So much happening in crypto. There was a flash crash of Bitcoin

E.T.F might not happen, but there's a lot of other news, a lot of other

catalysts for big moves in crypto.

I brought on my good friend and super crypto expert, Omin Malachon.

Omin is a professor of crypto at Columbia Business School.

He's written two books, a story of the blockchain,

and his most recent book, which is a great book, I highly recommended.

Re architecting Trust, The Curse of History and the crypto cure for money, markets, and platforms.

He also was one of the first people to help guide Citigroup on the entire largest

bank in the world on the topic of crypto. So we talked about everything from the Bitcoin ETS to the convergence of

crypto and AI to the Ethereum upgrade and all sorts of other catalysts for

Bitcoin and crypto in general. So a lot of topics, here goes.

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger show. Just doing trying to do a lot of

a lot of writing like bite-size writing about pertinent topics in crypto and then planning for

the upcoming semester where enrollment in my class is once again maxed out

after a one semester hiatus where it wasn't.

That's funny, like all it takes is for

crypto to start having like a, like crypto, Bitcoin was of 144% last year, so that means you're going to have students.

The year before, ah, Bitcoin's a fad, like no one cares anymore.

Yes, with the caveat that that only impacted like 20% of enrollment because I actually I imagine the types of students who just want to learn about the most cutting-edge thing probably were opting to learn about

AI instead of crypto. But the market forces and animal spirits always help.

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