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Low float and high fully diluted valuation (FDV) coins have been a hot topic in crypto this year. Yet, understanding these coins' unrealized gains is critical for truly grasping their pricing. In this episode, Jose Macedo of Delphi Digital and Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital dive deep into metrics that help assess a coin's true value. They discuss why upcoming token unlocks may put downward pressure on the market, how token unlocks could be better structured for long-term success, and whether VCs are extracting more value than they contribute. Show highlights: Why upcoming token unlock events are creating anxiety in the crypto market The role unrealized gains play in token price volatility How certain projects manipulate circulating supply metrics to influence perceptions Tips for everyday investors to uncover accurate token information The impact of secondary market trading on anticipated token unlock events Why short-term token strategies often prevail over those focused on sustained success Jose's insights into why simple, time-based unlock models may outperform complex systems Ari's thoughts on the SEC's investigations into VCs and their parallels to pump-and-dump schemes Why many crypto projects face a bearish outlook due to pending token unlocks How the intersection of memecoins and VC involvement could shape the next market cycle Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com Thank you to our sponsors! Polkadot Guests: Jose Macedo, founder at Delphi Labs Ari Paul, CIO of BlockTower Capital Previous appearances on Unchained: Ari Paul on Why Bitcoin Is a Good Value Buy Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital on the Crypto Downturn and Why It Could Change Direction Links High FDV and unlocks: Unchained: How ‘Fully Diluted Valuation' Can Be a Very Dangerous Metric for Crypto Markets to Rely On Who's to Blame for the Underperformance of Low Float, High FDV Tokens? 80% of Tokens on Binance Are Down Since Listing Date: SwissBorg Researcher Cobie newsletter: New launches (part 1) - private capture, phantom pricing Rocknblock: Token vesting explainer CoinDesk: 'Liquid Vesting' Is Oxymoronic Blockchain Feature That Lets Early Investors Sell Without Waiting Jose's thread that inspired the episode Ari's post responding to Jose's thread Token.unlocks.app: Token vesting tracker Solutions: Hack VC: Potential Solutions to Crypto's Unlock Problem Colony Lab: Early-Stage Program & Liquid Vesting Imran Khan's tweet on Blast https://x.com/lmrankhan/status/1806040646433522149  Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:46 Token unlocks creating market concerns 11:06 Unrealized gains to market cap ratio impact 13:06 Token supply manipulation tactics 21:11 How investors can verify token projects 24:21 Secondary market trading and unlock impacts 35:36 Current token launch strategy persistence 41:46 Short-term vs long-term project decisions 47:21 Time-based vs metric-based token unlocks 53:51 SEC investigations into VC practices 59:56 Bearish outlook for upcoming token unlocks 1:06:36 Investor risks in current cycle 1:13:11 Future of VCs in crypto and memecoins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Low float and high fully diluted valuation (FDV) coins have been a hot topic in crypto this year. Yet, understanding these coins' unrealized gains is critical for truly grasping their pricing. In this episode, Jose Macedo of Delphi Digital and Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital dive deep into metrics that help assess a coin's true value. They discuss why upcoming token unlocks may put downward pressure on the market, how token unlocks could be better structured for long-term success, and whether VCs are extracting more value than they contribute. Show highlights: Why upcoming token unlock events are creating anxiety in the crypto market The role unrealized gains play in token price volatility How certain projects manipulate circulating supply metrics to influence perceptions Tips for everyday investors to uncover accurate token information The impact of secondary market trading on anticipated token unlock events Why short-term token strategies often prevail over those focused on sustained success Jose's insights into why simple, time-based unlock models may outperform complex systems Ari's thoughts on the SEC's investigations into VCs and their parallels to pump-and-dump schemes Why many crypto projects face a bearish outlook due to pending token unlocks How the intersection of memecoins and VC involvement could shape the next market cycle Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com Thank you to our sponsors! Polkadot Guests: Jose Macedo, founder at Delphi Labs Ari Paul, CIO of BlockTower Capital Previous appearances on Unchained: Ari Paul on Why Bitcoin Is a Good Value Buy Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital on the Crypto Downturn and Why It Could Change Direction Links High FDV and unlocks: Unchained: How ‘Fully Diluted Valuation' Can Be a Very Dangerous Metric for Crypto Markets to Rely On Who's to Blame for the Underperformance of Low Float, High FDV Tokens? 80% of Tokens on Binance Are Down Since Listing Date: SwissBorg Researcher Cobie newsletter: New launches (part 1) - private capture, phantom pricing Rocknblock: Token vesting explainer CoinDesk: 'Liquid Vesting' Is Oxymoronic Blockchain Feature That Lets Early Investors Sell Without Waiting Jose's thread that inspired the episode Ari's post responding to Jose's thread Token.unlocks.app: Token vesting tracker Solutions: Hack VC: Potential Solutions to Crypto's Unlock Problem Colony Lab: Early-Stage Program & Liquid Vesting Imran Khan's tweet on Blast https://x.com/lmrankhan/status/1806040646433522149  Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:46 Token unlocks creating market concerns 11:06 Unrealized gains to market cap ratio impact 13:06 Token supply manipulation tactics 21:11 How investors can verify token projects 24:21 Secondary market trading and unlock impacts 35:36 Current token launch strategy persistence 41:46 Short-term vs long-term project decisions 47:21 Time-based vs metric-based token unlocks 53:51 SEC investigations into VC practices 59:56 Bearish outlook for upcoming token unlocks 1:06:36 Investor risks in current cycle 1:13:11 Future of VCs in crypto and memecoins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jose Macedo of Delphi Digital and Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital talk about why a crypto asset can have wildly different prices in the public and private markets, and how they try to figure out what it's really worth.Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pods, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.The problem of low float, high fully diluted valuation (FDV) coins is one that is frequently discussed in crypto. But there's another wrinkle: investors need to understand the unrealized gains of these coins to really understand the price. In this episode, Jose Macedo of Delphi Digital and Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital explain the various metrics that reveal what a coin is really worth, why a wave of token unlocks that will be hitting the crypto markets in the next few years are not bullish, and whether there is a better way to design token unlocks for teams and insiders. Plus, they cover whether venture capitalists are extractive to crypto, whether these games with circulating supply and FDV have caused investors to turn to memecoins, and why they believe the ICO era was better for retail investors. Show highlights:Why upcoming token unlocks are creating market jittersHow the ratio of unrealized gains to market cap influences token price movements How some token projects manipulate their reported circulating supplyWhether and how everyday investors can uncover the truth about token projectsWhat secondary market trading says about the potential impact of upcoming token unlocksWhy Jose believes that the current token launch strategy, despite its flaws, is still favored by insiders and unlikely to change soonWhy some projects favor decisions that are more likely to result in short-term gains over long-term successWhy Jose believes that simple time-based token unlocks often work better than complex metrics, and how projects can balance funding with realistic success metricsWhy Ari believes the SEC's investigations into VCs for acting as securities dealers might be justified, and how these practices resemble pump-and-dump schemesWith numerous token unlocks looming, why the outlook is bearish for many projects, and what challenges they face in mitigating potential sell-offsWhy many crypto investors might end up holding the bag in the current cycle, despite plans to sell early and avoid lossesWhat the future role of VCs is in crypto, and how the influx of token unlocks and the rise of memecoins could shape the bull cycleVisit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.comThank you to our sponsors!PolkadotGuests:Jose Macedo, founder at Delphi LabsAri Paul, CIO of BlockTower CapitalPrevious appearances on Unchained:Ari Paul on Why Bitcoin Is a Good Value BuyAri Paul of BlockTower Capital on the Crypto Downturn and Why It Could Change DirectionLinks : High FDV and unlocks:Unchained:How ‘Fully Diluted Valuation' Can Be a Very Dangerous Metric for Crypto Markets to Rely OnWho's to Blame for the Underperformance of Low Float, High FDV Tokens?80% of Tokens on Binance Are Down Since Listing Date: SwissBorg ResearcherCobie newsletter: New launches (part 1) - private capture, phantom pricingRocknblock: Token vesting explainerCoinDesk: 'Liquid Vesting' Is Oxymoronic Blockchain Feature That Lets Early Investors Sell Without WaitingJose's thread that inspired the episodeAri's post responding to Jose's threadToken.unlocks.app: Token vesting trackerSolutions:Hack VC: Potential Solutions to Crypto's Unlock ProblemColony Lab: Early-Stage Program & Liquid VestingImran Khan's tweet on Blast https://x.com/lmrankhan/status/1806040646433522149 -Unchained Podcast is Produced by Laura Shin Media, LLC. Distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Michele Musso and Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The problem of low float, high fully diluted valuation (FDV) coins is one that is frequently discussed in crypto. But there's another wrinkle: investors need to understand the unrealized gains of these coins to really understand the price.  In this episode, Jose Macedo of Delphi Digital and Ari Paul of Blocktower Capital explain the various metrics that reveal what a coin is really worth, why a wave of token unlocks that will be hitting the crypto markets in the next few years are not bullish, and whether there is a better way to design token unlocks for teams and insiders.  Plus, they cover whether venture capitalists are extractive to crypto, whether these games with circulating supply and FDV have caused investors to turn to memecoins, and why they believe the ICO era was better for retail investors.  Show highlights: 00:00 Intro 01:58 Why upcoming token unlocks are creating market jitters 10:22 How the ratio of unrealized gains to market cap influences token price movements  12:22 How some token projects manipulate their reported circulating supply 20:24 Whether and how everyday investors can uncover the truth about token projects 23:37 What secondary market trading says about the potential impact of upcoming token unlocks 34:50 Why Jose believes that the current token launch strategy, despite its flaws, is still favored by insiders and unlikely to change soon 41:02 Why some projects favor decisions that are more likely to result in short-term gains over long-term success 46:36 Why Jose believes that simple time-based token unlocks often work better than complex metrics, and how projects can balance funding with realistic success metrics 53:04 Why Ari believes the SEC's investigations into VCs for acting as securities dealers might be justified, and how these practices resemble pump-and-dump schemes 59:11 With numerous token unlocks looming, why the outlook is bearish for many projects, and what challenges they face in mitigating potential sell-offs 1:05:52 Why many crypto investors might end up holding the bag in the current cycle, despite plans to sell early and avoid losses 1:12:27 What the future role of VCs is in crypto, and how the influx of token unlocks and the rise of memecoins could shape the bull cycle Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com Thank you to our sponsors! Polkadot Guests: Jose Macedo, founder at Delphi Labs Ari Paul, CIO of Blocktower Capital Previous appearances on Unchained: Ari Paul on Why Bitcoin Is a Good Value Buy Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital on the Crypto Downturn and Why It Could Change Direction Links High FDV and unlocks: Unchained: How ‘Fully Diluted Valuation' Can Be a Very Dangerous Metric for Crypto Markets to Rely On Who's to Blame for the Underperformance of Low Float, High FDV Tokens? 80% of Tokens on Binance Are Down Since Listing Date: SwissBorg Researcher Cobie newsletter: New launches (part 1) - private capture, phantom pricing Rocknblock: Token vesting explainer CoinDesk: 'Liquid Vesting' Is Oxymoronic Blockchain Feature That Lets Early Investors Sell Without Waiting Jose's thread that inspired the episode Ari's post responding to Jose's thread Token.unlocks.app: Token vesting tracker Solutions: Hack VC: Potential Solutions to Crypto's Unlock Problem Colony Lab: Early-Stage Program & Liquid Vesting Imran Khan's tweet on Blast https://x.com/lmrankhan/status/1806040646433522149  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The problem of low float, high fully diluted valuation (FDV) coins is one that is frequently discussed in crypto. But there's another wrinkle: investors need to understand the unrealized gains of these coins to really understand the price.  In this episode, Jose Macedo of Delphi Digital and Ari Paul of Blocktower Capital explain the various metrics that reveal what a coin is really worth, why a wave of token unlocks that will be hitting the crypto markets in the next few years are not bullish, and whether there is a better way to design token unlocks for teams and insiders.  Plus, they cover whether venture capitalists are extractive to crypto, whether these games with circulating supply and FDV have caused investors to turn to memecoins, and why they believe the ICO era was better for retail investors.  Show highlights: 00:00 Intro 01:58 Why upcoming token unlocks are creating market jitters 10:22 How the ratio of unrealized gains to market cap influences token price movements  12:22 How some token projects manipulate their reported circulating supply 20:24 Whether and how everyday investors can uncover the truth about token projects 23:37 What secondary market trading says about the potential impact of upcoming token unlocks 34:50 Why Jose believes that the current token launch strategy, despite its flaws, is still favored by insiders and unlikely to change soon 41:02 Why some projects favor decisions that are more likely to result in short-term gains over long-term success 46:36 Why Jose believes that simple time-based token unlocks often work better than complex metrics, and how projects can balance funding with realistic success metrics 53:04 Why Ari believes the SEC's investigations into VCs for acting as securities dealers might be justified, and how these practices resemble pump-and-dump schemes 59:11 With numerous token unlocks looming, why the outlook is bearish for many projects, and what challenges they face in mitigating potential sell-offs 1:05:52 Why many crypto investors might end up holding the bag in the current cycle, despite plans to sell early and avoid losses 1:12:27 What the future role of VCs is in crypto, and how the influx of token unlocks and the rise of memecoins could shape the bull cycle Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com Thank you to our sponsors! Polkadot Guests: Jose Macedo, founder at Delphi Labs Ari Paul, CIO of Blocktower Capital Previous appearances on Unchained: Ari Paul on Why Bitcoin Is a Good Value Buy Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital on the Crypto Downturn and Why It Could Change Direction Links High FDV and unlocks: Unchained: How ‘Fully Diluted Valuation' Can Be a Very Dangerous Metric for Crypto Markets to Rely On Who's to Blame for the Underperformance of Low Float, High FDV Tokens? 80% of Tokens on Binance Are Down Since Listing Date: SwissBorg Researcher Cobie newsletter: New launches (part 1) - private capture, phantom pricing Rocknblock: Token vesting explainer CoinDesk: 'Liquid Vesting' Is Oxymoronic Blockchain Feature That Lets Early Investors Sell Without Waiting Jose's thread that inspired the episode Ari's post responding to Jose's thread Token.unlocks.app: Token vesting tracker Solutions: Hack VC: Potential Solutions to Crypto's Unlock Problem Colony Lab: Early-Stage Program & Liquid Vesting Imran Khan's tweet on Blast https://x.com/lmrankhan/status/1806040646433522149  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bitcoin is not trading like an inflation hedge and that narrative is dead. BUT, there's an important naunce here...the longterm thesis & potential for Bitcoin is not affected. If you can seperate the short-term impact of high inflation data vs long-term impact effects, you're in a much better position to manage your crypto portfolio through any cycle. This quick 10 minute episode is a market update with pieces from Cliff Asness, Ari Paul, and Tyler Winklevoss included for added context. If you enjoy these quick market updates please tweet at me and let me know!   Show sponsors: •Bybit: Trade Bitcoin, ETH, or your favorite altcoins on the best trading platform in crypto. Use the show link for a Bitcoin deposit bonus on new trading accounts: https://partner.bybit.com/b/luke

