Talking Crypto with Gabriel Haines: Recent Episodes
Gabriel Haines
We discuss topics of interest in the DeFi and crypto community with a variety of different guests from the space. Guests include content creators, developers, community members and more!
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The origins of We Don't Talk About Crypto - 0:01 The time I met SBF - 4:30 Performance in ETH Denver - 12:39 Parents are shitlords - 19:00 Base - 20:20 Vitaliks Shlong and time travel- 24:44 Base Token - 26:40 Do Kwon likes my titties - 32:30 Do Kwon Banana Milk and Hot Sauce - 34:40 Andrew Kang - 45:00 Vitaliks Big D Energy - 46:05 Separate the Art and Artist - 47:41 Nate asks about price - 50:45 Buy a hat and shout out to @Generalbullpoo -52:19 I don't need to convince you - 52:48 My Chinese name - 55:02 Shanghai update - 1:00:10 Why I believe in crypto and the future- 1:02:09
welcoming to the shitcoin church - 00:10
rant deleted - 01:00
My babies birth - 1:30
healthy ppl- 02:30
post birth 03:30
Doctors work from fear 05:15
my experience with chemo - 06:30
chemo is a nuke - 08:45
dr. Levy eating pork - 10:15
the nerologiest - 11:45
skin doctor telling us about emotional issues- 13:30
fauci - 18:45
your health is on you 19:30
getting medical cannabis - 22:15
take your life into your own hands - 26:10
you know what to do - 29:40
Mr. fry man - 31:00
no better time in history 32:06
i want a studio - 33:40
sleepy joe impression 34:30
make your own decisions - 35:00
pelosi scammer - 37:30
BRITNEY Griner - 38:06
find your energy - 39:30
alcoholics anonymous and LSD - 42:02
live the life you want to live - 43:35
intro 00:02
my favorite types of podcasts 01:00
Only Murders in the Building SPOILERS 04:10
being your self 07:15
the challenge of writing a show 08:30
the first podcast I ever listened to (ECONTALK) - 10:00
wanting to do podcast for a while 16:32
why i stopped doing interviews 17:30
boring conversations 19:00
Bathroom break 19:40
the one question i asked joe rogan 20:58
what i learned from joe rogans answer 24:20
joe rogan leads a great life 28:20
live the life YOU want to live 30:30
the average of 5 ppl you hang out with 31:30
the life i want to live 32:50
authenticity wins out 33:50
Lex fridman podcast vs joe rogan podcast 36:30
my dream 41:22
youtube is mightier than medium 45:30
finding my voice 46:40
the power of speech 48:00
my hope for the listener 50:10
being “rich" is lamest dream of all time 51:40
my personal satisfaction 55:25
Scoopy Trooples is a DeFi enthusiast turned builder. He co-founded the non-liquidatable, self-repaying loan platform, Alchemix.
Scoopy Trooples Twitter: https://twitter.com/scupytrooples
Alchemix Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlchemixFi
Alchemix Website: https://alchemix.fi/
Redphone is a crypto storyteller with a unique and poetic vision.
Redphone Twitter: https://twitter.com/redphonecrypto
69 Theses: https://redphone.substack.com/p/69
Darren Lau is the founder of The Daily Ape and co-founder of Not3Lau Capital.
Darren Lau Twitter: https://twitter.com/Darrenlautf
The Daily Ape: https://thedailyape.notion.site/thedailyape/Directory-c96c0b6727c0433a962e897ef43efb7e
Fisktantes is a DeFi degen, investor and adventurer. He is a member of Zee Prime Capital and the Sigil Fund.
Follow Fiskantes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Fiskantes
Devops199fan aka. Sunil is a crypto enthusiast, member of E-Girl Capital, and the founder of Saddle Finance.
Devopsfan Twitter: https://twitter.com/devops199fan
Saddle Twitter: https://twitter.com/saddlefinance
Saddle Website: https://saddle.finance/
E-Girl Capital Website: https://www.egirlcapital.com/
Xavier Ekkel is the founder of prePO, a decentralized trading platform allowing anyone anywhere to get exposure to any pre-IPO company or pre-token crypto project.
Eva Beylin is the Director of The Graph Foundation; democratizing the data economy and blockchain API access.
The Graph Website: https://thegraph.com/
The Graph Twitter: https://twitter.com/graphprotocol
Eva Beylin Twitter: https://twitter.com/evabeylin
Hannes Graah is the Founder at Gro Protocol. Gro develops protocols or autonomous programs designed for a simple and friendly DeFi experience.
