10 Minutes or less DeFi and Crypto Updates
August 25th, 2020: Blockfolio Goes Nuclear
Pat and Amy discuss the Blockfolio acquisition, the fact that bitcoin is using 7 power plants worth of electricity, and wow, another company is moving significant cash reserves over to BTC.
August 24th, 2020: Curve 71% Attack…?
Amy and Pat discuss governance models for DeFi protocols in light of the 71% voting block lockup from the Curve founder, and how that relates to the debate over mining rewards in Ethereum.
August 21st, 2020: What’s the Yield, Yo?
Pat and Amy give a run down of the current yield rates, talk about Algorand and the different challengers to the DeFi throne, and Pat gives a run down of wrapped tokens for the uninitiated.
August 20th, 2020: Aave a nice day!
Pat and Amy discuss AAVE overtaking Maker in market cap, YFI hitting an insanely high $13,000, and the trend toward more non-ETH coins on Ethereum (FIAT, BTC, all that jazz).
August 19th, 2020: #PastaMoney
Amy and Pat discuss the rise of Spaghetti ($PASTA), if there’s really any value in these governance tokens, and, hey, Filecoin is back in the news, whatever happened to them?
August 18th, 2020: DeFi TVL Hits $6 Billion, Probably Because of Paris Hilton
Pat and Amy give a full run down of DeFi TVL and crypto currency market caps (vs. fiat) in this hard hitting episode, capped by us all learning that Paris Hilton’s cat is named Munchkin.
August 17th, 2020: ETC On The Way Out?
Amy and Pat discuss the recent Ethereum classic hacks (and what that means for exchanges supporting the protocol), and wow, BTC above $12k, can technical analysis really tell us what happens next?
August 14th, 2020: MicroStrategy’s Not So Micro Purchase
Pat and Amy discuss a $250 million dollar enterprise buy of Bitcoin as a hedge – what does this mean for broader enterprise adoption? Also discuss the Bitcoin Cash DAA changes and all the conflict in that community.
August 13th, 2020: The Rise and Fall of YAMS
Pat and Amy discuss the newest entrant to the DeFi world, Yam, and the bug that almost brought this fledgling protocol to it’s knees.