UNCHAINED: 3AC's Kyle Davies on Why He's Crypto's Lloyd Blankfein and Why He's Not Sorry
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4.7 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 1:06.6 | Do you disagree? Am I not the Lloyd Blankfarm of Crypto in 2022? |
| 1:10.8 | Hey, all. This is an interview I did with Kyle Davies, co-founder of the bankrupt crypto hedge fund |
| 1:15.5 | Three Arrow's Capital, which imploded in June of 2022, owing its creditors over $3 billion. |
| 1:22.1 | Back in 2012, Kyle and his co-founder, Sue Zhu, who were high school and college buddies, started |
| 1:27.1 | 3AC as an |
| 1:28.1 | arbitrage shop. Turning $1 million into anywhere from what they claimed was $5 billion to $10 billion |
| 1:33.8 | at 3AC's height. In fact, key to its success was the grayscale Bitcoin trust arbitrage trade, |
| 1:40.2 | creating shares of GBT and then selling them after a six-month lock-up period, since GBTC traded |
| 1:46.4 | over-the-counter at a hefty premium compared to its nav, which was based on the price of Bitcoin. |
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