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The Chopping Block: Why ETH Dumped So Hard After the Merge - Ep. 400
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:59:50
Publish Date: 2022-09-24 17:46:34
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Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. 

 

Show topics:

  • Why the ETH price slumped after the Merge even though it was successful
  • Whether the BTC security model is flawed and why Robert thinks Bitcoin will change
  • Why Tarun thinks Bitcoin won’t change and why he’s bearish on Bitcoin development
  • Whether the Lightning Network can succeed with so many competitors getting better more quickly
  • ETHPoW’s performance after the Merge, whether it’s dead and why Robert wouldn’t rule out the PoW fork
  • Why Haseeb thinks the criminalization of the collapse of Terra is a bad precedent
  • The broader impacts of the Terra meltdown and whether Do Kwon not disclosing the fact that he had been involved with Basis Cash, which failed, is problematic
  • The House’s draft bill on stablecoins and whether it is necessary to study algo stablecoins
  • What happened with the Wintermute hack 
  • Why Tarun thinks the Wintermute team is incompetent 
  • Whether there is any positive news in crypto lately
  • Who would be a better pick for deploying treasury funds between Three Arrows Capital and Wintermute
  • What Haseeb, Tom, Robert and Tarun are excited about 



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Episode Links

 

Post Merge

ETHPoW

ETH issuance

 

Do Kwon and Terra

Red Notice

“Not on the run”

Kwon’s Passport

 

Wintermute hack

 

House’s Draft Bill on Stablecoins

Bloomberg’s Article

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