The Chopping Block: Can Exchange CEOs Like SBF Be Crypto True Believers? - Ep. 416

 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. 

• Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter – and its effect on DOGE
• the irony that people working in centralized companies want to decentralize Twitter
• whether Twitter is going to become like Facebook
• why Twitter has been the most pro-crypto among big tech companies
• why Tarun thinks Binance Pay is an impressive product
• whether it is possible to run a decentralized social media for billions of users
• the debate between Sam Bankman-Fried and Erik Voorhees about crypto regulation
• whether crypto exchange CEOs are true believers in the philosophy of crypto
• why Haseeb believes Sam Bankman-Fried is a very honest person
• how Reddit used a simple strategy to gain massive adoption
• whether it is necessary to rebrand NFTs

• Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
• Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
• Robert Leshner, founder of Compound 
• Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital

• What Are the Potential Impacts of Musk’s Twitter Purchase?
• Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX, will receive between $50 million and $100 million from Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
• Vitalik Buterin said Musk’s idea of charging $8 a month for a blue check on Twitter could “damage the blue check's anti-scam role.”
• Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said he would join Twitter’s board if Elon Musk asked him to. 

• Industry Leaders Debate How to Regulate DeFi
• Bankless debate between SBF and Erik Voorhees 

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