Who Controls Crypto? How Venture Capitalists Exploit Retail Investors
290✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode:
https://www.bankless.com/debrief-the-regan-bozman-interview
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Today we explore the frontier of Venture Capitalists vs Retail Investors, are they at war? That’s exactly what we debate on the show with crypto writer and VC Regan Bozman.
Lots of questions to be asked on this episode:
- Is crypto experiencing an identity crisis?
- Are memecoins a reaction to VCs
- Why is the current wave of Airdrops broken?.
- Is attention more important than fundamentals?
- Where do we go from here?
It’s about time to gain some clarity into what’s really happening in the crypto space.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
6:10 Crypto Identity Crisis
17:15 Stories
25:18 Terminal Liquidity
20:14 VCs vs Retail
38:33 Token Sales
46:22 Airdrops
52:27 The Attention Economy
1:02:03 Solutions
1:09:31 Regulatory Hurdle
1:12:28 The Weirdness of It All
1:14:41 Memecoins
1:16:17 Where do we go from here?
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RESOURCES
Regan on X
https://twitter.com/reganbozman
Regan on Farcaster
https://warpcast.com/regan
Regan Thread
https://twitter.com/reganbozman/status/1776293611036197059
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