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Why should we fight for Freedom of Speech? That’s the question that Free Speech Lawyer and Writer Greg Lukianoff helps us answer today. Using first principles, Greg goes deep into the importance of Freedom of Speech, “Free Speech Culture”, what happens to Free Speech when new technologies like the printing press and the internet are introduced, and how all this intersects with blockchains and cryp...

Bankless Friday Weekly Rollup  3rd Week of June 2024 The SEC drops all charges against Ethereum 2.0—could it now be recognized as a commodity? Plus, hints surface about the launch date of the ETH ETF! Airdrop season is still alive and well! LayerZero and zkSync tokens launched recently. Find out if you’re eligible and the market’s reaction. And, did Baron Trump really launch a DJT memecoin on Sola...

Sam Jernigan, the “Unofficial ETH Maxi of Wall Street”, has been evangelizing Ethereum to institutional funds and billionaires from inside the house for the past five years. Having the perfect blend of deep Ethereum knowledge and the full Wall Street experience, Sam guides us through how he became an ETH Maxi, why the lack of understanding of ETH in TradFi is the most bullish case for the asset an...

In this episode, David Hoffman is joined by Matthew Sigel, Head of Digital Assets Research at VanEck, to unpack VanEck's groundbreaking ETH 2030 report. They discuss the $154,000 bull case, $22,000 base case, and $340 bear case for Ethereum, and the factors behind these predictions.  Matthew dives deep into the role of ETH ETFs and shares insights into ETH's evolving narrative in institutional por...

Now that CZ is gone, who’s going to fill his shoes? His name is Richard Teng, the new Binance CEO. He’s joining the podcast today to not only share the story of how he got here, but also to define his vision for the future of Binance. We ask him: Who is Richard Teng? What was it like to work with CZ? Why Crypto? What is going on in Nigeria? Bull Market Predictions? If you want to know who’s taking...

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Today on the show, we’re exploring the frontier of ZK Rollups on Bitcoin!  The Bitcoin L2 landscape is standing on the shoulders of this technical implementation called BitVM. We brought Robin Linus, one of the author’s of the BitVM White Paper, to not only dive into how BitVM got started, but more importantly, what it means for the future of Bitcoin. ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the...

The Ethereum ETF is coming. What’s the best narrative for ETH to sell to TradFi/Wall Street? Ryan and David discuss the 7 leading ETH Narratives and then have a pitch-off amongst themselves. Each of them prepared a 1-2 minute pitch and then they each spend some time unpacking each other’s pitch and analyzing each point. Bankless Citizens get to vote - whose was better? Ryan or David’s? The winner...

“Energy is the base layer of money” -  that’s how our guest Luke Gromen puts it in today’s episode. Luke is an Author and Investor who gives us a completely new way to look at money, through the lens of energy costs.  The essential learning of today’s show is that you can’t understand money until you understand energy markets. Apart from that Luke explains why the price of oil is about to force a...

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After 3 months of flat crypto prices, people are asking “where are we in the cycle”? What if the real bull hasn't even started yet? How big of the impact can the ETH ETF's really have and can they really take us to the coveted.... Banana Zone? All of that and more on this weeks episode of Bankless Takes. ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd...

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✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/5   ------ Matt Hougan is the CIO at Bitwise, and has been one of the best people to talk to when it comes to understanding the ETF process, and the impact of ETFs on the crypto markets.  Today we dive into the specifics on what exactly the ETF approval means for ETH. ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS...

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✨Mint the episode on Zora✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/3   The Ether spot ETF has officially been approved marking a landmark day for Ethereum and crypto as a whole. We're going live today to discuss the extent of this approval and what it means for Ether the asset, and more broadly the entire crypto industry. This is a big deal and we're stoked to be...

✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/2   This is a huge week for crypto in DC and we have on Congressman Patrick McHenry to tell us all about it.  Three big things:  1) SAB 121 repeal bill going to Biden’s desk - will he let it pass or veto? 2) SEC approve/deny Ethereum ETF - decision due thursday.  3) House vote on FIT bill you’ve...

The ETF approval deadline is coming on May 23rd and the odds just got.... wayyyy higher! Ryan and David explain.  ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24  https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium   ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2     ⁠ 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON https://bankless.cc/Celo   ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM...

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-the-byron-tau-interview   ------ Are we being watched? That’s the question we ask Byron Tau, an investigative journalist and author of “Means of Control'' that covers all about the US surveillance state. Turns out the US Government has a digital dossier of every citizen, but how? How do they collect the data? How are...

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In today’s episode, we’re exploring the frontier of onchain universes, on Ethereum. Autonomous Worlds is the new frontier of digital onchain universes, being pioneered by the Lattice team, of which Justin Glibert on the show today is the co-founder and CEO. Ethereum is not just a financial computer, but a root of state for an infinite number of universes, all with their own laws of physics, object...

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-the-lyn-alden-interview   ------ Bankless listener, if you want to survive this decade as an investor, as a market participant or even just as a citizen, you have to tune in to this episode with author and investor, Lyn Alden. We’re entering a new era. “Nothing Stops this Train” as Lyn would say. We’ve entered the Er...

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