A Tale of Two Rug Pulls | Weekly Recap
Dear Bankless Nation,
We called this past week a Tale of Two Rug Pulls on our Weekly Rollup.
Rug Pull #1—Elon tweets that Tesla has “suspended vehicle purchase using Bitcoin” due to concern about “rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining” but they’re looking at other cryptocurrencies that “use <1% of Bitcoin’s energy”
Bitcoin tumbles on the back of this tweet—oh the betrayal!
Ok, Elon didn’t you know about proof-of-work in February when you first added Bitcoin as a payment option? But also…maybe this is just the energy consumption narrative rearing its head…so does that mean it’s good times ahead for proof-of-stake? But mostly…maybe we should stop taking advice on crypto from rich guys.
Rug Pull 2 #—dog meme coins pumping (blame Elon again??)…and for some reason the doggie coins send billions worth to Vitalik (well, not really billions…there’s no liquidity) and then Vitalik sells them all to donate the proceeds to public goods…speculators washed out.
Doggie coin rug pull? Regenerative finance? Poetic justice?
Watch our version of the story.
Just another week in crypto folks. Seriously, is there any place you’d rather be?
Oh…and the Bankless DAO is humming. Wow.
Here’s what’s lined up for next week:
- Matt Hougan is sharing his thoughts on institutions and DeFi
- Mark Yusko is coming on the podcast to talk about crypto investing 👀
- Exploring the Polygon ecosystem (gas fees are too damn high!!)
Let’s get to the recap.
- RSA
P.S. Listen to David talk about ultra sound money at CoinDesk Consensus 2021 🦇🔊
Event starts on May 24th. Register here.
Recap for the week of May 10th, 2021
🎙️WEEKLY PODCAST EPISODE
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ACTION RECAP
- Execute any good market opportunities you saw in Market Monday
- Earn a profit by arbitraging RAI
- Explore the theory of the DAO 🔥
- Understand the enemy: Coordination Failures
- Predict whether or not the flippening will happen
WATCH & LEARN
- 🎙️ Listen to Legitimacy with Vitalik Buterin
- 📺 Watch SotN #46: The ETH Trade | Su Zhu and Kyle Davies
- 📺 Watch Rollup: Vitalik rugs for charity | Elon & Bitcoin | Balancer V2
METAVERSAL 🧙♂️
BANKLESS DAO 🏴
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📺 Episode 46 of State of the Nation
📺 Watch State of the Nation #46: The ETH Trade| Su Zhu & Kyle Davies of 3AC
Su Zhu and Kyle Davies are legendary crypto investors & founders of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital. They join the State of the Nation to discuss the bullish case for ETH.
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