The Smart Money is Here

Eric Petersoperates one of the largest institutional crypto hedge funds in the world. What do the institutions think of our little crypto asset class? Are they running for the hills?

Eric Peters is the Founder, CIO of One River Asset Management. His fund has made some of the largest institutional investments in crypto ever..including one purchase of over $600 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum. When we think institutional crypto, we think Eric Peters.

His first appearance on Bankless was in October 2021we brought him back to catch us up on the current institutional thesis for crypto.

10% of proceeds donated to the Connecticut Foodshare, an organization delivering an informed and equitable response to hunger.

The Smart Money is Here #23

Is the CIA Spying on Crypto?

Is the CIA spying on crypto? 

Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author writes about war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security. 

Shes written books on the secrets of Area 51, and the Pentagons military science R&D efforts over the decades.

The 2023 crypto movement is sufficiently large enough that it has certainly attracted the attention of every intelligence agency out there. 

We want to learn about how the worlds intelligence agencies might have or are interacting with the crypto community. 

Annie shares her thoughts and answers our question: is the CIA spying on crypto?

Artwork generated from [14:19 - 14:39] With almost certaintity I would say, that the world of cryptocurrency is looked at by the intelligence community as a non-state actor.Which is a little bit dangerous, or a little bit adversarial for those of you in that community. 

10% of proceeds are being donated to Annies son, a young crypto advocate exploring the space.

Is the CIA Spying on Crypto? #30

Were All Gonna Die

The first Bankless episode on AI and we went deep down the rabbit hole. 

This conversation withEliezer Yudkowskysent us into an existential crisis as we discussed ChatGPT and the new generation of AI, digital super-intelligence, the end of humanity, and if theres anything we can do to survive.

According to Eliezer, were already too late. Humanity is doomed. 

Artwork generated from the timestamp [59:32-59:51] Nobody knows how to create any good AIs at all. The problem isnt that we have 20 good AIs and that somebody finally builds an evil AI. The problem is that the first powerful AI is evil, nobody knows how to make it good, and then it kills everybody before anybody can make it good. 

10% of proceeds donated to Eliezer"s MIRI Foundation.

Were All Gonna Die #36

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Punk6529is a pseudo-anonymous leader in the crypto space. 

Hes heavily focused on the world of NFTs and known for putting together extremely punchy and thoughtful Twitter threads, thinking about the world from first principles.

NFTs will represent every single digital non-fungible token that existsand there are going to be a lot of them. Podcasts will be no different. 

Is Punk6529 the most bullish person in the world on NFTs?

In this episode, 6529 shares the benefits of using an NFT-backed pseudonym instead of your state name, why the freedom to transact is an essential human liberty well lose without crypto, how the Metaverse is just a visualization layer of NFTs, and why NFTs are more important than DeFiprobably the most important thing crypto has produced.

Artwork generated from timestamp [1:04:47 - 1:05:06]  There is just a clear path for NFTs being for glitch artist, to NFTs representing every single digital non-fungible object, which is a lot of them. Were going to have a lot of digital objects. Our economy is not going to get less digital, its going to get more digital. 

10% of proceeds donated to Bankless DAO.

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You"re Not Bullish Enough on NFTs #19

Will Solana Make It? 

Is Solana going to make it?
Price is down. Its major public backer, SBF, is out for the countWill the network survive the bear market? 
We brought in the creator of Solana and the co-founder of Solana Labs Anatoly Yakovenko to ask exactly that. 
He shares the full Solana story, back to its earliest inflection points all the way to the current state of Solana today. 

This episode marks a pivotal point in Solanas lifecycle at the depths of a bear market. 
Will Solana make it? Its all or nothing now. 
Artwork generated from the timestamp [1:16:24 - 1:16:37] My guess is that if you looked at all the product launches from inception of crypto to now, to whats going to happen in the next 12-18 months, the next 12-18 months are probably going to be way more than everything else combined

Will Solana Make It?  #64

Sign-in with Ethereum 

The Silicon Valley tech companies have become the new banks. They hold all of our data. They control our digital identities. 

Sign-in with Ethereum is the solution. Its one of the first steps for users to own their data across the web. Instead of logging into the platform, the platform logs into your account. You own your data. You own your identity. You have a self-sovereign, universal login for the internet. 

Wayne Chang is a researcher, the co-author of the Sign in with Ethereum (SIWE) Standard, and the co-founder and CEO of Spruce, a company that is working to grow SIWE adoption to become the standard way to log into the internet. 

Chang believes that SIWE will lead to a more sovereign, decentralized, and free internet for the world. 

Crypto is known as a technology to separate money and state. Identity is no different. 

This podcast marks the beginning of the separation of identity and state. 

Art visualized from the timestamp [1:21:22 - 1:21:56]: Sign in with Ethereum is the first step for users to own their data across the web. 

10% of all proceeds go to Bankless DAO.

Sign-in with Ethereum #47

Investing in Waves

Investing in waves. Are we talking about surfing? Are we talking about capital deployment? The answer is yes.

In this episode, Chris unpacks why he uses the term trashy to describe many 2022 projects (and their founders), why crypto is like surfing and how you catch a good wave, his rules for staying sober during bull and bear markets (hint: dont fall in love with your coconuts), and finally his bull case for Solana.

Chris Burniske is a Bankless legend, making his third appearance on Bankless. He was first on three years ago for episode #20! 

Art generated from the timestamp at [20:22 - 20:35] where Chris draws the parallel between surfing and investing in crypto ecosystems. 

10% of proceeds are donated to Shielded Labs, an organization helping with the decentralization of Zcash!

Investing in Waves #98

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Membership is accessible via the AO ArtBall, a collection of 6776 NFTs from the AO22 collection and 2454 NFTs from AO23 collection, providing holders with an unprecedented level of tickets from premier tennis, sport, and entertainment events as well as unique rewards from leading web3 projects covering both real life event and virtual worlds.

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