Bitcoin's 2024 Revolution: L2s & Beyond | Eric Wall
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✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ What’s the Endgame for Bitcoin Scaling? That’s what we asked bitcoin builder and researcher Eric Wall. We start by exploring the evolution of Bitcoin and the genesis of scaling solutions on top of it. We then get into the intricacies of the BitVM, what exactly is a Bitcoin L2 and what’s coming next. Eric is the perfect guest to explore this frontier of Bitcoin Rollups, he tells it like it is and he understands both Ethereum and Bitcoin. ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 ------...
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The Battle Between Crypto VCs & Retail Investors | Regan Bozman
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✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ Today we explore the frontier of Venture Capitalists vs Retail Investors, are they at war? That’s exactly what we debate on the show with crypto writer and VC Regan Bozman. Lots of questions to be asked on this episode: - Is crypto experiencing an identity crisis? - Are memecoins a reaction to VCs - Why is the current wave of Airdrops broken?. - Is attention more important than fundamentals? - Where do we go from here? It’s about time to gain some clarity into what’s really happening in the crypto space. ------ 📣...
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ROLLUP: $EIGEN Token Launch | CZ Going to Jail | Stripe Crypto Support | Market Bottom In?
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Bankless Friday Weekly Rollup First Week Of May ------ 📣 TRANSPORTER - SECURED BY CHAINLINK CCIP | TRY IT OUT ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 🌐 CARTESI | APPLY FOR A GRANT 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🏠 CASA | SECURE YOUR GENERATIONAL WEALTH 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 00:00:00 Start 00:01:04 David's Eye Update ...
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1 Billion Users Onchain | Jesse Pollak of Base
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While it's still early in the race, Base is now one of Ethereum’s largest L2s. In today’s episode, we brought back on repeat guest and co-creator of Coinbase’s L2, Base, Jesse Pollak. We cover: - How Base plans to bring billions of users onchain - How Base is increasing its scale by 400x - How Coinbase is using Base to be more onchain - Onchain Summer II ------ 📣 TRANSPORTER - SECURED BY CHAINLINK CCIP | TRY IT OUT ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK...
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Why ConsenSys is Suing the SEC | Joseph Lubin & Matt Corva
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“The U.S. is trying to disconnect from Ethereum," that’s what Joe Lubin the CEO of Consensys said in today’s conversation. He was talking about those in power trying to unplug Ethereum from the citizens. The SEC is going after Kraken, Coinbase, Uniswap and Metamask. They’re trying to turn every non-custodial wallet into a broker-dealer. We brought on Joe Lubin, a crypto OG and CEO of Consensys the company behind a number of massive crypto projects including the popular Metamask wallet, and Matt Corva, the General Counsel at Consensys, leading the charge against the SEC Joe and...
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$EIGEN Token Announcement With Sreeram Kannan and Robert Drost
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Eigenlayer token details are here! Don’t call it an Airdrop - This is a Stakedrop — because that’s the only thing you can do with your EIGEN tokens out of the gate. 15% of the total Supply of Eigen distributed over multiple Seasons, Season 1 starts today with 5% of the supply, and one of the most sophisticated set of smart contracts on Mainnet. EIGEN is not your typical ERC20 token. It’s got this feature called “Intersubjective Forking” that increases the scope of what Eigenlayer can provide security for. In addition to the token details getting released, we’re also...
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$3 Trillion in Stablecoins by 2030 | Jeremy Allaire, USDC Founder
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✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ Joining the podcast today we have the man behind the largest US based stablecoin, Jeremy Allaire, the Founder of USDC Circle. A year ago USDC depegged in the face of major banks like SVB and Silvergate collapsing. How did Jeremy deal with that? What year is crypto in internet years? Why don’t we have a venmo for crypto yet? Fast forward to 2030, what’s the total value of stablecoins? Stay tuned because we ask all that and much more. ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 ------ BANKLESS...
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ROLLUP: CZ to Jail? | Consensys sues SEC | IRS vs. Crypto | USDT in Telegram
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Bankless Friday Weekly Rollup Last Week Of April ------ 🔐 SAFE | USE SAFE, GET REWARDED. CHECK OUT SAFE PASS ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum 🔐 SAFE | USE SAFE, GET REWARDED 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🏙️ CONSENSUS | SAVE 20% WITH CODE BANKLESS ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 4:19 Markets - Thanks Kraken 5:39...
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Tech Acceleration vs Deceleration: e/acc vs. d/acc debate | Erik Torenberg & Haseeb Qureshi
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Erik Torenburg and Haseeb Quereshi join us for today's debate. Should we accelerate or decelerate our tech progress? How about when it comes to something as powerful as AI? This is not just a debate in tech circles - this is a political debate that poised to define the next decade. We’ve had leaders from both sides of the debate on the podcast - episodes with Elizer Yudkowski and Beff Jezos. You’ve heard what they think. Today’s episode is a discussion and at times a debate on these opinions to help you think through where you stand on this issue - Haseeb Quereshi tends toward...
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Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin, Portfolio for 2024, Institutional Adoption & Crypto Tribalism
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✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ Bankless Nation, we’ve finally got him… Anthony Pompliano is on the show. Pomp is an investor and media personality, best known to the crypto community for his relentless bitcoin evangelism. Expect to learn about the Bitcoin Halving, the state of BTC EwTFs, the consequential institutional adoption and crypto tribalism. We wrap up the episode with a quick lightning round with Pomp and a peek into his 2024 investment portfolio. ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR...
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Are modular blockchains the path to ultra blockchain scalability? YES!
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10:00 Consensus, Data, and Execution
16:55 The Scalability Trilemma
22:18 Developing in Parallel
29:00 Computer Chips & Nature
35:02 Modular Blockchain Design
43:10 Sharding & Data Availability
51:23 Consensus & Proof of Stake
57:06 Decentralization
1:01:55 Synergies
1:06:30 More Security
1:10:59 Future of Monolithic Blockchains
1:19:32 Triple Point Asset
1:25:19 Ultra Scalable Ethereum
1:31:45 Interest of the Token Holders
1:35:24 Ethereum's Roadmap
1:37:45 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Modular is Revolutionary:
https://polynya.medium.com/processors-blockchains-modular-is-revolutionary-ded01824b603
Market Monday:
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/ethereum-2025
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