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
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Decrypt: Ethereum Fork ETHPoW Suffers Bridge Replay Exploit, Token Tanks 37%
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Decrypt: Ethereum Token Issuance Plummets 95% Following Merge
Do Kwon and Terra
- Decrypt: South Korean Authorities Request Interpol Red Notice for Terra’s Do Kwon
- Decrypt: Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon: I Am Not ‘On the Run’
- Decrypt: South Korean Authorities Seek to Void Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon’s Passport
Wintermute Hack
