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73: Tetranode (9-figure Whale) on ETH Merge, Bitcoin, DeFi & NFTs

Aug 16, 2022

02:12:40

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What Worked in Crypto and What Did Not Work in Crypto?

02:03

Defi

01:56

The Sea Chain Is Not Relatively New, but It Is Converging

04:14

Introduction

2min

Cryptocurrency

4min

I'm a Hard Cor Gamer, and I Frequentlake, Like the Team Liquid Forum

2min

Bitcoin Is as Good as It Gets

5min

I've Been Investing in Etheriums All the Way Back Since Two Thousand 15

4min

I Don't Celebrate, I Operate. Operates

5min

How Do You Value Eight New Protocols?

5min

The Decedifi Group Violates Anti Fragility

3min

I'm Not One of Those Lake Like You Two Bere Like Lake Moncarl to Say, Lake Lake.

2min

10.

Anti Fragility

4min

11.

Cryptocurrency Is a Hatched to Property

2min

12.

Is There a Trade Off in Cryptocurrency?

4min

13.

Financial Sovereignty and Disintermediation

2min

14.

The Financial Sovereignty

3min

15.

Are You Concerned About Outing Yourself?

3min

16.

I'd Be Gladsnor to Talk to a Bit Coin Miner

5min

17.

NFTS

4min

18.

Is the Community a Te Kind of Genius of Some Projects?

4min

19.

Defy and Tradfy - A Casino

2min

20.

Defi

2min

21.

What Is the Benefit of Mortgage Back Securities?

2min

22.

Is Lake Toto Castodio a Good Example?

5min

23.

Lake Lake Triple a Level of Polish

2min

24.

What Worked in Crypto and What Did Not Work in Crypto?

2min

25.

The Sea Chain Is Not Relatively New, but It Is Converging

4min

26.

Lake Liquid Market Fit

3min

27.

The Second and Third Order Effects of Etherium

4min

28.

Lake Lake, Allidis - I Don't Know.

3min

29.

Is the Platform Able to Sustain Itself?

4min

30.

Is There Tension With Someone Controlling the Space?

5min

31.

Is It a Good Idea to Decentralize the Financial Interstructure?

5min

32.

What Dish Washing Scales Can Beo Answer to Trading?

2min

33.

What's Your Biggest Win in 24 Hours?

2min

34.

I'm an After of One. I Pour Everything Into Te Space.

5min

35.

Is There a World Super Power in the US?

3min

36.

America Is Like the Perfect Island

2min

37.

Do Not Spend More Than You Make

6min

38.

Where Is the Cost of Living?

1min

39.

Defi, the Attention Economy, Is Amazing.

4min

Tetranode went from a dishwasher to a 9-figure crypto whale. We talk through why Saylor was wrong about ETH, what it's like operating in DeFi at his scale, the upcoming ETH merge, some not investment advice price predictions & audience questions.

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:03:46) - Saylor, DeFi & Skin In The Game
(00:09:17) - Bitcoin settlement layer of value?
(00:11:46) - The Merge
(00:15:14) - Tetranode’s First $100k + First Million
(00:18:24) - Ethereum Is Shattering Every Single Metric Except Market Cap
(00:20:57) - Fair Criticism of Ethereum
(00:22:25) - Evaluating Protocols On Ethereum
(00:24:44) - Real DeFi
(00:27:37) - 3AC Tweet & Vitalik in the group chat
(00:33:07) - Antifragility & Convex
(00:37:10) - What % of your portfolio is not crypto?
(00:37:58) - “Web 2.0 Puts Me To Sleep”
(00:42:10) - Levels of Security & Financial Sovereignty
(00:48:20) - Being A Public Figure
(00:50:02) - Tetranode on Pomp
(00:54:29) - Will Bitcoin Evolve?
(00:56:44) - Turning NFTs into DeFi
(01:03:40) - Yield Comes From Speculation & Leverage
(01:04:45) - Longer Term Vision For DeFi
(01:12:24) - When Tetranode Got It Wrong
(01:18:50) - Alternative Layer 1s
(01:26:43) - Second & Third Order Effects of The Merge
(01:34:13) - Projects That Could Last A Decade
(01:37:42) - Quick Break Before Twitter Q&A
(01:38:44) - Tetranode's Day-to-Day & Decentralization vs Control
(01:42:44) - Price Prediction For ETH
(01:45:23) - Project That Has Not Been Created That You'd Like To See Happen
(01:47:12) - Who cares about decentralization?
(01:49:40) - Dishwashing Skills to Trading
(01:52:06) - Most Contrarian Trade
(01:54:35) - Is Tetranode One Person?
(01:58:03) - Where To Live
(02:01:52) - Favorite Books & CryptoPunk

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