September 24, 2022

The Chopping Block: Why ETH Dumped So Hard After the Merge - Ep. 400

1 hour

Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry.

Show topics:

Why the ETH price slumped after the Merge even though it was successful

Whether the BTC security model is flawed and why Robert thinks Bitcoin will change

Why Tarun thinks Bitcoin won’t change and why he’s bearish on Bitcoin development

Whether the Lightning Network can succeed with so many competitors getting better more quickly

ETHPoW’s performance after the Merge, whether it’s dead and why Robert wouldn’t rule out the PoW fork

Why Haseeb thinks the criminalization of the collapse of Terra is a bad precedent

The broader impacts of the Terra meltdown and whether Do Kwon not disclosing the fact that he had been involved with Basis Cash, which failed, is problematic

The House’s draft bill on stablecoins and whether it is necessary to study algo stablecoins

What happened with the Wintermute hack

Why Tarun thinks the Wintermute team is incompetent

Whether there is any positive news in crypto lately

Who would be a better pick for deploying treasury funds between Three Arrows Capital and Wintermute

What Haseeb, Tom, Robert and Tarun are excited about

Hosts

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital

Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures

Robert Leshner, founder of Compound

Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital

Episode Links

Post Merge

ETHPoW

ETH issuance

Do Kwon and Terra

Red Notice

“Not on the run”

Kwon’s Passport

Wintermute hack

House’s Draft Bill on Stablecoins

Bloomberg’s Article

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By Laura Shin