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Industry insiders David Hoffman and Christian Keroles, explore the markets, news, and interesting topics in cryptocurrency. POV Crypto offers listeners a diverse range of perspective from their experience living this brave new blockchain world.

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CK and David are back from a long break to discuss BTC and ETH on the verge of another crazy bull market.

This is a recording of a conversation over Twitter spaces on the night of November 10th.

Join CK and David as they sync their nodes on a catch-up episode of PoV!

Join CK and David Hoffman as they meet for a rare in person POV Crypto. For this episode, we catch you up on the recent action that has happened in the Bitcoin and Crypto space. Topics: Physical vs Digital El Salvador MSTR bought more Price is down More Energy Fud BTC v ETH upgrading differences.

David and Christian catch up after Bitcoin 2021

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David and Christian catch up and discuss what it's like to be in crypto vs the outside world, and go back and forth on additional topics

David and Christian catch up and discuss what it's like to be in crypto vs the outside world, and go back and forth on additional topics

CK and David discuss Bitcoin, Ethereum and what makes sound money

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This week CK confronts David about a recent episode of Bankless with Justin Drake and the Ultra Sound Money Meme.

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CK and David discuss how BTC, NFTs, and DeFi are opening up to a more and more general audience. We discuss What a Bitcoin future will look like and Debate whether Ethereum can compete with bitcoin as de-facto future money.

David and Christian meet to discuss some of the recent social dynamics in the crypto-communities.

Christian offers the Bitcoiner take on NFTs.

David discusses how laser eyes are bullish.

David makes the claim that the people that make up a community are critically important.

Christian claims that Bitcoin just is, and is independent from people.

This week for POV Crypto Ck and David discuss last week's crazy markets around GME and the fall out. We discuss Where bitcoin Ethereum and other open source tools fit into the new paradigm. David closes out with giving his DeFi token moonshots. Enjoy this deep and nuanced conversation of POV Crypto.

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David and ck discuss how to think and approach the bull market, Debate energy usage and PoW, Debate Pos, Discuss defi tokens.

Join ck and David Hoffman as they discuss the latest musings in the crypto markets and debate the core fundamentals of the crypto ecosystem.

Topics: Blockchains make for a new kind of history

DeFi Season not Alt (chain) Season.

$Uni is the open source story next to Coinbase IPO

Debating Ethereum's dependance to Bitcoin.

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Join Christian and David as they talk about the relationship between the state, the people, and the money

David and Christian discuss Microstrategy and whats going on behind the scenes there, as well as other topics in the news such as the STABLE Act.

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CK and David discuss the launch of Eth 2 and BTC pushing up against all time highs.

David and CK have a conversation about the state of the industry, and express their excitement about what's to come in the months ahead.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Join ck and David as they host high powered traders Kyle Davis of Three Arrows back on to the show. We discuss what he sees in the crypto market and why he and his firm have changed their tune about Ethereum Defi and Bitcoin.

Brandon Quittem, friend of the pod, recently wrote a piece called 'Bitcoin and the Rhythms of History'.

In this piece, he discusses the concept of a 'saeculum', or a period of time that represents a 'very long lifespan'.... 90 years in which 4 generations of humans come and go, and the same four patterns of history are repeated in the way that society tumbles forward into the future.

He then connects how we are making yet another 'turning' of the 4-part revolution of a saeculum, and what Bitcoin represents as a character of the story of our place in history.

https://www.brandonquittem.com/bitcoin-rhythms-of-history/

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Read the article on Brandon's Website! https://www.brandonquittem.com/

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Jon ck and David as the debate this weeks hottest topics and well dive deep into the Bitcoin and Ethereum debate. David is disappointed with eth price while ck is impressed. Learn about what David considers to be an attack on DeFi from SBF of FTX.com.

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David and Christian discuss how some long-time Bitcoiner thesis have manifest into reality from the COVID pandemic.

A lot of Bitcoiners have described a financial world that crumbles from a fragile system LONG before COVID. Then COVID happened, and a lot of narratives that Bitcoiners illustrated have manifested into reality.

David and Christian discuss some of topics that surround the discussion of crypto in the broader macro environment.

And then David gives an ETH 2.0 update.

