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The Chopping Block: 'Code Is Law' Is 'Obviously Not How Anything Works Ever'
Episode 411
Published 3 years, 2 months ago
Description
Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry.
Show topics:
- Everyone’s impression of Laura’s interview with Do Kwon
- The importance to differentiate failure and fraud
- The Mango Markets hack and whether code is law
- What happened with the BNB hack and the concerns it raised about decentralization
- Magic Eden’s decision to enable optional royalties and the debate about NFT royalties
- How creators are going to find a way around the royalties, according to Robert
- Whether NFTs should be treated as securities
Hosts
- Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
- Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
- Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
- Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital
Episode Links
Laura’s interview with Do Kwon:
Do Kwon of Terra: ‘It Was Never Really About Money or Fame or Success’
Hacks
- Mango Markets
- Mango Markets $42M Reimbursement Proposal Passes
- Mango Markets Exploiter Returns $67M After Revealing His Identity
- Mango Markets Hacker Proposes Keeping $70M ‘Bad Debt’ As Bounty
- Solana’s Mango Markets Sees $100M Drained in DeFi Exploit
- BNB
- BNB Smart Chain Plans Hard Fork In Response to $100M Exploit
- Binance Chain Was Halted Amid Hack Rumors
NFT Royalties
- Magic Eden
- TCB Debate
- Tom’s tweet: “turns out