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Welcome to \u201cThe Chopping Block\u201d \u2013\xa0where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner, chop it up about the latest news.\xa0In this episode, Robert stirs the debate over Hinman's 2018 speech and what it means for the debate at the SEC over whether BTC and ETH should be considered securities, the similarities between Ethereum and Solana, and how Binance.US is dealing with a move to freeze its assets. Moreover, the group kicks off with a brief history lesson on the infamous PEPE meme!\nListen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.\nShow highlights:\xa0\n\nwhere the PEPE meme comes from\n\nwhether Mark Zuckerberg and the project Libra played a role in the animosity toward crypto\n\nwhy Robert says that Hinman's speech in 2018 was crafted with broad inter-agency work, in contrast to what the SEC has been saying\n\nhow the documents show that the SEC didn't believe there was enough clarity to classify ETH as a security\n\nwhether these documents diminish Gary Gensler's claims that almost everything in crypto is a security\n\nthe similarities between Ethereum in 2017 and Solana at the moment\n\nwhat the drama is in Solana around forking Alameda coins\n\nwhat the new features of the Uniswap V4 draft code are\n\nwhether the 'hooks' in the new code facilitate rug pulls and introduce much more complexities\n\nhow Binance.US has dealt with the SEC lawsuit and request to freeze its assets\n\nRobert's crazy idea to use Uniswap V4 and why Tarun killed it\n\nwhat extreme sports represent crypto more accurately\n\nHosts\n\n\nHaseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly\xa0\n\n\nRobert Leshner, founder of Compound\n\n\nTom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly\xa0\n\n\nTarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures\n\nDisclosures\nLinks\n\nUnchained:\n\nSEC Anticipates Responding to Coinbase Petition in 120 Days\n\n\nBinance.US and SEC Work On Deal to Avoid Total Asset Freeze: Report Binance.US Says SEC\u2019s Request to Freeze Assets Would End Crypto Exchange\n\n\nBinance, Coinbase and Binance.US Record $4 Billion in Weekly Outflows \n\nUniswap Releases Draft Code for V4\t\n\nThe Block:\xa0\n\nRipple calls for investigation into former SEC official after document release\n\nFormer SEC director Hinman's plan to call Vitalik Buterin revealed in Ripple lawsuit\n\nSEC comments on Hinman speech released in Ripple Labs filing\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices