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#6: Digital Ocean Versus Google Cloud, Polychains $1Bn Fund, a16zs $300mm Fund, How to be a Shady Hedge Fund Manager, and 2nd Layer Solutions for Ethereum and Bitcoin

Published: July 16, 2018, 9 a.m.

It\\u2019s been an action packed week of investor heavy news. Vikram and Faizaan discuss Polychain Capital\\u2019s one billion dollar SEC filing, and how you need one million dollars to invest in them. They also look at Andreessen Horowitz\\u2019s 300 million dollar fund launch and how they are thinking about good crypto projects. They go over the shady techniques that hedge funds engage in in order to juice their returns and what a high watermark is. They also cover some alerts that QuantLayer\\u2019s platform picked up, and get into a really interesting discussion around 2nd layer solutions for Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Topics:

Google Cloud migration to Digital Ocean
Their bad experience with Google Cloud
The reason they decided to move to Digital Ocean
Investor market news in crypto
Polychain Capital\'s one billion dollar SEC filing
Andreessen Horowitz launched their $300MM investment fund
An open letter from Chris Dixon
Spencer Bogart talking about bitcoin/crypto prices being depressed due to forced selling by hedge funds
What a high watermark is
Some alerts that QuanLayer\'s platform picked up
-Crypto banned in India
-Increase in exchanged hacks (over $700 million)
-Bitcoin removes alert key
-Catching telegram announcements for VeChain token swap support
-The \\u2018official serious discussion\\u2019 that VeChain has
How ETH network has been taken up by 3 contracts
First layer scaling solutions: Sharding
Second layer scaling solutions: State Channel, Plasma, and Truebit
What Lightning Network is
Lightning network application

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