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/groprotocol
Zemm and Zach are founding members of Coordinape. Coordinape is a platform for DAOs to easily and fairly distribute resources to contributors. Community grants, internal salaries, and special projects can all be incentivized and rewarded by the community itself. Instead of cumbersome voting or black box committees, contributors themselves can quickly and transparently reward the value they see being created.
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/coordinape
Website:
https://coordinape.com/
Zeus is the anonymous founder of Olympus. Olympus is building a community-owned decentralized financial infrastructure to bring more stability and transparency for the world. Additionally, Olympus is offering a new product called Olympus Pro which allows for Protocol Owned Liquidity.
Zeus Twitter:https://twitter.com/ohmzeus
OlympusDAO Twitter:https://twitter.com/OlympusDAO
OlympusDAO Link Tree:https://linktr.ee/olympusdao
In this episode of Talking Crypto, Gabriel Haines interviews Andras from Ether Cards, and Mark from Genomes. Ether Cards is a platform that provides tools for gamifying and supercharging NFTs. Genomes.io is an innovative blockchain project that aims to secure your genomic data while giving you the ability to monetize it to generate passive income. The two projects have partnered for some NFT collaborations which are sure to make for some interesting and innovative integrations.
Genomes.io Website:https://genomes.io/
Genomes.io Twitter:https://twitter.com/genomesio
Genomes.io Discord:https://discord.com/invite/3DaD2na4XJ
Ether Cards Website:https://ether.cards/
Ether Cards Twitter:https://twitter.com/ether_cards
Ether Cards Discord:discord.gg/ethercards
Jonathan Hillis founded ₡ABIN, a community of cabins for web3 workers. We are an experiment in the future of cities: decentralized village nodes tied together by a shared culture, economy, and governance structures. ₡ABIN aspires to be a physical manifestation of DAOs, a cooperative labor market for knowledge workers, and perhaps even a decentralized city-state.
Discord: https://discord.gg/N6hVmFygjR
Twitter: https://twitter.com/creatorcabins
Website: https://www.creatorcabins.com/
Blog: https://creators.mirror.xyz/
Gabriel interviews Anna and Brooks from Ponderware, the infamous creators of the Mooncats.
Mooncats Twitter:https://twitter.com/ponderware
Mooncats Website:https://mooncat.community/
Mooncats Discord:https://discord.com/invite/XYZFrsYava
Nick Chong is an investor and analyst focused on decentralized finance working for ParaFi Capital, a digital asset manager. At ParaFi, he works on the investment team, identifying primary and secondary market investments and yield opportunities for the portfolio.
Nick Chong Twitter:https://twitter.com/n2ckchong
ParaFi Capital Twitter:https://twitter.com/paraficapital
Ty Blackard is the COO and co-founder of Nifty Labs, a platform building cross-chain infrastructure for NFT utility and authentication.
Ty Twitter:https://twitter.com/tytaninc
NFTY Labs Website:https://nftylabs.org/
NFTY Labs Twitter:https://twitter.com/NFTYLab
NFTY Labs Discord:https://twitter.com/NFTYLab
Sal Ash is an investor in crypto-currencies since 2017 and is passionate about supporting innovative community projects that bring something new to the space. He spends most of his time working on the Alchemist project.
Sal Ash Twitter:https://twitter.com/sal_ash_
Alchemist Website:https://www.alchemist.wtf/
Alchemist Twtiter:https://twitter.com/_alchemistcoin
Andrew Thurman is a tech reporter at CoinDesk. He formerly worked as a weekend editor at Cointelegraph, a partnership manager at Chainlink and a co-founder of a smart-contract data marketplace startup.
Andrew Thurman Twitter:https://twitter.com/Blockanalia
Andy is the co-founder of Fractional, a platform that allows for the fractional ownership of NFTs.
Andy Twitter:https://twitter.com/andy8052
Fractional Twitter:https://twitter.com/fractional_art
Fractional Website:https://fractional.art/
CJ Hetherington is the co-founder of Atlantis World, a metaverse platform making two-dimensional, lightweight digital worlds to level-up the social experience and gameify DeFi investing
Cooper Turley aka. Coopahtroopa is a full time DAO operator working on projects like Friends with Benefits, Audius, PleasrDAO, Forefront and Seed Club. He’s a partner at Variant Fund and works with teams on token launches and governance through Fire Eyes DAO.
Chichi is the CEO of Degen'$ Farm a platform where you can farm unique NFT creatures and collect them. Each creature will not only delight its owner, but also accumulate market fees. Aside from NFTs, Degen'$ Farm also has a utility token called $DUNG.
