UpOnly: Chats with Crypto Experts
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Dec 2, 2022
The regulatory landscape for crypto post-FTX, with Rebecca Rettig and Peter Van Valkenburgh
Cobie & Ledger are joined by Rebecca (Chief Legal and Policy at Aave) and Peter (Director of Research at Coin Center) discuss the regulatory landscape in the wake of the FTX failure.
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Nov 29, 2022
Mt. Gox's Mark Karpelès on Navigating Crypto Exchange Bankruptcy
In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie & Ledger talk to Mark Karpelès, the former CEO of Mt. Gox, at the time the world's largest crypto exchange that failed and went through Bankruptcy. He talks about that process, and his thoughts on today's iteration of a similar situation with FTX.
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Nov 12, 2022
FTX wallets drained while we're on air with FTX team member
Cobie & Ledger talked to Zane Tackett, who directed institutional sales at FTX until just a couple days ago, and was working to help find solutions for the gap directly with top team members. And while we're getting the story of what's happened the last week, wallets start getting drained. We streamed for three hours and didn't always say a lot, but here's the whole thing.
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Nov 10, 2022
UpOnly + Bankless
Cobie and Ledger join Ryan and David of Bankless to cope together and try and put some of the pieces back in order.
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Nov 8, 2022
FTX is liquidated
In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie & Ledger talk the rapid downfall of FTX and acquisition announcement by Binance. We're joined by the CEO of Wintermute, Jim Talbot, Gainzy, Do Kwon, and Martin Shkreli.
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Nov 2, 2022
Crypto bear market updates, with Cobie & Ledger
Thanks for listening :)
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Aug 26, 2022
Will crypto make new all time highs, and will Ethereum topple Bitcoin post merge?
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Aug 4, 2022
Crypto Narratives with Cobie & Ledger
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Jul 29, 2022
Zooko on privacy and crypto history
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Jul 1, 2022
Crypto Cope with Cobie & Ledger
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May 27, 2022
How to cope during the bear market
In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie & Ledger talk to Keyboard Monkey and Flood Capital about what to do and how to manage through the bear market.
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May 20, 2022
Down Badly
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Mar 31, 2022
Crypto Narratives with Frank Chaparro
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* Frank Twitter
* The ScoopShow Partner
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Why Shave Mustache?
– “It’ll come back”
– Cousins getting married, doesn’t wanna steal the show
The Block
– Scoops has been there since 2018
– Soon to be 4 year anniversary
– 100+ people
– Have data, research content, consulting/ advisory
– Subscription products for all these legacy folks
Venture Capital
– Last year there was 32B that poured into crypto VC
NFTs
– Bored Apes/ Larva Labs
– Some people outside of crypto may not think apes are impressive from an art standpoint
– “this price is ridiculous!”
– But there are so many things that are like that, handbags for example
Environmental Impact of NFTs?
– There is a lag between what we know in crypto vs what the outside world knows
– Even when…
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Feb 10, 2022
Jump Crypto President Kanav Kariya on the Wormhole hack, market making, and crypto outlook
Introduction
- Kanav is the President of Jump Crypto (@JumpCryptoHQ)
- Jump Trading is one of the largest quant trading firms in the world and moved into crypto ~6 years ago
- Grew into what Jump Crypto is today with 140 employees
- Jump Crypto has been trading, building and investing in the space
- Ledger: Who wins in a cage match, Alameda or Jump? Kanav: Depends on the rules!
- Crypto was a trading problem to solve at first, sandbox environment for people to play with without messing up existing systems
- As the space started to grow and as DeFi emerged there was a similarity to traditional environments and they got more involved
- Own crypto on the their balance sheet not just when making plays
Intern to President
- Jump is a very flat organisation usually three levels at most away from the top
- A lot of freedom to work on things and push it further with more resources for what works
- Kanav worked early on crypto projects that performed well and it led to getting his p…
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Feb 10, 2022
Untitled Crypto Podcast Episode #2
Cobie, Zion, Meltem, and Avi talk about nothing for two hours, again.
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Jan 30, 2022
Untitled Crypto Podcast, Episode 1
Cobie, Meltem, Z, & Avi
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Jan 27, 2022
Michael Saylor: Bitcoin is the Best Property in the World
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* Saylor Twitter
* WebShow Partner
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Bitcoin Journey
– First tweeted about Bitcoin in 2013, was skeptical
– Would comment on early tech, very unknown at the time
– Would tweet about Bitcoin and people find his old tweets
– Learned about Bitcoin through poker and online gambling
Diversifying
– DON’T DIVERSIFY
– Diversifying is selling the winners to buy the losers
– Amazon wins
– Walmart kinda treads water
– and 15,000 companies lose
– It’s nearly impossible to beat a digital monopoly
Banking Experience
– Lost $1M in a bank rug
– Lost $1M in an Argentina rug as well
– Banks wouldn’t let him move his money around
– He got crushed by Argentina inflation
– Kept getting smoked – “can we buy a yacht, float it to the US, then sell it here?…
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Jan 20, 2022
Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum and immortality
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* Vitalik Twitter
* vitalik.ca blogShow Partner
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Wdyd Besides Crypto?
