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Sam Bankman-Fried—or simply SBF—is the founder and CEO of FTX, one of crypto’s biggest exchanges. In this episode, we dive into how Sam built a company worth $30 billion… in less than three years! And before the age of 30!

As a centralized exchange unicorn, FTX has exploded into the mainstream, sponsoring massive sports arenas and partnerships with celebrities like Tom Brady. The mainstream-ification of FTX culminated with its Super Bowl ad with Larry David, which had a significant cultural impact on FTX and crypto more broadly.

Is Sam on Team DeFi? Or is FTX a competitor? And what about banks? SBF also recently appeared in front of Congress. After this discussion, we are increasingly convinced of the alignment between Bankless and SBF.

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------ Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro 5:30 SBF 9:13 Building Successful Products 15:56 Why Sam is in Crypto 20:40 Crypto Values & Opportunity 25:27 Use Cases & Decentralization 31:04 The Future of FTX 37:18 FTX vs DeFi 41:16 SBF’s Preferred Blockchains 45:12 Sam’s Legendary Tweet 53:30 FTX vs Banks 56:46 Regulation 1:03:45 Talking to Congress 1:06:02 Spectrum of Decentralization 1:10:05 Super Bowl Ads 1:16:34 Mainstream Crypto & NFTs 1:21:30 Building Wealth 1:24:45 Giving Everything Away 1:27:45 Crypto Price Predictions 1:31:27 Crypto 5 Years from Now

------ Resources:

SBF on Twitter https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX  FTX https://ftx.com/en  Sam’s Legendary Tweet https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1347964322459262977  FTX Super Bowl Commercial https://youtu.be/BH5-rSxilxo 

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----- Gitcoin Grants Round 13—or GR13—is live from March 9-24, 2022! 

To explore what this means for Gitcoin and the broader crypto space, we’re bringing on a medley of contributors from GitcoinDAO to talk about the public goods funding round, the decentralization of Gitcoin, and future upgrades with Grants 2.0.

Take the Green Pill, anon.

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• Scott Moore – Gitcoin Co-Founder https://twitter.com/notscottmoore  • Lindsey Thrift – VP of Product at Gitcoin https://twitter.com/thrift_lindsey  • Kevin Olsen – VP of Engineering at Gitcoin https://gov.gitcoin.co/u/kevin.olsen/summary  • Annika Lewis – Lead at GitcoinDAO Public Goods Funding Workstream https://twitter.com/AnnikaSays  • Sean MacMannis – GitcoinDAO Memes, Merch, & Marketing Workstream https://twitter.com/smacmannis 

------ Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro 1:02 Gitcoin DAO Panelists 1:46 Gitcoin Grants Round 13 3:24 What is Quadratic Funding? 6:00 How to Participate 7:25 The Ukraine Round 9:55 Gitcoin Aqueduct & Tally 12:28 The Mission & Values of Gitcoin  16:07 Exploring DAOs 20:42 Grants 2.0 27:20 A Healthy Ecosystem 30:18 Closing

------ Resources:

Gitcoin Grants Round 13 https://bankless.cc/Gitcoin  Gitcoin Discord http://discord.gg/gitcoin  Gitcoin Governance http://gov.gitcon.co  Aqueduct & Tally Wallet https://gitcoin.co/blog/tally-wallet-plans-first-gitcoin-aqueduct/  Regen Network https://www.regen.network/  Gitcoin Grants 2.0 https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gitcoin-grants-2-0/9981 

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2nd Week of March 2022

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0:00 Intro

3:23 MARKETS 3:24 BTC Price https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/bitcoin-btc-jumps-after-treasury-statement-on-crypto-executive-order.html  4:40 ETH Price 5:05 ETH/BTC Ratio https://twitter.com/cburniske/status/1501449852495925248  6:38 $BED  https://www.indexcoop.com/bed 