On Episode 11 of The Felix Hartmann Show, we sit down with Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital. We cover a spectrum of topics including real world lending, regulation, investing strategies, risk management and more. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/felix-o-hartmann/support

Listen in podcast appIn this week's episode of Reformed Millennials, Joel and Cam talk Alberta’s Childcare plan and its impact on women’s unemployment, Political Policy changing as we move down the rungs of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs and all things inflation.It’s a long-term game. Stay the course.Listen on Apple, Spotify, or Google Podcasts.If you aren’t in the Reformed Millennials Facebook Group join us for daily updates, discussions, and deep dives into the investable trends Millennials should be paying attention to.👉 For specific investment questions or advice contact Joel @ Gold Investment Management.📈📊Market Update💵📉Remember, inflation will come down when no one can afford to buy anything. The best cure for high prices, is high prices.After the index entered a bear market yesterday, dropping more than 20% from highs, S&P 500 futures are pointing to a relatively small rise at the open.Fed FeverTraders in the bond markets are fully prepared for the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark rate by 75 basis points on Wednesday. While Chair Jerome Powell had vowed to increase the Fed funds rate by 50 basis points this month, a report in the Wall Street Journal suggested that policy makers were considering a bigger move after inflation accelerated in May. Meanwhile, JPMorgan Chase & Co. said there was a "non-trivial risk" of a 100-basis point increase.Bitcoin dropsLiquidity draining out of financial markets sent Bitcoin to the the lowest in about 18 months. But crypto’s trouble isn’t all external, with the freezing of withdrawals by the Celsius lending platform adding to concern that systemic risk in the crypto ecosystem will accelerate the digital-asset market meltdown. Meanwhile, MicroStrategy Inc. may need to post additional collateral for a loan as Bitcoin tests a key price range flagged by the company last month.10yr     3.3%U.S. 2-year yields spiked the most since 2008FOMC decision is tomorrowPowell has communicated a 50 bps increase but don’t be surprised if its 75JPMorgan said “non-trivial risk” of a 100-basis point increaseI think the street is now at 75 bpsCrude  122Oil YTD +62%Biden to visit Saudi Arabia in July 13-16Can he convince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) to increase production?DisneyDisney won the local TV broadcast rights to India’s Premier League cricket matches5 year deal worth ~$3 billionViacom won the streaming rights worth $2.6 billionStreaming rights would have gone on Disney+ Hotstar in 2024Disney CEO has said that the cricket matches are “not critical” to achieving its 2024 subscriber targets.TwitterElon Musk is to attend an all-hands meeting with Twitter employees on ThursdayGood sign Elon wants the deal but at a lower priceContinental ResourcesShale oil billionaire offers to take Continental private$4.3 billion, $70 all-cash offer, 8.5% premiumEarningsOracle             +12%, 10% organic revenue growthCRYPTOMajor crypto lender Celsius froze withdrawals, swaps, and transfers yesterday due to “extreme market conditions”Here’s Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky 2 days before:The Celsius freezer helped spark a massive sell-off with major cryptocurrencies declining 15% on averageTotal liquidations totaled over $1BHere’s a look at the spike in Bitcoin liquidations:Bitcoin held long-term support around in the $20-22k range:💸Reformed Millennials - Post of The WeekMany companies are now facing a Hobson’s choice between trying to maintain the high-flying valuation they’ve established over the last year — no matter the contortions necessary to do it — or conducting a “down round,” a financing that results in a lower valuation. And industry experts suggest the latter often makes more sense.Brad Feld, who has been a venture capitalist for more than 25 years, is among those who advocate for embracing the down round in cases where a company needs capital and hasn’t yet grown into a previously established valuation. Feld says that he has participated in financing rounds for startups so married to a particular number that they’ve agreed to anything to maintain it. He has also participated in deals where the company and its board agreed to bite the bullet and readjust the company’s valuation downward.Based on both experiences, he says his “strong belief” that “just doing a clean resetting — at whatever the valuation so that everybody is aligned and dealing with reality — is much, much better for a company.”He’s not alone. “As a young investor in the early 2000s, I ended up spending a lot of time restructuring cap tables” after the dot com bust, says Frederic Court, founder of the early-stage firm Felix Capital in London. Court says he learned then that “trying to readjust things or maintain an artificially inflated price through structure is a recipe for disaster.”Maslow’s and its impact on political policy and market direction.Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory of motivation which states that five categories of human needs dictate an individual's behaviour.Those needs are physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.🐦 Twitter Thread of The Week 🐦BITCOIN IS DEAD! - from my most trusted name in Crypto, Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital🎬 Video of The Week🎬🔮Best Links of The Week🔮🥵 Over 100m Americans urged to stay indoors over extreme heat and humidity💊 FDA approves historic alopecia treatment🛑 Ford issues stop-sale of electric Mustang Mach-E crossovers due to potential safety defectAs the world tightens, China prepares to ease - China Last Night This is a public episode. 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Today, I am joined by Ari Paul, co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of BlockTower; a crypto hedge fund started in 2017. Before founding BlockTower, Ari spent time at the University of Chicago Endowment and, before that, at Susquehanna as a derivatives trader. Ari has been an active voice in the crypto space for years now, including on the original Hash Power series. With BlockTower being one of the original crypto funds, Ari is an ideal guest to talk about the evolution of crypto markets and where we are today.    For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here.     -----   This episode is brought to you by Coinbase Prime. Coinbase Prime combines advanced trading, battle-tested custody, financing, and prime services in a single solution. Clients have used our comprehensive investing platform to execute some of the largest trades in the industry because we are the only publicly-traded company with experience trading and custodying crypto assets at scale. Get started with Coinbase Prime today at coinbase.com/prime.   -----   Web3 Breakdowns is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Web3 Breakdowns, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.   Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here.   Follow us on Twitter: @Web3Breakdowns | @ericgoldenx | @patrick_oshag    Show Notes [00:01:50] - [First question] - How a political science major ended up in investing [00:05:06] - His perspective on how public opinion has shifted towards embracing crypto [00:09:58] - Whether or not owning crypto requires you to understand blockchains [00:13:34] - Setting a valuation for cryptocurrencies  [00:19:45] - How censorship-resistant currencies could empower bad actors [00:27:50] - BlockTower's scale and what kind of investments they make  [00:31:41] - Thoughts on separating alpha from beta at BlockTower [00:38:26] - Explaining the protocol risk of crypto to investors [00:42:38] - Endowment adoption of crypto via fund-to-fund models [00:45:36] - Differences between equities, tokens, and varying levels of ownership [00:48:55] - His perspectives on various blockchain asset classes  [00:54:30] - Parallels between the NFT and DeFi cycles [01:02:03] - Narrative driven correlations between traditional assets and crypto [01:05:44] - Defining the current cycle, where we are in it, and his allocations [01:13:41] - What he's most excited to see built over the next six months and six years

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Ari Paul, Contributing Writer to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting to discuss the New York Times' use of far-right and racialized rhetoric in its coverage of China's policies to combat COVID-19, its disgusting comparison of the bureaucracy of the Chinese response to COVID-19 to the bureaucracy involved in the Holocaust, why the mainstream media's biased coverage of China's response is related to the abject deference of the US COVID response to capital, and the double standards employed by the mainstream media to magnify issues with China's lockdown as it fails to cover the failures of the US response.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Dr. Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Sciences at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and author of “Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging” to discuss the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision outlining the right to abortion and attempts to roll back reproductive rights, how popular struggle, and not the benevolence of the Supreme Court, was responsible for the Roe decision and for reproductive care, and how women are organizing today against attacks on the right to abortion and the Supreme Court's potential overturning of Roe.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Ari Paul, Contributing Writer to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting to discuss the New York Times' use of far-right and racialized rhetoric in its coverage of China's policies to combat COVID-19, its disgusting comparison of the bureaucracy of the Chinese response to COVID-19 to the bureaucracy involved in the Holocaust, why the mainstream media's biased coverage of China's response is related to the abject deference of the US COVID response to capital, and the double standards employed by the mainstream media to magnify issues with China's lockdown as it fails to cover the failures of the US response.In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports to discuss the hidden physical wounds that come with playing football and the story of former linebacker Chris Borland, the partnerships between the Department of Defense and the NCAA in covering up the physical toll of football, the increasingly racialized and classed nature of football and the wounds that are often involved with it, and the propaganda war waged to promote football in the wake of increased awareness of its physical toll.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Brian Becker, host of the Socialist Program to discuss the hypocrisy of the mainstream media in its coverage of the prosecution of Julian Assange, which threatens to chill speech and investigative journalism, the US government's campaign to silence coverage of the crimes exposed by Assange and to cover up the crimes it continues to carry out on victims of imperialism, the history of US involvement in Ukraine and eastern Europe and how it fits into US warmongering in Ukraine today, and the US cold war drive against China as the anniversary of the establishment of relations between the two nations.

Ari Paul is co-founder and CIO of BlockTower Capital. BlockTower is a crypto and blockchain investment firm, applying professional trading, investing and portfolio management to this digital asset class. It is funded by well-known investors such as A16z and Union Square Ventures. Before BlockTower, Ari was a portfolio manager for the University of Chicago's $8 billion endowment, and a derivatives market maker and proprietary trader for Susquehanna International Group (SIG). In this podcast we discuss: How to value bitcoin Understanding drivers of crypto markets What flows have driven crypto in recent years? Business for exchanges like UniSwap The real benefit of crypto is co-ordination power Trends in layer one protocols like Ethereum and Solana Will switch to Proof of Stake make a difference? What stage of hype cycle are Metaverse and DeFi tokens? Risk is about sizing positions Books/articles that influenced Ari: Money, blockchains, and social scalability (Nick Szabo), Shelling Out: The Origin Of Money (Szabo), Debt: The First 5000 Years (Graeber)

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by David Swanson, activist, journalist, radio host, Executive Director of World Beyond War and author of the new book “Leaving World War II Behind” to discuss the recently revealed “Talon Anvil” unit which is responsible for killing of civilians in Syria beyond what was already allowed by the military, politicians spreading the mythology of drone warfare as a more precise means of warfare to sanitize the image of war, and the US government's hypocrisy in presenting itself as a champion of human rights and democracy while killing civilians, attempting to extradite Julian Assange, and more.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Ari Paul, Contributing Writer to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting to discuss media coverage of the upcoming presidential election in Chile and its misleading representation of the two candidates as equally dangerous for Chile, Jose Antonio Kast's desire to return to the repression of the government of Augusto Pinochet, and the corporate media's long legacy of slanted coverage of Latin American countries and leaders who dare to stand up to exploitation.In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by John Kiriakou, Sputnik News correspondent to discuss the uncovering sex crimes committed by employees of the CIA and the Department of Justice's inaction in charging employees with crimes, the CIA's history of covering up such crimes and stopping accountability for victims, how the coverup is a defensive maneuver from the CIA to prevent other potential crimes from coming out through the judicial process, and the highly sexualized environment of the CIA.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie discuss the trauma that the capitalist system inflicts on all of us and the need for a revolutionary vision and movement to create a new world, the potential of the upcoming film “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and other films, and what might come in the upcoming Black Panther film.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Ari Paul, Contributing Writer to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting to discuss media coverage of the upcoming presidential election in Chile and its misleading representation of the two candidates as equally dangerous for Chile, Jose Antonio Kast's desire to return to the repression of the government of Augusto Pinochet, and the corporate media's long legacy of slanted coverage of Latin American countries and leaders who dare to stand up to exploitation.

In this segment of By Any means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Ari Paul, Contributing Writer to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting to discuss the Buffalo news media's bias against progressive mayoral candidate India Walton, the news media's double standard and thinly veiled use of the angry Black woman stereotype against Walton, the broader use of the word “woke” as a derogatory term for movements for justice by the news media, and how the attack on India Walton highlights a broader fear of the rise of progressive politics.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Baba Zak Kondo, author of Conspiracies: Unravelling the Assassination of Malcolm X to discuss the exonerations of two men previously convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X, the serious mistakes made in the initial investigation of the killing, law enforcement's role in the life and death of Malcolm X, and issues of historical memory in remembering who Malcolm X actually was.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Ari Paul, Contributing Writer to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting to discuss the Buffalo news media's bias against progressive mayoral candidate India Walton, the news media's double standard and thinly veiled use of the angry Black woman stereotype against Walton, the broader use of the word “woke” as a derogatory term for movements for justice by the news media, and how the attack on India Walton highlights a broader fear of the rise of progressive politics.In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Mike Sampson, co-host of the RedSpin Sports podcast to discuss Enes Kanter's attacks on LeBron James' for his deals with Nike and his broader anti-China gimmick, Kanter's meetings with John Bolton and other US officials, the reality of what's really happening in China's Xinjiang region, and right-wing criticism of LeBron James in response to his comments on the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Kristine Hendrix, President to the University City School Board, Junior Bayard Rustin Fellow with the Fellowship for Reconciliation and contributor to the Truth-Telling Project and "We Stay Woke" podcast to discuss the not guilty verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, how the verdict highlights the need for a movement outside of the electoral system, the commutation of the sentence of Julius Jones, and the huge tax cut that Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill gives to the rich as working and poor people continue to struggle with hunger, housing insecurity, and more.