– Vitalik reads a lot
– Fascinated in how languages have evolved
– Vitalik: Like you know how gate used to mean a structure that lets things in and out…now “gate” means a media scandal!
– Ledger: “Favorite high fantasy?”
– Vitalik: “Early Game of Thrones were great. Early high fantasy was very much good vs. evil, like in Lord of the Rings Elves and men are good, and Orcs are evil”
– It’s possible Vitalik would run a book club in the future given Cobie would want it
10 years ago what’d you see yourself doing?
– Wasn’t thinking too deeply
– Then Bitcoin came along and turned into something
– Vitalik was the first writer for Bitcoin magazine
– Cobie: “Did you at one point…
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Jan 14, 2022
Tetranode on being an activist whale for Ethereum projects
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* Tetranode TwitterShow Partner
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Dec 17, 2021
Cobie
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* Cobie
* WebShow Partner
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UpOnlyTV Notes
Introduction & Early Days
⁃ Bought Bitcoin first in 2012 but really down the rabbit-hole through 2013 onwards
⁃ Only other original CT person still active is Bob Laxative (formerly KingBTC)
⁃ Being early turned people into survivors. Cryptsy, MtGox etc hacked. Everything going to zero, only self custody BTC felt safe
⁃ Started with £200-300 ($500) and didn’t put any more fiat in other than one investment in 2020 (that went to zero)
⁃ Got shilled QuarkCoin by Bill Still on cryptsy and accidentally sold the top. Got a DM from Jebus911 about another coin that went 70x
⁃ Up significantly in BTC early but down in USD in bear market. Lost a lot of BTC on things like BTCBuilder
⁃ Sold Cryptsy listings via API for months whi…
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Dec 10, 2021
Ethereum co-founder and ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin on the inevitability of Ethereum
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* Joe Twitter
* WebShow Partner
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Introduction
⁃ Joe co-founded Ethereum and ConsenSys
⁃ Worked in robotics, machine vision, AI. Moved into the financial space and became depressed by that, the economy and geopolitics. Saw centralised systems as bankrupt politically and financially
⁃ Read the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2011. Met Vitalik in Toronto in 2014 and read the Ethereum whitepaper that night and it became clear it was the way to build a system better, faster and more expressive than on Bitcoin
⁃ Web3 vision resource: polynya.medium.com also /u/liberosist on Reddit
⁃ Vitalik did a great job of setting an intellectually honest tone of integrity along with the power of the ideas held them together vs differing opinions
Metamask
⁃ Metamask has a decentralised future a…
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Dec 8, 2021
Macro crypto narratives and investing via first principles, with Jordi Alexander
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* Jordi TwitterShow Partner
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Crypto Intro
– Started off as a professional poker player
– Then was working as a trader
– Was in San Francisco during 2016, impossible not to hear about crypto
– Was trading bonds and gold
– Then went 80/20 gold/bitcoin, then 50/50, now just 100% Bitcoin
– Gold is just always $1800 lol
DOGE Debate
– @gametheorizing debated Su Zhu on if Doge could be real money
– main take – the centralization of ownership just makes it impossible
– Liquidity has been a huge reason for these meme run ups
Liquidity
– Low liquidity changes everyones hopes
– Once we’re in a bear market, everything will likely make more sense as low liquidity drives shitcoins way down
– There will be backlash to extreme wealth inequality that’s created from…
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Dec 3, 2021
Trader Stream with ISO, SZ, and Abe
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* Adam Twitter
* TraderSZ Twitter
* CryptoISO TwitterShow Partner
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Trading
– abetrade – making case for leverage if you’re at least decent at trading
– Cobie: “Is there a reasonable path for someone who’s new to crypto to becoming profitable within 6 months to 1 year?”
