The Ether Machine Chairman: Real Risk of DATs And Who Wins From Stripe And Circle’s Chains | Weekly Roundup
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I think that there's a bunch of liability in these shell companies. And it's not just, you know, the pre existing, you know, having to pay $5 to the existing CEO of the dying biotech that doesn't know how to spell Ethereum.
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Thanks for having me, guys.
Yeah. Rob, Santi, how's the week?
Not bad.
No, it's been a great week. I didn't know when you guys asked me to do this pod that I was gonna be a DAT pod. DATs every week. And so I don't know if like, you know, would have been motivated the same answer, but, know, I'm excited to have Andrew.
I mean, that's the industry. That's that's the industry today that we live in. We're calling it Suitcoin summer, not my term. I got it from Jameson Lobb. It is Suitcoin summer, baby. So, Andrew, wanted to have you on because several people have told me that so there's all there's all these dats right now. And several people have said you guys are running the best operated dat, and that is not that's my not not my words. I'm I'm sure you would say the same thing, but other other people have told me that. So I did wanna get into use this episode to get into a little bit of the operational side o
Happy to. And thank you again, the three of you, for having me. So if you didn't know me as of recently, it's probably because I kept my mouth shut during the Gensler era. And prior to that, before Ethereum launched, like a nerd, like any one of you guys, went to the first ever Ethereum meetup that was held by Aaron Wright in 2014 prior to the Genesis block of proof of work Ethereum. Before that, I did a bunch of different things, worked at UBS, the investment bank, but most recently built a medical records company where, simply put, if you went to the doctor's office and you had a procedure d
And told me, I told them I told them that you were coming on the show, they said, they said, ask him about blockchain, not Bitcoin, and the 2016 narrative. And they said, he he was kinda behind the you and Amanda may be a consensus for behind the blockchain, not Bitcoin of 2016.
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