Today we are re-sharing our Hash Power documentary. This series was originally released in September 2017 when 1 Bitcoin hovered around $4000 US Dollars. While so much has changed in the years since - these episodes are a great introduction to the technology, the power of decentralization, Bitcoin, Ethereum, ICO's, cryptography, and hashing. You will hear from a variety of industry experts throughout these episodes - please enjoy.   For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here.    ----   Original Intro (10.03.17)   In episode 1 of Hash Power, we explored blockchains as a technology—how they work, why tokens (also known as cryptocurrencies) are an integral part of any blockchain, and how these new networks might change the world. In episode two, we spend time with the leading investors in the field. Like any frenzied asset class, there are countless cryptocurrency hedge funds popping up everywhere. But founders from three of the original firms—Polychain, Metastable, and Blocktower Capital—are our primary guides this week.   As I speak, the total market cap of all cryptocurrencies is $136B. There are hundreds of tokens currently available, but bitcoin and Ethereum represent 75% of the total market cap. $136B sounds like a big number, but its tiny relative to any other asset class—and I use that term with hesitation. To put it in perspective, that's exactly the same size as the market cap of IBM. But IBM had more than $10B of earnings in 2016. Tokens have none. As you will hear, valuing tokens is a very hard exercise.   In such a nascent world, we are seeing investing strategies take hold. Olaf Carlson-Wee, Josh Seims, and Ari Paul walk us through different takes on cryptocurrency investing, be it early stage, long term buy and hold, or more hedge fund style strategies.   -----   Web3 Breakdowns is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Web3 Breakdowns, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.   Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here.   Follow us on Twitter: @Web3Breakdowns | @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus   Show Notes: [00:00:05] – Recap of part 1 and introduction to part 2 of Hash Power [00:02:58] – Ari Paul, CIO of Blocktower explains how he got involved in cryptocurrencies [00:05:23] – Why do we need bitcoin [00:07:23] – Polychain Capital founder Olaf Carlson-Wee on why the value of tokens accrue [00:09:23] – How mainstream money is getting into this space [00:12:26] – Useful comparisons when talking about ICOs when compared to IPOs [00:15:01] – Naval Ravikant, CEO of Angellist, is asked to explain the protocols of cryptocurrencies to platform businesses like Uber or Airbnb [00:17:43] – Naval's interest in investing in cryptocurrencies [00:18:42] – Why average folks should avoid it before they dive thoroughly into the topic [00:20:25] – What are the most compelling counter-arguments to using cryptocurrencies [00:23:07] – Olaf Carlson Wee on the lifecycle of a token [00:25:31] – What is the earliest stage that edge is most present for investors in cryptocurrency protocols [00:28:12] – How do you mitigate the volatility that is present in blockchain [00:31:18] – Jeremiah Lowin, a risk and statistics expert, who runs risk management for a large private family office, talks about why he no longer owns cryptocurrencies [00:34:19] – Jordan Cooper, a venture capital investor, is optimistic about blockchains in general, but thinks there may be some overvaluations in current currencies [00:37:02] – How Jordan would value a single cryptocurrency [00:43:52] – Josh Seims, of Metastable, the value investor in blockchain? [00:51:15] – Ari Paul on the equivalent of listed stocks in the cryptocurrency world [00:52:33] – Understanding the concept of a coin in blockchain and how people are getting access to them [00:55:07] – The fairground analogy to understand cryptocurrencies [00:57:57] – What lessons from traditional markets can you apply to investing in cryptocurrencies [01:02:48] – Where do family offices stand when it comes to jumping into this space [01:06:51] – Ari is asked to discuss some of the alternative cryptocurrencies

Today we are re-sharing our Hash Power documentary. This series was originally released in September 2017 when 1 Bitcoin hovered around $4000 US Dollars. While so much has changed in the years since - these episodes are a great introduction into the technology, the power of decentralization, Bitcoin, Ethereum, ICO's, cryptography, and hashing. You will hear from a variety of industry experts throughout these episodes - please enjoy.   For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here.    ----   Original Intro (10.10.17)   In episodes one and two of Hash Power, we explored blockchain technology and cryptocurrency investing. In this episode, we discuss the current and potential future states of the crypto world. We cover new forms of cooperation, regulation, security and storage, and why blockchains allow systems to evolve at such a rapid pace.    Be sure to listen until the end, where we close with some advice about conducting ourselves in a new world where creativity reigns and repetitive jobs disappear—a trend that may only accelerate thanks to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.   -----   Web3 Breakdowns is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Web3 Breakdowns, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.   Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here.   Follow us on Twitter: @Web3Breakdowns | @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus   Show Notes: [00:00:05] – Intro to episode 3 and what to expect [00:04:00] – Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder of Polychain, on how the funding and investing in cryptocurrencies could easily get out of hand [00:05:00] – How people are creating holding companies to fund cryptocurrencies protocols [00:06:45] – Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and how they will replace the aforementioned holding companies [00:08:32] – Could fully decentralized organizations replace other more traditional organizational structures, even outside of cryptocurrency [00:09:59] – How can DAO's impact everyday lives [00:12:39] – Why your skills and accomplishments will become more important than who you are or where you are from [00:16:09] – Naval Ravikant, CEO of Angellist, on the way humans cooperate and build new entities [00:17:51] – When people will demand oversight and regulation over cryptocurrency [00:20:42] – Peter Van Valkenburg, Director of Research at Coincenter on the current state of regulation [00:26:06] – Jameson Lopp on security needed to protect your cryptocurrency [00:27:51] – Ari Paul, co-founder of Blocktower, on how nail polish is used to protect their crypto wallet [00:30:03] – Juan Benet explains the Filecoin Protocol [00:35:52] – Muneeb Ali, co-founder of Blockstack, on how his team is planning to provide basic tools that will allow the broader developer community to build apps that the cryptocurrency population will use [00:38:01] – Comparing blockstack to the analogy of creating a city [00:40:17] – How the blockstack token fits into everything [00:43:15] – Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase, on forking in blockchains [00:47:52] – Naval Ravikant on how the idea of work will change in the future, and how that change helped to produce the idea of a blockchain in the first place [00:49:31] – Why curiosity should govern what you do in life [00:53:22] – Naval's framework for making money

Today we are re-sharing our Hash Power documentary. This series was originally released in September 2017 when 1 Bitcoin hovered around $4000 US Dollars. While so much has changed in the years since - these episodes are a great introduction into the technology, the power of decentralization, Bitcoin, Ethereum, ICO's, cryptography, and hashing. You will hear from a variety of industry experts throughout these episodes - please enjoy.   For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here.   ----   Original Intro (09.26.17)   Welcome to the first episode of Hash Power, an audio documentary that explores the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies with leaders in the field like Naval Ravikant, Olaf Carlson-Wee, Fred Ehrsam, & Ari Paul. Hash Power is meant to be an introduction, but really, it is an invitation to explore this emerging world on your own.    We will cover the technology, the power of decentralization, bitcoin, Ethereum, ICOs, cryptography and hashing. We will spend time with the leading active hedge fund managers in the field, and with outside investors who are both optimistic and skeptical. Episode one covers the big picture, and answers the question: what is blockchain and why might it significantly affect our world?   -----   Web3 Breakdowns is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Web3 Breakdowns, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.   Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here.   Follow us on Twitter: @Web3Breakdowns | @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus   Show Notes: [00:03:25] – CHAPTER 1 – Understanding the Concept of Blockchain [00:04:30] – Jeremiah Lowin explains how blockchain is like a database [00:05:46] – Owning a digital asset [00:07:14] – Naval Ravikant, CEO of Angelist on how blockchains can help to create personal networks and organize humans [00:11:01] – How blockchains represent a way to coordinate global activity through tokens [00:13:33] – New coins popping up around data storage and utility needs like solar panels [00:14:57] – Permission vs permissionless networks [00:16:37] – Protocols and the introduction of scarcity [00:18:13] – Keeping track of scarcity and the introduction of tokens [00:18:49] – Societal structures and how blockchains will change them again [00:21:55] – The role of blockchains in the informational age and the rise of more individual sovereignty [00:23:29] – Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase, on the increasing shift to digital worlds led by incentive structures [00:27:48] – CHAPTER 2 – Blockchain Technology [00:31:53] – Charlie Noyes, Pantera Capital, explains how SHA-256 was developed and what makes it so special [00:35:48] – How miners create new blocks and the incentives to do so [00:40:22] – The nonce field [00:43:48] – The incentives that exist for miners and the arms race to build more powerful systems to mine [00:45:20] – The development of mining pools [00:46:54] – Ethereum, the “spiritual successor” to bitcoin [00:48:36] – How the Ether network is an ecosystem in which other tokens can sit [00:50:51] – Naval Ravikant on alternative coins or tokens [00:51:37] – How the protocol creators are the ones getting wealthy [00:52:43] – Blockchain as an experiment in distributed government [00:54:10] – How cryptocurrency is more than just technology, it's a movement [01:00:07] – Peter Jubber, of Fidelity, on how huge institutions, like theirs, are getting into the cryptocurrency game [01:03:34] – The notion of cooperation in an open-source project or protocol [01:04:39] – Olaf Carlson-Wee, the first employee at Coinbase and the founder of Polychain, on the early excitement for cryptocurrency

LinksTwitterShow PartnerThis episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftxShow NotesIntroduction– Ari bought first Bitcoin in 2014– Really dove into crypto 2016– Friend emailed him in 2011 asking to check out crypto, Ari said it won't retain value, not backed by guns like fiat– Ari: “For crypto you kinda gotta know a little bit about a lot of things”– Got involved with crypto through crypto twitter– Cunningham's Law – “The fastest way to get an answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to state something wrong”Ari's Headspace– Long term mostly thinking about the future of crypto– BlockTower bets on where the world will be in 1-3 years, not 10-20 years– Fascinated by the big picture– Huge believer in giving people defensive tools for overbearing statesVC Stuff– BlockTower is a trading firm by nature, so they invest in projects that they can actually be power users in– Ari: “Evaluating seed stage teams is its own skillsets, very different from evaluating something like Microsoft”– Cobie skeptical of a16z's success in crypto, followed like 4 deals they did and got crushed– A lot of the time, timing is much more important than vetting skill– Ari: “If you were trading NFTs 2 years ago, it almost doesn't matter if you were good it just matters that you were doing it”Privacy– Ari: “There's a whole tech stack for privacy that's missing”– Countries can control the internet very easily– People think the internet is super hard to control – there is literally a bundle of wires that delivers the internet to an entire country– Ari: “zk-rollup chains where you can shield the mempool… there is some super cool math we're building into the system now that could change everything”– You could fork Ethereum and add it as a rollup chain to Bitcoin– Ledger: “Is there really a market for that?”– Ari: “It seems likely in the next 2 years that we'll get a soft fork to implement this”– Ari: “There are bitcoiners who are pitching this as humanitarian technology but against adding privacy technology that exists…borderline unethical”Making ETH Maxis Mad– Ethereum is a risky startup competing on tech– The odds it is a market leader in 10 years is under 20%– Facebook didn't need a single Friendster user or dev– If you have an industry that's going to 20x, you don't need to take existing users– Ari: “Solana has something like more than 10,000 active developers now”– Ethereum does not have much of a moat, it has a little bit of brand recognition, a little bit of regulatory head start, some dev moat, but largely the moat is very small– Ethereum cannot move as fast, cannot take as much risk. It's hard to maintain its lead– Cobie: “Do you think Ethereum should have a canary network, kind of like Kusama?”– Ari: “(pause) I actually haven't thought about that”– Seems to be a real, good ideaSolana– Ari has been recommending Solana for the last 2 years– Well intentioned team, real project, very cool innovation at the communication layer– *Ari still has a long Solana position to be clear*– It's quite centralized, depends on the team to stay up, has a real path to decentralization– It's a highly speculative early stage betBNB– Exchange coins are basically sold as equities– There are tons of regulatory actions which could likely be negative for $BNB– Would not hold the coinCardano– Ari: “Cardano I actually know very little about”– The only thing he really believed would stick around for 5 years was Bitcoin, DeFi and NFTs– Ari: “I worry that in 5-10 years the winning metaverse will be Facebook or Fortnite, some centralized entity, which scares me because I want a decentralized world”– Ledger: “so Cardano” lol– Ari: “I am deeply skeptical of Cardano”– Ledger: “Dump it”2017 Bull Market– Ari bought $50k calls in 2017– Did it to maintain upside exposure while not keeping material risk on– Went onto CNBC to talk about it, they mid-curved his thinking– Ari: “Options are a bet on volatility, not the direction, because you can always hedge the direction with the underlying”– Ari: “If you can't define skew and kurtosis then you probably shouldn't be trading options”Crypto Investing– Ari: “If you're investing with a lot of small bets in alts, it almost acts as a call option”– Ari thinks vol is about fair today– Basically every time Bitcoin vol gets below 60, Ari buys it– Ari: “The crazier the bull market the crazier the retrace”– Ari: “My basic thesis now is DeFi 5-10x's here and then retraces 80-90%”– Ari: “The biggest value add from crypto over the next 12-18 months is connecting DeFi to real world lending”FINAL ALPHA– Ari: “It doesn't matter how much money you make, if you don't keep yourself healthy you won't enjoy it”– Focus on your health!Notes by KevinMusic by GiovanniPickle

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The markets are under pressure following Thursday's gains. Ari Paul discusses monitoring recent price activity in Bitcoin (/BTC). He also talks about the impact potential regulation on Bitcoin, and the catalysts for Bitcoin prices. He then compares Bitcoin and Gold (/GC). Tune in to find out more.