– abe: “Yeah I mean I started on legacy markets…took me like 2-3 years before I became reasonably profitable”
– abe just sticks to BTC and ETH
– SZ traded 10 years of FX, but then 1 alt run can just make him more
– SZ thinks the dollar top is in
– iso used to leverage trade a lot
– thinks everyone should go through that phase to figure out what they’re good at
– did mostly TA, trying to catch bids on the pain points in the market
– now mostly buy and holds, finds good project…
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Nov 30, 2021
Hentai Avenger and Ansem on trading, trends, and market cycles
Links
https://twitter.com/blknoiz06
https://twitter.com/HentaiAvenger66Show Partner
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Intro
- Ledger refusing to say Hentai Avenger
- Will go with “Bob Avenger” for the stream lol
Hentai Avenger
- “From last year to now made like a good sum of money. Then idk how I got here”
- Sold the top and bought the bottom this year
- Scaled account from $20k to $50M over last 5 years
- 21 y/o
Z
- Started crypto back in 2017
- Best trade was Solana at $1.50
- Went on a hot streak with alt L1s
- AXS —> AVAX —> SOL —> Harmony
- “If you just buy in and wait then you can get stuck being in old bags”
Avenger Before Crypto
- Avenger was an esports Rocket League pro
- Summer 2016 made $20k in Rocket League, threw it into biotech stocks, made a little over a mil in 3 years…
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Nov 24, 2021
Haralabos Voulgaris on owning Bitcoin and the value of self sovereignty
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* Haralabob TwitterShow Partner
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Betting
– Big betters work hard to conceal how and where they are betting
– You don’t just roll up to MGM and place huge bets usually
– You do it through a bot that places bets on different websites instead
– Then hope they pay out lol
– Got rugged heavy in 2009 for like 7 figures then the guy made off to Panama or wherever
– Books will refuse really good gamblers, but will accept “fish” as long as they sign that they aren’t addicted lol
Crypto
– First saw it on Wired magazine when Bitcoin was around $1
– Didn’t jump in at first
– Started using Bitcoin in 2012 to get paid
– Ledger: “Did the process in how you thought about gambling transfer over to crypto?”
– Hara: “Yes I think the fact it was governed by math…
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Nov 23, 2021
Debate: The morality of decentralization in crypto, with Udi and David
In this episode of UpOnly, Ledger hosts a charity debate between Udi Wertheimer and David Hoffman about decentralization and moral prerequisites in blockchain design. CMS Holdings very kindly donated $300,000 to the development of Bitcoin to sponsor this debate.
https://twitter.com/cmsholdings
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Udi & David:
https://twitter.com/udiWertheimer
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState
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Nov 18, 2021
Paradigm founders Fred Ehrsam and Matt Huang
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* Matt Twitter
* Fred Twitter
* WebShow Partner
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How’d You Meet?
– Coinbase pitched Sequoia
– Fred pitched the basis of the metaverse on the blockchain when Matt was at Sequoia
– Then Matt and Fred emailed back and forth, then the rest is history
– This was 2017
Metaverse
– Fred: “People don’t yet realize that crypto is the metaverse”
– It’s not just some VR world
– Cobie: “How do you think this plays out over the next 15 to 20 years?”
– Matt: “To state the obvious people are spending more time in these digital worlds. As people spend more time there they are also spending money”
– Blockchain can enable property rights in the metaverse
Next Levels of Crypto
– Crypto will not be fully decentralized at every level that is the wrong way to t…
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Nov 10, 2021
Looks Rare Episode 1: Art Blocks CTO & artist Jake Rockland (Purphat)
This is the first episode of the Looks Rare miniseries, hosted by Fitch and Deeze. Today, they interview Art Blocks CTO Jack Rockland (known as Purphat) about his journey into NFTs, Art Blocks, tech, and more.
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Deeze: https://twitter.com/DeezeFi
Fitch: https://twitter.com/Fitchinverse
Purphat: https://twitter.com/purphat
Artblocks: https://www.artblocks.io/user/0xd6dd6961d3224958fcd306b76a991ab974ec1ebc
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Oct 15, 2021
Ari Paul of Blocktower on maximilism, decentralization, and investing
Links
* TwitterShow Partner
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Introduction
– Ari bought first Bitcoin in 2014
– Really dove into crypto 2016
– Friend emailed him in 2011 asking to check out crypto, Ari said it won’t retain value, not backed by guns like fiat
– Ari: “For crypto you kinda gotta know a little bit about a lot of things”
– Got involved with crypto through crypto twitter
– Cunningham’s Law – “The fastest way to get an answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to state something wrong”
Ari’s Headspace
– Long term mostly thinking about the future of crypto
– BlockTower bets on where the world will be in 1-3 years, not 10-20 years
– Fascinated by the big picture
– Huge believer in giving people defensive tools for overbearing states
VC Stuff
– BlockTower is a t…
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Oct 12, 2021
Tokenomics and Ecosystem Growth with Tom Schmidt of Dragonfly
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* Twitter
* WebShow Partner
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Tom Intro
⁃ Partner at Dragonfly Capital (@dragonfly_cap)
⁃ Owner of elusive Gauntlet x Nike hoodie
⁃ Formerly product at 0x and PM at Instagram
Dragonfly Capital & Tokenomics
⁃ East/West focus. Crypto is very different from Web2 in that you can’t really launch locally, you’re global from day 1. Dragonfly help bridge the East/West gap for teams and products
⁃ 2019 was harder to do deals remotely, people would meet snd pitch in person. Not really a thing anymore – your reputation precedes you online
⁃ Day to day work is 25% team calls, 25% portfolio support, 20% research and staying on top of what’s going on in the space
⁃ Cobie: How much of your previous product experience has helped in your VC Role? Tom: It was a bit of lea…
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Oct 8, 2021
Path on NFTs, the metaverse and crypto cycle price predictions
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* TwitterShow Partner
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Introduction
– Path has never had a job
– Ledger: “You basically went from being a child, to retired”
– Ledge wants to bring Teen Executive back on to teach him a lesson
– Path bought Bitcoin on the run up in 2013 around $100
– Went to $250 then dropped to $50 in 3 days
– Largest red candle ever? 80%?
