helium, often cited as one of the best examples of a web thr use case, has received 365 million investment. 16 z regular folks have been convinced to spend two hndred, 50 million dollars behiing hot spot notes in the hopes of earning passive income. The result, helum total revenue is six point five a month. But i think one of the things that's happened here is this is one where the supply and demand curve didn't match.
J+M are joined by Sunny Madra and Vinny Lingham for another crypto roundtable! They cover the following topics: Shkreli's new web3 project (1:50), distributed computing projects (16:08), ETH merge (38:00), Gensler's comments (44:57), and more!
(0:00) Molly tees up today's roundtable guests!
(1:50) Martin Shkreli's new web3 project
(14:46) Revelo - Get 20% off the first 3 months by mentioning TWIST at https://revelo.io/twist
(16:08) Breaking down other distributed computing projects: Helium, Filecoin, Hivemapper
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(29:17) Understanding inverted incentives in crypto, market depth/liquidity theory
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(38:00) ETH merge: how risky is it, what impact will the fork have, will it lower gas fees?
(44:57) SEC Chair Gary Gensler's comment re: DeFi protocols and crypto banks
(51:58) Lightning round! Tribe DAO, BendDAO, Sudoswap and lessons learned