Decentralized vs Decentralized Cryptocurrency Platforms?

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As a venture investor in a defy protocol, how is it that it is still decentralized? Because necessarily, if you're taking annvest in that protocol, isn't there some sort of concentration of power? And so those poticles are effectively run by smart contracts and by validators. I think for the future, i think that that is actually, that criticism actually holds up.

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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