2014 Alt Coins
– Feathercoin, BlackCoin
– Ledger bought BlackCoin in 2017 lmao
– BlackCoin was the best pump cause it ripped like 10x, then WhiteCoin pumped right after
– Do not hold something longer than the 1st pump
Path’s Convictions
– Had a lot of ETH back in the day but sold early
– Then built a large position in the 2019 bear market
– Path: “High fees are bullish”
– For Ethereum, you’re paying for the security…
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Oct 6, 2021
Power Law of crypto investing, with Haseeb Qureshi of Dragonfly Capital
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* Haseeb Twitter
* WebShow Partner
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Cobie & Ledger <> Haseeb Qureshi
UpOnlyTV Notes
Haseeb Intro
⁃ Managing partner at Dragonfly Capital (@dragonfly_cap)
⁃ Formerly a professional poker player then learned to code and became a software engineer at Airbnb before moving into crypto
⁃ Full time crypto in 2017 doing security research, worked at 21/Earn, a stable coin startup and then into the investment side
Poker & Crypto
⁃ Cobie: Why are there so many poker people in crypto? Haseeb: They’re willing to do weird things to make money, predisposition to it. It rewards being a little bit obsessive
⁃ Very few poker players in VC roles much more that are traders
⁃ Poker has also been getting worse as an economy and harder to make a living from it
Dragonfly Capital & In…
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Oct 1, 2021
Building Compound and deep diving Defi, with Robert Leshner
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* Rob Twitter
* WebShow Partner
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Introduction
– Founder of Compound Labs
– Investor at Robot Ventures with Tarun Chitra (@tarunchitra)
– Reads solidity, doesn’t write it
– Interested in chess and the opera outside of crypto and investing
– Chess ELO is 15/20
Compound Bug
– Exploitable by past borrowers to claim unearned rewards
– Took hours for anyone to discover the root cause
– There’s no risk to COMP positions and only affects distribution, worst case is that tokens reserved for future user incentives is now somewhat depleted
– Please return COMP to the protocol if you received more rewards than expected (especially if you’re doxxed) Send 90% back!
Compound Governance/ DAO
– Kinda created the standard for ETH governance models
– Rob would design…
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Sep 25, 2021
Hasu on Crypto Fundamentals & Narratives.
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* Hasu Twitter
* WebShow Partner
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Hasu Twitter Day
– Everyone has become a Hasu on twitter today
– pplpleasr became Hasupleasr lol
Hasu’s Day to Day
– Basically thinks about stuff and writes it down
– Has been getting back into the dating scene
– Uses his actual photo, not Hasu anime pfp
– It’s been 18 years since Ledger has been dating
Background
– Joined crypto January 2018 at the absolute top
– Played pro poker for a decade
– So many people who used to play poker are now in crypto
– Gambling addicts?
– Not very competitive anymore because bad players lose interest, good players keep getting better
– Fully dove into crypto in peak bear market
Starting Crypto
– Everyone always feels behind when they start
– Doesn’t take very long to actua…
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Sep 17, 2021
Sushi CTO Joseph Delong on building defi protocols
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* Joseph Delong Twitter
* WebShow Partner
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_Notes by_ Kevin
_Music by __GiovanniPickle_
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Sep 3, 2021
State of the Market, with CMSHoldings, Jason from Telegram, and Jim Talbot
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* Dan Twitter
* Jason Twitter
* Jim TwitterShow Partner
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Cobie & Ledger <> Dan Matuszewski (CMS Holdings) <> Jason from Telegram <> Jim Talbot
UpOnly notes
“How do we feel here?”
