In this week's special edition of The Rundown, Michael and Shiv share their unique journeys into web3 including the unique challenges, lessons learned, the importance of curiosity, and why they are so excited for the future. In the season of giving, we hope you can learn from their experience and apply some takeaways to your own life. 

Topics covered:

- Michaels's journey from accounting/finance, commercial real estate, and MIT's Investment Management Company to crypto

- Shiv's journey from one of Australia's largest banks into crypto and how he found himself writing Protocols of Money in NYC in 2020

- The founding story of The DeFi Report

- Michaels Vision for web3 and why he is so excited for the future

- Why Shiv wrote the book Protocols of Money

- Shiv's experience as an Angel investor 

We hope you enjoy the episode!

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In this week's episode of The Rundown, Michael and Shiv cover everything you need to know about Bitcoin heading into 2024. This episode is packed with actionable insights. Topics covered (charts & data visuals + discussion):

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If you don't know your numbers you don't know you're crypto!

If you don't know your numbers, you don't know your crypto!

In this week's episode of The Rundown, Michael and Shiv discuss the elements of the Ethereum tech stack and the economics of Ethereum Layer 2 networks.

- What are the margins of Ethereum L2s?
- How much revenue is running through L2s today?
- How many transactions do they need to support to onboard the next billion users?
- How do their fundamentals stack up against each other and the alternative L1s?
- What are some good mental models for thinking about L2s and value accrual?

We covered these topics and much more (including Bitcoin Mining Energy FUD 😁)

In this week's episode of The Rundown, Michael and Shiv unpack the question on everyone's minds: are we in a new bull market??