The Chopping Block: Can Exchange CEOs Like SBF Be Crypto True Believers? - Ep. 416
Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry.
Show topics:
- Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter – and its effect on DOGE
- the irony that people working in centralized companies want to decentralize Twitter
- whether Twitter is going to become like Facebook
- why Twitter has been the most pro-crypto among big tech companies
- why Tarun thinks Binance Pay is an impressive product
- whether it is possible to run a decentralized social media for billions of users
- the debate between Sam Bankman-Fried and Erik Voorhees about crypto regulation
- whether crypto exchange CEOs are true believers in the philosophy of crypto
- why Haseeb believes Sam Bankman-Fried is a very honest person
- how Reddit used a simple strategy to gain massive adoption
- whether it is necessary to rebrand NFTs
- Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
- Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
- Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
- Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital
Episode Links
- What Are the Potential Impacts of Musk’s Twitter Purchase?
- Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX, will receive between $50 million and $100 million from Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
- Vitalik Buterin said Musk’s idea of charging $8 a month for a blue check on Twitter could “damage the blue check's anti-scam role.”
- Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said he would join Twitter’s board if Elon Musk asked him to.
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