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77: Jon Wu on Ethereum Merge, Starbucks/Polygon & Kanye’s Business Deals

77: Jon Wu on Ethereum Merge, Starbucks/Polygon & Kanye’s Business Deals

Not Investment Advice · Bilal Zaidi, Jack Butcher, Trung Phan

September 14, 20221h 5mExplicit

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Show Notes

Timestamps:

  • (00:00:00) - Intro + Meme Of The Week   
  • (00:03:19) - Burning Man Highlights   
  • (00:05:59) - Ethereum Merge In Simple Terms
  • (00:10:39) - Pros & Cons Of Proof Of Stake
  • (00:12:49) - Store Of Value
  • (00:16:01) - Examples of Bad Behavior in Proof Of Stake Mechanism   
  • (00:20:31) - Merge, Surge, Verge, Purge, And Splurge
  • (00:23:08) - Verkle Trees + Polygon
  • (00:32:28) - Should We Be Worried?   
  • (00:35:19) - Polygon Powering Starbucks Loyalty
  • (00:38:28) - Jon Wu's Case Study on Starbucks   
  • (00:47:39) - Will Starbucks Call Them NFTs?
  • (00:50:02) - Kanye’s Business Deals & Negotiating in Public


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