On this edition of Parallax Views, Ari Paul of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) joins me to discuss the recent case of journalist Emily Wilder. Wilder had just graduated Stanford University and went to work for the Associated Press. Her tenure at AP would prove short-lived, however, after a campaign from Stanford Young Republicans and publications like The Federalist began attacking Wilder's integrity and objectivity as a journalist because of her activist activities as a university student in groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and pro-Palestinian groups. Wilder was fired by the AP shortly after the latest flare-up in Israel/Palestine. Was Wilder cancelled and what does her case mean for journalism?

One of crypto's most trusted voices of reason, Ari Paul, is gifted with the ability to stay neutral and logical while many others swing wildly between euphoria and depression. Although Paul remains optimistic towards Bitcoin, he understands that it fundamentally, and existentially, still has some growing to do as it morphs into the ultra-secure network many believe it will become. Furthermore, he knows that if grandma can't easily navigate and trust the system, it isn't truly ready for the masses. The truth isn't always easy to hear, but in this episode, Paul offers one of the most holistic and logical views regarding Bitcoin and the crypto space. Follow Ari Paul: https://twitter.com/AriDavidPaul In this episode, Melker and Paul discuss a range of topics including: The Coinbase listing breakdown Exposure to exchange tokens Bitcoin's existential risk Billion-dollar slippage Bull market phenomena Trusting grandma with crypto Coordinated Bitcoin attacks Fragmented crypto liquidity Uniswap rug pulls The natural trend towards consolidation Ledgers in a safety deposit box ---- NEXO Try Nexo's full-suite, instant crypto banking service, featuring: Savings accounts with up to 12% interest on crypto, stablecoins & fiat, Flexible crypto-backed credit lines at just 5.9% APR, An exchange with 75+ crypto and fiat pairs and best-price guarantee, All this and more wrapped up in a single Nexo Wallet. Start banking at https://thewolfofallstreets.link/nexo or download the app on Google Play or the App Store. ---- Legacy of Dead This episode was brought to you by Bitcasino. The worlds leading Bitcoin-led online casino and crypto-centric gaming destination. Wager your way into a world of opportunity, with the ultimate Fun, Fast and Fair crypto-casino experience. Deposit, wager, and withdraw in real-time with a host of top cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), LiteCoin (LTC), Tether (USDT), TRON (TRX), Ripple (XRP), and more! Use the promo link https://thewolfofallstreets.link/Bitcasino, to unlock your 200 FREE SPINS in the Legacy of Dead Promotion. –––– COSMOS Visit https://thewolfofallstreets.link/cosmos to learn about the Cosmos Hub and how the $ATOM can connect every blockchain. Cosmos is the port city connecting chains like Bitcoin and Ethereum to ensure your liquidity on any chain can be used anywhere. Find new staking opportunities, applications, or build your own parachain at cosmos.network. https://thewolfofallstreets.link/cosmos --- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworks.co ---- Join the Wolf Den newsletter: ►►https://www.getrevue.co/profile/TheWolfDen/members

I continue our special bitcoin podcast series by welcoming Ari Paul, CIO of BlockTower Capital to the show to discuss how bitcoin is traded.

BlockTower Capital Founder and CIO Ari Paul joins Kevin to discuss the crypto cycles of bull and bear markets, the potential for a DeFi collapse, why you should avoid a crypto index fund or ETF, and a new cryptocurrency called MobileCoin, which aims to power all mobile payments. BIO Ari Paul (@aridavidpaul) is the Co-Founder and CIO of crypto-asset investment firm BlockTower Capital, and author of The Cryptocurrency Investor blog, where he has published papers on cryptocurrency lending, the history of money, and applying investment concepts to cryptocurrency. LINKS & SHOW NOTES All links and detailed show notes can be found here.

Crypto Wednesday: Arca CIO Jeff Dorman, Pantera Capital co-CIO Joey Krug, and BlockTower Capital CIO and co-founder Ari Paul join Raoul Pal, Real Vision CEO and co-founder, to discuss their three favorite sectors in crypto, portfolio construction outside of Bitcoin and Ethereum, and how they view DeFi. Each of the guests describe what decentralized finance means to them, touching on the risks of investing outside of the top two coins by market capitalization. They explain their thoughts on some of the current emerging crypto sectors such as NFTs. Recorded on February 18, 2021. Key Learnings: The crypto space is still young, and there are many new projects popping up all of the time. Investors should be very cautious about investing into newer projects in the space as smaller market cap projects tend to be increasingly risky with smaller size. For those that are interested in investigating further out the risk curve, DeFi and NFTs are the sectors most commonly mentioned in these discussions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Novogratz is the CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners, a cryptocurrency investment firm. Ari Paul is the co-founder and chief investment officer of BlockTower Capital, an investment firm that manages a portfolio of crypto assets. In the early stages around 2013, Bitcoin was a speculative asset that appealed mainly to libertarians and those with frustrations surrounding recent economic crises. The passion behind the decentralized finance community was unmatched and served as an early indicator of its eventual rise. Before recognizing Bitcoin as the answer, it was clear that the rapid expansion of the money supply would call for a response. With concerns around inflation, Bitcoin serves as the guard against that. "The bet of a lifetime is going to be betting on currency depreciation… it didn't click for me that Bitcoin could be that asset until 2014." Until recently, the majority of Bitcoin purchases happened at the retail level. That is partly responsible for its initial volatility. As major financial institutions become more involved and put it on their balance sheets, expect Bitcoin to stabilize and grow in value. ————————————————————————— To learn more about this episode, including podcast transcripts and show notes, visit *salt.org/talks* ( http://salt.org/talks ) Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.

The founder and CIO of BlockTower Capital, Ari Paul talks his journey and change of heart with bitcoin. He delves into the bitcoin energy problem and the value in non-fungible tokens. Ari also talks on entrepreneurship and going full time into crypto. Sponsored by @blockfi get up $250 when you join: https://www.blockfi.com/layah

Ari Paul is the co-founder and chief investment officer of BlockTower Capital, a crypto and blockchain investment firm he started alongside Matthew Goetz in 2017 with backing from Andreesen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures. He started his career as a trader at Susquehanna International Group, and later found his way to the University of Chicago endowment as a portfolio manager, overseeing an internal hedge fund portfolio and assessing risk for the university’s $8 billion endowment.   Our conversation covers Ari’s early lessons in trading, discovery of crypto while at University of Chicago endowment, obstacles for institutional participation, and launch of BlockTower in 2017 as a result.  We discuss active management in the crypto markets, research and trading, portfolio construction, opportunities in NFTs and gaming, risks, and the exciting landscape over the coming years.   While this episode concludes our current mini-series, we’ve just scratched the surface on crypto, blockchain protocols, and institutional engagement in the space. In the coming months, we’ll dive deeper into the evolving ecosystem with more key participants and ideas. Learn More Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google Follow Ted on twitter at @tseides or LinkedIn Subscribe Monthly Mailing List Read the Transcript

Ari Paul believes that we are still in a bull trend even after Bitcoin being down after hitting new all-time highs. He also weighs in on the significance of the product being above $50K, as well as the impact of institutional adoption of cryptocurrency in general.

Show from 2/12/21Wharton Finance Professor Jeremy Siegel delivers his market update discussing the lingering threat of inflation and bitcoin. Then Host Jeremy Schwartz and Guest Host Will Peck, Head of Strategy and Emerging Technology at WisdomTree, talk cryptoassets with an expert in the space. Find out how to navigate the bitcoin bull market, invest in cryptocurrency, and measure the value of emerging technology.Guests:Ari Paul - Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer at BlockTower CapitalFollow BlockTower Capital on Twitter: @BlockTowerCheck out BlockTower Capital's website: https://www.blocktower.com/ Follow Jeremy Schwartz on Twitter: @JeremyDSchwartzAsk Siegel: If you have a pressing finance question we invite you to email us: asksiegel@wisdomtree.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How long will the current Crypto season of prosperity last? Ari Paul, chief information officer at BlockTower Capital, thinks this Bitcoin (BTC) bull run has at least nine more months. “Time-wise, my guess is we have 9-22 months,” Paul said of the current crypto bull run, responding to a comment on one of his tweets. “Price wise - my guess is BTC ends the bull run between $100k-$400k and alts do better.” For complete show notes and for the full premium experience with video, visit our YouTube channel at http://CryptoNewsAlerts.net

Bully sits down with Ari Paul, founder and CIO of BlockTower Capital. He shares his view on current and future crypto markets and the regulatory landscape.

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Crypto Wednesday: Ari Paul, CIO & managing partner of BlockTower Capital, joins Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal to discuss the launch of Paul's fund, value accrual in the crypto space, and how far along we are in this crypto bull market. Paul explains how he views the risk curve and how he filters through crypto projects. He describes the importance of understanding timing in the markets and how he believes crypto markets have dramatically more alpha in them than traditional markets. He closes by discussing the recent regulatory attention that the crypto space has received. Key Learnings: Paul explains the game theoretical concerns of crypto hard forks and how minority chains are insecure. He believes, "We are only in the 4th inning of this bull market cycle." Paul and Pal state that there is significantly more alpha to be found in crypto markets over traditional markets, and they expect it to remain this way for the foreseeable future. Recorded on December 10, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Ash Bennington and Ari Paul, CIO and managing partner of BlockTower Capital, rip up the script and talk about game theory, adversarial thinking, principal agency conflict, network effects, information asymmetry, and the core mental models that we use to understand our world. Join the conversation as they go down the rabbit hole to unearth the ideas behind the story on this episode of Ground Floor Consensus. Visit www.realvision.com/crypto to join the crypto revolution. You can reach out to Ash Bennington on Twitter : https://twitter.com/AshBennington Follow Real Vision : Twitter : https://twitter.com/RealVision Linked In : https://uk.linkedin.com/company/real-vision Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

June 2020 will go down in the history books as an extremely chaotic and confusing period.  In this “Best of the Month” retrospective, we look at some of the best guest conversations from The Breakdown, including: Human Rights Foundation CSO Alex Gladstein on the importance of cash for privacy DigiChina Editor-in-Chief Graham Webster on China’s decade-long turn away from liberalism  Alhambra Investments lead researcher Jeff Snider on why the Federal Reserve’s power is a myth Popular Front founder Jake Hanrahan on the media’s veneer of objectivity Castle Island Ventures’ Nic Carter on why people should have rights to their social media profiles The Crypto Dog on mining bitcoin in 2011 Independent macro analyst Jesse Felder on the Fed’s role in increasing inequality  BlockTower Capital’s Ari Paul on how people lose faith in central banks “Think For Yourself” author Dr. Vikram Mansharamani on the recipe for inflation Independent oil and trading expert Tracy Shuchart on how easy money enabled the shale revolution  Adamant Capital’s Tuur Demeester on historical analogies for seething discontent

Guests from the crypto investor Ari Paul to Harvard prof Dr. Vikram Mansharamani discuss bitcoin, the economy and social unrest.This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace.June 2020 will go down in the history books as an extremely chaotic and confusing period. In this “Best of the Month” retrospective, we look at some of the best guest conversations from The Breakdown, including:Human Rights Foundation CSO Alex Gladstein on the importance of cash for privacyDigiChina Editor-in-Chief Graham Webster on China’s decade-long turn away from liberalism Alhambra Investments lead researcher Jeff Snider on why the Federal Reserve’s power is a mythPopular Front founder Jake Hanrahan on the media’s veneer of objectivityCastle Island Ventures’ Nic Carter on why people should have rights to their social media profilesThe Crypto Dog on mining bitcoin in 2011Independent macro analyst Jesse Felder on the Fed’s role in increasing inequality BlockTower Capital’s Ari Paul on how people lose faith in central banks“Think For Yourself” author Dr. Vikram Mansharamani on the recipe for inflationIndependent oil and trading expert Tracy Shuchart on how easy money enabled the shale revolution Adamant Capital’s Tuur Demeester on historical analogies for seething discontent

Some of the smartest investors in the crypto space share how they think the larger macro context is shaping interest in bitcoin and digital assets.This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace.Today on the Brief:New Federal Reserve research suggests reaction to Facebook’s Libra basket approach was overblownItalian Banking Association pushing to test a digital euroU.S. housing has worst month since 2010Our main conversation:Earlier this month, Messari hosted the Mainnet virtual summit. At that event, NLW moderated a session called “Macro Investors Sound Off!” featuring BlockTower Capital’s Ari Paul, Blockchain Capital’s Spencer Bogart and Arca’s David Nage. The discussion included:The evolution of the Fed put and how it shapes the markets How the collision of Bitcoin’s halving and the Fed’s reaction to COVID-19 created a powerful narrative momentWhy the Money Printer Go BRR meme was so effectiveWhy the Paul Tudor Jones letter was hugely influential within Family OfficesWhy these investors expect to see some significant announcements around bitcoin exposure from traditional investors in the months to come Find our guests online:Ari Paul: @AriDavidPaulSpencer Bogart: @CremeDeLaCryptoDavid Nage: @DavidJNageWatch the rest of Messari’s Mainnet 2020 sessions.

Today on the Brief: New Federal Reserve research suggests reaction to Facebook’s Libra basket approach was overblown Italian Banking Association pushing to test a digital euro U.S. housing has worst month since 2010 Our main conversation: Earlier this month, Messari hosted the Mainnet virtual summit. At that event, NLW moderated a session called “Macro Investors Sound Off!” featuring BlockTower Capital’s Ari Paul, Blockchain Capital’s Spencer Bogart and Arca’s David Nage.  The discussion included: The evolution of the Fed put and how it shapes the markets  How the collision of Bitcoin’s halving and the Fed’s reaction to COVID-19 created a powerful narrative moment Why the “Money Printer Go BRR” meme was so effective Why the Paul Tudor Jones letter was hugely influential within family offices Why these investors expect to see some significant announcements around bitcoin exposure from traditional investors in the months to come  Find our guests online: Ari Paul: @AriDavidPaul Spencer Bogart: @CremeDeLaCrypto David Nage: @DavidJNage Watch the rest of Messari’s Mainnet 2020 sessions.

