EP 21: Aztec’s Jon Wu Joins Zach’s Crypto Debate, Plus the Celsius Disaster & Crypto as Bird Talons

(00:00) Intro

(01:19) Introducing Jon Wu

(04:40) What is Ethereum?

(08:10) Present and future of crypto

(12:53) How Jon got into crypto

(17:48) The oracle problem

(19:58) Real world crypto uses

(23:07) Post speculation

(29:15) Lack of sovereign money

(35:00) What’s happening with Celsius?

(37:30) Why does DeFi work?

(42:00) Digital goods

(48:06) Celsius state of play

(55:40) Celsius’ impact on the crypto market

(59:29) Crypto regulation

(1:05:31) TAM analysis

(1:10:08) Youth in crypto

(1:12:21) VCs in crypto

(1:19:52) Why should we care about crypto?

(1:27:20) The jetpack example

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Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir 

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz 

Music: Griff Lawson 

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