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Dear Crypto Natives,
I’m tired of reading bad takes like this. But sadly maximalism is the status quo in crypto media today. We deserve better. Because the popular crypto media doesn’t get it.
It’s time to focus on the real revolution. The bankless revolution.
That’s why I started the program. And that’s why I’m starting a Podcast today.
Listen to episode 1 | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed
The Bankless Podcast will explore the frontier of internet money and finance. How to get started. How to get better. How to front-fun the opportunity. How to go bankless.
Here’s how it’s going to go:
New episode released every Monday
Plain-speak designed for all skill levels
A level up in every episode
I’ve added David Hoffman as my co-host. Like me, David lives and breaths this stuff. Together we’ll be your guides into this new frontier.
I’m doing this Podcast now because it’s time.
It’s time to invite the first tranche of adventurers into this wild west. The ones willing to set out on the journey and risk life and limb for the prospect of treasure and opportunity. We have the early infrastructure. We need the settlers.
It’s time to reclaim the revolution from maximalists who attempt to repress Ethereum because they think it threatens Bitcoin and who feign desire for self-sovereign money while installing themselves as our new banker overlords.
It’s time to show the traditional banks they can’t control us any longer. They’re the newspaper industry in the 90s: in this new world we don’t need them, they need us. They either adopt or die. The people are taking back their money system.
It’s time for a mainstream crypto podcast that isn’t afraid to say:
Bankless is better
DeFi is the future
ETH is money
This is the Podcast I would have wanted in my early crypto days. This is the reason I got into crypto. This is the upside. This is the revolution.
But it’s for everyone.
There’s no such thing as reward without risk. The Bankless Trail is fraught with danger—bandits, typhoid, dysentery—the road is hard. You could lose everything. There’s no promise this all works out for you.
But some of you will weight the risks and take up the adventure. How often does humanity reinvent its money? I can’t miss thisyou say. I want a story for the grandkids. I want to see where the trail ends. I want a shot at the opportunity.
I want to go bankless.
That you?
Then you’ll like the Bankless Podcast. You’re the reason we created it.
- RSA
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MARKET MONDAY:
Scan this section and dig into anything interesting
Market numbers
ETH struck down to $231 from $262 last Monday
BTC stumbled to $8,858 from $9,590 last Monday
DAI stability fee steady at 8% with savings rate up to 8%
Market opportunities
(Lend) BlockFi March rates—ETH starting at 3.6% & BTC now 4.9%
(Invest) Set launches a money robot for LINK (pure narrative trade)
(Earn) Treasuries below 1.29% but you can earn 8% on DAI (or try Chai)
(Invest) in new PGMT tokenized gold at KuCoin (my tokenized gold how-to)
(Trade) Ramp fiat onramp now allows 10k Euros per day to DAI/ETH/USDC
(Earn) 8% on USDC at crypto.com w/ a 1 month term (get $50 MCO w/ Visa card)
New stuff
Coinbase supporting ENS in Coinbase wallet (maybe they adopt DSR next)
Zora is the teambehind Saint Fame (Kayne will tokenized Yeezys one day)
Balancer launched a new site—a money lego for liquidity (AMA here)
Compound releasing a governance token (two questions—may look like this)
You can now access Aave from MyEtherWallet (neat Aave explorer btw)
Melon terminal released (I haven’t quite figured this protocol out yet)
What’s hot
This art was sold for $22k (remember our how-to on digital art?
Bitcoin generated 49% of all revenue for Square’s Cash App in Q4 2019
RealT just completed a $615,000 sale of a 15-unit apartment complex
DAI transaction volume hit $4B which is an all time high last month (source)
Money reads
The Rise of Ethereum - David Schwartz
Why Flash Attacks will be the New Normal - Haseeb Qureshi
Is BTC a risk on or off asset? (kinda both…my take) - Digital Asset Research
WHAT I’M DOING
Check out a few opportunities I’m capturing right now with my crypto money
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TWEET-A-QUESTION
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Question from Reddit:
What is the safest way to earn interest on my ETH before staking starts?
RSA reply:
Some recent tweets…
Actions
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