– Ledger: “We have 1/2 of the true up only bull maximalists on here, if we get Kaleo on then we’d have the powerhouse”
– Dan: “There’s so much money pushing in here… you hear about like a 3, 4, 5 billion dollar equity raise in this space every week”
– Dan: “Like even if people sold… where’s that money gonna go? Like you can only buy so many houses and boats right”
– Jason: “We could go up or we could also go down”
– Jim: “I’m a mechanical trader – I watch the tape and the order book and trade off imbalances and things there”
Derivatives
– Ledge: “Dan w…
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Aug 27, 2021
Sam Trabucco of Alameda Research: Find what you’re good at and do a lot of it
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* Sam Twitter
* WebShow Partner
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Sam Trabs Intro
– Sam Trabs is now co-CEO of Alameda Research
– promoted from “trader” lol
– Last time Trabs was on Bitcoin had just dropped to 30k
– Thought it was “predictable” and then buying the bottom was also an easy trade
– Right now there’s a “temporary round number effect” – people will sell at resistance for big round numbers
– Seeing it now with 50k
– “NOT LONG TERM RESISTANCE” – Trabs
– Trabs: “We’ve done quite well at getting long at the bottom and not selling it at all”
New Highs?
– Trabs: “If there continues to be good news I could see it continuing to go up”
– Rally to 65k was very liquidation based – very likely to get undone
– Same the other way [on the way down to 30k]…
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Aug 25, 2021
How to make it in NFTs, with Keyboard Monkey.
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* Keyboard Monkey Twitter
* WebsiteShow Partner
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The Very Beginning
– KMonkey almost degened all of his money away pre-2020
– Was getting yelled at by risk managers at work
– Had $250k around the covid dumps in 2020
– Now is deep 8 figures
– Monkey is now “diversified”, meaning stocks, real estate, private equity, etc.
– KM: “I don’t wanna go to 0 again” lol me 2 m8
– Mostly traded stocks in 2020
Wen NFTs?
– Started really getting in in Feb 2021
– Started with Hashmasks
– KM: “I had a guy writing algorithms for me to find rarities, staying up all night to trade these things”
Trading NFTs
– Keyboard Monkey often will go all in then panic and dump all bags but it has worked so far lol
– Whenever Kmonkey panics new huge buyers come in, like…
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Aug 20, 2021
OBJ on his journey into crypto, investing, NFTs, and more
Links
* OBJ Twitter
* OBJ Insta
* ProCampsShow Partner
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*Ledger flexed OBJ guest appearance to young neighbor
*And OBJ shouted him out! legend
intern note – given this is crypto, worth pointing out that OBJ is maybe the best wide receiver in the world
Football & Intro
– OBJ’s in training camp rn (Cleveland Browns)
– When OBJ made “the catch”, it changed almost everything in his life
– OBJ now playing with his best friend Jarvis Landry
– They’re hazing the new Auburn WR
Journey into Crypto
– OBJ: “The world is evolving and this is where you got to be, this is the space”
– Ledge: “You have teammates that talk crypto?”
– OBJ: “Yeah it’s locker room talk like people always saying Bitcoin, Ethereum, Doge, all that.”
– OBJ:…
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Aug 5, 2021
Avi Felman of Blocktower: Crypto is mid-cycle
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* Avi Felman Twitter
* WebsiteShow Partner
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*Cobie is coping HARD today, very hungover and may leave at any time to be sick
Intro
– Co-PM of BlockTower investment fund along with Ari Paul
– Anything in crypto they’ll touch it or flip it if it can make money
– Providing access to the crypto space for investors
– Cobie: “So you provide punks for institutions”
– Avi: “No comment.” lmao SER WE KNOW U DO
Avi Background
– Worked at a bank for 6 months before realizing he needed to get out. Brought up crypto to them, they literally said in a decade..
– Started out in 2017, then ran his own fund for a while, then another crypto company (check this again), then on to BlockTower
– Ari trades over longer periods with conviction. Avi changes hi…
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Aug 4, 2021
Regulatory deep dive with crypto lawyers
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* Gabriel Shapiro Twitter
* Sarah H. Brennan Twitter
* Marc Goldich TwitterShow Partner
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Gensler Comments
– Everyone is saying its incredibly important
– Cobie: “Are we all gonna die or are we all gonna make it?”
– Lex: “probably somewhere in the middle” FACK lol
– *extremely complex jargon talk*
– Cobie Summary: “So basically, maybe, they might actually do something here”
– Summer 2017 very similar to summer 2021
– 2017 new group of leadership coming in, ICOs very hot – same as 2021 new group of leadership coming in, DeFi very hot
– ICOs were super complex for legal red tape
Some More Gensler
– Gensler saying now the SEC doesn’t have the man power to really go after these big DeFi projects
– Shannon: “Gensler said he…
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Jul 30, 2021
Doug Polk on crypto, poker, and epic scams
Links
* Doug Polk Twitter
* Upswing Web
* PodcastShow Partner
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FTX?