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Are you ready for another POV Crypto Fight Night? This week, CK and David discuss hot stories in Bitcoin, Ethereum and DeFi. We cover the following:

Topics:

Square buys Bitcoin

Bitcoin Vs the Dollar

Ethereum as a Money

BTC Vs Ethereum

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Uncle Sam goes after BitMex. The US Government vs Bitcoin.
8 Year aniversary of US vs Ross Ulbricht.

KuCoin gets hacked; loses lots of DeFi tokens. Many tokens illustrate their centralized nature.

Trump got covid; the uncertainty of the future grows!

This week CK and David host Matthew Black and Tony Cai of Atomic Finance to discuss their move from building on BTC and ETH to focusing on BTC only. They give their critics of Ethereum infrastructure and tease the nascent but exciting tech being built for Bitcoin. David does a good job of asking questions and defending Ethereum’s current moat. Please enjoy this conversation exploring the cutting edge of trustless P2P finance.

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Atomic.Finance

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@TonyCai_

@matthewjablack

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Are you ready for another POV Crypto Fight Night? This week, CK and DAvid discuss hot stories in Bitcoin, Ethereum and DeFi. WE cover the following:

Topics:

Global Market Sentiment

Crypto Prices dumping

Microstrategy

tBTC launching.

The $UNI air drop and the implications of a Uniswap with governance.

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David and CK begin with an unexpected journey exploring the current state of the world, and viewing it from an authoritarian vs individual perspective

then, we take a slight detour to conspiracy theories around Netflix and soft-core pedophilia (?)

Then, into the meat debating the merits of DeFi tokens with treasuries

CK: DeFi tokens will trend towards 0 vs BTC

David: They wont go to 0, because they're designed to accrue money, in whatever form money comes in. They're a hard money multiplier

Then we get into the subject of contracts... custodians vs not custodians... hint: it depends!

CK and David discuss the most recent DeFi mania, $SUSHI token exit scam, FTX.com, Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi and much more in this jam packed and Dense episode of POV Crypto.

Gigi, Author of 21 Lessons, returns to POV Crypto to discuss the concept of Bitcoin as a self-fulfilling religion, a life-seeking organism.

Gigi previously came to POV Crypto and had a very heated debate with David. This time, Gigi returns and David and him discuss the ways that Bitcoin (and Ethereum) represent new forms of Religion, Nation State, and Organism all in one!

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Prices are cooling down

How long tho
- Could just 2x in the next two weeks

Bitcoin mining hash rate being affected by flooding in szechuan region

Costs of being a tangible thing
Staking as intangible; costs and benefits

Stocks keep going up

‘Free market’

David is extremely bullish on $YFI

Convince me why YFI?
What does it mean that Aave passed makerDAO?
How to play the Bull Market Right?
- CK and David each give their take.

The next 18 months are going to be defined by

Capital inflows to Ethereum in order to access money-game DeFi yields
Capital inflows into BTC to escape from inflation

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Su Zhu of Three Arrows Capital discusses his DeFi strategies, and how things about playing the current DeFi field!

We discuss:

The grand Three Arrows Capital investment theses
Denominating in ETH, BTC, or USD
Leveraging DeFi for returns
YAMs: Good experiment or abject failure
Liquidity mining, yield farming and viewing these as games
Bearish VC DeFi tokens, Bullish 0-premine experiments

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CK and David gear up for a classic Bitcoin VS Ethereum Fight Night. We celebrate soaring prices by arguing whats behind them, future development, and where we go next.

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The CFO of Luxor Mining Ethan Vera joins POV Crypto to discuss all things Mining and Blockchain security. Ethan is an expert in BTC and Altcoin mining and has very interesting opinions about staking.

Topics:

BTC mining
Hashrate Markets
Hashrate derivatives
Attacking Bitcoin
The rise of the US mining scene
PoS
Altcoin Mining

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Loong Wang the CTO of Ren VM comes on to POV Crypto to discuss their technology and how they are pushing trust minimized Bitcoin onto Ethereum.

