The Chopping Block: Arthur Hayes on Why Crypto Needs to Ditch the Banks - Ep. 466
b'BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes, fresh out of home confinement after settling charges with the U.S. government, joins \\u201cThe Chopping Block\\u201d with Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, and Tarun Chitra. The early crypto pioneer pulls no punches in his assessment of SBF, TradFi\\u2019s failings, and how crypto traders lost the plot in trusting CeFi middlemen.\\n\\nShow highlights:\\xa0\\n\\nwhy Arthur travels with stuffed animals, and what his favorite brands are\\n\\nwhat factors led Sam Bankman-Fried to success\\n\\nhow Bill Clinton seems to be related to many multibillion-dollar downfalls\\n\\nwhether everyone in crypto thinks that prices are eventually going up\\n\\nwhat\\u2019s the thesis behind Maelstrom, Arthur\\u2019s new investment arm\\n\\nwhy he\\u2019s bullish on decentralization but also game to trade \\u201cdog shit\\u201d\\n\\nwhat the impact of Silvergate\\u2019s failure will be on the crypto industry\\n\\nwhat would Arthur have done if he was the CEO of Silvergate\\n\\nthe role of rising interest rates in understanding Silvergate\\u2019s downfall\\n\\nwhy holding Tether\\u2019s USDT is not so different from USDC\\n\\nwhy crypto needs alternatives to dollar-backed stablecoins\\n\\nthe real reasons why the U.S. Treasury is worried about stablecoins\\n\\n\\n\\nHosts\\n\\n\\nHaseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly\\xa0\\n\\n\\nTarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures\\n\\n\\nRobert Leshner, founder of Compound\\xa0\\n\\nGuest\\nArthur Hayes, cofounder of BitMEX\\n\\nTwitter\\n\\nMedium\\n\\nDisclosures\\nLinks\\n\\n\\nUnchained:\\xa0\\n\\n\\u200b\\u200bSilvergate to Wind Down Operations in \\u2018Voluntary Liquidation\\u2019\\n\\nSilvergate Confers With FDIC to Avoid Closing Down: Report\\n\\nSilvergate Shuts Down Crypto Payments Network\\n\\n\\nBloomberg: Silvergate Had a Crypto Bank Run\\n\\n\\n\\nNYMAG: Arthur Hayes, the Original King of Crypto, Is Back.\\n\\nArthur\\u2019s posts:\\xa0\\n\\nWhite Boy\\n\\nDust on Crust\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'