Ep. 506 Getting Paid to Learn About Crypto

Max Kaplan of Sol Strategies breaks down how his company is building deep infrastructure within the Solana ecosystem through validators, staking products, and treasury strategy. He argues that crypto is entering a new phase where real revenue, usage, and block space demand will d ...  Show more

Ophelia Snyder, co-founder of 21Shares, explains how crypto ETFs were built to solve a major accessibility problem—making crypto investable through traditional financial systems. She highlights how early infrastructure challenges required building everything from scratch, while t ...  Show more

Send a textHow to survive the crypto bear market. In this episode Doc and Oz go through their experiences being mauled by the crypto bear and managing to survive. They discuss the most challenging aspects and coming to understand the values they seek through their crypto experien ...  Show more

Show Notes: 0:00 Mercury is in retrograde & impacting the besties 2:01 Sacks on Solana, sophisticated crypto strategies, crypto deep dive 26:23 Building regulatory framework for utility tokens, institutional money in crypto 40:59 Facebook whistleblower, potential ramifications & ...  Show more

Send a textIn this week's Crypto Unplugged Five Minute Friday Show, Doc shares the latest stories from the Bitcoin and Crypto Space. He covers Jerome Powell's Federal Reserve speech, Samsung's intent on entering the crypto exchange platform space, lawsuits against Coinbase, and C ...  Show more

Send a textIn this episode, the Crypto Unplugged team discuss the upcoming Ethereum Merge. Doc talks about the differences between Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS), energy consumption, Ethereum's Beacon chain and clarifies some common misconceptions related to the mer ...  Show more