The Chopping Block: Why the Crypto Markets Have Been Down This Week - Ep.308

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Laura Shin

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🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The Chopping Block is back! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. Show topics: why crypto assets experienced a drawdown after last week’s FOMC meeting that hinted at accelerated rate hikes which emerging assets Tarun, Haseeb, and Tom envision weathering a bear market which assets could be further hurt by a continued bear market the significance of Paradigm and Sequoia investing in Citadel Securities what aspects of Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike’s web3 article Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun take umbrage with whether Cryptoland is crypto’s Fyre Festival or whether it’s the metaverse what the heck is going on with the Pudgy Penguins community the lessons from the CFTC’s fine of Polymarket (disclosure: a former sponsor of my shows) Episode Links Hosts Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital https://twitter.com/hosseeb Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital https://twitter.com/tomhschmidt Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures https://twitter.com/tarunchitra Topics FOMC = Crypto assets dip https://www.ar.ca/blog/debunking-more-overreactions-to-macro-a-ronin-case-study Paradigm + Sequoia invest in Citadel Securities https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/01/11/paradigm-sequoia-to-invest-115b-in-citadel-securities-bringing-trading-firm-closer-to-crypto/ Cryptoland https://thenextweb.com/news/welcome-to-cryptoland-real-island-cryptocurrency-fans-analysis Moxie Marlinspike’s first impressions of web3 https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html Pudgy Penguins drama https://thedefiant.io/fire-on-the-iceberg-pudgy-penguin-holders-eye-coup-amid-acquisition-talks/ Polymarket fined by CFTC https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/01/03/cftc-fines-crypto-betting-service-polymarket-14m-for-unregistered-swaps/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have introduced a new show here called The Chopping Block, where insiders chop it up
0:08.3	about the latest in crypto.
0:10.6	And this show does not feature me, but it features four really interesting crypto investors
0:15.1	who are Haseeb Koreshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital, Tom Schmidt, partner at
0:21.0	Dragonfly, Robert Lushner, who unfortunately is not here today, founder and CEO of Compound
0:26.9	Labs, and managing partner at Robot Ventures, and Taroon Chitra, co-founder of Gauntlet,
0:33.1	and managing partner at Robot Ventures.
0:35.3	In each episode, Haseeb, Tom, Robert, and Taroon, although not Robert today, will discuss
0:41.1	recent events in crypto.
0:42.8	We will also be releasing these conversations on the podcast, so you can always tune in
0:47.7	later.
0:48.7	But the live streams will always be the earliest you can catch the shows.
0:53.6	And in general, the videos will also have the visual content, whereas the podcasts
0:57.9	will be audio-only.
1:00.4	We launched with a 2021 recap with a bunch of superlatives, and I think people really loved
1:06.1	it.
1:07.1	My favorite category was best mechanism, nominated by Taroon.
1:11.9	And I am just here now to introduce these people and to explain why it is that there is
1:15.9	a live stream on the channel, and why I am not a part of it.
1:20.7	Like that all said, I will turn things over to your moderator, Haseeb.
1:25.1	Okay, catch you later.
1:26.9	Good luck.
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