- Ledger nailed new intro
- UpOnly sponsored by FTX now!
- Blockfolio is now FTX (as everything soon will be)
- Doug was watching an MLB game and saw FTX on an umpire
- So wild
LEDGER DRINKS EVERY DAY
- *one beer*
- *has cravings if he skips his beer*
- *in a weight-loss competition with Primo to lose 10% of body weight*
- Doug: “That 1 beer per day is costing you 16-17 pounds per year!”
Doug’s Crypto Journey
- 2012-2013ish
- Got in because of poker - online poker caused onboarding
- Doug: “the asset appreciation element kinda made sense to me” lol us too sir
Bitcoin v Banks
- People complain about bank fees and then Bitcoin fees spike lol
- Block time also kind of a hassle
- C…
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Jul 23, 2021
Teen Executive on the Game of Investing
Links
* TeenExec Twitter
* TeenExec TikTokShow Partner
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
Show Notes
Kicking it Off
– Real name is Adam – 14 years old
– Not taking outside noise into his trades
– Just holding unless there’s something really clear cut to signal a temporary sell
– ALWAYS FALL BACK TO HOLDING
Trading
– Cobie: “you’ve been selling the top and buying the bottom how are you doing this?”
– Sold ETH at $3800, watched it rip to $4300 and everyone
– Everyone roasting him for selling “too early” (they’ve been very quiet since the drop)
Start of Investing
– Grandfather inspired him to get into stocks at AGE 8 sheesh
– Bought Amazon, Google and Liberty Global
– Still holding Amazon and Google 6 years later
– His grandfather got margin called a few years ago and lost a…
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Jul 21, 2021
Doom & Gloom with Light
Links
* Light TwitterShow Partner
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
Full shownotes: https://uponly.tv/?p=230
_Notes by_ Kevin
_Music by __GiovanniPickle_
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Jul 16, 2021
Cobie’s Back: State of the Market with eGirl Capital
Links
* Loomdart Twitter
* CL Twitter
* eGirl Twitter
* eGirl web
* Mewn TwitterShow Partner
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
_Notes by_ Kevin
_Music by __GiovanniPickle_
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Jul 9, 2021
Trading wisdom from CryptoCred, DonAlt and CMSIntern
Links
* Cred Twitter
* Don Twitter
* Tech Roundup
* CMS Intern TwitterShow Partner
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cmsintern Intro
⁃ Cold called Dan (@cmsholdings) for 2 minutes during a break and got grilled by Bobby (@robertjcho) for a whole 20 minutes
⁃ Started a blockchain club in college
⁃ Didn't Study memes in college despite popular lore, STEM stuff
⁃ Got liquidated in November (ONE OF US) makes < 10 trades a day now.
CryptoDonAlt Intro
⁃ Brother worked in IT, told him to look into it but couldnt figure out how to buy it. Moms credit card was a gating factor here
⁃ Watched the run up to $1k in BTC & the bear market and was interested, felt expensive at $200 so bought DOGE
⁃ Held until 16/17 because he loved the community, 16-17, sold it to buy BTC and started swapping arou…
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Jul 2, 2021
Exit Scams & Crypto Economics with Taylor Monahan, Aaron Lammer, & Allison Reichel
Links
* Aaron Lammer Twitter
* Exit Scam
* Allison Reichel Twitter
* Taylor Monahan Twitter
* MycryptoShow Partner
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolioShow Notes
Ledger & Allison Reichel <> Aaron Lammer <> Taylor Monahan
LedgerOnlyTV notes
Exit Scam Podcast Story
⁃ Quadriga (large Canadian exchange) had a decent reputation
⁃ The Quadriga wallets did not lead to any cold storage – it was a ponzi scheme
⁃ Founder Gerald Cotten goes to India and dies, holding $280M in users funds locked on his laptop
⁃ Going to have to listen to Exit Scam Podcast to hear the rest
Crypto Market
⁃ It is easy to make it in crypto by not doing anything… so it’s really hard to get people to work when you don’t have to do anything
MyCrypto
⁃ Using an ETH wallet as a Web3 login was a wow moment
⁃ In 2015 Taylor imagined ev…
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Jun 24, 2021
Justin Sun addresses market crash rumors, talks collecting & creating in crypto
Links
* Justin Sun Twitter
* Tron NetworkShow Partner
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolioShow Notes
Beeple NFT Auction
– Justin bought Jack’s first ever tweet, was second highest bidder on Beeple’s huge auction
– Justin’s a traditional art collector
– Also believes in 10 years all of our collections will be on the internet
– The gvt doesn’t get it… the younger generations were raised on some of these games, this stuff is worth more to them than physical art
– Justin: “A % of my net worth is in NFTs, and I’m buying more”
– Jack’s tweet purchase? More of a souvenir
– Justin: “I think in the future there will be an internet museum with all the old relics… the tweet can go in there”
Market Macros
– Justin: “July and August will be much much better for market”
– Cobie: “so…
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Jun 23, 2021
John Bollinger, Creator of Bollinger Bands
Links
* John Bollinger Twitter
* Main SiteShow Partner
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
Full show notes
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Jun 18, 2021
Solana founders on why the Solana ecosystem will thrive
In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie & Ledger chat with the founders of Solana, Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, discussing Solana, what makes it different from other L1s, why they think it will last, and more.Links
* RAJ G◎KAL
* ANAT◎LY
* SolanaShow Partner
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Marketing Solana
– It’s hard to even define what Solana is in English so that normal people can understand what it is
– Very strong product market fit with Solana and developers
– Next step: how do you get people to understand how to custody their own assets and why that’s important?
