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UpOnly: Chats with Crypto Experts

Brian Krogsgard, Jordan Fishuponly.tv
Join Cobie and Ledger as as they chat with the most interesting people in crypto.
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Episodes

Mt. Gox's Mark Karpelès on Navigating Crypto Exchange Bankruptcy

In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie & Ledger talk to Mark Karpelès, the former CEO of Mt. Gox, at the time the world's largest crypto exchange that failed and went through Bankruptcy. He talks about that process, and his thoughts on today's iteration of a similar situation with FTX.

Nov 29, 20222 hr 5 minEp. 77

FTX wallets drained while we're on air with FTX team member

Cobie & Ledger talked to Zane Tackett, who directed institutional sales at FTX until just a couple days ago, and was working to help find solutions for the gap directly with top team members. And while we're getting the story of what's happened the last week, wallets start getting drained. We streamed for three hours and didn't always say a lot, but here's the whole thing.

Nov 12, 20223 hr 5 minEp. 76

UpOnly + Bankless

Cobie and Ledger join Ryan and David of Bankless to cope together and try and put some of the pieces back in order.

Nov 10, 20222 hr 12 minEp. 75

FTX is liquidated

In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie & Ledger talk the rapid downfall of FTX and acquisition announcement by Binance. We're joined by the CEO of Wintermute, Jim Talbot, Gainzy, Do Kwon, and Martin Shkreli.

Nov 08, 20222 hr 38 minEp. 74

How to cope during the bear market

In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie & Ledger talk to Keyboard Monkey and Flood Capital about what to do and how to manage through the bear market.

May 26, 20222 hrEp. 68

Down Badly

Presented by FTX: https://uponly.tv/ftx

May 20, 20221 hr 59 minEp. 67

Crypto Narratives with Frank Chaparro

Links Frank Twitter The Scoop Show Partner This 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/ftx Show Notes Why Shave Mustache? – “It’ll come back” – Cousins getting married, doesn’t wanna steal the show The Block – Scoops has been there since 2018 – Soon to be 4 year anniversary – 100+ people – Have data, research content, consulting/ advisory – Subscription products for a...

Mar 31, 20221 hr 26 minEp. 66

Jump Crypto President Kanav Kariya on the Wormhole hack, market making, and crypto outlook

Introduction - Kanav is the President of Jump Crypto (@JumpCryptoHQ) - Jump Trading is one of the largest quant trading firms in the world and moved into crypto ~6 years ago - Grew into what Jump Crypto is today with 140 employees - Jump Crypto has been trading, building and investing in the space - Ledger: Who wins in a cage match, Alameda or Jump? Kanav: Depends on the rules! - Crypto was a trading problem to solve at first, sandbox environment for people to play with without messing up existi...

Feb 10, 20221 hr 26 minEp. 65

Michael Saylor: Bitcoin is the Best Property in the World

Links Saylor Twitter Web Show Partner This 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/ftx Show Notes Bitcoin Journey – First tweeted about Bitcoin in 2013, was skeptical – Would comment on early tech, very unknown at the time – Would tweet about Bitcoin and people find his old tweets – Learned about Bitcoin through poker and online gambling Diversifying – DON’T DIVERSIFY ...

Jan 26, 20222 hr 8 minEp. 62

Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum and immortality

Links Vitalik Twitter vitalik.ca blog Show Partner This 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/ftx Show Notes Wdyd Besides Crypto? – Vitalik reads a lot – Fascinated in how languages have evolved – Vitalik: Like you know how gate used to mean a structure that lets things in and out…now “gate” means a media scandal! – Ledger: “Favorite high fantasy?” – Vitalik: “Early ...

Jan 20, 20221 hr 43 minEp. 61

Tetranode on being an activist whale for Ethereum projects

Links Tetranode Twitter Show Partner This 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/ftx

Jan 14, 20222 hr 39 minEp. 60

Cobie

Links Cobie Web Show Partner This 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/ftx Show Notes UpOnlyTV Notes Introduction & Early Days ⁃ Bought Bitcoin first in 2012 but really down the rabbit-hole through 2013 onwards ⁃ Only other original CT person still active is Bob Laxative (formerly KingBTC) ⁃ Being early turned people into survivors. Cryptsy, MtGox etc hacked. Ev...

Dec 17, 20213 hr 51 minEp. 59

Ethereum co-founder and ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin on the inevitability of Ethereum

Links Joe Twitter Web Show Partner This 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/ftx Show Notes Introduction ⁃ Joe co-founded Ethereum and ConsenSys ⁃ Worked in robotics, machine vision, AI. Moved into the financial space and became depressed by that, the economy and geopolitics. Saw centralised systems as bankrupt politically and financially ⁃ Read the Bitcoin whitepap...