Topics:

The history of Ren VM
Why interoperability is important
Ren’s mission
Interoperability will allow few coins to dominate many chains

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[Guest] Loong Wang on Twitter @bzlwang

Ansel Lindner, macro markets guru and host of the Bitcoin and Markets podcast comes to POV Crypto to discuss his bleak outlook to the future of the global economy.

We discuss:

How the Fed activity resembles 90's era Japan
- People are saving more than they're spending
The economic contraction ahead of us
The role of crypto-dollar stablecoins in a deflationary environment
Altcoin, DeFi token outlook

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Bitcoin Mushroom Man Brandon Quittem comes to POV Crypto to continue the conversation about how the cryptocurrency world is synonymous with nature and organic systems.

David, Brandon, and CK discuss how the free market and price discovery are organically derived phenomenons. We discuss how top-down influence and price controls are blasphemous, as they are an attack on nature!

We discuss how Bitcoin and Ethereum are organically emergent phenomenons, and they should be viewed as natural organisms!

Finally, we move to compare Bitcoin and Ethereum and how they relate to nature! We finish with a short debate on Proof of Stake and the outcomes of the BTC vs ETH fight

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A recent ETH 2 AMA on r/ethereum sparks rabbling, due to an extended estimation of Phase 0 launch timeline. We bring Preston from the Prysmatic client team to POV Crypto to get his take about where ETH 2 is in development.

We talk:

How Prysmatic came to be
Funding environment for client teams
Phase 0 timeline and the r/Ethereum AMA
Client differentiators
Hardware requirements
EVM & EWASM

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David and CK review some of the current discussions happening in their circles about:

The state of crypto in the macro, vs Legacy markets
What liquidity actually is
ETH 2 delays
Does AMPL deserve a fair shot?

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Cami Russo, author of the soon-to-be-released book The Infinite Machine, comes to POV Crypto to discuss her experience researching and interviewing about Early Ethereum to write her book!

Cami discusses

The evolution of Ethereum Culture
The early decisions made at Ethereum and the EF that would impact the future of Ethereum
What it was like interviewing a wide cast of characters
Dissecting the DAO and the drama surrounding it
The scope of the book!

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[Guest] Cami Russo on Twitter @CamiRusso

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Colin Harper of Forbes Crypto and Decrypt Media, joins the podcast to hash out Bitcoin Versus Defi on Ethereum.

Topics:

Whats up with Defi.
Will Bitcoiners ever use Defi.
The different ways Bitcoin and Ether accrue value.
David argues that Ether is more like Equity than money

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Matt Finestone runs BD at Loopring, and comes to POV to get into the nuances and details of the Loopring Protocol.

Topics

Is Loopring a network, a protocol, an app?
What are the attack vectors of Loopring?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of Loopring?
How does Loopring compare to Lightning?
Future plans of the Loopring

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Matt Luongo is the architect behind the tBTC project, brining BTC to Ethereum, and has strong convictions about the roles that Bitcoin and Ethereum have.

Matt considers Bitcoin as the monetary standard, and Ethereum as purely a place for technical innovation and experimentation, and draws a pretty clear line for these things.

He is a lead of the tBTC project, in order to get tBTC onto Ethereum, and allow Bitcoin the Money, to leverage Ethereum the Technology.

We also touch on the topic of tBTC governance, and the experiment that tBTC has (successfully?) run with a form of 'minimal viable governance' over the system.

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David and CK deliberate some of the recent trends in the DeFi space, and discuss their nuances, merits, and legitimacy!

Topics

COMP token, and what it represents
COMP distribution
KYC & Governance tokens
Liquidity Mining / Yield Farming
The hidden/present risk in these systems

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[Guest] Pierre Rochard on Twitter @pierre_rochard

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Matt Odell of TFTC returns to POV Crypto to discuss what listeners can do to improve their security and privacy. We also get into BTC v ETH at the end! This is a must listen.

Topics:

The global nature of the anti government protests
Why privacy is important
How big tech is part of government surveillance
Practical advice to improve privacy
Is PoS inherently centralizing?

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Pierre Rochard joins David and ck for a wide ranging conversation about money, policing, and society. We cover the following topics.