8:50 BEAR WATCH 8:55 Bad Start for Equities https://twitter.com/MacroAlf/status/1501263319222603783  10:38 Commodity Crisis? https://www.ft.com/content/555b7167-eaf2-43a0-a66f-802e39cccf36  10:40 Prices https://www.cnn.com/business/markets/commodities/  12:55 DJCI https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/commodities/dow-jones-commodity-index/#overview  17:15 Kyla Episode https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1501244475569442820?s=20&t=pZSQ2PFE136VyrUkLCCb6Q  17:40 ETH Gas ATL https://decrypt.co/94648/ethereum-transaction-fees-drop-six-month-low-report  18:54 NFT Search Down https://twitter.com/meowmeowmeuw/status/1501396257163685890?  19:50 ETH & Car Gas Meme https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1500331461140000772 

27:00RELEASES 27:05 StarkNet Ecosystem Dashboard https://www.starknet-ecosystem.com/  28:35 Tally Wallet Token Swapping https://twitter.com/TallyCash/status/1498705393182248964  29:55 Ledger https://shop.ledger.com/pages/ledger-nano-s-plus-genesis-edition?utm_source=Bankless&utm_medium=partnership_podcast&utm_campaign=22-03-HW_LNSPlus_Genesis-ALL-Brand_Consideration-Partnership&utm_content=msg_Preorder_Genesis__other_Media_Blitz_2 

31:50 RAISES 31:55 Immutable $200M https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/136548/immutable-raises-200-million-nft-crypto  33:50 WalletConnect $11M https://twitter.com/WalletConnect/status/1501292985048350721  34:36 Bain Capital $560M https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/136753/bain-capital-ventures-first-crypto-fund-560-million  35:12 Diagonal $2.5M https://twitter.com/diagonalfinance/status/1499742888594493453  36:15 a16z $70m into Lido https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1499436156861227008  36:45 JOBS https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs 

38:30 NEWS 38:31 Crypto Dystopia? https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/07/ukraine-is-buying-bulletproof-vests-and-night-vision-goggles-using-crypto/  39:40 How Much Ukraine Has Raised https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/state-of-the-network-issue-145  41:15 Sanctions Coming for Crypto! https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/08/ukrainian-deputy-minister-reiterates-call-for-crypto-exchanges-to-block-russian-users/  42:40 Warren Crypto Bill…AML/KYC https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/warren-crafts-bill-targeting-cryptocurrency-russia-sanctions-rcna19094  44:45 Coinbase Blocking Russian Accounts https://news.coincu.com/70594-coinbase-will-block-russian-accounts/  https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1499622118224392195  https://twitter.com/hannahdlang/status/1499029140305068033  49:15 MetaMask Wasn’t Blocking Users https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1499414900355047427  49:50 MetaMask Geofencing https://thedefiant.io/metamask-geofencing/  51:00 Other Alternative Nodes https://twitter.com/dmihal/status/1499803776898719752  52:35 BTC vs ETH vs Sanctions https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x-KBbWKZuWnyxC2UquG7UxYmfAoXXYRLP-giQ_OAafM/edit 

55:45 EXECUTIVE ORDER https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/heres-whats-in-bidens-executive-order-on-crypto.html  1:00:00 Jeremy Allaire Thread https://twitter.com/jerallaire/status/1501516683051155456  1:01:30 Jerry Brito Thread https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/1501583673438707716  1:02:22 Jake Take https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1501590214539726857 

1:03:44 ETH 1:03:47 Optimism Cheaper Transactions https://twitter.com/optimismpbc/status/1499527731389808643  1:04:45 Aave on Optimism https://twitter.com/optimismPBC/status/1501336754644729863 

1:05:00 NFTs 1:05:05 Tai Lopez NFT Mess https://twitter.com/eddyiskongz/status/1499886629099474945  https://twitter.com/coffeebreak_YT/status/1500213278609481729  1:09:45 Limewire Returns ​​https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1501475218405179395   

1:10:34 DeFi 1:10:37 Andre & Anton Terminating Apps https://twitter.com/AntonNellCrypto/status/1500405473337565191  1:12:40 Calling it Quits https://blockworks.co/defi-star-developer-andre-cronje-calls-it-quits/  1:14:02 RSA Take https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1500975757958520836 

