The Chopping Block: 2024 Election Debate feat. Mike Novogratz & Shaun Maguire - Ep. 729
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It's a special edition of the chopping block covering the 2024 presidential race, hosted by Robert Leshner right here, right now, on the chopping block.
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the chopping block, the industry insider's perspective on the crypto topics of the day. And right now, there's no bigger topic in crypto than the US presidential election taking place on Tuesday. This will be a special episode with a different format than you're used to. We're gonna be hosting a debate between 2 titans of industry with different perspectives on the candidates to discern how the future of crypto in the US might evolve differently under a Harris or a Trump presidency. I'm Robert Leshner, the czar of Super State and the moderator of today's debate.
guys.
And Sean Maguire, the seasoned champion of Sequoia Capital, who catalyzed the Silicon Valley debate when he publicly donated $300,000 to Trump in May. Hey,
everyone. Thrilled to be here. Sean.
We are all early stage investors in crypto, but I wanna caveat that nothing we say is investment advice, legal advice, or even life advice. Please see the chopping block dotxyz for more disclosures. Before we begin, I'd like to start by sharing my backdrop of thinking for this debate and discussion. In general, I believe that there's 2 intertwined segments of the crypto industry, assets that go up, like Bitcoin, and crypto market infrastructure, like custody, trading, DeFi, wallets, tokenization, RWAs, etcetera. A lot of things that Galaxy does. During both the Trump and Biden administrations,
everyone. Happy to be here. Ready to get my head chopped off by Novo, someone I have admired for a long time. I'd only met in person maybe three times. It's crazy for me to be I just gotta start with the meta point. It's crazy for me to be defending Trump because in 2016, I was all in behind Hillary and thought that Trump was a Russian spy and that the world would end if he got elected. And so I just have to start that it's been quite the journey for me. I I think some of the pillars of why I think Trump would be better on crypto specifically are, one, he is a huge fan of deregulation, and we
talk about world liberty a little bit later on the episode. But,
look, he's got young children that are really into crypto and I think have educated him on where it's going, at least certain aspects of it. And at least as far as I can tell, he's he seems like a true believer at this point. I also think, you know, he's from my experience, I I think Trump feeds on love. Like, when when people show him love and respect, like, that's such a opposite emotion of what he's been getting for the last 8 years from the media that when he gets that, he it creates a positive feedback loop for him, and he really creates more of it. And just to be very candid, seeing him
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