LINKSShow Link(s):BlockTowerIntro/Outro Music “Learnt Some Jazz Today” by Tesselated:SoundCloudShow Sponsor(s):AmentumDisclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

A worthless gamble, or a rocketship to the moon? Opinions on Bitcoin’s viability as an investment come in all shapes and sizes. Mesh talks with Ari Paul, former University of Chicago Endowment investor and current crypto trader, about the risks and rewards you need to know about. Why has crypto crashed in the past? How can you buy Bitcoin? Should you even touch this stuff? The answers to these questions, and more. (Also featuring guest Avichal Garg, co-founder of Electric Capital; and our friend Kane). To learn more, visit thetalkmoney.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week gets magical on The PEP as we talk with magician Ari Paul. We talk about Ari doing magic for the Philadelphia Phillies as well as his run in with Jim Parsons. We learn what it takes to be a full time magician and what magic is like outside of Vegas. Lastly we learn the exact value of exposure.

To celebrate the official end of summer and beginning of fall, I asked 15 top crypto VCs, entrepreneurs and content creators including Jill Carlson, Ari Paul, Kyle Samani, Marty Bent and more 4 questions: What did we learn this Summer? What are your predictions for the Fall?  What is one thing we're not talking about?  What is the price of BTC at the end of the year? (Up/Down/Sideways) These are their responses, and together they tell the story of an interesting moment in crypto.  Watch: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with the crypto twitter famous, Ari Paul. Ari is the head honcho at BlockTower capital, and comes from a background of endowment management at the University of Chicago; Ari is a traditional finance nerd turned crypto nerds. We have a solid discussion on some of his perspectives on investing, and Petty and McKie pick his brain for some new insights you might not have heard elsewhere. Show Links: BlockTower Site: https://www.blocktower.com Intro/Outro Music "Learnt Some Jazz Today" by Tesselated: https://soundcloud.com/tessellated/jazz Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

Juthica Chou, chief operating officer of LedgerX, talks about the company's new license to offer its derivatives to retail investors and the resulting platform, Omni. She walks through what call and put options are, how they work and why people and companies purchase them as opposed to just buying or selling bitcoin directly. We discuss why LedgerX believes physically settled bitcoin options are superior to cash-settled ones, how LedgerX handles hard forks, and other contracts focused on the technicals of crypto networks it could offer such as its halving contract. Plus, she describes what it was like to be building a Bitcoin-centered company during the "blockchain not Bitcoin" era.  Sign up for the Virtues of the Crypto Revolution retreat with me, Meltem Demirors of CoinShares and Jalak Jobanputra of Future Perfect Ventures at Omega Institute!! Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com: https://www.crypto.com/ Kraken: https://www.kraken.com CipherTrace: http://ciphertrace.com/unchained Episode links:  LedgerX: https://www.ledgerx.com Juthica Chou: https://twitter.com/juthica  LedgerX blog posts introducing Omni: https://blog.ledgerx.com/the-long-game/ https://blog.ledgerx.com/introducing-omni-powered-by-ledgerx/ https://www.coindesk.com/cftc-approves-ledgerx-to-settle-futures-in-real-bitcoin https://www.coindesk.com/ledgerx-reveals-bid-to-beat-bakkt-to-physical-bitcoin-futures-launch CNBC interview with Ari Paul about why he bought $50,000 Bitcoin call option: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/12/26/man-behind-massive-bet-that-bitcoin-could-hit-50000.html Cheddar interview: more opportunity with the retail market:  https://cheddar.com/media/ledgerx-wins-u-s-regulatory-approval-to-trade-bitcoin-futures Bitcoin halving contract: https://blog.ledgerx.com/a-new-type-of-contract-for-a-new-type-of-asset/ https://www.coindesk.com/ledgerx-unveils-betting-market-for-2020s-bitcoin-block-reward-halving Ledger on how to it would handle the Bitcoin Gold hard fork: https://www.ledgerx.com/s/LedgerX-LLC-Notice-to-Participants-2017-10.pdf Call option for $100k Bitcoin by December 2020: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-16/anybody-can-now-bet-on-bitcoin-100-000-with-new-call-options Unchained interview with Dan Morehead of Pantera Capital: https://unchainedpodcast.com/pantera-capital-how-bitcoin-could-reach-356000-in-a-few-years/ Cboe stops listing Bitcoin fuures: https://www.coindesk.com/cboe-puts-brakes-on-bitcoin-futures-listing https://www.wsj.com/articles/cboe-abandons-bitcoin-futures-11552914001 Why CME's futures saw more volume than Cboe's: https://www.coindesk.com/cme-cboe-bitcoin-futures How Bitcoin futures will be taxed: https://blog.ledgerx.com/less-taxation-with-digitization/ Doomschain clock/attitude toward private blockchains: https://blog.ledgerx.com/updating-the-doomschain-clock/ Oracle blog post: https://blog.ledgerx.com/how-to-talk-to-the-oracle/

Juthica Chou, chief operating officer of LedgerX, talks about the company's new license to offer its derivatives to retail investors and the resulting platform, Omni. She walks through what call and put options are, how they work and why people and companies purchase them as opposed to just buying or selling bitcoin directly. We discuss why LedgerX believes physically settled bitcoin options are superior to cash-settled ones, how LedgerX handles hard forks, and other contracts focused on the technicals of crypto networks it could offer such as its halving contract. Plus, she describes what it was like to be building a Bitcoin-centered company during the "blockchain not Bitcoin" era.  Sign up for the Virtues of the Crypto Revolution retreat with me, Meltem Demirors of CoinShares and Jalak Jobanputra of Future Perfect Ventures at Omega Institute!! Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com: https://www.crypto.com/ Kraken: https://www.kraken.com CipherTrace: http://ciphertrace.com/unchained Episode links:  LedgerX: https://www.ledgerx.com Juthica Chou: https://twitter.com/juthica  LedgerX blog posts introducing Omni: https://blog.ledgerx.com/the-long-game/ https://blog.ledgerx.com/introducing-omni-powered-by-ledgerx/ https://www.coindesk.com/cftc-approves-ledgerx-to-settle-futures-in-real-bitcoin https://www.coindesk.com/ledgerx-reveals-bid-to-beat-bakkt-to-physical-bitcoin-futures-launch CNBC interview with Ari Paul about why he bought $50,000 Bitcoin call option: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/12/26/man-behind-massive-bet-that-bitcoin-could-hit-50000.html Cheddar interview: more opportunity with the retail market:  https://cheddar.com/media/ledgerx-wins-u-s-regulatory-approval-to-trade-bitcoin-futures Bitcoin halving contract: https://blog.ledgerx.com/a-new-type-of-contract-for-a-new-type-of-asset/ https://www.coindesk.com/ledgerx-unveils-betting-market-for-2020s-bitcoin-block-reward-halving Ledger on how to it would handle the Bitcoin Gold hard fork: https://www.ledgerx.com/s/LedgerX-LLC-Notice-to-Participants-2017-10.pdf Call option for $100k Bitcoin by December 2020: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-16/anybody-can-now-bet-on-bitcoin-100-000-with-new-call-options Unchained interview with Dan Morehead of Pantera Capital: https://unchainedpodcast.com/pantera-capital-how-bitcoin-could-reach-356000-in-a-few-years/ Cboe stops listing Bitcoin fuures: https://www.coindesk.com/cboe-puts-brakes-on-bitcoin-futures-listing https://www.wsj.com/articles/cboe-abandons-bitcoin-futures-11552914001 Why CME’s futures saw more volume than Cboe’s: https://www.coindesk.com/cme-cboe-bitcoin-futures How Bitcoin futures will be taxed: https://blog.ledgerx.com/less-taxation-with-digitization/ Doomschain clock/attitude toward private blockchains: https://blog.ledgerx.com/updating-the-doomschain-clock/ Oracle blog post: https://blog.ledgerx.com/how-to-talk-to-the-oracle/

Produced by  Pikkal & Co - Award-Winning Podcast Agency. LALA means being happy and that is truly what we want to achieve. Gearing towards a decentralised financial ecosystem! LALA World is building an ecosystem, not just financial services for the unbanked and their families back home, health, education, employment, empowerment etc. providing one service alone will not help. This has to be a self sustainable network, an Ethos, an ecosystem to bring the suppressed out of poverty, all on one platform - LALA Wallet. We have tied up with governments, communities and NGOs to achieve this Herculean task. Combining peer to peer ledgers on blockchain to a noble cause, we truly want to help the unbanked out of poverty. Also we are blessed to have super advisors on board like Ari Paul, Han Kyul Park, Dato Sri Amin, Thomas Macillister etc.

LALA means being happy and that is truly what we want to achieve. Gearing towards a decentralised financial ecosystem! LALA World is building an ecosystem, not just financial services for the unbanked and their families back home, health, education, employment, empowerment etc. providing one service alone will not help. This has to be a self sustainable network, an Ethos, an ecosystem to bring the suppressed out of poverty, all on one platform – LALA Wallet. We have tied up with governments, communities and NGOs to achieve this Herculean task. Combining peer to peer ledgers on blockchain to a noble cause, we truly want to help the unbanked out of poverty. Also we are blessed to have super advisors on board like Ari Paul, Han Kyul Park, Dato Sri Amin, Thomas Macillister etc. *Note: If you are a Startup and want to tell your startup story on our Pitchdeck Asia show, Click here - http://www.pitchdeck.asia/pda-soundcloud*

Today’s episode features a conversation between Ari Paul - the cryptocurrency investor and co-founder of BlockTower Capital who also serves as its Chief Investment Officer - and Muneeb Ali, co-founder & CEO of Blockstack PBC. Ari and Muneeb cover a variety of crypto developments from both a Political Science and Distributed Systems Engineering perspective. They focus particularly on the issues of scaling networks like Ethereum, whether sharding is a holy grail or not, the challenges of digital asset custody, and more. Show Notes 0:41 Muneeb: "How we met through Naval..." 2:33 There aren't many industries or asset classes where you can show up and be talking with the leaders almost immediately. 4:13 Muneeb: "What are you up to these days?" 7:10 Muneeb: "I'd love to get your Poli Sci perspective on a complex system being directly interacted with by users versus a very simple base layer being built on top of." 8:19 Ari: "One thing you see throughout time is some form of federalism." 10:31 Muneeb: "Imagine a mainframe computer for the entire world... it's not scalable by definition." 12:19 Muneeb: "Should you even be trying to attempt sharding at the blockchain layer?" 14:19 Muneeb: "Nodes would need near global information... which kind of kills the purpose of having shards in the first place." 16:52 Muneeb: "There's this notion - if you’re interacting with the blockchain - that smart contracts are the only interface available." 19:04 Muneeb: "Imagine a word processor... what parts do you want to hit the blockchain layer?" 24:24 Ari on how development of solutions like sharding gets going. 26:50 Muneeb: "We recently got pulled into some of the Ethereum scalability research... and recently did this public review of Casper's CBC." 29:04 Ari: "It's very frustrating to me when I discover the religion in politics of crypto." 30:03 Muneeb: "Sometimes people will ask me 'How is your Gaia storage system different FileCoin?'" 32:58 Ari: "Are you going to be integrating any Craig Wright innovations into Blockstack?" 35:34 Ari: "When you're playing poker, you want to play rational actors." 36:11 Ari: On custody and the value of vanishing. 37:07 Muneeb: "I do think [custody is] something that more and more people will start worrying about as our assets are in crypto currencies." 40:11 Ari: "Something that scares me in an existential sense: all tech is breakable." 42:30 Muneeb: "We really believe in the ability to exit." 45:32 Ari: "My concern is in the asymmetry." 47:57 Muneeb: "Look at SSL: maintained by one individual, then Heartbleed happened." 49:24 Ari: "I think it's wonderful we’ve had some Proof of Work attacks on the Ethereum Classic network... that's antifragile." 49:59 Ari: "The financial system doesn't worry about this because there's the fallback to legal." 50:57 Ari: "Andreas Antonopoulos would say Bitcoin is uncensorable because the network can block bad actors, but..." 51:28 Goodbyes. 51:52 Credits. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ari Paul, CIO and Co-founder of BlockTower Capital https://www.blocktower.com/ joins hosts Paul Madsen and Jordan Fried on the Gossip About Gossip podcast to share insights on trends and opportunities for leveraging distributed ledger technologies DLT.

The role of crypto investors is evolving—rapidly. Blockchain technologies will create trillions of dollars of value over the next decade. But investing in tokens is fundamentally different than investing in companies. New tools, heuristics, and security measures are required to responsibly invest in this ecosystem. It’s not enough to simply be a pure custodian or asset manager any more. Crypto-native managers also bear the responsibility of ushering nascent markets to stability—by way of investment, governance, and active participation. This panel brings together managers from disparate backgrounds to share their perspective and experience. This panel features Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital; Ari Paul, the CIO of Blocktower Capital; Alex Felix, Managing Director and CIO at CoinFund; Josh Nussbaum, a Partner at  Compound.vc; and last but not least, Shane Molidor, the Global Head of Business Development for FBG One.