Intros
– Anatoly: “been an engineer most of my life, started at Qualcomm, was working on optimizing AR, was aware of crypto, started mining with GPUs not being used and pulled into crypto”
– Anatoly: “had 2 coffees and…
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Jun 16, 2021
Raoul Pal on the Inevitability of Crypto
In this episode, Cobie & Ledger cover the gamut with global macro thinker and investor Raoul Pal: everything from bitcoin to the metaverse. It's a must watch.
Real Vision Crypto
Raoul on Twitter
This episode, like all episodes of UpOnly, is presented by Blockfolio. Make your first trade today: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
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Jun 10, 2021
Kyle Davies of Three Arrows Capital on Conviction & Concentrated Bets
Links
* Kyle Davies Twitter
* Three Arrows WebShow Partner
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolioShow Notes
China FUD
⁃ Matty: there will be some clamp down on leverage and futures trading but spot will be fair game. It’s about financial stability in China at the centre of it all, not crypto. Article: https://decrypt.co/72276/heres-how-chinas-crypto-fud-will-play-out
⁃ Sicarious: intro to crypto was during a wave of China FUD, right after his wedding, the same night there was a China ban and 50% drop. Has seen the ban so many times now it isn’t scary.
FloodCapital – State of the Market
⁃ Firmly in the “this is a correction” camp. We’re not going into a bear market.
⁃ US are printing money to pay their debt interest. 130% debt to GDP. Needs anomaly GDP growth in order to de-lever. Going to light a fir…
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Jun 9, 2021
Bitcoin Miami Wrap-up with Aubrey Strobel, SizeChad, and Lawmaster
Links
* SizeChad
* Aubrey Strobel
* lawmasterShow Partner
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
_Music by __GiovanniPickle_
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Jun 4, 2021
The Vulture Capitalists, Inflation, and State of the Cycle
In this episode, Cobie and Ledger are joined by Matthew Graham (Matty Sino), Flood Capital, and Sicarious to discuss a range of fun topics from VCs to market cycles.
Joined by:
@mattysino
@Sicarious_
@FloodCapital
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Try a trade there today: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
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May 28, 2021
Building blue chips, with Stani of Aave, Kain of Synthetix, and Santiago of Parafi
In this episode, Cobie & Ledger are joined by the founders of two of the bluest of blue chip defi projects: Stani of Aave and Kain of Synthetix, along with epic investor Santiago of Parafi Capital. We go deep on all things defi.
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Make a trade there today: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
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May 26, 2021
Sam & CZ Discuss Building Crypto Empires
In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie and Ledger are joined by Sam of FTX and CZ of Binance to discuss building exchanges, supporting networks, and how their approaches differ on crypto.
This episode is presented by Blockfolio: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
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May 21, 2021
Is the bull market over?
In this episode of UpOnly, a special panel joins Cobie and Ledger to discuss the state of the market post-dump.
Presented by Blockfolio: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
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May 19, 2021
Konstantin Lomashuk: Investing in people with a long term outlook
In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie and Ledger talk to diamond-handed investor Lomashuk, crowdsale investor in Eth and many other projects.
https://twitter.com/Lomashuk
https://lido.fi/
https://satoshi.fund/
https://p2p.org
Presented by Blockfolio. Trade and track your portfolio with zero fees: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
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May 14, 2021
A Parallel Universe: We talk to two BSC project creators
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May 12, 2021
Meltem Demirors: for Fun, for Profit, & for Learning
In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie and Ledger talk to Meltem Demirors, crypto investor and Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares.