Dec 09, 20211 hr 47 minEp. 58

Macro crypto narratives and investing via first principles, with Jordi Alexander

Links Jordi Twitter Show Partner This 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/ftx Show Notes Crypto Intro – Started off as a professional poker player – Then was working as a trader – Was in San Francisco during 2016, impossible not to hear about crypto – Was trading bonds and gold – Then went 80/20 gold/bitcoin, then 50/50, now just 100% Bitcoin – Gold is just always ...

Dec 08, 20212 hr 15 minEp. 57

Trader Stream with ISO, SZ, and Abe

Links Adam Twitter TraderSZ Twitter CryptoISO Twitter Show Partner This 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/ftx Show Notes Trading – abetrade – making case for leverage if you’re at least decent at trading – Cobie: “Is there a reasonable path for someone who’s new to crypto to becoming profitable within 6 months to 1 year?” – abe: “Yeah I mean I started on legacy m...

Dec 02, 20211 hr 48 minEp. 56

Hentai Avenger and Ansem on trading, trends, and market cycles

Links https://twitter.com/blknoiz06 https://twitter.com/HentaiAvenger66 Show Partner This 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/ftx Show Notes Intro - Ledger refusing to say Hentai Avenger - Will go with “Bob Avenger” for the stream lol Hentai Avenger - “From last year to now made like a good sum of money. Then idk how I got here” - Sold the top and bought the bottom...

Nov 30, 20212 hr 24 minEp. 55

Haralabos Voulgaris on owning Bitcoin and the value of self sovereignty

Links Haralabob Twitter Show Partner This 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/ftx Show Notes Betting – Big betters work hard to conceal how and where they are betting – You don’t just roll up to MGM and place huge bets usually – You do it through a bot that places bets on different websites instead – Then hope they pay out lol – Got rugged heavy in 2009 for like 7 ...

Nov 24, 20212 hr 9 minEp. 54

Debate: The morality of decentralization in crypto, with Udi and David

In this episode of UpOnly, Ledger hosts a charity debate between Udi Wertheimer and David Hoffman about decentralization and moral prerequisites in blockchain design. CMS Holdings very kindly donated $300,000 to the development of Bitcoin to sponsor this debate. https://twitter.com/cmsholdings Presented by FTX: https://uponly.tv/ftx Udi & David: https://twitter.com/udiWertheimer https://twitter.com/TrustlessState

Nov 23, 20211 hr 23 minEp. 53

Paradigm founders Fred Ehrsam and Matt Huang

Links Matt Twitter Fred Twitter Web Show Partner This 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/ftx Show Notes How’d You Meet? – Coinbase pitched Sequoia – Fred pitched the basis of the metaverse on the blockchain when Matt was at Sequoia – Then Matt and Fred emailed back and forth, then the rest is history – This was 2017 Metaverse – Fred: “People don’t yet realize that...

Nov 18, 20211 hr 34 minEp. 52

Looks Rare Episode 1: Art Blocks CTO & artist Jake Rockland (Purphat)

This is the first episode of the Looks Rare miniseries, hosted by Fitch and Deeze. Today, they interview Art Blocks CTO Jack Rockland (known as Purphat) about his journey into NFTs, Art Blocks, tech, and more. Presented by FTX: https://uponly.tv/ftx Deeze: https://twitter.com/DeezeFi Fitch: https://twitter.com/Fitchinverse Purphat: https://twitter.com/purphat Artblocks: https://www.artblocks.io/user/0xd6dd6961d3224958fcd306b76a991ab974ec1ebc

Nov 10, 202159 minEp. 51

Ari Paul of Blocktower on maximilism, decentralization, and investing

Links Twitter Show Partner This 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/ftx Show Notes Introduction – 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 invol...

Oct 14, 20212 hr 8 minEp. 50

Tokenomics and Ecosystem Growth with Tom Schmidt of Dragonfly

Links Twitter Web Show Partner This 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/ftx Show Notes Tom Intro ⁃ Partner at Dragonfly Capital (@dragonfly_cap) ⁃ Owner of elusive Gauntlet x Nike hoodie ⁃ Formerly product at 0x and PM at Instagram Dragonfly Capital & Tokenomics ⁃ East/West focus. Crypto is very different from Web2 in that you can’t really launch locally, you’r...

Oct 12, 20212 hr 8 minEp. 49
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