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“So I actually think, like, crypto shilling, crypto tribes can reduce the amount of violence in the world in the long term and will.”

“I think he'll be running and winning from a jail cell as well. The entertaining, the most entertaining outcome is is the most likely, right?”

“Yeah, I mean, I think NFTs are gonna come back in a big way. I, I've said, and I think still you know, NFTs have a good chance to be you know, bigger than cryptocurrencies in terms of mainstream adoption. And the reason is because people, I think more people i…”

“Like I think a strategy, you know, a dishonest, but probably successful strategy for one of these billion dollar fund managers would be to, you know, pitch to LPs that you're investing in, you know, bleeding edge crypto that's gonna, gonna push the space forwa…”

“The second largest donor to Joe Biden was Sam Bankman Freed.”

“I personally think, you know, he's going to be leaning into crypto in a big way in 24, 24, that's my prediction, but we'll see.”

“I still think there's a chance we get to. 10 trillion in total market value without that, because again, this, the idea of, you know, empowering billions of people around the world with this kind of new financial system is revolutionary”

“I would say three to five years, you know, it's likely before that, but you know, with a high degree of conviction, I would say three to five years.”

“You know, we hear so much about the ICO boom, but in terms of, kind of, like, total value created this year, there's actually been way more value created by forks than ICOs.”

“They always come during bull markets and then leave during bear markets.”

“In the first one, 22 investments, we've only we haven't had any zeros. We've had two projects that basically you know, dissolved, but they actually gave back, in one case, about 50%, and in, in another case, about 70%. So we actually haven't had any, Zeroes in…”

“Alameda was their investment arm that was basically investing in these token projects. Then FTX, the exchange, was listing these tokens, hyping up the tokens to their users.”

“Taylor Swift is never going to create music NFTs.”

“Do I think it's going to be a, an important product in the world in five years, much more important than it is today? Yes, because I think NFTs are important, and because I think an on-ramp to NFTs is is very valuable for people.”

“A lot of these big projects that have raised a ton of money aren't likely going to ship anything for many years in some cases.”

“Especially with, you know, AI, it's going to be harder and harder to tell if something's authentic or not, if someone's a genuine human or not, so I think authenticity and kind of an assessment of the vibe of authenticity is going to be increasingly important”

“Richard on, on, my team, my partner, tweeted out on October 13th that Sam was working behind closed doors on a bipartisan bill that would have been very good for FTX, but bad for DeFi, right? And that tweet went viral. Obviously, a lot of other stuff happened …”

“So I now think every wallet is going to have a messaging component. And on-chain messaging is going to be a big you know, crypto use case eventually.”

“I don't think many crypto funds are getting raised. And I think LPs are going to get a little smarter and do more diligence and not just you know, deploy You know, like crazy into you know, fund managers that don't really have any unique insights or defined st…”

“And so, if you look right now at kind of coinmarketcap.com, the top 25 tokens by market value, I think 24 of the 25 are usage tokens.”

“And by the way, these aren't mutually exclusive, so you can have tokens that are both usage and work tokens, and I think many tokens in the future will likely be that.”

“So I think when we see proof of stake, we're going to start to see kind of more inclusive ways to create decentralized organizations that lots of people can participate in.”

“My sense was that the ICOs had slowed down quite a bit, but there were still four hundred million in token sales in November alone.”

“So, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent external to the network of Bitcoin just to secure the network.”

“There's been over four billion dollars in token sales,”

“Ethereum can process roughly 15, Bitcoin roughly seven”