The Ledger, every show
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Samani: Solana can process over one billion daily transactions under a penny each
“Modern blockchains like Solana can actually process now more than a billion transactions in a day at an average cost of less than a penny per transaction.”
Samani: Congress will pass the Clarity Act by early 2026
“And in the next few months, we expect Congress is going to pass the Clarity Act, which is going to answer a number of open questions about how crypto market structure should be regulated.”
Samani: Hivemapper mapped 10% of global roads, growing 10x faster than Google
“Hive Mapper has mapped over 10% of the world's roads in one year, and Hive Mapper is now, they have signed multiple customers who are buying this mapping data. They have not publicly disclosed who those customers are, but like, Hive Mapper has built a mapping …”
Samani: Only four insiders knew about the database manipulations at FTX
“There, we know now there were four people who knew. Sam, Caroline, Nishad, and Gary. No one else knew. When you keep the circle small, like, you can keep information hidden, and explicitly, in this case, the information was, go make arbitrary changes in the da…”
Samani: Helium cuts 99% of traditional wireless telecom costs
“And the goal of this model is, or what's great about this model is you physically remove 99% of the cost from the system. So labor cost goes to zero. Land cost goes to zero. Backhaul cost goes to zero. You just physically remove like all of the costs.”
Samani: GEODNET uses 80% of its revenue to buy back tokens
“So today the GeoNet network is taking, of that eleven million in revenue, roughly excuse me, 80% of it is being used to make open market purchases of Geo tokens. And this is all visible on the Solana blockchain. They have all the addresses are published and st…”
Multicoin Capital hires blindly based on writing quality rather than resumes
“Step one of our hiring process is write an essay better than what's on our blog. I actually, I don't read your name. I don't read your background. I don't read your resume. I don't care. I just start reading the first words of your document.”
Samani: Multi-chain architectures inherently increase total computation and latency
“There's at a minimum two explicit costs and secondary and tertiary costs as well, but the two explicit costs are you are increasing the total amount of computation to be done because you're having to verify signatures on at least two chains or two places as op…”
Samani: Millions already trade crypto using Telegram bots
“Millions of people actually already trade crypto assets using Telegram bots that are not too dissimilar from this illustrative example I'm showing here on the screen”
Samani: Changpeng Zhao will serve less than 18 months in prison
“I believe consensus is he will be less than 18 months.”
Samani: Crypto markets will inevitably experience 50% to 85% drawdowns again
“Stuff in crypto Has over the last 10 years gone down 50 to 85%. It's happened many times. I think it will happen again.”
Samani: GEODNET trades at a $150M fully diluted market cap
“It's trading about a hundred and fifty million on a fully diluted basis.”
Samani: Most modern financial rules stem from administrative state, not Congress
“And interestingly, most of these rules have come not from Congress, but from the administrative state.”
Samani: The 2017 Gnosis ICO raised $12 million in 30 seconds
“Actually, no, I think it was the Gnosis ICO, which was in like May fifth or May 10th or something of 2017, but it was in early May. And that was at that point, probably a 10th legit ICO. At that point, I remember I was tagging with Tushar, and they brought twe…”