THE HASH: Kraken's Incoming CEO on Crypto Regulation Outlook, Market Turbulence
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🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The most valuable crypto stories for Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022.
Incoming Kraken CEO Dave Ripley joins "The Hash" panel to discuss the crypto platform’s leadership plan, as Ripley gears up to succeed co-founder Jesse Powell, who will become chairman of the board of directors.
See also: Kraken’s Jesse Powell to Step Down as CEO of Crypto Exchange
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| 0:00.0 | This is the HASH podcast. |
| 0:10.3 | Stay informed with the latest on Bitcoin, ETH, the Metaverse, Web3, and more, |
| 0:15.2 | with stories that matter to the crypto world, all on the hash for your ears. |
| 0:23.7 | You're listening to the Coin Desk Podcast Network. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to The Hash on this fine Wednesday. You are watching on CoinDesk TV and listening on the Coin Desk Podcast Network. I'm Jen Sanasi,, Will Foxley, Zach Seward and Wendy O are here today. |
| 0:41.4 | We got an awesome show ahead of us. So let's get crack in. Zach, what do you got? |
| 0:47.6 | Oh, see what you did there. Very nice. We have a special guests here today on the hash. |
| 0:52.0 | We don't do interviews a lot here on the hash, so the few that we do are very special. |
| 0:56.8 | We are joined today by Dave Ripley. He is the incoming CEO Cracken, which is top five crypto exchange in the world. |
| 1:04.0 | How you doing, Dave? |
| 1:04.9 | Doing great. Nice to be here with you guys today. |
| 1:07.5 | All right, man. We're just going to get right to it. You got some big shoes to fill. |
| 1:10.9 | Jesse Powell, longtime crypto OG. Why did he really step down, sir? What happened? What's going on |
| 1:16.4 | over there? Yeah, you're right about big shoes to fill. I mean, if you think about it, |
| 1:21.5 | I mean, how many how many people out there have done more for the crypto industry than Jesse? |
| 1:26.1 | Obviously built an amazing company as well at Cracken. |
| 1:28.9 | You know, it's been a it's been a while for him. So 11 years since the founding of Cracken. |
| 1:33.7 | And, you know, he's interested in taking a step up as we're referring to it and to become |
| 1:38.8 | the chairman of Cracken. You know, I think companies at a different level of scale, of course. |
| 1:44.8 | You know, he really is an incredible zero to one leader, and he wants to, you know, kind of focus on a couple |
| 1:50.6 | of more narrow areas, if you will, going forward, namely industry advocacy, which is, you know, |
| 1:55.7 | broader than Cracken itself and then kind of, you know, know think think harder about kind of product innovation |
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