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UpOnly: Chats with Crypto Experts

78 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 144 ratings

Join Cobie and Ledger as as they chat with the most interesting people in crypto.

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Episodes

The regulatory landscape for crypto post-FTX, with Rebecca Rettig and Peter Van Valkenburgh

December 01, 2022 23:22 - 1 hour - 106 MB

Cobie & Ledger are joined by Rebecca (Chief Legal and Policy at Aave) and Peter (Director of Research at Coin Center) discuss the regulatory landscape in the wake of the FTX failure.

Mt. Gox's Mark Karpelès on Navigating Crypto Exchange Bankruptcy

November 29, 2022 22:46 - 2 hours - 115 MB

In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie & Ledger talk to Mark Karpelès, the former CEO of Mt. Gox, at the time the world's largest crypto exchange that failed and went through Bankruptcy. He talks about that process, and his thoughts on today's iteration of a similar situation with FTX.

FTX wallets drained while we're on air with FTX team member

November 12, 2022 15:51 - 3 hours - 84.7 MB

Cobie & Ledger talked to Zane Tackett, who directed institutional sales at FTX until just a couple days ago, and was working to help find solutions for the gap directly with top team members. And while we're getting the story of what's happened the last week, wallets start getting drained. We streamed for three hours and didn't always say a lot, but here's the whole thing.

UpOnly + Bankless

November 10, 2022 05:53 - 2 hours - 121 MB

Cobie and Ledger join Ryan and David of Bankless to cope together and try and put some of the pieces back in order.

FTX is liquidated

November 08, 2022 21:13 - 2 hours - 145 MB

In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie & Ledger talk the rapid downfall of FTX and acquisition announcement by Binance. We're joined by the CEO of Wintermute, Jim Talbot, Gainzy, Do Kwon, and Martin Shkreli.

Crypto bear market updates, with Cobie & Ledger

November 02, 2022 04:35 - 1 hour - 104 MB

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Will crypto make new all time highs, and will Ethereum topple Bitcoin post merge?

August 25, 2022 23:00 - 2 hours - 112 MB

Presented by FTX: https://uponly.tv/ftx

Crypto Narratives with Cobie & Ledger

August 04, 2022 21:33 - 1 hour - 102 MB

Presented by FTX: https://uponly.tv/ftx

Zooko on privacy and crypto history

July 28, 2022 22:36 - 2 hours - 137 MB

Presented by FTX: https://uponly.tv/ftx

Crypto Cope with Cobie & Ledger

June 30, 2022 23:39 - 2 hours - 119 MB

presented by FTX: https://uponly.tv/ftx

How to cope during the bear market

May 26, 2022 22:43 - 2 hours - 110 MB

In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie & Ledger talk to Keyboard Monkey and Flood Capital about what to do and how to manage through the bear market.

Down Badly

May 20, 2022 00:11 - 1 hour - 109 MB

Presented by FTX: https://uponly.tv/ftx

Crypto Narratives with Frank Chaparro

March 31, 2022 21:19 - 1 hour - 78.9 MB

Links Frank Twitter The Scoop Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Why Shave Mustache? – “It’ll come back” – Cousins getting married, doesn’t wanna steal the show The Block – Scoops has been there since 2018 – Soon to be 4 year anniversary – 100+ people – Have data, research content, consulting/ advisory – Subscript...

Jump Crypto President Kanav Kariya on the Wormhole hack, market making, and crypto outlook

February 10, 2022 21:50 - 1 hour - 79.1 MB

Introduction - Kanav is the President of Jump Crypto (@JumpCryptoHQ) - Jump Trading is one of the largest quant trading firms in the world and moved into crypto ~6 years ago - Grew into what Jump Crypto is today with 140 employees - Jump Crypto has been trading, building and investing in the space - Ledger: Who wins in a cage match, Alameda or Jump? Kanav: Depends on the rules! - Crypto was a trading problem to solve at first, sandbox environment for people to play with without messing...

Untitled Crypto Podcast Episode #2

February 10, 2022 20:34 - 1 hour - 109 MB

Cobie, Zion, Meltem, and Avi talk about nothing for two hours, again.

Untitled Crypto Podcast, Episode 1

January 29, 2022 23:41 - 1 hour - 93.7 MB

Cobie, Meltem, Z, & Avi

Michael Saylor: Bitcoin is the Best Property in the World

January 26, 2022 23:39 - 2 hours - 117 MB

Links Saylor Twitter Web Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Bitcoin Journey – First tweeted about Bitcoin in 2013, was skeptical – Would comment on early tech, very unknown at the time – Would tweet about Bitcoin and people find his old tweets – Learned about Bitcoin through poker and online gambling Diversifying – ...

Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum and immortality

January 20, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 94.1 MB

Links Vitalik Twitter vitalik.ca blog Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Wdyd Besides Crypto? – Vitalik reads a lot – Fascinated in how languages have evolved – Vitalik: Like you know how gate used to mean a structure that lets things in and out…now “gate” means a media scandal! – Ledger: “Favorite high fantasy?” – V...

Tetranode on being an activist whale for Ethereum projects

January 14, 2022 03:03 - 2 hours - 146 MB

Links Tetranode Twitter Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx

Cobie

December 17, 2021 03:38 - 3 hours - 212 MB

Links Cobie Web Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes UpOnlyTV Notes Introduction & Early Days  ⁃ Bought Bitcoin first in 2012 but really down the rabbit-hole through 2013 onwards  ⁃ Only other original CT person still active is Bob Laxative (formerly KingBTC)  ⁃ Being early turned people into survivors. Cryptsy, MtGox e...

Ethereum co-founder and ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin on the inevitability of Ethereum

December 09, 2021 23:19 - 1 hour - 98 MB

Links Joe Twitter Web Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Introduction  ⁃ Joe co-founded Ethereum and ConsenSys  ⁃ Worked in robotics, machine vision, AI. Moved into the financial space and became depressed by that, the economy and geopolitics. Saw centralised systems as bankrupt politically and financially  ⁃ Read the ...

Macro crypto narratives and investing via first principles, with Jordi Alexander

December 08, 2021 04:25 - 2 hours - 123 MB

Links Jordi Twitter Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Crypto Intro – Started off as a professional poker player – Then was working as a trader – Was in San Francisco during 2016, impossible not to hear about crypto – Was trading bonds and gold – Then went 80/20 gold/bitcoin, then 50/50, now just 100% Bitcoin – Gold ...

Trader Stream with ISO, SZ, and Abe

December 02, 2021 23:41 - 1 hour - 99.3 MB

Links Adam Twitter TraderSZ Twitter CryptoISO Twitter Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Trading – abetrade – making case for leverage if you’re at least decent at trading – Cobie: “Is there a reasonable path for someone who’s new to crypto to becoming profitable within 6 months to 1 year?” – abe: “Yeah I mean I start...

Hentai Avenger and Ansem on trading, trends, and market cycles

November 30, 2021 00:00 - 2 hours - 131 MB

Links https://twitter.com/blknoiz06 https://twitter.com/HentaiAvenger66 Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Intro  - Ledger refusing to say Hentai Avenger  - Will go with “Bob Avenger” for the stream lol Hentai Avenger   - “From last year to now made like a good sum of money. Then idk how I got here”   - Sold the top ...

Haralabos Voulgaris on owning Bitcoin and the value of self sovereignty

November 24, 2021 00:19 - 2 hours - 118 MB

Links Haralabob Twitter Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Betting – Big betters work hard to conceal how and where they are betting – You don’t just roll up to MGM and place huge bets usually – You do it through a bot that places bets on different websites instead – Then hope they pay out lol – Got rugged heavy in 20...

Debate: The morality of decentralization in crypto, with Udi and David

November 23, 2021 05:18 - 1 hour - 75.8 MB

In this episode of UpOnly, Ledger hosts a charity debate between Udi Wertheimer and David Hoffman about decentralization and moral prerequisites in blockchain design. CMS Holdings very kindly donated $300,000 to the development of Bitcoin to sponsor this debate.   https://twitter.com/cmsholdings Presented by FTX: https://uponly.tv/ftx   Udi & David: https://twitter.com/udiWertheimer https://twitter.com/TrustlessState

Paradigm founders Fred Ehrsam and Matt Huang

November 18, 2021 22:55 - 1 hour - 85.7 MB

Links Matt Twitter Fred Twitter Web Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes How’d You Meet? – Coinbase pitched Sequoia – Fred pitched the basis of the metaverse on the blockchain when Matt was at Sequoia – Then Matt and Fred emailed back and forth, then the rest is history – This was 2017 Metaverse – Fred: “People don’t...

Looks Rare Episode 1: Art Blocks CTO & artist Jake Rockland (Purphat)

November 10, 2021 15:01 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MB

This is the first episode of the Looks Rare miniseries, hosted by Fitch and Deeze. Today, they interview Art Blocks CTO Jack Rockland (known as Purphat) about his journey into NFTs, Art Blocks, tech, and more.     Presented by FTX: https://uponly.tv/ftx Deeze: https://twitter.com/DeezeFi Fitch: https://twitter.com/Fitchinverse Purphat: https://twitter.com/purphat Artblocks: https://www.artblocks.io/user/0xd6dd6961d3224958fcd306b76a991ab974ec1ebc

Ari Paul of Blocktower on maximilism, decentralization, and investing

October 14, 2021 22:31 - 2 hours - 117 MB

Links Twitter Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Introduction – Ari bought first Bitcoin in 2014 – Really dove into crypto 2016 – Friend emailed him in 2011 asking to check out crypto, Ari said it won’t retain value, not backed by guns like fiat – Ari: “For crypto you kinda gotta know a little bit about a lot of things...

