The Blockcrunch Podcast

The Supreme Court in India just overturned a ban on financial services providing banking services for crypto companies. Billionaire Tim Draper calls this a crypto Renaissance in Asia's third largest economy. To find out more, I chat with Sumit Gupta, founder of CoinDCX and one of the people who helped overturn the central bank's crypto banking ban.

• Why India is entering a crypto renaissance
• Why India's Supreme Court overturned the country's crypto ban
• How local startups are benefitting
• Indian exchange CoinDCX's unique aggregator model

Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). If you enjoyed the show, consider tipping! This show is not financial advice.

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Resources:

• Do your crypto taxes in a few clicks: cointracker.io/a/blockcrunch
• Copy trade crypto on: etoro.us
• Subscribe to my essays here: jasonchoi.substack.com

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Musical credits:

Transition track: "BHANGER" by Phortissimo. Used with permission

Outro track: "LEMMiNO - Infinity [Chill]" is released under a Creative Commons license (BY-SA) 4.0 Music provided by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/uweorwa3q34

Disclaimer: Jason Choi is an investor at Spartan Capital, the hedge fund arm of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.

I'm thrilled to be joined by Vance Spencer (@iam__vance) from Framework Ventures, an activist crypto fund bullish on DeFi and governance. I enjoyed Vance's no-holds-barred takes, and we discussed:

• Why Framework doesn't hold BTC
• The case against Ethereum killers
• Speculation as a use case: Chainlink, Synthetix
• The new winners in the crypto fund space

Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). If you enjoyed the show, consider tipping! This show is not financial advice.

• BTC: 3EFSLnPpme6Lo6DynN1bVV9owooueFvEmJ
• ETH: 0xdec40AA30B9C562aB4b839529BfC290C1B5Da61E

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Resources:

• Pay your crypto taxes with the help of https://bitdexs.com/
• Copy trade crypto on: etoro.us
• Subscribe to my essays here: jasonchoi.substack.com

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"LEMMiNO - Infinity [Chill]" is released under a Creative Commons license (BY-SA) 4.0 Music provided by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/uweorwa3q34

Disclaimer: Jason Choi is an investor at Spartan Capital, the hedge fund arm of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.

A special 15-min segment where I answer your questions!

• Why did crypto markets crash 30-40% in a day?
• What happened to MakerDao and why is it in deficit?
• How have I dealt with the coronavirus in Hong Kong?

Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). If you enjoyed the show, consider tipping! This show is not financial advice.

• BTC: 3EFSLnPpme6Lo6DynN1bVV9owooueFvEmJ
• ETH: 0xdec40AA30B9C562aB4b839529BfC290C1B5Da61E

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Resources:

• Pay your crypto taxes with the help of https://bitdexs.com/
• Subscribe to my essays here: jasonchoi.substack.com

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"LEMMiNO - Infinity [Chill]" is released under a Creative Commons license (BY-SA) 4.0 Music provided by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/uweorwa3q34

Disclaimer: Jason Choi is an investor at Spartan Capital, the hedge fund arm of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.

Singapore's status as the crypto hub of Asia has slowly been cemented in the past few years. Kenrick Drijkoningen (@KenrickLuneX), founding partner of Lunex Ventures, a SG-based crypto VC fund, joins me in discussing:

• Investing in "infrastructure inversion"
• Singapore government's forward thinking approach to encouraging crypto development
• ICOs, IEOs, and token sales in Asia

Subscribe or miss out!

Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). If you enjoyed the show, consider tipping! This show is not financial advice.

• BTC: 3EFSLnPpme6Lo6DynN1bVV9owooueFvEmJ
• ETH: 0xdec40AA30B9C562aB4b839529BfC290C1B5Da61E

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Resources:

• Pay your crypto taxes with the help of https://bitdexs.com/
• Sign up for eToro here
• Subscribe to my essays here: jasonchoi.substack.com
• Tom's blog post on liquidations here

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Intro music by Phortissimo.

Disclaimer: Jason Choi is an investor at Spartan Capital, the hedge fund arm of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.

A very special discussion on DeFi liquidators with Tom Schmidt (@tomhschmidt) from Dragonfly Capital and Taiyang Zhang (@bftzhang) from Ren Protocol & KeeperDao.

We discuss:

• How traders made $100K+ "risk-free" in single transactions by being "liquidators"
• Profitability of running liquidator strategies on different DeFi protocols
• KeeperDao, DarkDao and Game Theory in liquidations
• Should protocols use native tokens for collateral?
• Will liquidation market shrink if markets mature?

Subscribe or miss out!

Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). If you enjoyed the show, consider tipping! This show is not financial advice.

• BTC: 3EFSLnPpme6Lo6DynN1bVV9owooueFvEmJ
• ETH: 0xdec40AA30B9C562aB4b839529BfC290C1B5Da61E

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Resources:

• Pay your crypto taxes with the help of https://bitdexs.com/
• Sign up for eToro here
• Subscribe to my essays here: jasonchoi.substack.com
• Tom's blog post on liquidations here

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Intro music by Phortissimo.

Disclaimer: Jason Choi is an investor at Spartan Capital, the hedge fund arm of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.