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SotN#23: Crescendoing! w/ Eric Conner (Community Culture, & Staking, War Effort, Propaganda) Nov 18, 2020

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Eric Conner, co-Host of the EthHub Podcast, Formerly Product at Gnosis, and Ethereum’s Unofficial Community Manager

We ask Eric, does he accept the title of 'Unofficial Community Manager'?

Eric has called the the 2018-19 Bear Market period as ‘the time that User, Investors, and Builders of Ethereum all came together’

- Why is this important?- What was the Ethereum community like in 2015-17? - How has the Ethereum community developed, changed, matured over time?

Did Eric ever have doubts that we would ever get to this point?

Then, Eric and David discuss the merits of a 'patriotic duty to Stake ETH'

- Is it someone's patriotic duty to stake? - Or is ETH staking just another yield-farm?- How does the role of feeling politically aligned play in Staking ETH?

Finally, we turn to the Bull Case for Ethereum

- What is Eric's perceived 'win-condition' for Ethereum?

Tune into the video!

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39 - Grayscale: $10B Bridge to Crypto | Michael Sonnenshein Nov 16, 2020

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Michael Sonnenshein is the Managing Director at Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset management company by far.

You may have seen a GBTC or ETHE products in your Schwab account, a way price exposure to ETH and BTC

...wondered what those things are?

We're going to talk about that today with Michael.

Grayscale has built a bridge for almost $10B to flow into the crypto world, by working inside the legacy system, rather than outside of it.

Listen to this podcast to see how Grayscale is helping promote crypto!

Retail products:

What Greyscale products can the average, unaccredited retail investor buy today?
What’s the difference between GBTC/ETHE and an ETF?
- What are the fees?

Accredited investors products ($1m in assets or $200k per year)

How do accredited investors power the Grayscale trust?
What narratives that are driving the inflows?
What are the most popular products with this group?
- Bitcoin Trust: $39.5 million
- Ethereum Trust: $9.0 million
- Large Cap Fund: $1.1 million

Bitcoin Investor Study - what were the takeaways?

Size of Greyscale relative to supply

How much BTC supply - 400k in June (3-4% of all Bitcoin)?
- As a proportion of mined BTC?
How much ETH supply do you own?
Can Grayscale do a staked ETH product? Any other yield-bearing products?

What’s Greyscale’s next move?

Expanding more outside BTC?
Getting acquired?
AUM size?
Specifically with DeFi?

Action items:

Read reports Bitcoin Investor Study
- https://grayscale.co/insights/bitcoin-investor-study-2020/
If you’re looking at GBTC or ETHE in your portfolio premium vs spot price first:
- https://ycharts.com/companies/GBTC/discount_or_premium_to_nav
- https://ycharts.com/companies/ETHE/discount_or_premium_to_nav
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ROLLUP: 2nd Week of November Nov 13, 2020

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ROLLUP: 2nd Week of November

What are we doing:

Happy Friday morning...

End of the week rollup

Dedicating 5 minutes to 5 topics, same 5 topics every week

- Market - Releases- News- Takes - What are you excited about?

(MARKET) What’s the Market saying?

BTC Price - 16k- BTC Treasuries website (https://bitcointreasuries.org/))- BTC on Ethereum: 153k

ETH Price

$1B of ETH in Grayscale (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/83854/grayscale-ethereum-trust-1-billion-aum)

TVL in DeFi - up $1B from last week

DeFi Token price - remember last wk when DeFi was dead?

(RELEASES) What got released?

- PayPal removes waitlist - all paypal users can use crypto now (https://www.coindesk.com/paypal-removes-waitlist-for-new-crypto-service)

- LiquidStake (https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-heavyweights-launch-liquidstake-loans-to-ease-eth-2-0-lockup)

Dharma Bank Account Integration (https://twitter.com/Dharma_HQ/status/1323311960432148481)

Bank Account - Dharma - Uniswap

Synthetix synthetic Oil and inverse-synthetic Oil now available

Chainlink working on xDAI network (https://www.xdaichain.com/about-xdai/project-spotlights/chainlink)

EIP1559 Updates

Tim Beiko tweet thread (https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1325839080974774272?s=20)

- Mainnet-condition testnets

- Developer tooling for easy 1559 integration

Micah Zoltu blog post (https://medium.com/@MicahZoltu/a-tale-of-two-pricing-schemes-dc9c8717906)

(NEWS) What’s in the news?