1:17:10 MISC. 1:17:12 Goldman ETH Funnel https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/136950/goldman-sachs-receives-fee-to-connect-clients-to-galaxy-digitals-eth-fund  1:17:46 Laura Shin Callout https://twitter.com/laurashin/status/1500266527693709321  https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1500633023259508736  1:20:40 Brantley Staying ENS https://twitter.com/avsa/status/1500844406391386114 

1:25:15 TAKES 1:25:40 Heard it Before https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1501061536080556034?s=20&t=pZSQ2PFE136VyrUkLCCb6Q  1:26:50 Who Holds What? https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor/status/1500586827589238788?s=20&t=pZSQ2PFE136VyrUkLCCb6Q  1:30:22 Assets and Liabilities https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1499170071356260352  1:31:03 Seizing Dollars Makes Bad SOV https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1501593517596028928 

1:32:36 What David’s Excited About 1:34:48 What Ryan’s Excited About

1:36:50 MEME of the Week https://twitter.com/BowTiedIguana/status/1501606948013281289 

1:37:23 Disclaimers

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A lot has changed since we had Kyla on Bankless almost a month ago. Russia invaded Ukraine and the ripple effects are being felt worldwide. Kyla's written a few posts on what's been unfolding thus far. Most recently she wrote, "Financial Warfare: Russia-Ukraine," breaking down Fortress Russia, sanctions, energy, agriculture, and the strength of Ukrainians.

For those unfamiliar with Kyla, she's an independent, Gen Z friendly, new age content creator with a fantastic newsletter and youtube channel. In addition, she is the BanklessHQ TikTok correspondent, dropping weekly recaps of the crypto world.

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------ Timestamps:

0:00 Intro 7:30 Being in Putin Shoes 13:20 Financial Sanctions 23:15 Putin’s Escape Hatch? China? 26:15 Russians Remaining Resources 33:30 Global Economy Sensitivity 45:45 What’s the Fed Going to Do? 52:30 The Ripple Effects of Inflation 55:40 The Supply Chain Conundrum 56:50 How Crypto Will Be Affected 1:02:20 What Happens Next

------ Resources:

Kyla on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kylascan?s=20 

Kyla's Website: https://kylascanlon.com/ 

Financial Warfare: Russia-Ukraine by Kyla: https://kyla.substack.com/p/financial-warfare-russia-ukraine 

Kyla's Recent Bankless Podcast Episode: https://youtu.be/p2QsIkEvlZw 

Jake Chervinsky's Twitter https://twitter.com/jchervinsky 

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Marguerite deCourcelle, known by her persona Coin Artist, has been in the crypto space since 2014. Marguerite pushes the boundaries at the intersection of art, games, and crypto, carving out a career for herself as an artist and creator.

 

Although her focus is certainly in crypto gaming, it might not be what you’d expect. Her endeavors have a cypherpunk feel at the protocol level, innovating creative ways for NFTs to interact in our wallets.

 

Alongside discussions of her work at Blockade Games, we explore emergence, embedding data in the blockchain, and the untapped world of meaningful crypto gaming.

 

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Topics Covered:

 

0:00 Intro

4:30 Coin Artist

7:49 Early Days of Crypto Art

12:34 Gamifying the Blockchain

16:50 The Technology Crossover

24:33 Bombing & Bitcoin

30:43 Permadeath & High Stakes

38:05Winning Hearts and Minds

42:30 A Utopian Vision

48:00 Emergence & Complexity

53:17 Blockade Games

57:55 The Motivation for Profit

1:04:10 The Thrill of the Game

1:09:17 Fighting for Crypto’s Soul

1:13:22 New York City

1:16:33 The Crypto Social Game

1:23:47 Curation

1:27:43 Optimism & Advice

 

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Resources:

 

Marguerite on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/coin_artist?s=20&t=2V5r_ik50UfcZMaCSB0HgA

 

Blockade Games:

https://blockade.games/

 

Neon District:

https://portal.neondistrict.io/

 

Skyweaver:

https://www.skyweaver.net/

 

Boys Club:

https://twitter.com/BoysClubCrypto?s=20&t=2V5r_ik50UfcZMaCSB0HgA

 

Ethereum: The Money-Game Landscape

https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/ethereum-the-money-game-landscape?s=w

 

Conway’s Game of Life:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

 

 

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Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here:

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David Heinemeir Hansson is the Co-Founder of Basecamp & HEY. DHH is a best-selling author, technologist—responsible for creating Ruby on Rails—and a recent crypto skeptic, turned crypto-curious experimenter.