Ari Paul is the CIO of BlockTower, one of the best known crypto investment firms. In this conversation, Paul and Anthony Pompliano discuss his previous work at a university endowment, what Ari thinks about the current state of crypto, and how he sees digital assets performing during a global financial crisis. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every morning. No frills. No bullsh*t. Just everything you need to know in a 3-minute read. https://offthechain.substack.com/ ----- BlockFi BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $2,000 to $10,000,000, and they're perfect for helping you reach your financial goals of all sizes. Visit BlockFi.com/Pomp to learn more about putting your crypto to work without having to sell it. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

Ari Paul, CIO of BlockTower Capital, explains why he likes how short-term trades concentrate risk in investment, why, "no matter what," he thinks Bitcoin is a good-value buy today, and how big university endowments investing in crypto now could eventually lead institutions to go from having a fear-of-loss attitude about crypto to having FOMO. He also dives into why he's not as excited about generalized mining as some of BlockTower's crypto fund peers and who he thinks is really well-poised in that space. We also discuss why Bitcoin futures didn't have a positive impact on the price and what effect Bakkt and Fidelity launching their crypto products could have. Plus, he responds to people who accused him of insider trading when a private conversation in which he mentioned Stellar was acquiring enterprise blockchain startup Chain was released. Thank you to our sponsors! CipherTrace: https://ciphertrace.com/unchained Altlending: https://altlending.com Episode links: Ari Paul: https://twitter.com/AriDavidPaul BlockTower Capital: https://www.blocktower.com Harvard, Stanford, MIT endowments invest in crypto: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/harvard-stanford-mit-endowments-invest-in-crypto-funds Yale endowment invests in a16z and Paradigm: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/05/yale-investment-chief-david-swensen-jumps-into-crypto-with-bets-on-two-silicon-valley-funds.html Bitcoin Cash hard fork recap: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/week-2-how-bitcoin-cash-hash-war-came-and-went-and-not-much-happened/ Unconfirmed episode on Bitcoin Cash hard fork with Aaron Van Wirdum: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/the-bitcoin-cash-hard-fork-bitcoin-abc-vs-bitcoin-sv-ep046 Unchained episode with Riccardo Spagni of Monero: http://unchainedpodcast.co/coinfunds-jake-brukhman-and-multicoins-tushar-jain-on-generalized-mining-ep92 Unchained episode with Jake Brukhman and Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital: http://unchainedpodcast.co/coinfunds-jake-brukhman-and-multicoins-tushar-jain-on-generalized-mining-ep92 Unconfirmed episode with Fidelity's Tom Jessop: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/fidelity-digital-asset-services-tom-jessop-on-why-its-serving-institutional-clients-first-ep043 Ari's private conversation in which he mentioned Stellar was acquiring Chain: https://hackernoon.com/ten-questions-for-ari-david-paul-of-blocktower-capital-dcd8d81ef27e IMF managing director Christine Lagarde's talk on the case for central bank digital currencies: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2018/11/13/sp111418-winds-of-change-the-case-for-new-digital-currency

Ari Paul, CIO of BlockTower Capital, explains why he likes how short-term trades concentrate risk in investment, why, "no matter what," he thinks Bitcoin is a good-value buy today, and how big university endowments investing in crypto now could eventually lead institutions to go from having a fear-of-loss attitude about crypto to having FOMO. He also dives into why he's not as excited about generalized mining as some of BlockTower's crypto fund peers and who he thinks is really well-poised in that space. We also discuss why Bitcoin futures didn't have a positive impact on the price and what effect Bakkt and Fidelity launching their crypto products could have. Plus, he responds to people who accused him of insider trading when a private conversation in which he mentioned Stellar was acquiring enterprise blockchain startup Chain was released. Thank you to our sponsors! CipherTrace: https://ciphertrace.com/unchained Altlending: https://altlending.com Episode links: Ari Paul: https://twitter.com/AriDavidPaul BlockTower Capital: https://www.blocktower.com Harvard, Stanford, MIT endowments invest in crypto: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/harvard-stanford-mit-endowments-invest-in-crypto-funds Yale endowment invests in a16z and Paradigm: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/05/yale-investment-chief-david-swensen-jumps-into-crypto-with-bets-on-two-silicon-valley-funds.html Bitcoin Cash hard fork recap: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/week-2-how-bitcoin-cash-hash-war-came-and-went-and-not-much-happened/ Unconfirmed episode on Bitcoin Cash hard fork with Aaron Van Wirdum: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/the-bitcoin-cash-hard-fork-bitcoin-abc-vs-bitcoin-sv-ep046 Unchained episode with Riccardo Spagni of Monero: http://unchainedpodcast.co/coinfunds-jake-brukhman-and-multicoins-tushar-jain-on-generalized-mining-ep92 Unchained episode with Jake Brukhman and Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital: http://unchainedpodcast.co/coinfunds-jake-brukhman-and-multicoins-tushar-jain-on-generalized-mining-ep92 Unconfirmed episode with Fidelity's Tom Jessop: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/fidelity-digital-asset-services-tom-jessop-on-why-its-serving-institutional-clients-first-ep043 Ari's private conversation in which he mentioned Stellar was acquiring Chain: https://hackernoon.com/ten-questions-for-ari-david-paul-of-blocktower-capital-dcd8d81ef27e IMF managing director Christine Lagarde's talk on the case for central bank digital currencies: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2018/11/13/sp111418-winds-of-change-the-case-for-new-digital-currency

Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our tenth episode features Ari Paul. Ari is a managing partner and CIO at BlockTower Capital, which is one of the leading cryptoasset investment firms. He has a fairly traditional finance background, having worked previously as a portfolio manager for the University of Chicago as well as a derivatives marketmaker and trader, and he holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. However, Ari has fully embraced the potential of cryptoassets and you’ll often hear him advocating for them on mainstream channels like CNBC or Bloomberg. He’s also generous with his thoughts on Twitter, where he will post at length about complex topics and how he develops his investment theses. On this episode Ari discusses with Tor how he got into the crypto space, how he and BlockTower evaluate opportunities, whether or not decentralized protocols are winner-take-all, capturing versus creating new value, and what the largest barriers are to the adoption of these new technologies at scale. Enigma's new podcast "Decentralize This!" features guests from all over the decentralization space: developers, investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, writers, artists, people in government and enterprise - all individuals who care deeply about building a more decentralized and sustainable world. How can all these people with different perspectives collaborate to create and scale the technologies we need to shape a better future? **Disclosure: BlockTower invests in and actively trade many cryptocurrencies, long and short, and may have positions in assets discussed in this podcast.** ---- Relevant links: Ari's Twitter: www.twitter.com/aridavidpaul Enigma: www.enigma.co Enigma Blog: blog.enigma.co Enigma Twitter: www.twitter.com/enigmampc

Interview location: SkypeInterview date: Fri 17th August 2018Company: BlockTower CapitalRole: CIOEight months into a Crypto bear market and the lens firmly on the Crypto industry. Last week I caught up with Ari Paul from BlockTower Capital to discuss many important issues relating to token projects.We talk about Joel Monegro's Fat Protocol Thesis; product/market fit within token projects and Crypto marketing.-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show my doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: Bitcoin | Ethereum | Litecoin | Monero | ZCash | RipplecoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

LALA means being happy and that is truly what we want to achieve. Gearing towards a decentralised financial ecosystem! LALA World is building an ecosystem, not just financial services for the unbanked and their families back home, health, education, employment, empowerment etc. providing one service alone will not help. This has to be a self sustainable network, an Ethos, an ecosystem to bring the suppressed out of poverty, all on one platform – LALA Wallet. We have tied up with governments, communities and NGOs to achieve this Herculean task. Combining peer to peer ledgers on blockchain to a noble cause, we truly want to help the unbanked out of poverty. Also we are blessed to have super advisors on board like Ari Paul, Han Kyul Park, Dato Sri Amin, Thomas Macillister etc. *Note: If you are a Startup and want to tell your startup story on our Pitchdeck Asia show, Click here - http://www.pitchdeck.asia/pda-soundcloud*

LALA means being happy and that is truly what we want to achieve. Gearing towards a decentralised financial ecosystem! LALA World is building an ecosystem, not just financial services for the unbanked and their families back home, health, education, employment, empowerment etc. providing one service alone will not help. This has to be a self sustainable network, an Ethos, an ecosystem to bring the suppressed out of poverty, all on one platform – LALA Wallet. We have tied up with governments, communities and NGOs to achieve this Herculean task. Combining peer to peer ledgers on blockchain to a noble cause, we truly want to help the unbanked out of poverty. Also we are blessed to have super advisors on board like Ari Paul, Han Kyul Park, Dato Sri Amin, Thomas Macillister etc. *Note: If you are a Startup and want to tell your startup story on our Pitchdeck Asia show, Click here - http://www.pitchdeck.asia/pda-soundcloud*

Discover more tech podcasts like this: Tech Podcast Asia. Produced by Pikkal & Co - Award Winning Podcast Agency. LALA means being happy and that is truly what we want to achieve. Gearing towards a decentralised financial ecosystem! LALA World is building an ecosystem, not just financial services for the unbanked and their families back home, health, education, employment, empowerment etc. providing one service alone will not help. This has to be a self sustainable network, an Ethos, an ecosystem to bring the suppressed out of poverty, all on one platform - LALA Wallet. We have tied up with governments, communities and NGOs to achieve this Herculean task. Combining peer to peer ledgers on blockchain to a noble cause, we truly want to help the unbanked out of poverty. Also we are blessed to have super advisors on board like Ari Paul, Han Kyul Park, Dato Sri Amin, Thomas Macillister etc.

Conversation about what institutional money is in crypto currently and how they are invested with Ari, CIO of Blocktower Capital ( https://twitter.com/AriDavidPaul ).

Ari Paul, CIO of BlockTower Capital, discusses the slump in crypto prices, and how infrastructure rolling out over the rest of the year could have a positive effect on the market. He also describes how BlockTower Capital thinks about security for its assets and what risks they consider. Additionally, we discuss the movement in some parts of the crypto community to build coins to be ASIC-resistant and whether or not that could adversely affect the security of those tokens. BlockTower Capital: https://blocktower.com/ More info on custody solutions and how they could affect the development of the space: http://unchainedpodcast.co/mike-belshe-on-what-bitgos-kingdom-trust-acquisition-means-for-crypto-and-how-security-will-develop-in-the-future  Coins sorted by percent down from all-time high: https://onchainfx.com/v/aiTLnb The Carlota Perez book, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/technological-revolutions-and-financial-capital  Movements toward ASIC resistance: Monero: https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-kill-switch-monero-going-war-big-miners/ Ethereum -- Bitmain may have created an Ethereum ASIC miner: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitmain-developed-ethereum-asic-miner-194845158.html Discussion around whether to hard fork Ethereum to make ASICs obsolete: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/87ucsk/would_you_support_a_hard_fork_that_obsceletes_eth/ Twitter poll on whether or not to hard fork: https://twitter.com/VladZamfir/status/979060233430552576 Siacoin's decision not to soft fork to invalidate Bitmain's new Siacoin miners: https://blog.sia.tech/response-to-the-sia-community-and-bitmain-653a12284098 Its previous blog post on why ASICs were good for security: https://blog.sia.tech/choosing-asics-for-sia-b318505b5b51 Thank you to our sponsors: Onramp: http://thinkonramp.com/ Quantstamp: https://quantstamp.com/ StartEngine Summit: http://www.startenginesummit.com/

Join Marty as he sits down with Ari Paul to discuss a wide range of topics including; the token economy, the range of disciplines that someone investing in this asset class must have (at the very least) a grasp on, how little we know, and how important (not) knowing Satoshi is.  You can find out more about Ari by following him on Twitter @AriDavidPaul.

In Episode 34 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Brian Kelly, CEO of BKCM LLC, a digital asset investment firm. He is an experienced Global Macro investor with over twenty-five years’ experience in financial markets and a CNBC contributor who appears regularly on Fast Money. Our most recent episodes with Chris Burniske on modeling cryptoassets and with Ari Paul on cryptocurrency trading methodologies introduced two foundational frameworks to our audience. This week's episode with Brian Kelly affords our audience the opportunity to explore both of these perspectives (theory and execution) in a single conversation. Brian Kelly is uniquely qualified to talk about the financial side of cryptocurrencies, but he also provides valuable perspective on how the media is covering this space. Brian begins his conversation with Demetri by recounting his introductory experience to bitcoin, how he made his first investments, and what he learned in the year he wrote his book “The Bitcoin Big Bang.” The two explore familiar topics like the problem of scalability, exchange and regulatory risk, cash-settled futures and ETF’s, and how bitcoin may fare to gold during a systemic financial crisis. Is there any way to measure the intrinsic value of a given cryptocurrency? Can permissioned blockchains compete with public ledgers, or will cryptocurrencies come to dominate the future of software? Besides bitcoin and Ethereum, what are some of the more interesting cryptocurrency investment opportunities out there? Brian and Demetri also cover the recent spike in financial volatility amid this rising interest rate environment. Lastly, they consider how the rise of systemic trading strategies and passive investment vehicles like ETFs may accelerate (or not) a future market downturn. Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @hiddenforcespod

In Episode 32 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Ari Paul about the inner workings of hedge funds focused exclusively on the cryptocurrency space. Over the course of the last year, cryptocurrency has dominated our society. The price of the most popular digital currencies surged, increasing in value by well over 1000% in a matter of weeks. We saw similar rises in initial coin offerings, with the number of token offerings increasing from just seven a month in January 2017 to more than forty a month by the end of the year. This crypto euphoria fueled the formation of several cryptocurrency hedge funds which, according to their various founders, aim to bring the professional trading and portfolio management of Wall Street to the emerging class of digital asset. Although this work promises to open the crypto space to an entirely new class of traders, there are many questions regarding how these funds work and how reliable they are. For example, how are crypto fund managers managing risk? What sorts of benchmarks are crypto funds using in order to measure performance? And how does a cryptocurrency investor seek alpha in an already uncorrelated market? To answer these questions, and help shed some light on the emerging world of crypto hedge funds, we turned to Ari Paul. As a portfolio manager who oversaw risk at the University of Chicago’s endowment investment office and the Chief Investment Officer at BlockTower Capital- a leading crypto hedge fund that raised over $140 Million in 2017 - Ari Paul is uniquely qualified to discuss the most interesting and creative investment opportunities for making money in cryptocurrencies. His positioning also means that he is intimately familiar with many of the risk factors that populate this new and fledgling market. Over the course of the discussion, Ari Paul speaks with host Demetri Kofinas about the skepticism surrounding market values, how we can protect ourselves from counterparty and exchange risk, and how hedge funds like BlockTower Capital are making it easier for someone who may not be intimately familiar with blockchain technologies or the inner working of specific cryptocurrencies, participate in this new digital economy. Demetri also asks Ari what the benchmarks for crypto funds like Blocktower are and how they measure performance. The challenge in the cryptocurrency space, according to Paul, Is that there are really three benchmarks: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies in general, as well as the broader equity markets. Seeking Alpha in an already uncorrelated asset class, therefore, presents a slew of new risk factors that aren’t present for traditional hedge fund managers. Ari Paul also gives his opinion on how the flood of institutional capital might alter these correlations, what a consolidation in cryptocurrencies might look like, and if we are verging near a collapse in valuations. The two also take a look at cash-settled futures markets, consider the use of put and call options, and explore ways in which investors can better protect themselves from counterparty and exchange risk. Finally, they examine some of the most interesting and creative investment opportunities for making money in cryptocurrencies and what the average investor can do in order to take advantage of them. Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou Join the conversation at @hiddenforcespod