Infura CRASH (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/84232/ethereum-infrastructure-provider-infura-is-down)

In response, someone made EthereumNodes.com to report who has endpoints up and who doesn’t

Zapper gets $1.5M in funding (https://www.coindesk.com/defi-dashboard-zapper-snags-new-funding-from-delphi-and-coinbase-ventures) - Delphi- Coinbase

Binance donates $100k to Gitcoin (https://www.binance.com/en/blog/421499824684901205/Binance-Pledges-$100000-Donation-to-Gitcoin-Grants)

CZ depositing 32 ETH to the deposit contract (https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1325978447148064768)

CipherTrace scaring regulators (https://ciphertrace.com/half-of-2020-crypto-hacks-are-from-defi-protocols-and-exchanges/)

Ray Dalio on banning Bitcoin (https://www.coindesk.com/bridgewaters-dalio-sees-governments-banning-bitcoin-should-it-become-material)

Final Boss:

ShapeShift Delisting ZEC over regulator concerns (https://www.coindesk.com/shapeshift-delists-privacy-coin-zcash-over-regulatory-concerns)

IRS is coming after Coinbase for tax information (https://cointelegraph.com/news/u-s-law-firm-says-irs-is-coming-after-coinbase-users-who-evade-taxes)

BTC mining pools & KYC (https://stockhouse.com/news/press-releases/2020/10/29/dmg-s-subsidiary-blockseer-launches-bitcoin-mining-pool-focused-on-good)

U.S. Feds doing research on CBDCs (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/84087/fed-central-bank-digital-currency-research)

Lebanon CBDC (https://www.coindesk.com/lebanon-digital-currency-2021)

SEC changing Reg A, Reg CF, Rule 504D limits, among other things (https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-273)

Reg A $50m - $75m

Reg CF $1m - $5m

504D $5m -$10m

(TAKES) What’s on your mind?

Gotta do it

- Bring up the frogs (https://twitter.com/kekspawn/status/1326253486070173696/photo/1)

What’s on my mind?

What is DeFi?

Is Bitcoin DeFi (https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1326950305725026304?s=20)?

Is Ethereum DeFi?

Is BinanceChain DeFi?

Is PolkaDot DeFi?

Is Cosmos DeFi?

IS DEFI DEFI?

What are you excited about?

DH:

- Ethereum / ETH being understood

- ETH the Internet Bond

- BTC is an evolution on Gold. Therefore, BTC market cap should be much larger than gold

I'm compelled!

- ETH’s market cap should be an evolution on the market cap of bond markets

Never before has there been a hard-money bond market

RSA: sovereign bond market is $57t btw

I’m excited that we’re in a bull run:

If you're new to crypto... Welcome to your first bull run. Things will only getting crazier from here. Buckle up.

AMA w/ Zapper | Co-Founder Seb Audet and DeFi Dad Nov 12, 2020

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Zapper AMA with Founder Seb Audet and DeFi Dad

Zapper is a home-base for your financial activity on Ethereum. Load up your wallets at https://zapper.fi/ and use Zapper to make quick and easy transactions in DeFi!

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Seb on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sebaudet26

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LiquidStake - Andrew Keys & James Slazas | Meet the Nation Nov 11, 2020

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LiquidStake - Andrew Keys & James Slazas | Meet the Nation

DARMA Capital is a fund that is perma-bullish on ETH, and the entire fund is focused on producing ETH-denominated returns for their investors.

DARMA has rolled out LiquidStake, a Staking-as-a-Service product that enables ETH 2.0 stakers to access liquidity during the unknown ETH lockup period.

Article: https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-heavyweights-launch-liquidstake-loans-to-ease-eth-2-0-lockup

Andrew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewDARMACAP?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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SotN#22: BONDING! w/ Collin Myers (ETH Internet Bond Market, Staking Returns, ETH Needed to Retire?) Nov 11, 2020

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For this particular State of the Nation, the video is very helpful. Especially when we discuss the calculator and staking returns: 📺 WATCH: https://youtu.be/FkxrTXCRUOo _________

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SotN#22: BONDING! w/ @StakeETH (ETH Internet Bond Market, Staking Returns, ETH Needed to Retire?)

The Internet Bond: https://bankless.substack.com/p/eth-the-internet-bond

Whitepaper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13-s15SvCIUBukhSZiNkpd0sTff3izQ5G/view

Calculator: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LTv8c-9nfq225bV-esv-JXmb0K-nM_z6qbmVooTAUUo/edit?ts=5f730135#gid=13834492

Ryan's: 7 Lessons for Crypto Pioneers

https://bankless.substack.com/p/7-lessons-for-crypto-pioneers-market

Bankless Guide: How to Become a Validator

https://bankless.substack.com/p/-guide-how-to-become-a-validator

CodeFi, Collins project!

https://activate.codefi.network/

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38 - The World is Waking Up to Crypto | Raoul Pal Nov 09, 2020

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The World is Waking Up to Crypto | Raoul Pal

Raoul Pal is the CEO and co-founder of Real Vision, which is a content production studio focused on democratizing access to financial knowledge. He is an investor with a sharp eye on the global macro environment, and has a strong grasp on the relationship between history and economics.

Raoul is famous for being 'irresponsibly long' on Bitcoin, and has expressed similar favourable attitudes towards Ethereum and DeFi.

We start the episode asking about the role that Bitcoin fills in the current financial crises.

What about the current state of the world makes Raoul bullish on Bitcoin? Why does the world need it? Why now?

- What are the factors that are influencing the incentives behind central governments printing money?

Raoul is generally of the opinion that the money printer is going to be forced to turn on

- Why forced?

- How does the looming retirement crisis impact the valuation of Bitcoin?

- Does Raoul think about how the U.S. might become really jealous of people taking their newly printing money and buying Bitcoin with it?

Then, we turn the conversation to Ethereum, and Ether, as well as the Bankless thesis!

Tune in!

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