✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the Episode:
https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/tyler-cowen-debrief
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Tyler Cowen is an American economist, columnist, and blogger. He’s also a professor at George Mason University, where he also produces the Conversations with Tyler podcast with guests like Vitalik Buterin. Marc Andreessen, and Ray Dalio.
In today’s episode, Tyler shares why he thinks regulators should pause and wait before passing crypto regulation in the wake of FTX, how FTX and Enron are similar, why he calls himself a crypto-hopeful (even though he thinks Balaji’s Network State idea is utterly wrong). And finally, we play Tyler's favorite game—Overrated vs. Underrated—about everything relevant in 2023: Crypto AI, Inflation, America, China, Social Media, Wealth Inequality, and more.
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Topics Covered
0:00 Intro
6:10 Tyler’s 2023 Crypto Thoughts
6:50 Why Crypto is Confusing
9:04 Is Crypto Overrated?
10:25 Is Crypto Worth it?
12:19 Regulation
19:33 On-Chain Privacy, Taxes, Surveillance
24:00 FTX vs. Enron
27:35 Wealth Inequality
32:05 Crypto Regulation vs. Innovation
34:48 Can the U.S. Choke Crypto?
36:24 Crypto vs. the Internet
37:56 Whose at Fault for FTX?
40:00 Crypto Self-Regulation
45:16 A.I. Regulation
46:46 A.I.’s SBF Moment?
48:05 Is the Future Closer than it Appears?
50:31 Human Self-Regulation
51:16 Economists & Crypto
53:20 Vitalik
54:16 Free Markets & Greed
55:21 Overrated vs. Underrated
1:00:24 Balaji’s Network State
1:01:47 Banks
1:02:15 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Tyler on Twitter
https://twitter.com/tylercowen
Tyler’s Blog
https://marginalrevolution.com/
Tyler’s Podcast
https://conversationswithtyler.com/
Beware the Dangers of Crypto Regulation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/beware-the-dangers-of-crypto-regulation/2023/01/03/27f6f31a-8b63-11ed-b86a-2e3a77336b8e_story.html
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✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the Episode:
https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-saagar-enjeti
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Saagar Enjeti is the Co-Host of an American populist, anti-establishment political news and opinion series called, Breaking Points with Krystal Ball as his co-host. Launched in June 2021, Breaking Points has 850k Subscribers, with some videos getting millions of views—making Breaking Points a leading source of political news.
In today’s episode, Saagar shares the origin story of Breaking Points and his hot takes on social media, Elon, Twitter, de-platforming, 2024 political predictions, civil war, inflation, FTX, and how crypto can repair itself.
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6:19 Advice Talking to Politicians
15:29 Breaking Points Origin
23:45 Authenticity
27:42 Dealing With Trolls
33:04 Prevent Being Captured
37:00 Meta Breaking Points
40:38 Saagar’s Take on Social Media
47:28 Elon & Twitter
53:22 Deplatforming
58:06 Canada Protests
1:03:15 Lessons From Breaking Points
1:09:27 Old vs. New Media
1:12:15 2024 Political Predictions
1:15:23 Probability of a Civil War
1:16:43 Inflation
1:19:42 FTX
1:23:11 Breaking Points Community
1:23:50 How Crypto Can Repair
1:25:55 Closing
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Resources:
Saagar Enjeti
https://twitter.com/esaagar
Breaking Points
https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints
The Realignment
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-realignment/id1474687988
Read Snowball
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Set Protocol has rolled out a TON of new products lately! We bring CEO Felix Feng on the Bankless YouTube to get our questions directly to the source.
Some recent Announcements that we'll be talking about:
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This video tutorial is about how to earn market-making fees as an LP (liquidity provider) in Curve. This is another example of how to "farm yield" in DeFi by depositing your stablecoins, letting others swap between the stablecoins in Curve, and earning a % of trade fees.
DeFi Dad walks us through the following:
?What is Curve and how does it work as a stablecoin DEX, earning yield for LPs (aka yield farmers)
?Which of the stablecoin pools might I choose to be an LP
?How to deposit stablecoins into a pool and become an LP
?How to withdraw stablecoins whenever you like
?The risks of being a Curve yield farmer
Curve Finance is a stablecoin DEX that allows traders to swap nearly 1:1 between the most liquid stablecoins on Ethereum: DAI, USDC, USDT, sUSD, BUSD, PAX, and BUSD. The goal of Curve is to provide permissionless trading of these stablecoins. You can imagine holding DAI, but wanting to trade into USDT to lend on Compound and earn COMP. You'd go to Curve first and swap DAI for USDT.