Chris Spadafora aka. Spadaboom is a good friend of the channel, a Bitcoin OG and one of the founders of Badger. Badger is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focused on building the products and infrastructure necessary to accelerate the growth of Bitcoin in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) across multiple blockchains.
Badger Website:https://badger.finance/
Badger Twitter:https://twitter.com/BadgerDAO
Badger Discord:https://discord.com/invite/xSPFHHS
Lianne Li is one of the founding members of Divergence. Divergence is a decentralized platform for volatility hedging and trading with a focus on blockchain native asset prices, value of LP tokens, interest rates, DeFi farming and staking rewards.
Divergence Website:https://www.divergence-protocol.com/
Divergence Twitter:https://twitter.com/divergencedefi
Divergence Discord:https://discord.com/invite/v96fhs
Divergence Community Telegram:https://t.me/divergenceprotocol
Divergence Announcements Telegram:https://t.me/divergenceannouncement
Spottie Wifi is the best (only) CryptoPunk rapper alive.
Spottie Wifi Twitter: https://twitter.com/spottiewifi?lang=en
Spottie Wifi Discord: discord.gg/6HWmhugB3W
Spottie Wifi Audius: https://audius.co/spottiewifi
Hardwood (now Heartwood) returns to the Gabriel Haines show for a second time due to popular demand. Heartwood is a gay 6-inch creature known as a "wassie" who previously worked at Wendys and ConsenSys. He is also a prominent personality on crypto twitter.
Mark Hahnel PhD. is the CSO at Genomes.io and is working in the middle of the Venn diagram, where DeFi, Cryptography and Genomics converge.
ChainLinkGod is a Chainlink Community Ambassador and co-author of the independent publication SmartContent. He provides educational resources regarding the Chainlink Network, DeFi ecosystem, and smart contract economy to all who are willing to listen.
Gmoney is an investor, futurist and NFT collector. He recently started working with Delphi Digital on an NFT venture.
Sid Powell is the CEO & Co-Founder of Maple Finance. Sid comes from a background in debt capital markets and institutional banking. During his career in traditional finance, he participated in $3b+ of corporate bond issuance, established and ran a $200m+ bond funding program, and managed Treasury at a commercial lending fintech company.
Jigsaw is a Co-Founder and Head of Comms for SEEN HAUS, a highly curated NFT auction house merging the physical + digital worlds of art. He was previously a Calvin Klein model and writer for YFI.
Jet is a 15 year old smart contract developer at Rari Capital. He started writing code in 2017 and became a blockchain dev in 2020. Jet also enjoys F1 racing.
Samuel Shadrach is an engineering student, currently consulting and working at Rari Capital. He is into all things Ethereum — DeFi, L2, MEV and whatever else catches his fancy.
Owen is the creator of the 0xmons project. Aside from being a crypto dev, he is an NFT enthusiast, DeFi degen and machine learning expert.
Tomasz Stanczak is an Ethereum core engineer and co-founder of Oiler Protocol, a platform which introduces blockchain protocol scale risk management to DeFi. His professional interests include the decentralized economy, mempool dynamics, gas prices, protocol behaviour research and engineering. Tomasz is also a crew member at the Flashbots Collective.
Colborn Bell is the co-founder and Director of the Museum of Crypto Art. He is a long time blockchain investor, and passionate about how frontier technologies can create profound human and societal impact.
Hardwood is a gay 6-inch creature known as a "wassie" who previously worked at Wendys and ConsenSys. He is also a prominent personality on crypto twitter.
Chris Spears is a programmer and the founder of Lift Kitchen DAO, a platform intended to be a rapid prototype incubator, effectively creating a VC-like fund model that’s “by crypto, for crypto.”
Kris Kay is a crypto investor and educator. Aside from content creation, Kris is also involved with Decentral Games, a casino in the Metaverse.
Ulysse is a French creative developer and a co-founder of APWine, a platform where you can trade future DeFi yield.
Vasa is a DeFi developer and contributor to prominent Crypto projects.
Vasa on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vasa_develop
Dark Forest Capital and AG, two members of the Index Coop, discuss the Metaverse Index, a token respresenting a basket of some of the top projects in the NFT space. According to the Index Coop: "The Metaverse Index (MVI) is designed to capture the trend of entertainment, sports and business shifting to a virtual environment, with economic activity in this environment taking place on the Ethereum blockchain."
Will Harborne is the founder of DeversiFi — formerly known as Ethfinex. DeversiFi is a Layer 2 DeFi platform and exchange built using Starkware. He is also the founder of Nectar, a DAO managing 17,000 ETH.
Jack Du Rose is the founder of Colony, a unique DAO platform. Colony seeks to be the most powerful, practical, flexible, and easy-to-use DAO framework. It enables you to create & participate in online organizations, without code.