Topics:

The purpose of money/cash
The difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum’s monetary policy
Why we need to exit fiat
The institutionalized racism in the USD system
How a private police force could work

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Robert Breedlove comes to POV crypto to discuss his analogy of "Bitcoin is the number 0". Robert claims that, before humans understood the concept of '0', their lives were limited and dull, but after understanding 0, a new world of possibility opened up. Does Bitcoin offer the same?

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Kyle Davies, co-founder and partner of Three Arrows Capital returns to POV Crypto to discuss the current state of the cryptocurrency marketplace and to explain why Three Arrows is bullish on both Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Topics:

The Bitcoin market post halving
Three Arrows strategic investments in Deribit and BlockFi
Why Staking and EIP 1559 are extremely bullish for Ethereum
Why traders must denominate in BTC
Comparing the CeFi ecosystem to the DeFi ecosystem

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Guy Swann joins the show to discuss, Bitcoin Audible Austrian economics, and whether stability and stablecoins are even possible.

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[Guest] Guy Swann on Twitter @theCryptoconomy

After a weekend of peaceful protests interrupted by rioting police offers, David and Christian reflect on the stance that Bitcoin and Ethereum have towards the State.

We also discuss the inherent stance that the State has towards its people, and the equal-and-opposite stance that the people must then have towards the state.

David's Instagram video of the Seattle Protests and the Police Pepper Spaying people:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CA1LNjIBo70/?igshid=c601b6hj8ob5

Topics

Creeping Tyranny
Importance of Privacy and Privacy Tech
Was Hong Kong a Signal of Things to Come?
Militarization of the Police
Bitcoin does and does not fix this

You can watch the livestream on YouTube here:

https://twitter.com/POVCryptoPod/status/1266755656024944640?s=20

Why did the riots immediately spark across the whole nation? - The police are a tool of the state - End of the authority of the nation-state - Trust in institutions is the same as trust in Money - The police are only legitimate because people believe in it

Seth Simmons is an avid member of the Monero Community and a strong proponent of cypherpunk values. Seth comes on to the podcast to discuss the XMR Crypto currency and why he believes it is an important tool for individual rights and privacy.

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[Guest] Seth Simmons on Twitter @sethisimmons

The boys get together to riff on some recent developments in the space and debate the merits both social scalability, how to achieve it, and the future of stablecoins and discretionary monetary policy.

Topics:

Stocking pumping while unemployment soars.

The Cantillon Effect.

When Inflation?

tBTC redo.

RAI white paper.

Social Scalability.

Is a new stablecoins possible?

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Danny Ryan works at the Ethereum Foundation, making sure all the various ETH 2 client teams are synced in development. We get Danny's perspective on what this is like!

Danny talks about

his role as a coordinator-of-coordinators
how distributed client teams come to consensus about descions
where the sticky points are with ETH 2 development
His outlook on the future of ETH 2 and its success

David and Christian riff on some current events. David has very strong opinions about WBTC inside of Maker (good!), personal tokens (bad!), and Christian educates on miner economics and Quantitative Tightening

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Jason Williams, serial entrepreneur and partner at Morgan Creek Digital joins the podcast for a wide ranging and energetic conversation. We focus the conversation on the world post COVID and how Jason anticipates consumer behavior to change in the wake of distrust, government interventions, cryptocurrencies, and more. We discuss the following topics.

Topics:

The world post Corona
- 3 cohorts of people post Corona
- Investing opportunities
- What we are learning about the nature of USD and global finance.
Political nature of the bailouts.
Investing and pitching Bitcoin and Crypto post Corona
Bitcoin mining post halving
The purpose of stablecoins and altcoins

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Vitalik shares his POV on various topics of contention in the crypto-space.

Competition to be internet money. Exists?
Fairness, Money, and Ether. Is ICO a big deal?
What are the values of Ethereum?
What is the long-term relationship between Ethereum and Hardforks? Do we ever calcify Ethereum?
EIP 1559 and its impact on Ether monetary policy. Better than austrian economics?
Does the growth of Blockchains come at the cost of Governments?

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Rune Christensen has been the leader behind the MakerDAO project since its inception. With Multi-Collateral DAI in the rear-view mirror, the Foundation has completed its mandate.

The next steps now are to commit to a graceful wrap-up of the foundation. How will this work? What obstacles are left to overcome? POV asks these questions!

