After successfully founding Satoshi Dice and Coinapult, Erik Voorhees took his developer passion to the next level with ShapeShift, one of the earliest and most influential trading platforms in the crypto space. Driven by his vision to reimagine global finance, Erik continues his pursuit for a new financial system that lives outside our modern day fiat ecosphere.
Follow Erik Voorhees: https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees
This episode explores:
Escaping the fiat system
Pristine money
Lambo memes
Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger
Money from thin air
DeFi vs banks
Yachts as collateral
Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade
Zero day bugs
Gambling in crypto
Governments freezing assets
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Voyager
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Mina
Mina is the world's lightest blockchain, powered by participants. Rather than apply brute computing force, Mina uses advanced cryptography and recursive zk-SNARKs to ensure a super-light and constant sized chain, that allows participants to quickly sync and verify the network. 
The team behind Mina is backed by VCs, including Coinbase Ventures, and Mina's adversarial testnet was the largest public testnet outside of ETH 2.0. To get involved ahead of Mina’s mainnet, visit https://thewolfofallstreets.link/mina 
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Matcha
Matcha is the easiest way to trade in DeFi. Matcha enables traders to seamlessly swap tokens using 20+ aggregated liquidity sources that deliver better prices than going to a centralized exchange or Uniswap. 
Connect your wallet and start today at https://thewolfofallstreets.link/matcha 
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