Jim Bianco on Why the Banking System Has Always Been Broken - Ep. 469
Jim Bianco, president and macro strategist at Bianco Research, explains what’s causing the recent cascade of bank failures. Yield seekers taking their money elsewhere are putting banks under strain. H...
17 Maalis 202345min
The Chopping Block: Was Crypto Just Debanked? - Ep. 468
Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. This week: Silicon Valley Bank went belly up and...
16 Maalis 20231h 6min
How Will ETH React to Ethereum’s Shanghai Upgrade? - Ep. 467
ETH staking began in December 2020. With Ethereum’s Shanghai upgrade, which could happen as early as mid-April, withdrawals of staked ETH will finally be enabled. Will validators rush to cash out? Or ...
14 Maalis 20231h 2min
The Chopping Block: Arthur Hayes on Why Crypto Needs to Ditch the Banks - Ep. 466
BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes, fresh out of home confinement after settling charges with the U.S. government, joins “The Chopping Block” with Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, and Tarun Chitra. The early ...
11 Maalis 202359min
Grayscale v. SEC: Who Won This Week’s Hearing? - Ep. 465
Elliott Stein, senior litigation analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, shares his insights from a court hearing this week on the SEC’s rejection of Grayscale’s bid to convert GBTC into a spot bitcoin ETF...
10 Maalis 202337min
ETH Denver Debate: Should Testnet ETH Be Free or Have a Price? - Ep. 464
LayerZero launched a testnet bridge that allows users to swap mainnet ETH for Goerli ETH (GoETH), which led to a sudden emergence of a liquid market for GoETH tokens. This was a hugely controversial d...
7 Maalis 202346min
The Chopping Block: Is Coinbase’s Base ‘the Binance Smart Chain for White People’? - Ep. 463
In-person at ETH Denver, crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest crypto news. This week, Kyle Samani, scion of Solana, joins the show. Show highligh...
4 Maalis 202347min
Bitcoin Ordinal NFTs Are Hot and Getting Hotter. What's the Hype About? - Ep. 462
Muneeb Ali, co-creator of Stacks, discusses the Bitcoin trend that has everyone – or at least, many Bitcoiners – buzzing: Bitcoin ordinals. Ali explains why it is that they’ve taken up block space, pu...
3 Maalis 202339min