Topics:

The next steps for the Foundation
DAI's independence from the Dollar
The values instantiated in MakerDAO
Black Friday perspectives

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Jake Chervinsky has a deep history in litigation that involves the largest financial institutions on earth. Jake has become passionate about both Bitcoin and Ethereum and now finds himself as the General Counsel at Compound Labs the company behind Compound Finance. Jake take the time to explain and interpret how he sees crypto rubbing up with the legal system and his perspective into how it will play out.

Topics:

It’s just Bitcoin and Ethereum.
What Fiduciary responsibilities should cryptocurrency developers have?
How laws interact with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and crypto.
How vulnerable are “non-custodial” projects to different legal systems.
How crypto will influence laws at every level.

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Prolific content creator, analyst, and thinker Nathaniel Whittemore joins POV Crypto to discuss how current events have warped the publics trust in the system and how Bitcoin and crypto can be the foundation of a new model of trust.

Topics:

Why crypto is relevant post COVID
Bitcoin as a portal.
Crypto economic system’s need to reflect human truths to be successful
Predictions for the future.

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What’s Nic’s Deal? Why is Nic in the crypto space? What about it excites him?
- What values does the crypto space hold; how does Bitcoin instantiate them?
Bitcoin vs Ethereum
- How would you characterize the competition between Bitcoin and Ethereum?
- Does Ethereum's ICO prevent it from being internet money?
- Eric Wall's "POS Is Less Wasteful" Article. Agree, disagree?
- POW is a wonderful thing
Nic has voiced bearishness about the 2020s decade. What about the macro landscape of the world makes Nic so bearish?
Nic's Opinion on with DeFi?
- Opportunity
- Threats
What do Bitcoiners get wrong about Ethereum, visa versa
Fast forward to 30-40 years from now, Bitcoin and crypto still exist, but the industry is for hobbiests. What happened that prevented global adoption of these systems?

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David and Christian take time to reflect on recent news, and discuss what they are bracing for in times ahead.

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Onchain analyst and accountant @permabullnino joins POV to chop it up on the most pressing topics of the time. This was a wide ranging conversation covering the following.

Topics:

Only hold fiat that you can risk to lose
Blockchain’s from the eyes of an accountant
The hard money narrative ready to shine?
PoW PoS Hybrid
The digital dollarization

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Crypto OG @NotSoFast is an experienced spec miner, staker, and conquer of altcoin opportunities. @NotSoFast has a very unique mental model for the crypto space and explains the role of Bitcoin and Altcoins together. This is a wide ranging show, we discuss the following topics.

Topics:

Trying to keep the pseudonym as a good actor that could be a guide
How Dogecoin onboarded people to Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s nature as open sourced and permissionless
How Ethereum killed PoW launches
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Love them or hate them, Bitfinex and Tether are two of the most important institutions in the crypto space. Paolo Ardoino, the long time CTO and pioneer behind Bitfinex and Tether’s technology joins POV Crypto to illuminate how his team has been able to build and support the entire crypto space in such a dominant manner.

Topics:

Paulo’s history
Why Tether was created
Why Tether and Bitfinex are successful
Bitfinex as a model for a new type of company
The future of Lightning network
Bitcoin as the base layer of crypto

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CK and David catch up to recap the week of crazy COVID-19 craziness and debate about the Argent Smart Contract Wallet company and data collection practices.

Events are getting canceled
General sense of fear
Macro effects of COVID-19
Argent Wallet asking for your phone#?
The line between DeFi and CeFi

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CEO and founder of Ethereum wallet MyCrypto join POV Crypto to discuss the DeFi, the best way to leverage it, and the biggest misconceptions around DeFi. Taylor is optimistic about the Ethereum DeFi movement but she has seen what can go wrong and she is very wary of false promises and naive decision making.

Topics:

How MyCrypto was created
Reflections and lessons from 2017
The implications of flash loans
Dai Savings rate vs just holding ether
The merits of cold storage
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In this comical episode of a fight night, David and Christian go through the recent conversations in the cryptosphere.