In episodes one and two of Hash Power, we explored blockchain technology and cryptocurrency investing. In this episode, we discuss the current and potential future states of the crypto world. We cover new forms of cooperation, regulation, security and storage, and why blockchains allow systems to evolve at such a rapid pace.  Be sure to listen until the end, where we close with some advice about conducting ourselves in a new world where creativity reigns and repetitive jobs disappear—a trend that may only accelerate thanks to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Hash Power is presented by Fidelity Investments   For comprehensive show notes on this episode go to http://investorfieldguide.com/hashpower For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast. To get involved with Project Frontier, head to InvestorFieldGuide.com/frontier. Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag    Show Notes 0:05 – Intro to episode 3 and what to expect  4:00 - Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder of Polychain, on how the funding and investing in cryptocurrencies could easily get out of hand  5:00 – How people are creating holding companies to fund cryptocurrencies protocols  6:45 – Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and how they will replace the aforementioned holding companies  8:32 – Could fully decentralized organizations replace other more traditional organizational structures, even outside of crypto currency  9:59 – How can DAO’s impact everyday lives  12:39 – Why your skills and accomplishments will become more important than who you are or where you are from             15:38 – Ready Player One: A Novel  16:09 - Naval Ravikant, CEO of Angellist, on the way humans cooperate and build new entities  17:51 – When people will demand oversight and regulation over crypto currency  20:42 - Peter Van Valkenburg, Director of Research at Coincenter on the current state of regulation  26:06 - Jameson Lopp on security needed to protect your cryptocurrency             26:22 - Glacierprotocol.org  27:51 - Ari Paul, co-founder of Blocktower, on how nail polish is used to protect their crypto wallet  30:03 – Juan Benet explains the Filecoin Protocol  35:52 - Muneeb Ali, co-founder of Blockstack, on how his team is plans to provide basic tools that will allow the broader developer community to build apps that the cryptocurrency population will use.  38:01 - Comparing blockstack to the analogy of creating a city  40:17 – How the blockstack token fits into everything  43:15 – Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase, on forking in blockchains  47:52 – Naval Ravikant on how the idea of work will change in the future, and how that change helped to produce the idea of a blockchain in the first place.  49:31 – Why curiosity should govern what you do in life 53:22 - Naval’s framework for making money   Learn More For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.  Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag

There’s not a big third-party in the middle taking thirty, fifty, or whatever percent of the cut on the way, it’s just directly from one individual to another individual. In this episode of Made You Think we mixed it up by bringing in two guests: Taylor Pearson and Adil Majid, to ask them all of our burning questions about cryptocurrency. Neil came into the episode completely fresh and asked them everything he could think of, so if you’re new to bitcoin, ethereum, and cryptocurrency, or have a basic understanding but want to learn more, this is the crash course you’ve been looking for. We cover a wide range of topics, including: The history and the creation of cryptocurrencies Cryptocurrencies pros, cons, and uses Various types and forms of cryptocurrencies The major benefits of cryptocurrencies usage Long and short-term price speculations Reliable sources of cryptocurrency news and information And much more. Please enjoy, and be sure check out Taylor and Adil online! If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to also listen to our launch episodes on Antifragile by Nassim Taleb to learn how to profit from chaos, and on The Sovereign Individual, to better prepare yourself for the cyber-economic future. Mentioned in the show: Spire [1:28] Cypher Punks [13:37] E-Gold [13:57] Dropbox [17:22] Filecoin [17:38] Source Wifi [17:42] Uber [19:21] Nick Szabo’s Blog - Unenumerated [23:19] Steem Crypto-Reddit [38:54] Made You Think: The Sovereign Individual [48:35] Coinbase [50:05] JP Morgan [54:11] JP Morgan trading Bitcoin after fraud claim [54:11] The Silk Road marketplace [1:10:00] Bitcoin forums [1:11:05] Ethereum [1:15:30] The DAO [1:18:45] (the DAO hack) Alibaba [1:23:14] Inneo [1:23:23] Belaji’s article on quantifying decentralization [1:24:20] Bitcoin Whitepaper [1:29:10] Vitalik Buterin’s blog [1:30:56] Social Scalability article [1:35:55] Nick Szabo’s Tim Ferriss Podcast episode [1:36:43] Cryptocurrency on Medium [1:37:03] Books mentioned: The Dictator’s Handbook [4:18] The Master Switch [4:46] Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital [57:37] Digital Gold [1:08:11] The Sovereign Individual [1:30:22] (Made You Think episode) (Nat’s Notes) The Internet of Money [1:34:59] People mentioned: Taylor Pearson [0:49] (Twitter) Adil Majid [1:21] (Twitter) Tim Wu [4:46] Satoshi Nakamoto [11:19] Nick Szabo [14:02] Kevin Kelly [34:05] Gandhi [51:38] Jamie Dimon [54:11] Carlota Perez [57:37] Ari Paul [1:07:47] Chris Burniske [1:07:47] Balaji Srinivasan [1:07:47] Barry Silbert [1:07:47]    Vitalik Buterin [1:07:47] Laura Shin [1:07:47] Elizabeth Stark [1:07:47] Fred Wilson [1:07:47] Naval Ravikant [1:07:47] Hal Finney [1:12:13] Bruce Mesquita [1:34:47] Andreas Antonopoulos [1:35:09] Nassim Nicholas Taleb [1:36:20] (Antifragile Made You Think episode) Tim Ferriss [1:36:43] Useful resources: Taylor’s articles on cryptocurrency (here and here) Nat’s articles on cryptocurrency (here and here) 0:00 - Intro to the show and some information on what the episode will be about. 0:49 - Taylor Pearson and Adil Majid’s introductions and how they both got into cryptocurrency. 5:32 - Some of the ways that cryptocurrency is useful due to it being decentralized and free from governmental control. 8:45 - The two types of cryptocurrencies: currencies and tokens, and some key differences between them. 10:13 - What makes cryptocurrencies able to be decentralized and free from governmental control. Also, why people can’t create more bitcoins, info on the blockchain, and info on mining cryptocurrencies. 13:15 - Cryptocurrency creation attempts that came before the creation of Bitcoin. 14:26 - Who is creating cryptocurrencies, how they are created, and how they attain value. 16:23 - Some more information on tokens and some examples of these tokens. 18:11 - Why we would want to use tokens for transactions instead of traditional currency. 23:00 - What the customized contract aspect of cryptocurrencies is and how it is much more beneficial to all parties involved compared to traditional contracts or transactions. 30:59 - The international commerce aspect of cryptocurrencies and the huge impact they can have on minimizing transactional fees. 35:21 - How cryptocurrency is possibly going to affect tech and non-banking companies in the future. 39:18 - The potential of decentralized autonomous organizations in the future and huge impacts these can have on our daily lives. 41:20 - The difference between protocols and applications in cryptocurrencies. 44:49 - Some things that are holding cryptocurrencies back right now. 48:32 - Cryptocurrency regulation and the issue with governmental opposition to cryptocurrencies. 50:39 - Exchanges facing opposition, crypto being free of regulations, and some thoughts on governmental intervention. 54:11 - An example of large companies manipulating the price of cryptocurrencies and how the market cap increasing may help stabilize the currencies. 59:14 - Thoughts on the fluctuations of cryptocurrencies and whether or not it’s going to be valuable long-term or short-term. 1:03:15 - What’s been going on with the Chinese regulations and how that may play out with the different coins in the future. 1:05:45 - Some excellent sources of cryptocurrency information and news, and what types of sources to avoid. 1:08:05 - The backstory of Bitcoin and its creation. Also, some speculations on who the creator actually was. 1:16:10 - The creation of Ethereum, who the creator is, some benefits it has over Bitcoin, and the DAO hack. 1:22:01 - The Bitcoin fork, where Bitcoin split into Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash, and the differences between them. 1:23:29 - Quantifying the decentralization of these various cryptocurrencies. 1:26:28 - The energy arbitrage with Bitcoin, the possible environmental impacts, and Bitcoin mining. 1:30:08 - What you should check out after this episode to learn more about cryptocurrency. 1:32:58 - Where to go to learn more about the application aspect of crypto rather than the currency aspect. 1:38:40 - Wrap-up and where to find Taylor and Adil online. If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to subscribe at https://madeyouthinkpodcast.com Part of what makes it so complex is also part of what makes it so interesting. There’s political philosophy, geopolitics, no regulations, network effects, incentivizing people to participate in a network, a kind of economics, and then, there’s the technical standpoint involved.

In episode 1 of Hash Power, we explored blockchains as a technology—how they work, why tokens (also known as cryptocurrencies) are an integral part of any blockchain, and how these new networks might change the world. In episode two, we spend time with the leading investors in the field. Like any frenzied asset class, there are countless cryptocurrency hedge funds popping up everywhere. But founders from three of the original firms—Polychain, Metastable, and Blocktower Capital—are our primary guides this week. As I speak, the total market cap of cryptocurrencies is $136B. There are hundreds of tokens currently available, but bitcoin and Ethereum represent 75% of the total market cap. $136B sounds like a big number, but its tiny relative to any other asset class—and I use that term with hesitation. To put it in perspective, that’s exactly the same size as the market cap of IBM. But IBM had more than $10B of earnings in 2016. Tokens have none. As you will hear, valuing tokens is a very hard exercise. In such a nascent world, we are seeing investing strategies take hold. Olaf Carlson-Wee, Josh Seims, and Ari Paul walk us through different takes on cryptocurrency investing, be it early stage, long term buy and hold, or more hedge fund style strategies. Hash Power is presented by Fidelity Investments For comprehensive show notes on this episode go to http://investorfieldguide.com/hashpower For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast. To get involved with Project Frontier, head to InvestorFieldGuide.com/frontier. Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag   Links Referenced Fat Protocols (Joel Monegro)   Show Notes 0:05 – Recap of part 1 and introduction to part 2 of Hash Power 2:58 – Ari Paul, CIO of Blocktower explains how he got involved in cryptocurrencies 5:23 – Why do we need bitcoin 7:23 – Polychain Capital founder Olaf Carlson-Wee on why the value of tokens accrue 9:23 – How main stream money is getting into this space 12:26- Useful comparisons when talking about ICOs when compared to IPOs 15:01 - Naval Ravikant, CEO of Angellist, is asked to explain the protocols of cryptocurrencies to platform businesses like Uber or Airbnb 17:43 – Naval’s interest in investing in cryptocurrencies 18:42 – Why average folks should avoid it before they dive thoroughly into the topic 20:25 – what are the most compelling counter arguments to using cryptocurrencies 23:07 - Olaf Carlson Wee on the lifecycle of a token 24:02 – SAFT note, Simple Agreement for Future Tokens 25:31 – What is the earliest stage that edge is most present for investors in cryptocurrency protocols 28:12 – How do you mitigate the volatility that is present in blockchain 31:18 - Jeremiah Lowin, a risk and statistics expert, who runs risk management for a large private family office, talks about why he no longer owns cryptocurrencies  34:19 - Jordan Cooper, a venture capital investor, is optimistic about blockchains in general, but thinks there may be some overvaluations in current currencies 37:02 – How Jordan would value a single cryptocurrency 42:10 – Fat Protocols (Joel Monegro) 43:52 - Josh Seims, of Metastable, the value investor in blockchain? 51:15 - Ari Paul on the equivalent of listed stocks in the crypto currency world 52:33 – Understanding the concept of a coin in blockchain and how people are getting access to them 55:07 – The fairground analogy to understand cryptocurrencies 57:57 – What lessons from traditional markets can you apply to investing in cryptocurrencies 1:02:48 – Where do family offices stand when it comes to jumping into this space 1:06:51 – Ari is asked to discuss some of the alternative cryptocurrencies outside of Bitcoin and Ethereum. He starts with Ripple 1:10:27 – What would help firms or traders create edge in investing in cryptocurrencies   Learn More For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.  Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag

LISTEN HERE: ITUNES | OVERCAST Ari Paul is the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of BlockTower Capital. He was previously a portfolio manager for the University of Chicago's $8 billion endowment. Ari earned a BA in political science from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the University of Chicago with concentrations in economics, entrepreneurship, strategic management, and econometrics & statistics.  In this episode, we talk about Ari’s passion for poker, and what the game taught him about investing, risk, and table selection, a powerful concept that applies to just about every field. Ari recently identified what he calls “the opportunity of a lifetime” — cryptocurrency. It led him to start investing in cryptocurrencies, a decision that was guided by Ari’s commitment to stretching boundaries. Finally, Ari discusses his passions for backpacking and travel, and like so many guests, Japan was one of Ari’s favorites.  Time Codes:  2:30 - 6:20: Background and departure from science.  6:20 - 9:35: Playing poker and complete information. Tilt.  9:35 - 14:25: Table selection. Phil Ivey. Sharp Ratio.  14:25 - 17:40: Childhood/youth. Building skills and transferring them to trading.  17:40 - 20:30: Value investing vs. momentum investing. Path dependency for crypto.  20:30 - 24:00: All heuristics are regime dependent.  24:00 - 28:25: Shorter attention spans. Analogies. Changing minds.  28:25 - 32:30: Backpacking. Consuming information vs. going off the grid. Stoicism. 32:30 - 35:40: Japan/Osaka/Kyoto. Accelerated living.  35:40 - 40:00: Consciously stretching boundaries ("Life is lived at the margins"). Behavioral economics. Internalizing stereotypes.  40:00 - 43:20: Stretching boundaries applied to cryptocurrencies. Principal component analysis.  43:20 - 44:00: Specializing vs. building bridges in your career.  44:00 - 45:30: Moving away from hard skills 45:30 - 49:20: Perspectives and trust building pre and post internet. Signaling. Psychological bias. Overconfidence vs. familiarity.  49:20.- 50:10: We don't know people like we think we do.  50:10 - 53:35: Blogging and personal brand. Blogging as a way to falsify ideas. Cunningham's law.  53:35 - 57:45: Learning > Ego. Power laws. Combined talents out of necessity can create a combinatorial edge.  57:45 - 59:50: The experience of starting a crypto fund.  59:50 - 1:03:50: Agency when there's no roadmap. MBA students.  1:03:50 - 1:08:45: Breaking through natural momentum. Anchoring. Status quo bias. Fat pitch. Crypto as the opportunity of a lifetime. Hard work, burnout, and compounding. Links:  Ari Paul Twitter Blocktower Capital Seth Klarman Benjamin Graham Phil Ivey Sharp Ratio Cunningham's Law Books Mentioned:  Vagabonding The Intelligent Investor Antifragile Connect with David:  Twitter Subscribe to Receive the Latest Episodes Please leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one

For many years, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies were regarded as little more than a nerdy curiosity by the financial world. But with the rise of Bitcoin and Ethereum, the process of cryptocurrencies becoming a recognized asset class has begun. One person at the forefront of this transformation is Ari Paul. Previously a portfolio manager at the University of Chicago’s $8 billion endowment, he recently left to start the cryptocurrency hedge fund BlockTower Capital. He joined us for an insightful conversation about one of the biggest trends in the industry. Topics covered in this episode: Ari’s background as a portfolio manager at the University of Chicago The difficulties of investing in cryptocurrency for a large endowment Why he started the cryptocurrency hedge fund BlockTower Capital How to construct a cryptocurrency portfolio The hedge fund vs the VC model in the cryptocurrency space Why cryptocurrencies represent an exceptional investment opportunity The operational complexities of running a crypto hedge fund Why an avalanche of institutional money is entering the blockchain space Episode links: The Cryptocurrency Investor Blog How to Think About Investing in Cryptocurrency: Why Exceptional Opportunities Exist How to Think About Investing in Cryptocurrency: What needs to exist Table Selection | The Cryptocurrency Investor The Wall Street Moment | The Cryptocurrency Investor BlockTower Capital Twitter - Ari Paul This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Meher Roy. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/202

Welcome to the first episode of Hash Power, an audio documentary that explores the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies with leaders in the field like Naval Ravikant, Olaf Carlson-Wee, Fred Ehrsam, & Ari Paul. Hash Power is meant to be an introduction, but really, it is an invitation to explore this emerging world on your own.  In the coming weeks, we will cover the technology, the power of decentralization, bitcoin, Ethereum, ICOs, cryptography and hashing. We will spend time with the leading active hedge fund managers in the field, and with outside investors who are both optimistic and skeptical. Episode one covers the big picture, and answers the question: what is blockchain and why might it significantly affect our world? If you enjoy what follows, you’ll still be very early in understanding this field. Most don’t. So help me spread it like wildfire, because the more people that understand blockchain, the better its impact might become. Please enjoy episode one, and stay tuned next week for episode 2, which explores investing in cryptocurrencies. Hash Power is presented by Fidelity Investments   For comprehensive show notes on this episode go to http://investorfieldguide.com/hashpower For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast. To get involved with Project Frontier, head to InvestorFieldGuide.com/frontier. Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag   Books Referenced The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age Nostalgia for the Absolute   Links Referenced Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Reddit User jav_rddt SHA-256 Calculator The BitCoin Model for Crowdfunding Fat Protocols #cryptotwitter   Show Notes 0:05 – Introduction    CHAPTER 1 – Understanding the Concept of Blockchain (3:25) 4:30 – Jeremiah Lowin explains how blockchain is like a database             5:14 – Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System 5:46 – Owning a digital asset 7:14 – Naval Ravikant, CEO of Angelist on how blockchains can help to create personal networks and organize humans 11:01 – How blockchains represent a way to coordinate global activity through tokens 13:33 – New coins popping up around data storage and utility needs like solar panels 14:57 – Permission vs permissionless networks 16:37 – Protocols and the introduction of scarcity 18:13 – Keeping track of scarcity and the introduction of tokens 18:49 – Societal structures and how blockchains will change them again             18:51 – The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age 21:55 – The role of blockchains in the informational age and the rise of more individual sovereignty 23:29 - Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase, on the increasing shift to digital worlds led by incentive structures   CHAPTER 2 – Blockchain Technology (27:48)             29:09 - Reddit User jav_rddt             30:43 - SHA-256 Calculator 31:53 - Charlie Noyes, Pantera Capital, explains how SHA-256 was developed and what make its so special 35:48 – How miners create new blocks and the incentives to do so 40:22 – The nonce field 43:48 – The incentives that exist for miners and the arms race to build more powerful systems to mine 45:20 – The development of mining pools 46:54 – Ethereum, the “spiritual successor” to bitcoin 48:36 – How the Ether network is an ecosystem in which other tokens can sit 50:51 - Naval Ravikant on alternative coins or tokens             50:50 - The BitCoin Model for Crowdfunding 51:37 – How the protocol creators are the ones getting wealthy             52:35 – Fat Protocols 53:22 – Blockchain as an experiment in distributed government 54:47 – How cryptocurrency is more than just technology, it’s a movement             54:50 – Nostalgia for the Absolute             57:27 - #cryptotwitter 1:00:58 - Peter Jubber, of Fidelity, on how huge institutions, like theirs, are getting into the cryptocurrency game 1:4:01 –The notion of cooperation in an open source project or protocol 1:05:21- Olaf Carlson-Wee, first employee at Coinbase and the founder of Polychain, on the early excitement for cryptocurrency 1:06:56– Closing thoughts from Patrick             Looking to work in this space - hashpowerdeveloper@gmail.com   Learn More For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.  Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag

In this special investing episode featuring **Ari Paul** of BlockTower Capital, you'll learn: * How to explain why cryptocurrency investment is a great opportunity * How investing in cryptocurrencies now could be compared to playing minor league basketball versus playing in the NBA * Why early investors in cryptocurrencies are rewarded for the risks they take that others may be unwilling to, and what some of those risks are * Why many traditional investors have not yet invested in cryptocurrencies

In this episode featuring cryptocurrency fund manager **Ari Paul** , you'll learn: * What investable protocols and services the world needs that are best-suited for blockchain * Why cryptocurrency is not necessarily a winner take all market * Why communities are critical to the long-term success of a cryptocurrency * How shared beliefs of crypto token communities influence development roadmaps and governance, as illustrated by Bitcoin and Ethereum * Why Bitcoin is a serious contender for the “store of value” use case of digital gold, and how being the winner of that niche may mean it that it will be difficult for Bitcoin to succeed as the leading payment crypto token * Why dApps (decentralized applications), privacy coins, and more may have several breakout winners

In this episode featuring cryptocurrency fund manager Ari Paul , you’ll learn: What investable protocols and services the world needs that are best-suited for blockchain Why cryptocurrency is not necessarily a winner take all market Why communities are critical to the long-term success of a cryptocurrency How shared beliefs of crypto token communities influence development roadmaps and governance, as illustrated by Bitcoin and Ethereum Why Bitcoin is a serious contender for the “store of value” use case of digital gold, and how being the winner of that niche may mean it that it will be difficult for Bitcoin to succeed as the leading payment crypto token Why dApps (decentralized applications), privacy coins, and more may have several breakout winners

In this special investing episode featuring Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital, you’ll learn: How to explain why cryptocurrency investment is a great opportunity How investing in cryptocurrencies now could be compared to playing minor league basketball versus playing in the NBA Why early investors in cryptocurrencies are rewarded for the risks they take that others may be unwilling to, and what some of those risks are Why many traditional investors have not yet invested in cryptocurrencies

# Episode 169 - Flagship Friday Today we talk about everything from Formula One Racing to Metamask. Karim, Adam, and Brent are hardly able to even get through a rapid fire section without some commentary, and they go over the dumb and dumber that is the Weiss Ratings on this edition. - Rapid Fire [Fidelity has so many people at the firm on board with crypto. The MOST RELEVANT real money firm is turning into a crypto culture. How great is it that the work culture is beaming with crypto enthusiasts. It’s a part of the pipeline that needs to be laid for mainstream mass adoption](https://twitter.com/aridavidpaul/status/1110824390646743041?s=21) [Ari Paul ⛓️ on Twitter](https://twitter.com/aridavidpaul/status/1110824390646743041?s=21) [Initial Exchange Offering -](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/b6b2ev/initial_exchange_offering_a_new_alternative_to_ico/?st=JTSBN1LZ&sh=fd4021d2) [r/ethtrader - Initial Exchange Offering: A New Alternative to ICO?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/b6b2ev/initial_exchange_offering_a_new_alternative_to_ico/?st=JTSBN1LZ&sh=fd4021d2) [Tether had 100% of the Stablecoin market this time last year. Now it's 75%](https://twitter.com/ceterispar1bus/status/1109782306372255744?s=20) [r/ethereum - The Samsung Galaxy S10 has shipped but only users in Germany, Korea and the U.S. are able to use its crypto features for now. Not a bad start!](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/b6660y/the_samsung_galaxy_s10_has_shipped_but_only_users/) - [Formula One is getting into blockchain](https://www.trustnodes.com/2019/03/27/formula-one-enters-partnership-to-launch-ethereum-based-blockchain-game). - Adam - They will have nfts in the game. Makes me think you’ll be able to collect cars old and new - What are some of the best games you’ve seen in the blockchain space so far? - Formula One, or their parent company Liberty Media, has not yet responded to confirm the partnership, with it unclear at this stage whether they’ve just bought the branding rights or whether there is closer collaboration. - This is actually a big deal for blockchain gaming [Formula One Enters Partnership to Launch Ethereum Based Blockchain Game](https://www.trustnodes.com/2019/03/27/formula-one-enters-partnership-to-launch-ethereum-based-blockchain-game) - [Metamask has been in the news](https://twitter.com/metamask_io/status/1110989506134446081?s=19) - Brent - Metamask has a setting that makes it non-private. It basically does this to communicate with DApps, but in doing so it basically broadcasts your public ETH address to every website that you access. - They've always had a private mode, but it would make it a little clunkier to operate with the sites that it integrates with (imagine like using radar relay, they already know you have metamask when you go there). - Well the community started to have an outcry about this and doesn't want their address broadcast like this by default. - What would other coins do? - What metamask did. - [Weiss ratings](https://weisscrypto.com/en/cryptos/screener/shared/coins-by-market-cap) are out! Lets play ESPNnnn - Karim - 3 Categories - Overall rating - B- Bitcoin, Ripple, EOS, Binance - C+ ETH, LTC, Stellar, Cardano, Tron, NEO - C Monero - Technology/Adoption Rating - A Btc, Ripple, EOS - A- Eth - B+ Stellar, Litecoin, Cardano, Neo, Zcash, Bitshares, Steem - Investment Risk/Reward Rating - B Binance - C- Litecoin, Holo - No one got an Overall A, - [Imagine having to convince your grandmother to start using cryptocurrency.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-compliance-idUSKCN1R90FR) - Adam [Compliance officers wary of switch to 'Wild West' crypto sector](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-compliance-idUSKCN1R90FR) - Thats loosely what these head hunters are going through. - The crypto world is burgeoning and these companies are looking to recruit employees from comfy positions while making them understand the importance of cryptocurrency as an innovation. Could unexpectedly be very tough - [Saw some bullish news about crypto.com and decided to see what their MCO card is all about](https://help.crypto.com/mco-visa-card/mco-visa-card-limits-and-fees) - Brent - Shady af. - So they have a bunch of card tiers and a bunch of cool cash back stuff. - I had to give them a picture of my ID before I could even find their fees. Literally the FAQ says you have to look in the app for fees - On their website everything looks so good - free spotify, 1% cash back bla bla bla. - The fees are 3.5% per purchase, and that's without the exchange fee / rate. - [Nearly all bitcoin trades are fake???](https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613201/nearly-all-bitcoin-trades-are-fake-apparently/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement) - Adam (With a little side of Brent) - Somewhat of a clickbait title but apparently a lot of exchanges participate in something called “wash trading” where most of the volume on the exchanges are fake. Trading back and forth between the same exchange [Nearly all Bitcoin trades are fake, apparently](https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613201/nearly-all-bitcoin-trades-are-fake-apparently/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement) - Shots Fired! [Half of Justin Sun's followers are revealed as Fake](https://www.trustnodes.com/2019/03/24/close-to-half-of-justin-suns-new-followers-revealed-as-fake) - Well..his new followers. Basically a standard account should have around 1% of its followers be new users each month. Justin's are 50%. [Jack on BCH - "Hell no!"](https://twitter.com/jack/status/1092970006462160896) - Patreon - Master Node Andrew Giles Marcel "Bitcoin Mexico" Bosio Robert Laverty Simon Gordon thebiggerboat - Secure Node Ameya "Degenerate Brahmin" Vaidya DisDangus InYaMouth Jeff Steven "Steve Staples" Stapelton the zman - Node Boris "Early Adopter310" Boychev Crypto Tytan Fanc1dan Laze Peter Stewart SamMcCallum Simon Stokes Tyler "The Big Cohoonah" Cohoon