DHH recently wrote a viral blog post titled, “I Was Wrong, We Need Crypto” in which he explains why he’s skeptical of crypto, what ultimately changed his mind, and how he’s thinking about the future of the space going forward.

It’s not every day Bankless brings on a crypto skeptic, but DHH is different. He provides a balanced—well thought out perspective on what the current state of crypto is and what needs to change to make it go mainstream.

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------ Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro 6:20 Who is DHH 14:02 Crypto Observations 17:00 DHH’s Top Crypto Skepticisms 29:55 How to be Wrong About Things 37:00 What Changed DHH’s Mind 45:50 Pushback on DHH’s Post 52:50 The Release Valves 1:02:00 New Skills Needed 1:11:20 Other Crypto Rabbit Holes 1:17:44 Russian Sanctions 1:24:50 What Crypto Can Do Better 1:29:50 What’s Next in Crypto For DHH 1:33:50 Closing & Disclaimers

------ Resources:

DHH on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhh 

DHH’s Website: https://dhh.dk 

Episode #55: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpzFU7MW5y4 

DHH Books: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23587.David_Heinemeier_Hansson?from_search=true&from_srp=true 

I Was Wrong We Need Crypto: https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-was-wrong-we-need-crypto-587ccb03 

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Web3 social media? Decentralized identity? Digital society in the metaverse? On this episode, we unpack the future social world in the metaverse and the protocols that will help shape it.

To discuss exactly that, we brought on: Evin McMullen, who's building the world of digital identity, off-chain assets, and metaverse reputation at Disco.xyz, Christina Beltramini from Lens Protocol at Aave, a brand new primitive for Web3 social media platforms, and Isabel Gonzalez, COO at POAP, the Proof of Attendance Protocol.

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------ Timestamps:

0:00 Intro 5:30 Introductions & Discussion Foundation 11:42 Web2 Days Are Numbered? 16:44 Bringing More People to Web3 23:15 Preventing Social Dystopia 25:44 Disco.xyz 31:42 Lens Protocol 37:01 POAP 45:20 Web3 Roadmap Debate 53:34 Onboarding 8 Billion People via Social? 1:00:54 Web3 Social in 5 Years 1:06:30 Disclaimers

------ Resources:

Evin McMullen on Twitter https://twitter.com/provenauthority 

Disco.xyz https://www.disco.xyz/ 

Christina Beltramini LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-beltramini/ 

Lens Protocol https://twitter.com/LensProtocol 

Isabel Gonzalez LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/izgnzlz/ 

POAP https://poap.xyz/ 

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4th Week of February 2022

 

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Topics Covered:

 

0:00 Intro

 

3:30 MARKETS

3:47 BTC Price

5:01 ETH Price

7:23: Coinbase Numbers

https://decrypt.co/93763/coinbase-posts-record-revenue-user-numbers-in-q4-earnings-surprise 

8:26 10 Million ETH Staked

https://launchpad.ethereum.org/en/

13:20 Crypto Jobs

https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs

 

16:30 NEWS

17:10 Clash with the Real World

https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1498380832058265607?s=20&t=WJaaPqhN4PdjaLv00Id1fw

19:20 Sanctions

https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/weaponized-banks-lite?s=w

24:26 Fall of the Ruble

https://twitter.com/b_judah/status/1498137793003929601?s=20&t=KZJTbDLT7r8G8-plF_Oe6Q

25:50 Buying Bitcoin

https://decrypt.co/94164/ukrainians-use-binance-to-buy-record-sums-of-bitcoin-after-russian-invasion

30:10 Crypto Sanctions

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/02/28/us-treasury-department-formally-adds-crypto-rules-to-russian-sanctions-guidance

34:40 DeFi, Not Crypto Banks

https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1499424494758285318?s=20&t=_0_pE_F4xQZLuNYFbGp9qA

37:10 UkraineDAO

https://www.ukrainedao.love/

Overpriced JPEGs

https://youtu.be/eJgeAQYJlBo

39:00 Ukraine Crypto Donations

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/02/26/ukrainian-government-is-seeking-crypto-donations

39:54 Matching UN Donations

https://twitter.com/kylascan/status/1498672249443917833?s=20&t=IHhKN50aSnSzMonHgpi7XA

41:45 Ukraine Airdrop

https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1498911922791583746?s=20&t=aGxXK0E-I_-6MK-HZcJQ4A

44:10 Financing Weapons

https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1499167417678786560?s=20&t=yxH_Vk4fkCLdBL1mrymEYA

45:41 OpenSea Censoring

https://twitter.com/bornosor/status/1499371157790863369?s=21

47:27 Korean Exchanges

https://twitter.com/ki_young_ju/status/1496995862010265600?s=21

49:11 Ebay Accepting Crypto

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/ebay-considers-crypto-payments-already-accepts-nfts-ceo-says

49:54 MATIC Lido Staking

https://twitter.com/LidoFinance/status/1498949232836988929

50:16 Consensys Drama

https://twitter.com/evan_van_ness/status/1499024475970486279?s=21

52:10 Pixelmon Fail

https://metaversal.banklesshq.com/p/the-pixelmon-nft-debacle

57:52 Treasure Exploit on Arbitrum

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/136143/treasure-marketplace-tells-users-to-delist-nfts-after-exploit

58:34 Kuiper Finance

https://twitter.com/scott_lew_is/status/1498742697192050704?s=20&t=nw8jkP646_zFJr0g7jvtHw

59:34 Blitwear

https://twitter.com/dhof/status/1498692101579714570

1:00:59 KPMG Buys World of Women

https://twitter.com/KPMG_Canada/status/1498335705965203463?s=20&t=pakE_2RxF6JsktDbf-0yGQ

1:01:44 Japanese Rakuten NFT Marketplace

https://news.bitcoin.com/japanese-online-retail-giant-rakuten-launches-nft-marketplace

1:02:47 Puma Cool Cat

https://twitter.com/PUMA/status/1498825210757365763

1:03:25 Mfers Derivatives

https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1499424828268290051?s=20&t=gDF5kchQexMwETwVGbk6Qw

1:06:36 Discord Grinding

https://decrypt.co/94143/the-newest-crypto-side-hustle-discord-grinding

1:09:14 Arthur Hayes Pleads Guilty

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/135406/bitmex-co-founders-hayes-delo-plead-doj

1:11:12 Fractional NFT Security

https://www.ledgerinsights.com/sec-probes-fractional-nfts-for-securities-infringements/

1:13:42 Citadel Crypto

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/135864/griffin-says-fair-to-assume-that-citadel-will-be-market-making-in-crypto-in-months-to-come

 

1:16:00 TAKES

1:17:30 Web3 Won’t Rug You

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-startup-founder-littlethings-joe-speiser-2018-algorithm-change-2022-2

1:19:48 Annihilation

https://twitter.com/CryptoHayes/status/1498811869926100992?s=20&t=kGdO4VQHrTP5vBSmELS7jg

1:22:00 The Individual Has Power

https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1499167417678786560?s=20&t=yxH_Vk4fkCLdBL1mrymEYA

1:24:54 NFTs and Identity

https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa/status/1499090669654069248?s=20&t=OtUJn574SDQINCcVwpqOYA

 

1:27:33 What David’s Excited About

1:29:50 What Ryan’s Excited About

 

1:31:58 MEME of the Week

 

Moment of Zen

https://twitter.com/randizuckerberg/status/1498425277734690816?s=20&t=QNIFJfc61RsTyYQJVKIZ9Q

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