Coronavirus; how it illustrates governments desire to lie, or their incompetance.
Pomp releases a newsletter article saying "ETH is no different than a Fiat Currency". David thinks Pomp is writing a no-substance clickbait, Christian thinks that David and Ethereum people are missing the real message behind it.
ProgPoW shows a weakness in Ethereums governance; will it also show the strength of Ethereum's immune system? Can Ethereum violate all previous stories and anecdotes of centralized authorities giving up power? Christian thinks history works against Ethereum; David thinks that Ethereum is currently showing that trajectory.

Famously of neutral opinions in the Crypto-sphere, Andreas Antonopolous comes to give his POV about the Ethereum vs. Bitcoin debate

David asks Andreas his opinion on if Bitcoin is expressive enough to host a financial system

Christian asks Andreas what the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities get right and get wrong.

We ask Andreas if he subscribes to a one-money world!

CEO and co-founder of smart contract auditing firm Quantstamp, comes onto POV Crypto to illuminate the inner workings of the blockchain ecosystem. Quantstamp has been trusted to audit and verify the integrity of many of the money legos in the current DeFi ecosystem. We discuss the following topics

How Quantstamp was born
New interest in getting Bitcoin in DeFi
Dissecting the bZx exploits
The implications of flash loans
Dangerous attack vectors in DeFi
Why permissionless finance important

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ETH Denver
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The components of the bZX attack, and the implications it illustrates for the future of Ethereum applications
Addressing the nuances of bZX being decentralized or not
The future of tokenized BTC on Ethereum; can it overcome its illiquidity?
Does BTC need to compete with ETH on Ethereum, or does ETH need to compete with BTC in the greater rest of the world?

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Head of Business Development and prolific writer, Parker Lewis comes on to POV Crypto to talk Bitcoin and debate with David! This a multifaceted interview that touches on many topics and addresses many misunderstandings about both Ethereum contracts and Bitcoin Multisig. We cover the following topics.

Bitcoin contracts and multisig
Why Parker is opposed to Ethereum and DeFi
Bitcoin vs Stablecoin
Bitcoin native finance V Defi
Parker explains Austrian economics
The trouble with the Fed

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Wyre is building the what crypto needs the most; quick, seamless value transfer from Fiat to Crypto. Michael Dunworth comes to POV to discuss his experiences working at Wyre and his opinions about crypto in general.

Kevin Owoki is the leader behind the Gitcoin project, which is a funds allocation platform, that aims to be the funding platform for open-source development.

Kevin brings a unique perspective of what it means to compensate labor in a post-Web 2 world, and helps us compare/contrast Web2 funding models with the experiments going on today.

We discuss the nature of open-source funding, its implications for how companies can be structured, and the problems and solutions created by financial mechanisms built into fund dispersement.

Founder, CEO and philanthropist Ray Youssef joins POV Crypto to talk about how Paxful is enabling the magic of p2p finance. Ray is a mission driven ceo and his mission is to bank the unbanked. We discuss the following topics.

Bitcoin’s real uses
The miracle of P2P finance
Why Bitcoin only
Banking the unbanked
The toxic side of Bitcoin speculation
The hidden wealth in Africa

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Radar is a number of things!

Radar Relay - A decentralized exchange built on Ethereum and 0x
Redshift - Bitcoin lightning network payments infrastructure

ION - The Homepage to the Lightning Network

Alan, the CEO of Radar, comes to POV to discuss the direction of Relay, the experience of building on both chains, and how the Radar suite bridges Bitcoin and Ethereum!

Co founder of Bison Trails Joe Lallouz joins POV Crypto to discuss the Bison Trails platform. This was a wide ranging conversation covering Joe and Bison Trails’ history, Joe’s impression of the Cosmos community, why staking infrastructure, the implications of building a staking platform, and why Libra.

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Udi Wertheimer is a very controversial figure in the cryptosphere. The Ethereum twitter community thinks of Udi as something between a toxic maxi, a clown, and a perpetual troll, while the Bitcoiner community seems to enjoy his antics. We bring him on POV to discuss his motives and ideas to get a deeper look at who exactly is Udi Wertheimer?

Co founder of Ledn.io Mauricio Di Bartolome joins POV Crypto to discuss why a Bitcoin only financial business like Ledn has chosen to use the DAI stablecoin to pay out loans. This is a wide ranging conversation that covers the following topics.

