EP 19: Matt Levine, Meme Stocks, Crypto Crash and Terrible Attempts at Crime

The Logan Bartlett Show

Defy Isn't the Most Interesting Place in the World

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I'm a much bigger believer in n f tis, not necessarily as profile pictures, but as just a way to make digital things feel and behave more physically. As we spend more time on line, like i think there's going to be interesting things that people come up with. Defy is just never where i've been particularly excited. I don't think tradfy is particularly exciting. Like loans, there's nothing exciting about bringing that on. The block chain has never, never, made me particularly particularly excited. But i do think there's gong to be a lot more on the kind of creative duels side and on the social network side and all this kind of stuff.

(00:00) Intro

(00:13) Intro Zach and Packy

(01:07) Solana

(05:14) Crypto Ecosystem

(13:00) Crypto Use Cases

(18:02) Crypto Investments

(21:45) Elon’s Ultimatum

(27:43) Billionaire Senate Run

(32:04) VC Firm’s Scam & Media War

(37:39) Sheryl Sandberg Steps Down

(48:03) Matt Levine Intro

(49:39) Leaving Goldman Sachs

(52:26) Joining Deal Breaker

(55:04) Choosing Topics

(1:01:08) Crypto as a Lab for Financial Institutions

(1:02:08) Deal Breaker to Bloomberg

(1:07:00) Finance Bro Groupies

(1:08:14) r/WallStreetBets

(1:12:31) Insider Trading

(1:15:17) Crypto

(1:22:13) Elon and Twitter

(1:25:08) Elon and the SEC

(1:29:01) Writing on Unexpected Topics

(1:31:16) Impact of Meme Stocks

(1:33:11) Future Writing

(1:34:51) Outro

Links:

VC threatened a media war against a start-up after unsolicited investment https://sifted.eu/articles/heroes-amazon-solid-capital/

Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla Execs: Return to the Office or Get Out https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/musk-s-tesla-ultimatum-return-to-office-or-work-somewhere-else

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1531867103854317568?s=20&t=cKRzLoqnu1HMX-LPLCbZFQ

Solana goes down for over 6 hours https://cryptopotato.com/solana-goes-down-for-over-6-hours-validators-prepare-for-restart/

Coinbase pauses new hiring and rescinds accepted offers https://blog.coinbase.com/update-on-hiring-plans-bcedfa634989

US Charges Ex-OpenSea Exec With NFT Insider Trading https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/06/01/us-charges-ex-opensea-exec-with-nft-insider-trading/

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Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson

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