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. <h3>Show topics:</h3><ul>
<li>Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter – and its effect on DOGE</li>
<li>the irony that people working in centralized companies want to decentralize Twitter</li>
<li>whether Twitter is going to become like Facebook</li>
<li>why Twitter has been the most pro-crypto among big tech companies</li>
<li>why Tarun thinks Binance Pay is an impressive product</li>
<li>whether it is possible to run a decentralized social media for billions of users</li>
<li>the debate between Sam Bankman-Fried and Erik Voorhees about crypto regulation</li>
<li>whether crypto exchange CEOs are true believers in the philosophy of crypto</li>
<li>why Haseeb believes Sam Bankman-Fried is a very honest person</li>
<li>how Reddit used a simple strategy to gain massive adoption</li>
<li>whether it is necessary to rebrand NFTs</li>
</ul>Hosts<ul>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hosseeb">Haseeb Qureshi</a>, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital</li>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/tarunchitra">Tarun Chitra</a>, managing partner at Robot Ventures</li>
<li>
<a href="https://twitter.com/rleshner">Robert Leshner</a>, founder of Compound </li>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/tomhschmidt">Tom Schmidt</a>, general partner at Dragonfly Capital</li>
</ul><h3>Episode Links</h3>Twitter acquisition<ul>
<li><a href="https://unchainedpodcast.com/what-are-the-potential-impacts-of-musks-twitter-purchase/">What Are the Potential Impacts of Musk’s Twitter Purchase?</a></li>
<li>Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX, will <a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/180780/sam-bankman-fried-set-to-make-up-to-100-million-from-musk-twitter-purchase">receive</a> between $50 million and $100 million from Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.</li>
<li>Vitalik Buterin <a href="https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1587593917197062145?s=20&t=Ij3Z66VevHSZCFGxZqcUxQ">said</a> Musk’s idea of charging $8 a month for a blue check on Twitter could “damage the blue check's anti-scam role.”</li>
<li>Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao <a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/182167/binance-ceo-would-join-twitter-board-musk">said</a> he would join Twitter’s board if Elon Musk asked him to. </li>
</ul>Crypto regulation<ul>
<li><a href="https://unchainedpodcast.com/industry-leaders-debate-how-to-regulate-defi/">Industry Leaders Debate How to Regulate DeFi</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytaa_5liwMA">Bankless debate between SBF and Erik Voorhees </a></li>
</ul><a href="https://unchainedpodcast.com/alamedas-balance-sheet-sparks-controversy/">Alameda’s Balance Sheet Sparks Controversy</a><a href="https://unchainedpodcast.com/trojan-horse-of-nfts-reddit-onboards-3m-wallets-as-trading-volume-soars/">Trojan Horse of NFTs? Reddit Onboards 3M Wallets as Trading Volume Soars</a>

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