Bitcoin predictions
The power of the state
The history of Stablecoins
Why DAI
Growing up in Venezuela

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Former head of the ETC Cooperative and Bitcoiner Anthony Lusardi joins POV Crypto to hash out the history of Ethereum and why he is a Bitcoiner. This was the first ever POV Livestream and was recorded during the Thanksgiving holiday! We discuss the following topics.

Maxcoin, Max Keiser’s little talked about shitcoin
Deep dive into the DAO hack and fork
Running ETC
The difference between and BTC node and an ETH Node
Pros and Cons of the DeFi ecosystem

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Carlos Roldan, CEO and cofounder of Satoshis Games joins POV Crypto for part 2 of our Crypto gaming series. In this part we explore how Carlos is utilizing the lightning network to create fair and fun video games. We discuss the following topics.

Testing out Satoshis.games as the proof of concept for lightning gaming
Creating lightnite.io as a full featured battle royal game enabled by lightning
How Lightning will create a new wave of monetization in indie games.
Why Carlos is skeptical of NFTs on the blockchain
How to onboard new game developers onto lightning

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This episode was recorded as a live-stream on 12/30, so it starts-off a little slow!

Discussion:

Udi coming on POV
The mess of centralized tokens (Stellar, Hedera)
Christian on how his thesis has changed in 2019
David on how Ethereum should be more like Bitcoin
Defining Bitcoin's social construct
Monetary Premium vs. Economic Activity Premium
Peak of Value for Monetary Premium vs Staking Premium
Ether = Equity
How hard money generates a minimal lifestyle
David and Christian agree that buying a house is dumb

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Alex Connolly is the CTO of Immutable, the company behind the Gods Unchained trading card game, with cards represented as digital tokens on Ethereum.

Gods Unchained is similar to Hearthstone, Magic the Gathering, Yugioh etc, except it has
- All the benefits of a computer-based TCG
- While retaining paper-card based TCG's perks of tradability and ownership of the cards.

Join POV as we delve down into some of the nuances of digital cards on Ethereum!

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Prolific crypto analyst and Decred bull, Checkmate comes on to POV Crypto for a three-way fight night episode. This is an extremely well balanced episode with compares and contrasts bull and bear case for all three assets. We discuss the following topics

Decred 101
The yin and yang between BTC and DCR
The human side to Ethereum and Crypto
The motes that BTC, DCR, and ETH have and don’t have

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Catherine Coley is the CEO of Binance USA! Catherine comes on to POV to discuss Binances venture in to the states, and how Binance fits with the other american exchanges!

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The creator and co-founder of Bitcoin and Friends joined POV Crypto to discuss his amazing animated Bitcoin themed cartoons! This is a wide-ranging conversation that covers Bitcoin’s history, the purpose of a blockchain and much more.

How Robert discovered Bitcoin
Robert’s journey through the crypto rabit hole
How to communicate complex topics in Bitcoin and Friends
Roberts reservation about “Blockchain”

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Kain Warwick is the Founder of Synthetix Network, and synthetic asset facility on Ethereum!

Synthetix is known for their powerful community, and their SNX token. Both have grown very quickly in the last few months, and have captured a lot of attention.

Kain has been on a number of podcasts and interviews, but they all generally flow the same. This interview is different. We tackle some of the harder questions about Synthetix and explore the nuances and obstacles Synthetix has infront of it.

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John Carvalho the CCO of Bitrefill join CK and David to discuss his experiences building on Lightning. John dispels common misconceptions about lightning and discusses where he thinks the technology can go. The interview turned spicy at the end when John confronted David about the issues he sees in DeFi and MakerDAO in general. We cover the following topics.

How Bitrefill is offering Lightning Services
The current state of the Lightning Network
Addressing concerns about the Lightning Network
John's bullish case for the Lightning Network
John’s concerns over applications that depend on oracles
Debating the merits of MakerDAO.

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David and Christian take to livestreaming the 100th episode, and discuss the topic of minimal viable decentralization!

Throughout the stream, a number of guests come on to join in the conversation!

