Unchained4 Okt 2023

The Chopping Block: Michael Lewis Swindled, SBF’s Effective Altruism Ruse, Ethereum Protocol Enshrinement - Ep. 552

Welcome to The Chopping Block – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest news. This week, they discuss the wildest claims in Michael Lewis’ new book on Sam Bankman-Fried, debate whether SBF’s effective altruism was ever genuine, and whether Ethereum should enshrine more features onto its protocol. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights: Michael Lewis’ interview on “60 Minutes” and the wildest claims in his new book Whether SBF would have paid Donald Trump $5 billion not to run for president Why Lewis characterizing FTX’s downfall as a bank run is misleading Whether FTX executives, in the moment of the collapse, fled to their parents’ homes Was SBF genuine in his belief in effective altruism or was it clever branding Whether we will still be talking about the SBF trial years down the line The debate on whether Ethereum should enshrine more features onto its core protocol Whether Lido poses a centralization risk to the Ethereum ecosystem Predictions on how the SBF trial will play out and whether SBF has a trick up his sleeve Hosts Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Robert Leshner, founder of Compound Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures Disclosures Links SBF’s trial: Unchained: Here’s How Sam Bankman-Fried’s High-Stakes Trial Could Play Out SBF Trial: How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers Might Try and Win His Case The High-Stakes Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried Begins: What to Expect CBS: Rise, fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX at center of Michael Lewis' new book | 60 Minutes Protocol enshrinement: Unchained: Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Warns of Risks in Lido and Rocket Pool Some Ethereum Staking Services Commit to 22% Self-Limit of Validators Others: Cryptoslate: Terra's Do Kwon and Daniel Shin conspired to falsify transactions, chat logs show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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