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She also is one of the few people out there in the world teaching about the lessons of Moloch— the study of human coordination—and is the reason why we wanted to have her on Bankless.
In the episode, Liv makes it clear how Moloch is more than an idea. Coordination and competition failures are happening in every aspect of our lives. Is crypto the solution?
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0:00 Intro 8:24 Getting to Moloch 14:25 Meditations on Moloch 17:30 Defining Moloch 19:40 Unhealthy Competition or Coordination Failure 25:00 Nuclear Proliferation 26:30 Cancer 27:58 Moloch’s Ancient Analogy 31:18 Centralization 36:10 The Prisoner’s Dilemma 38:50 When Moloch is the Most Dangerous 43:50 How to Slay Moloch 52:10 Capitalism 59:44 Defining Moloch Cont. 1:02:20 Changing the Underlying Systems 1:08:20 Crypto & Coordination 1:15:15 Moloch’s All the Way Down 1:18:15 Moloch Isn’t One Thing 1:20:00 Better System Design 1:27:23 Crypto’s Moloch Problem 1:32:32 Moloch Takeaways 1:34:42 Liv’s Personal Moloch Connection 1:37:02 Closing & Disclaimers
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Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author writes about war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security. She’s written books on the secrets of Area 51, and the Pentagon’s military science R&D efforts over the decades.
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Our guest Annie Jacobsen has spent her career interviewing and studying intelligence agencies.
The 2023 crypto movement is sufficiently large enough that it has certainly attracted the attention of every intelligence agency out there. We want to learn about how the world’s intelligence agencies might have or are interacting with the crypto community.
Is the CIA spying on crypto? Our guest Annie gives us her thoughts.
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Topics Covered
0:00 Intro
8:00 Three Letter Agencies
14:40 Annie’s Work
17:33 Crypto Patterns
20:48 State vs. Non-State Actors
27:35 Satoshi
33:18 Government’s Crypto Interest?
38:05 The Different Intelligence Communities
46:56 North Korea-Linked Lazarus Group
51:46 Untapped Crypto Lands
56:20 The Internet Analogy
1:02:26 The Intelligence Community Crypto Strategy
1:04:45 CIA Hedge Fund
1:12:03 Is My Friend in the CIA?
1:19:46 Totalitarian Tools
1:23:58 Is Crypto a Win for the Intelligence Community?
1:28:15 How Should We Perceive the Intelligence Community?
1:31:16 Closing & Disclaimers
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Tim Beiko of the Ethereum Foundation is here to update us on the merge.
What steps are left? What obstacles do we need to overcome?
Are we merging in August like Justin Drake said? Or later?
Also, there are a lot of misconceptions about the merge! We’re gonna clear them up.
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0:00 Intro
3:00 BTC Price
3:54 ETH Price
14:00 Relayer and Builder Market
18:13 FED WATCH
18:25 Fed Rate Hike this Week
19:45 Risk on Assets Falls
21:44 Houses! Interest Rates on Houses Spiking
https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/1570413955637460993
24:00 Flat Markets Prediction?
https://twitter.com/GoldTelegraph_/status/1570738647254831105
29:30 White House & U.S. Regulatory
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/09/16/fact-sheet-white-house-releases-first-ever-comprehensive-framework-for-responsible-development-of-digital-assets/
31:20 Terra Screwed Things Up
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1570774337254461446
https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1572095723306627073
34:35 Draft Stablecoin Bill
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1572586178502864896
39:05 Senate Banking Committee Hates Crypto
40:00 Interaction Between Toomey and Gensler
https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1570808589148909569
41:41 $160M Wintermute Hack
41:50 Experts Blame Vanity Address
https://www.theblock.co/post/171192/experts-blame-a-vanity-address-bug-for-wintermutes-160-million-hack
42:00 More Details on What Happened
https://halborn.com/explained-the-profanity-address-generator-hack-september-2022/
44:16 David and Ryan Discuss: What’s Next?
https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor/status/1572927876546297859
https://wrongalot.substack.com/p/the-next-big-crypto-narrative
54:24 PoW Ethereum Fork Dead?
54:46 Infura Decentralized Infrastructure Network
https://twitter.com/infura_io/status/1570794318067290112
56:00 zkSync Devs Found Bug
https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd/status/1567888940123983874
https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor/status/1567889575128727552
https://twitter.com/zksync/status/1570073596709462018
56:55 OpenSea on Arbitrum
https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1572250900198203392
58:15 Tether: Show Us What’s Backing USDT
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stablecoin-issuer-tether-ordered-produce-041706661.html
59:31 FTX in the Lead to Buy Voyager
1:00:42 Do Kwon on the Run?
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/09/19/s-korean-authorities-ask-interpol-to-issue-red-notice-for-terra-co-founder-do-kwon-report/
1:01:13 Rari Fuse Hack Victim Compensation
https://twitter.com/joey__santoro/thread/1571898748405714947
1:04:16 Helium Signs Agreement with T-Mobile
https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1572244764237471749
1:06:13 Kraken’s CEO Stepping Down
https://www.theblock.co/post/171847/krakens-jesse-powell-stepping-down-as-ceo-of-crypto-exchange
1:06:31 Nasdaq Launching Institutional Crypto Custody Services
https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1572186768132161536
1:07:05 Liquid Collective
https://twitter.com/liquid_col/thread/1572164626535563265
https://liquidcollective.io/
1:07:55 Coinbase Cloud
https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-cloud-launches-platform-for-web3-developers-472eb355b1fa
1:08:45 FTX Reloading
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ftx-in-talks-with-investors-to-raise-1b-for-further-acquisitions-cnbc
1:09:10 Messari Raises $35M Series B
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/messari-announces-at-mainnet-2022-summit-raising-35-million-in-series-b-funding-301629624.html
1:11:00 JOBS
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1:14:19 NATION QUESTIONS
https://twitter.com/bbbFollowOnly/status/1572948809063317510
https://twitter.com/mmaatt78/status/1572638221720498176
1:20:45 TAKES
1:20:50 VCs Against Bitcoin
https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1570485528633417730
1:21:55 Say No to Bitcoin Fundamentalism
https://twitter.com/danheld/status/1570839132028674048
1:23:35 Ethereum & Crypto Haters
https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1570459984206381058
https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1571535610279510021
1:25:25 Rollups Today
https://twitter.com/jon_charb/status/1572395334516748290
1:27:31 What We’re Bullish On
1:30:53 MEME of the Week
https://twitter.com/banklesshq/status/1571984307748569088
1:33:41 Closing & Disclaimers
1:33:50 Moment of Zen
https://twitter.com/gabrielhaines/status/1572927657049980929
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Vitalik Buterin: Social Recovery and Layer 2 Wallets
We discuss Vitalik's recent post on his website:
https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html
Vitalik walks through what social recovery wallets are, why they matter, and how we can and should move toward much broader adoption of them throughout the ecosystem.
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