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:
Why the ETH price slumped after the Merge even though it was successful
Whether the BTC security model is flawed and why Robert thinks Bitcoin will change
Why Tarun thinks Bitcoin won’t change and why he’s bearish on Bitcoin development
Whether the Lightning Network can succeed with so many competitors getting better more quickly
ETHPoW’s performance after the Merge, whether it’s dead and why Robert wouldn’t rule out the PoW fork
Why Haseeb thinks the criminalization of the collapse of Terra is a bad precedent
The broader impacts of the Terra meltdown and whether Do Kwon not disclosing the fact that he had been involved with Basis Cash, which failed, is problematic
The House’s draft bill on stablecoins and whether it is necessary to study algo stablecoins
What happened with the Wintermute hack
Why Tarun thinks the Wintermute team is incompetent
Whether there is any positive news in crypto lately
Who would be a better pick for deploying treasury funds between Three Arrows Capital and Wintermute
What Haseeb, Tom, Robert and Tarun are excited about
Hosts
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
Post Merge ETHPoW
ETH issuance
Do Kwon and Terra Red Notice
“Not on the run”
Kwon’s Passport
Wintermute hack
House’s Draft Bill on Stablecoins Bloomberg’s Article
