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The Chopping Block: The Binance Hack, Circle's Fast Freeze, YC's Crypto Wishlist, and ICE Bringing Hyperliquid Perps Onshore
Rob Hadick guest-hosts for a second week with Tom and Robert, joined by Nemil Dalal of Y Combinator. Hours before the show, Binance lost an estimated…
19 hours ago
Bitcoin's Price May Have Bottomed. One Reason Is the AI Debasement Trade
Galaxy's Alex Thorn argues Bitcoin bottomed in late June. While macro funds exit, sovereign wealth funds buy and AI pushes debasement, he says now ma…
2 days, 6 hours ago
Uneasy Money: Why Anthropic's IPO Governance Has Crypto Veterans Worried
Anthropic's S-1 shows the company is still burning cash. Kain Warwick and Taylor Monahan say the bigger risk is a founder voting bloc that has to vot…
2 days, 12 hours ago
Why America's New Cyber Privateers Can't Go After North Korea
Can the US fight AI-powered hackers and North Korea by deputizing its private sector? Two government veterans explain why the answer is yes and no.
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4 days, 14 hours ago
The Chopping Block: Black October, Banks Blocking AI Agents, Hyperliquid's Blockchain-Not-Bitcoin Moment, and the Visa-Fireblocks Rumor
Welcome to The Chopping Block, where crypto insiders Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in crypto. This week R…
1 week ago
PaperTrade Attracted $140M, Then Changed the Rules. Was It a Bait and Switch?
Traders tried to lose money fast to earn PAPER. Now the token may never be transferable, and one tracker shows staking revenue fell 93% in a day.
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1 week, 2 days ago
Uneasy Money: Is the Internet Breaking Because Bots Never Get Lazy?
A certificate authority's private key was the number 4 for over a year. Kain, Taylor, and Austin on why the internet's trust schemes are cracking.
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1 week, 2 days ago
How Crypto Can Survive If AI or Quantum Computers Break Its Cryptography
Justin Drake says crypto should brace for AI breaking elliptic curves before Q-Day. Project Eleven's Alex Pruden and Conor Deegan weigh in on what's …
1 week, 4 days ago
Ledger Wallets Were Drained of $100 Million. Is Self-Custody Still Safe?
A hidden implant read Ledger seed phrases off the screen and sent them out over an eSIM. Mark Karpelès and SEAL 911's Jonty discuss what that means f…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Uneasy Money: Why Ledger's Supply Chain Became a Nearly $100M Target
A Ledger reseller's devices shipped with a hidden LTE modem inside. Taylor Monahan lays out how it passed the genuine check and why panicking now cos…
2 weeks, 2 days ago