The Chopping Block: Why AI Will Change the Course of History in Crypto - Ep. 471
Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. This week, NEAR co-founder and former Google AI researcher Illia...
22 Mar 20231h 20min
Why Caitlin Long and Meltem Demirors Are Worried About Crypto’s Future in the US - Ep. 470
Caitlin Long, founder and CEO of Custodia Bank, and Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer of CoinShares, share their concerns about crypto in the U.S. following a wild week in the banking sector. Wi...
21 Mar 20231h 16min
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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 202346min