@melt_dem
Coinshares
UpOnly.tv
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May 7, 2021
Life changing trading in crypto
Links
* Mayne’s YouTube
* Loma Flash Crash
* Psycho YouTube
* Project Finance
* @rookieXBT
* @altcoinpsycho
* @CryptoKaleo
* @traderymayne
* @lomahcrypto
* Lomashuk
* Ledger on options in crypto
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
_Music by __GiovanniPickle_
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May 7, 2021
Charlie Lee on Litecoin, decentralization, and the crypto ecosystem
* SatoshiLite
* Lightcoin Foundation
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
_Music by __GiovanniPickle_
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Apr 30, 2021
Bitcoin Maxis versus Ledger & Cobie
In this episode, Cobie and Ledger bring on three bitcoin maxis and have a wide ranging discussion about markets, bitcoin, eth, networks, and much more.
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Make your first trade (or even stack sats!) with Blockfolio today: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
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Apr 23, 2021
Jason from Telegram and Travis Kling talk trading and macro
In this episode of UpOnly, the famous Jason from Telegram and Travis Kling join us to talk markets.
https://uponly.tv
https://twitter.com/Travis_Kling
https://www.ikigai.fund/
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
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Apr 8, 2021
Big Brain Crypto Club
It's just an overload of alpha. This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Make your first trade today: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
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Apr 7, 2021
Crypto whale Tetranode on his story and his bullish outlook on Ethereum and defi
Show links:
* Follow @tetranode
* Rari Capital
* Curve Finance
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
_Music by __GiovanniPickle_
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Apr 2, 2021
Mark Cuban: Present & Future Opportunity of Crypto
Notes & Links
* @mcuban
* Lazy NFTs
* Mintable
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
_Music by __GiovanniPickle_
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Mar 30, 2021
Tether & Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino talks stablecoins, exchange security, and more
Notes & Links
* Paolo on Twitter
* Bitfinex
* Tether
* Coin Metrics Tether issuance
* Dazaar
* Diversifi
* Nomad’s tether tshirts
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
_Music by __GiovanniPickle_
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Mar 26, 2021
Carly Chaikin from Mr. Robot talks to IRL Hacker YTCracker
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade seamlessly from one asset to another, and track your portfolio just like you've always loved: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
Carly's NFT
Carly's website
Carly on Twitter
YT Cracker SoundCloud
Bitcoin Baron Video
YTCracker Twitter
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Mar 23, 2021
CMS Holdings co-founder Daniel Matuszewski
This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Make a seamless trade on Blockfolio today at: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
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Mar 17, 2021
Santiago R Santos of ParaFI Capital on Defi Decoupling
Follow Santiago
His blog
ParaFi
Books:
Finite and Infinite Games
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
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Mar 12, 2021
Nifty Gateway CEO Griffin Cockfoster and Artist Ian Strange on the NFT Boom
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Mar 12, 2021
Arthur0x on Defi Conviction
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Mar 6, 2021
Neeraj K. Agrawal on Crypto & Cooking
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Check out Coin Center
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Feb 24, 2021
Su Zhu from Three Arrows Capital on the Crypto Super Cycle
* Su Zuho on Twitter @zhusu
* Three Arrows investments
* Uncommon Core podcast
Our partner for this stream is Blockfolio. Try a trade on Blockfolio today, plus get all the great portfolio tracking features you already love at https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
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Feb 19, 2021
Beeple and PplPleasr on NFTs and the intersection of art and crypto
Notes & Links
In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie and Ledger talk to Beeple and PplPleasr about their stories, art, NFTs, Defi, crypto, and everything inbetween.
Our partner for this stream is Blockfolio. Try a trade on Blockfolio today, plus get all the great portfolio tracking features you already love at https://uponly.tv/blockfolio
* @Beeple
* @pplpleasr1
* Beeple's website
* PplPleasr instagram
* Beeple on Christie's
* Rarible
* Nifty Gateway
* Arweave
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Feb 18, 2021
Live with Path on being a chart savant
Presented by Blockfolio. Trade on Blockfolio today at: https://ledgerstatus.com/blockfolio
Follow Cobie: https://twitter.com/cryptocobain
Follow Ledger: https://twitter.com/ledgerstatus
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Feb 18, 2021
Creating NFTs with Shams Meccea, Messi, & Rob Swire
Presented by Blockfolio. Trade on Blockfolio today at: https://ledgerstatus.com/blockfolio
Shams' website: https://smeccea.com/INFO
APE ONLY NFT: https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/ape-o...
Rob Swire on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2SNg8...
Also joined by Udi and Box Lax.
Follow Cobie: https://twitter.com/cryptocobain
Follow Ledger: https://twitter.com/ledgerstatus
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