The Hash: A Holiday Impression with Zack Seward and Adam B. Levine
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and the Galaxy Brains Podcast.
A holiday short of the most valuable crypto stories for 2022.
“Hash” hosts Zack Seward and Adam B. Lavine answer what the biggest story of the year was for them and why?
In addition, what is their main focus in the crypto industry?
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This episode has been produced and edited by Michele Musso. Our executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Nut Cracking” by Erik Pena.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The HASH is sponsored by BitStamp and the Galaxy Brains podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | You're listening to The Hash holiday special on the Coindess podcast network. |
| 0:15.7 | Hey there. I'm Zach Seward, host of The Hash, and I want to do a little year-end reflection. |
| 0:22.3 | It's kind of hard to get away from the FTX story. |
| 0:24.7 | That was just a massive, massive story this year, especially since it was kicked off by |
| 0:28.8 | some stellar reporting by CoinDesk's own Ian Allison. |
| 0:32.1 | So I got to focus in on that. |
| 0:34.1 | But even before that, I think there were cracks in the bull run that were starting |
| 0:40.6 | to be revealed. Danny Nelson had some really great reporting about Salana shenanigans on a couple |
| 0:47.1 | of developer brothers who were sort of masquerading as 10 to 12 people in an effort to juice |
| 0:54.0 | the TVL numbers of the Salana Defi ecosystem. |
| 0:57.3 | Stories like that, I think, that reveal sort of the inner workings of the crypto space |
| 1:01.8 | are really, really important in good times and bad. I think CoinDesk, to its credit, has done |
| 1:07.9 | it in both Bull and Bear. So for me, going forward, I think crypto getting back |
| 1:14.0 | to some of its on-chain roots, getting back to that decentralized ethos, getting away from |
| 1:19.4 | these middlemen that crypto believers really say they believe in is what it's going to be all |
| 1:25.5 | about in 2023, looking to build a more robust crypto economy |
| 1:29.0 | that's outside of some of these centralized intermediaries. |
| 1:32.8 | That's defy, that's self-custody, |
| 1:35.3 | that's new experiments for onboarding people |
| 1:38.3 | directly to on-chain applications |
| 1:40.3 | rather than these big exchanges |
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