Which Crypto Assets Belong in a Reserve? This VC Says Not XRP and ADA - Ep. 796
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I thrilled that a bunch of centralized exchanges are gonna be present? Not necessarily because I don't believe that they represent the true innovation of digital assets and crypto. Would I have liked to have seen decentralized exchanges potentially present there? Yes. Because that gives them a different view of the market. Would I have liked to have seen, you know, more people that have had a backing or a relevance in the regulatory side of things, like a Katie Hahn or a Rebecca Reitig. Rebecca has been at the forefront of this for years, and I think she would have been brilliant cast of chara
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you, Laura. This
has been a wild week for the crypto markets. The entire crypto market was at $2,800,000,000,000 on Sunday when president Trump posted on Truth Social that there would be a crypto reserve of XRP, SOL, and ADA. As an afterthought, about two hours later, he, again posted that the reserve would, of course, also include Bitcoin and Ether. Maybe he saw the outrage that was spreading on social media in between. The market surged about 12 and a half percent to $3,150,000,000,000 10 hours after those posts. However, they did retrace all the way back down the next day and then some. And as week's gone d
What do
you make of all this volatile action?
There's so much to unpack there, isn't there, Laura? So many different things, so many different balls in the air. I I think at the end of the day, I've been in this space now for eight years, and I remember a time where politicians, regular news outlets, everyone talking about crypto didn't even exist. You were the only one. Like I said before, I started my podcast in 2018 because of you. You were the first out there to start talking about crypto in a sense, more of an institutional kind of breaking these things down into, you know, more digestible pieces of information. We didn't have that f
Okay. But but what about so for this week, when Trump posted on truth social that there would be a reserve of the XRP Solon ADA, what was your reaction to that? Well,
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