The Chopping Block: Bitcoin’s BlackRock Bounce
The Chopping Block: Is BlackRock’s ETF Proposal Breathing Life Into Bitcoin? - Ep. 510
Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest crypto news. With BTC topping $30,000, the gang tackles the apparent surge in institutional bitcoin interest, with BlackRock’s spot ETF application spawning a bumper crop of similar bids. Why did all these TradFi players act at the same time? That, plus a look at the drama surrounding SEC-friendly Prometheum’s Congressional testimony and what Haseeb and Robert see as the trading platform’s many “red flags.”
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Show highlights:
🔹the not-so logical reasons why the markets are up
🔹whether GBTC’s ETF conversion will also get approved if BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF gets the SEC go-ahead
🔹how all the applications were ready and were “waiting for some sign,” according to Robert
🔹whether Grayscale will have to sell the underlying assets of its GBTC trust
🔹why a bitcoin spot ETF is more retail-friendly than a bitcoin futures one
🔹how plausible it is that London becomes a leading crypto hub
🔹the drama around Prometheum’s testimony before Congress
🔹the “shady” details of Prometheum’s track record, according to Haseeb
🔹why Tarun says that the venture-funded exchanges have “completely failed on many different levels” and what tokens he would list
🔹what happened with Curve founder Michael Egorov’s loan on Aave and why Gauntlet, Tarun’s company, advocated freezing the CRV market in the lending protocol
🔹why the Aave community rejected the proposal
Hosts
⭐️ Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly
⭐️ Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
⭐️ Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly
⭐️ Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Crypto market
03:47 Bitcoin spot ETF applications
17:38 Europe as a crypto hub
33:25 Prometheum
40:26 EDX
46:58 Aave proposal
58:47 3AC Ventures
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