Cults, Culture, & Crypto with Meltem Demirors | Layer Zero
Bankless5 Apr 2022

Cults, Culture, & Crypto with Meltem Demirors | Layer Zero

Meltem Demirors is the Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, a digital asset investment firm that manages $4B. Meltem is also known as the vibes sorceress, curator of vibes, and the queen of crypto. She’s been in the space for more than eight years and has seen the ebbs and flows of not only the markets, but the people that make up the space.

As a whole, the people that make up the space are part of the entire crypto cult. Whether you’re team Bitcoin or Ethereum, or whichever other coins, protocols, DAOs, people, etc. you support—you’re part of the cult. We don’t mean the negative connotation of the word cult, anon. Relax. Cults are everywhere.

Over the years, the online magic of crypto has bled into the IRL side of the space. How will this trend impact the future of the space? Why are cults everywhere? What advice does Meltem have for new crypto participants? Answers to these questions and so much more in the episode.

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro
5:02 Meltdem’s Trajectory into Crypto
13:08 When Crypto Became Real
20:17 The Power of Removing Your Ego
27:50 Why Meltdem was Wrong About Ethereum
34:24 Cults Are Everywhere
46:00 Cults vs. Communities
48:00 Meaning & Social Crypto Culture
52:00 Inter-generational product-market fit
54:50 Developing Your Own Perspective
1:05:53 How Social Crypto Has Changed
1:20:15 Meltem’s Advice For People New to the Space
1:22:44 What Meltem’s Optimistic About

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Resources:

Meltem Demirors
https://twitter.com/Melt_Dem

CoinShares
https://coinshares.com/

Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22613.Simulacra_and_Simulation

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2761.The_Denial_of_Death

Finite and Infinite Games Book by James Carse
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189989.Finite_and_Infinite_Games

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