The Chopping Block: Do Aragon Association Members Get 'Fat Salaries' With 'Zero Accountability'? - Ep. 492

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Business News, Tech News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. In this episode, they talk about the recent issues surrounding the Aragon Foundation, the likelihood of Montenegro becoming an ETH hub, the BRC-20s mania, and much more! Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights: why Zuzalu is “Burning Man in the daytime” whether Montenegro could become the “ETH El Salvador doppelganger” why the Aragon Foundation alleged that they were under attack why Aragon has “missed the boat on a lot of everything that’s happened in DAOs” whether the Aragon Foundation is “suckling on the teat of the DAO for a fat salary” whether Arca was right about wanting the Aragon treasury to be part of the on-chain governance how on-chain governance can do even more than many of the investment banking functions that exist currently why some Bitcoin developers want to censor BRC-20 transactions why the way XEN works gives Haseeb a headache whether Binance CEO CZ invented the memecoin PEPE what the impact of Jump and Jane Street decreasing their market making activity is where the next market makers will come from Hosts Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Robert Leshner, founder of Compound Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Disclosures Links Unchained: Coinbase Apologizes After Calling PEPE a ‘Hate Symbol’ Market Makers Jump and Jane Street Withdraw From U.S. Crypto Trading: Report CoinDesk: Aragon Cancels Planned Community Control of $200M Treasury Amid Battle With Activist Investors The Block: Coinbase cuddles up to UAE policymakers as US outlook sours 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 pun.
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.
0:10.6	I like that heat of the ultimate problem.
0:12.8	DeFi protocols are the antidote to this problem.
0:17.5	Hello, everybody. Welcome to the chopping block.
0:19.5	Every couple weeks, the four of us get together
0:21.1	and give the industry insider perspective
0:22.7	on the crypto topics of the day.
0:24.9	So first up, we've got Tom, the DeFi Maven,
0:26.8	and Master of Memes.
0:28.2	Next, we've got Robert, the crypto connoisseur,
0:29.8	and Captain of Compound.
0:31.3	Then we've got Taroon, the Gigabrain
0:33.2	and Granfoo von Conlan.
0:34.8	I was about to call you Garoon, because it does rhyme.
0:37.2	And then I received the head head man a dragonfly.
0:40.6	I thought you were going to replace Gigabrain with Garoo.
0:42.6	That was what I was like, whoa, that's like a funny change.
0:45.5	I feel like that could be a good second after you actually.
0:47.6	If you retire from crypto, you just become like a yoga teacher.
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