Fiskantes is a DeFi "super-user" and investor. He is a member of Zee Prime Capital and the Sigil Fund.
Leighton Cusack is a the co-founder of PoolTogether and PleasrDAO. PoolTogether is a decentralized no-loss lottery. PleasrDAO is a DAO that originally formed with the purpose of acquiring enough capital to buy the Uniswap V3 animation NFT from artist pplpleasr. The Dao has future plans to expand their NFT collection to include more unique art pieces.
Krypto Cucumber & Defi Ted are founding members of Cover, a decentralized insurance platform, and Ruler, a decentalized borrowing/lending platform.
Scoopy Trooples is the co-founder of Alchemix a dapp that allows you to take loans that pay off themselves.
In this interview I spoke with Zemm, an NFT artist and project manager at Yearn. We discussed the hype surrounding NFTs, the meaning behind the artwork, and the value offered to creators and buyers. We also discussed Coordinape from Yearn Finance.
In this interview, I spoke with Mark Anstead from Numio. We talked about the value of the project, zkRollups infrastructure, and the role identity plays in DeFi.
Mewny is a crypto native, eGirl capital member and couch. Topics included team building in DeFi, the importance of community in NFT projects, and the driving force behind successful artists like Beeple.
DeFi Fry, my video editor and writer for Badger DAO, joined me for a unique episode. We discussed some of his favorite recent clips from the show, his introduction to DeFi, and love for Ethereum.
In this episode of Talking Crypto, I spoke with Vasiliy from Lido Finance. We talked about P2P Validator, Lido's value and token distribution, and cross chain development.
In this episode of Talking Crypto, I spoke with Rishi from Tiingo. We talked about building connections and communities in DeFi, creating content and philosophies for success. We also discussed Tiingo and the essential role of data in DeFi.
I spoke with Supermassive, head of video & multimedia at The Defiant, a YouTube channel presenting DeFi and crypto news with strong cinematography. We talked about his passion for filmmaking and transition to crypto, as well as the future of media and crypto's role in shaping it.
I had the pleasure of speaking with AJ Vaynerchuk, Co-Founder of VaynerSports and VaynerMedia. We spoke about his introduction to crypto, NFT value, discovering new projects and monetizing content.
In my latest interview, I spoke with Alex Gausman of NFTX. We talked about many of the exciting projects happening in the NFT space, including the hype and value associated with NFTs. In this extensive interview, we also spent a good amount of time discussing NFTX and the roadmap for the future.
I spoke with Dark Forest Capital, community member at Index Coop. We talked about many subjects, including his pilot and engineering experience, discovering DeFi and INDEX, and his work with the Coop.
In my conversation with Crypto Gav, we spoke a lot about Hashmasks and the hype behind this unique NFT project. We also discussed masternodes, the early days of DeFi and many exciting projects developing in this space.
I had a conversation with Redphonecrypto, a crypto storyteller with a unique and poetic vision. We talked about knowing your customer and the concept of presumed guilt, the separation of money and state, and how maximalists contribute to crypto. We also discussed a lot more in this expansive interview about crypto and DeFi.
To protect redphonecrypto's identity, the audio was rerecorded by another individual.
Andy is a Co-Founder of DeFi Slate, one of the premiere sources of DeFi information, education and more. In our second interview, we talked about LINK marines, leveraged trading, algorithmic stablecoins, layer 2 solutions and more!
In my second interview with Ceazor from, "Ceazor's Snack Sandwich" Youtube channel, we had an extensive conversation on a variety of DeFi subjects. We talked about impermanent loss, GameStop's stock price phenomenon, yield opportunities through various protocols, and more.
Artem, a contributor from Index Coop, and I discuss INDEX, including token utility and governance, crypto education, CoinShares and the role of indices in DeFi.
I sat down with delegates from Inverse Finance. They shared their backgrounds and how they discovered Inverse, the unique token distribution of Inverse and token tradability. We also discussed token incentives and the value of DeFi communities.
Lemonade, a contributing member of Index Coop, sat down to discuss working on the growth of this community. We discussed the DPI, investment theory, growing INDEX and rewarding the community.
In my latest interview with Jigsaw, we talked about his involvement with YFI Pulse, his introduction to Blue Kirby, Seen Haus and the value of NFTs. We also discussed the unique workplace in the DeFi scene, and the growth of crypto art.
On my latest episode of Talking Crypto, I caught up with Ceazor! We talked about learning through teaching, building a community and managing risk. We also discussed some exciting projects on-and-off Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and Ceazor's Snack Sandwich.