The Big Brain Podcast Ep.1: Winning the Crypto Long Game
Quick Take
- Haseeb Qureshi and Jordi Alexander discuss the similarities between poker and crypto, the economics of bitcoin’s endgame, the intersection of AI and crypto, and more.
Episode 1 of The Big Brain Podcast, hosted by The Block's CEO Larry Cermak and MegaETH CSO Namik Muduroglu, was recorded with Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi and Selini Capital Founder Jordi Alexander.
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In this episode, Haseeb Qureshi and Jordi Alexander discuss the similarities between poker and crypto, the economics of bitcoin's endgame, the intersection of AI and crypto, and more.
OUTLINE
00:00 Introduction
02:25 Similarities between Poker & Crypto
06:33 Maintaining Crypto Conviction
12:40 Surviving the FTX Fallout
17:55 FTX Marketing Spend
24:05 The Trump Era of Crypto
26:34 Bitcoin Endgame Economics
34:32 Crypto & AGI
43:07 Analysts vs. LLMs
47:47 Market Making & AI
51:52 F.A.F.O. Onchain
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- Noise: https://www.noise.xyz/
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