My guest today is my friend, Graham Friedman, a Director at Republic & Co-founder and Partner at TLDR Global. Republic is an investment platform for everyone to invest in private deals, including startups, real estate, video games, and crypto. TLDR Global is a global investment firm focusing on tokenized assets and DLT technology.Our conversation covers a wide range of topics including the importance of Memetics in crypto and the rise in popularity of meme-coins, ethereum's incredible Q1 performance and it's growing network effect, and why cross-chain is the future. We also touch on Coinbase's recent announcement that they are launching their own media-arm and crypto's possible future addressable industries. Other topics we discussed included the best way to onboard normies to crypto and contextualizing bitcoin's energy usage and dismissing the energy FUD. Please enjoy my conversation with Graham Friedman.

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