Brandon Quittem
Anthony Bertolino
Ansel Linder
Colin Harper

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Bitcoin Sign Guy (Christian) comes onto the 99th episode of POV Crypto for a fascinating conversation about dissident tech and how he sees people leveraging it to gain more sovereignty. We discuss the following topics:

The moment behind the Buy Bitcoin Meme
What is dissident technology
How current tech disrespects users
What is Urbit and how does it work
Bitcoin plus Urbit

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Brantly Millegan is the Director of Operations of the Ethereum Name Service team, otherwise referred to as ENS!

ENS is all about human-readable addresses in the Ethereum and greater crypto ecosystem!

Brantly has a wealth of knowledge of both the new ENS system, as well as how it compares to the old DNS system.

Topics

Why we need ENS
How ENS names are sold
Where does the money go?
How ENS disincentives squatting on domains
Subdomains!
Using ENS for Bitcoin
ENS vs Unstoppable Domains
Address re-use
Brantly on his early Bitcoin days
How information in the Blocksize wars was managed
Ethereum is a "do all of the above" approach community
Coordinating change, and disincentivizing it, or not

Mariano Conti, Head of Smart Contracts at the Maker Foundation, comes to POV Crypto to discuss his recent efforts in promoting and growing the Dai Stablecoin.

Much-Cooler Dai was recently released by the Maker Foundation, which Mariano had a large role in.

Mariano recently gave a 4x🔥talk at Devcon V in Osaka

He also things that Devcon VI should be in Buenos Aires. Everyone agrees!

He also turns everything into Ether, making him the King Midas of Ethereum.

We talk about all these things, and more!

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CK and David coming back at you all with our 10th Fight Night episode. In this podcast we discuss what is web 3 and its future, where Bitcoin fits into the future of the web, the transition from Single Collateral Dai to Multi Collateral Dai. Enjoy this wide ranging debate of POV Crypto!

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The great Zak Cole returns to POV Crypto for his second interview. Per usual, Zak holds nothing back and provides us with unfiltered insights into both the Bitcoin and Ethereum world. We discuss the following.

Launching WhiteBlock Genesis
Changes to the Eth 2 shards and what that means
Why Zak works on Eth 2
Why Zak still believes in BTC and PoW
What we need to do to actually bring crypto to the world.

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Money is the Game, and the Game is Winning Money. Dan Elitzer comes to PoV Crypto to discuss an under-reported arena of Ethereum: Money Games

Money games are player-vs-player economic games where some people lose, and some people win!

What does this mean for Ethereum? Get your imagination going!

Dan Elitzer's background
PoolTogether, as a money-game
Proof-of-Weak-Hands
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Just.GAME
Dex Liquidity Game
All these "Money-Games" lockup ETH as a function of their operation. An explosion of "Money-Games" will lock up lots of ETH!

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David invites two other Ethereum evangelists to POV Crypto for a discussion on Ethereum as an alternative financial platform.

We get a little of that, but mostly a Bitcoin vs Ethereum as money debate!

TOPICS

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Chain security in relation to moneyness
Commodity money vs pure money
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Leighton Cusack is the CEO of PoolTogether. David and Leighton have been collaborating on possible ways to tokenize the PoolTogether application with a value capture token. This episode is about that

Topics

How PoolTogether works
The importance of the Dai reserve
The two token models to tokenize the Dai reserve. Pros and Cons of each.
Building on Ethereum "I would rather fail on Ethereum than succeed on anything else" - Leighton
Compounding contract risk
How PoolTogether is a financial application, not a lottery or gambling application

Andrew Keys has been with Ethereum since day 1. He has been integral in the development of the ecosystem and the community, and has lately migrated to helping build out the institutional investment wing of Ethereum.

We bring Andrew onto POV to get his perspective on institutional involvement in Ethereum.

TOPICS

Andrews early involvement with Ethereum
The institutional value prop of Ether
Institutional perspective of DeFi
The significance of
--EY building on Ethereum
--JP Morgans Quorum
--Societe Generale's $112M bond on Ethereum

...and what it means for Ethereum

Andrew's predictions for 2019, and whether they came true or not
Predicts for Ethereum in 2020
Andrews $1,000 portfolio allocation

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