Empire

Explore Bitcoin mining in 2024 with Marathon's CEO, discussing competition, energy costs, grid stabilization, industry consolidation, and Bitcoin's 4-year cycles. Dive into sustainability, institutional mining, and the relationship between miners and grid operators. Discover strategic decisions in mining investments, site acquisition pricing, Marathon's future as a $100 billion company, Bitcoin adoption dynamics, and the future of Bitcoin applications and automated transactions.

Rebecca Rettig and Miller Whitehouse discuss policy concerns in crypto, educating regulators on DeFi, onchain illicit activity compromise, stablecoins like USDC, SEC's proposed dealer rule impact, and Rebecca's regulation framework. They touch on navigating regulatory challenges, financial sanctions, geopolitical implications of payment networks, and innovative solutions for crypto regulation.

This podcast episode covers topics such as the recent bitcoin price surge, the importance of bitcoin ETF inflows compared to gold, the controversy around the Starkware airdrop, and the debate on whether ICOs should make a comeback. The hosts also discuss whether restaking constitutes leverage and share their thoughts on Farcaster after using it for a week.

Exploring the survival of Bitcoin, the hosts discuss their bullish thesis and the approval of the ETF. They also touch on tracking inflows and outflows of Bitcoin ETFs, their trading mindset and approach, the importance of niche expertise in trading, and their humorous conversation about casino games and conspiracy theories.

Ramon Recuero, co-founder and CEO of Memori Labs, joins Jason and Santiago to discuss Kinto, a secure layer 2 built on Arbitrum Nitro that provides KYC at the chain level. They explore the pain points that led Ramon to build Kinto, the importance of compliance and security for mainstream adoption, how Kinto manages user data privacy, and Ramon's vision for the future of KYC in a Web3 world.

Topics discussed include the Solana outage, Ethereum's scalability roadmap, the intersection of AI and crypto, and building ecosystems in the crypto industry. The speakers delve into technical details, market expectations, concerns about value flows, and challenges of building on Ethereum. They also explore the relationship between crypto and AI, discuss challenges in choosing AI inference models, and highlight the importance of strategic resource allocation in ecosystem development.

This podcast discusses the recent surge in adoption of Farcaster and analyzes its features like channels and programmable posts. They also dive into the controversy surrounding airdrops and the high costs of current models. Other topics include using Dimension in app roll-ups, challenges of attracting validators for app chains, and the potential impact of staking on ETFs. They also explore the advantages of blockchain technology and speculate on its future.

Decentralized social networks and headless marketplaces are explored in this episode. Farcaster, a decentralized social network built on Ethereum, has seen a 400% increase in daily active users. The discussion unpacks headless marketplaces, onchain identity and money, permissionless composability, frames, and the ownership economy. Physical NFTs and the bridging of the physical and digital worlds are also discussed.

Illia Polosukhin, Co-founder and Near Foundation CEO, explores key innovations in Near Protocol targeting mass adoption, including account aggregation, sharding, and chain abstraction. They discuss strategic partnerships, onboarding challenges, and their vision of a decade with over a hundred million users. The conversation also delves into user-owned AI, software generation, and the concept of an 'AI president' in forward-thinking governance.

Crypto experts Haseeb and Avichal discuss the bull market in crypto and the debate between EVM and alternative chains. They also touch on the sustainability of meme coins, scalability trilemma, regional fragmentation, and financialization in gaming.