1:08.8	an investment advice, legal advice, or even life advice.
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