Are Things Really Different This Time Around?

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i've heard a lot of people draw parallels between what's happening in crypto right now to the two thousand eight recession. So i guess what i'm wondering about is, are things really different this time around? It sounds like that's what you're getting at. But then, you know, we saw this huge issue with terra,. We saw excelsius, we saw it, all of this being linked to triero's capital ultimately. Don't you think this is going to hurt a little more for for crypto, just based on how intertwined everything is these days? I think, first and foremost, i have to say that for those participants in celseus and voyager n

Welcome back, this week Lucas and Anita dive into a conversation around Coinbase’s legal woes and the insider trading scandal surrounding an employee at the firm. We also discussed Elon Musk’s bitcoin sale and Minecraft’s ban of NFTs from its platform.

In their interview this week, Anita and Lucas interviewed David Nage. Nage is a portfolio manager at Arca where he makes early-stage bets on crypto startups. We talked about finding hot opportunities in seed stage crypto and then broke into a wide-ranging conversation on crypto regulation and what comes next.

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https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/25/crypto-valuations-may-sink-until-september-as-vcs-play-a-waiting-game/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/20/tesla-dumped-75-of-its-bitcoin-holdings/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/20/minecraft-says-no-f-ing-thanks-to-nfts/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/26/if-it-walks-like-a-dog-and-barks-like-a-dog-perhaps-its-actually-a-non-security-crypto-digital-asset/

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