To learn more and try Curve yourself, go to: https://www.curve.fi/
For more Bankless video tutorials, check out: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmkdAgtxf3aiduauYPPqUWqpMmAXm2vt5
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From gaming guppy to Orca whale, this week we’re talking to Tetranode. Who is this whale man? Well, he’s an anonymous DeFi billionaire who has been a part of and has shaped the crypto world since the early days of the space.
Not everyone is a whale, but everyone is definitely trying to become one. If you dream of becoming a whale one day, this episode is your blueprint. We uncover all of Tetranode’s whale secrets, such as why farmers are the best alpha, why he’s team Ethereum vs. team Alt Layer 1s, and of course—Tetranode’s advice on becoming a whale yourself.
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✨ DEBRIEF ✨ | Ryan & David's Unfiltered Thoughts on the Episode
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Topics Covered:
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7:35 Gaming as Crypto Training
13:40 Who is Tentranode
18:35 Becoming a Whale
25:20 The Purpose of Wealth
30:55 Why ETH Bullishness?
38:55 Why Decentralization Matters
41:25 Tetranode’s Infinity Gauntlet
46:30 Farmers Have the Best Alpha
48:45 How to Move & Play Markets
1:03:08 Tetranode’s Infinity Gauntlet
1:25:32 Layer 2 Life
1:30:20 Dani Sesta Frog Nation Lessons
1:32:50 How to Trust Anons
1:36:06 Advice to be a Whale
1:38:20 Tetranode in the Future
1:45:20 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Tetranode’s Twitter
https://twitter.com/Tetranode
Tetranode’s Infinity Gauntlet
https://twitter.com/tetranode/status/1481687955223638016
Sismo
https://www.sismo.io/
Degen Spartan’s Twitter
https://twitter.com/DegenSpartan
DOPEX
https://www.dopex.io/
Olympus DAO
https://twitter.com/OlympusDAO
FeiRari
https://app.rari.capital/fuse/pool/8
Rocket Pool
https://rocketpool.net/
Curve
https://curve.fi/
Arbitrum
https://twitter.com/arbitrum
zkSync
https://zksync.io/
zkStark
https://starkware.co/stark/
Dani Sesta’s Twitter
https://twitter.com/danielesesta
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Underpriced JPEGs is back with our guy, our rock, our favorite and only recurring guest, Zeneca_33. Zeneca is back for another Moment of Zen(eca) recap episode with Carly! The two share their strategies and overall advice for dealing with the current market.
They also dive deeper in to the Zagabond/Azuki debacle, UST/Terra’s meltdown and what it means for NFTs, inspiring projects that are still shipping despite the circumstances, and so much more!
As always, we hope you enjoy this week’s Moment of Zen(eca) with Zeneca_33 :)
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2:10 How We’re Holding Up
7:29 NFTs Strategies & Advice
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16:18 Azuki
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34:09 UST Terra the Impact on NFTs
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45:52 Raoul Paul
https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/1524732458993963009
49:39 Positivity & Building
https://twitter.com/Zeneca_33/status/1524412741557137408
52:33 Other Updates
https://twitter.com/ronniefieg/status/1524156519834472448
https://www.kingship.io/allowlist
https://twitter.com/doodles/status/1524514387704172545
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This is the Crypto Advocacy & Education Summit, which we're hosting to go along with the Ethereum Foundation's $500,000 donation to the Gitcoin Round 12 matching round for the ‘Crypto Advocacy’ track.
Gitcoin does these ‘quadratic matching’ rounds 4 times a year, where many entities donate large sums of funds, and the community rallies and donates to many causes and projects across the crypto space. The ‘matching rounds’ are exponentially matched towards the grants that received the most numbers of individual humans who donated to them.
The EF has specifically allocated 500k to go towards effects that advocate for crypto in our government offices.
Bankless and Gitcoin are hosting a 2-panel ’summit’ livestream in order to drum up excitement and donations for the various organizations that help advocate for crypto!
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Panel #1: Why does crypto advocacy and education matter?
Kristin Smith | Blockchain Association
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Brian Quintenz | Former CFTC Chair
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Tomicah Tillemann | a16z
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Panel #2: How do crypto stakeholders support crypto advocacy + education?
Sarah Roth-Gaudette | Fight for the Future
https://twitter.com/gaudette75?s=20
Jerry Brito | Coin Center
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Jake Chervinsky | Blockchain Association
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