Tokenomics and Ecosystem Growth with Tom Schmidt of Dragonfly

October 12, 2021 18:52 - 2 hours - 117 MB

Links Twitter Web Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Tom Intro  ⁃ Partner at Dragonfly Capital (@dragonfly_cap)  ⁃ Owner of elusive Gauntlet x Nike hoodie  ⁃ Formerly product at 0x and PM at Instagram Dragonfly Capital & Tokenomics  ⁃ East/West focus. Crypto is very different from Web2 in that you can’t really launch...

Path on NFTs, the metaverse and crypto cycle price predictions

October 08, 2021 00:38 - 2 hours - 120 MB

Links Twitter Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Introduction – Path has never had a job – Ledger: “You basically went from being a child, to retired” – Ledge wants to bring Teen Executive back on to teach him a lesson – Path bought Bitcoin on the run up in 2013 around $100 – Went to $250 then dropped to $50 in 3 days...

Power Law of crypto investing, with Haseeb Qureshi of Dragonfly Capital

October 05, 2021 23:02 - 2 hours - 120 MB

Links Haseeb Twitter Web Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Cobie & Ledger <> Haseeb Qureshi UpOnlyTV Notes Haseeb Intro  ⁃ Managing partner at Dragonfly Capital (@dragonfly_cap)  ⁃ Formerly a professional poker player then learned to code and became a software engineer at Airbnb before moving into crypto  ⁃ Full tim...

Building Compound and deep diving Defi, with Robert Leshner

September 30, 2021 23:01 - 1 hour - 105 MB

Links Rob Twitter Web Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Introduction – Founder of Compound Labs – Investor at Robot Ventures with Tarun Chitra (@tarunchitra) – Reads solidity, doesn’t write it – Interested in chess and the opera outside of crypto and investing – Chess ELO is 15/20 Compound Bug – Exploitable by pas...

Hasu on Crypto Fundamentals & Narratives.

September 25, 2021 17:45 - 2 hours - 128 MB

Links Hasu Twitter Web Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Hasu Twitter Day – Everyone has become a Hasu on twitter today – pplpleasr became Hasupleasr lol Hasu’s Day to Day – Basically thinks about stuff and writes it down – Has been getting back into the dating scene – Uses his actual photo, not Hasu anime pfp – I...

Sushi CTO Joseph Delong on building defi protocols

September 17, 2021 00:56 - 1 hour - 88.1 MB

Links Joseph Delong Twitter Web Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Notes by Kevin Music by GiovanniPickle

State of the Market, with CMSHoldings, Jason from Telegram, and Jim Talbot

September 02, 2021 22:58 - 1 hour - 105 MB

Links Dan Twitter Jason Twitter Jim Twitter Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Cobie & Ledger <> Dan Matuszewski (CMS Holdings) <> Jason from Telegram <> Jim Talbot UpOnly notes “How do we feel here?” – Ledger: “We have 1/2 of the true up only bull maximalists on here, if we get Kaleo on then we’d have the powerhouse”...

Sam Trabucco of Alameda Research: Find what you’re good at and do a lot of it

August 26, 2021 23:05 - 1 hour - 100 MB

Links Sam Twitter Web Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Sam Trabs Intro – Sam Trabs is now co-CEO of Alameda Research     – promoted from “trader” lol – Last time Trabs was on Bitcoin had just dropped to 30k – Thought it was “predictable” and then buying the bottom was also an easy trade – Right now there’s a “tempo...

How to make it in NFTs, with Keyboard Monkey.

August 24, 2021 22:39 - 1 hour - 92.7 MB

Links Keyboard Monkey Twitter Website Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes The Very Beginning – KMonkey almost degened all of his money away pre-2020 – Was getting yelled at by risk managers at work – Had $250k around the covid dumps in 2020 – Now is deep 8 figures – Monkey is now “diversified”, meaning stocks, real es...

OBJ on his journey into crypto, investing, NFTs, and more

August 20, 2021 02:36 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MB

Links OBJ Twitter OBJ Insta ProCamps Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX (formerly Blockfolio). Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes *Ledger flexed OBJ guest appearance to young neighbor *And OBJ shouted him out! legend intern note – given this is crypto, worth pointing out that OBJ is maybe the best wide receiver in the world Football & Intro – OBJ’s in ...

Avi Felman of Blocktower: Crypto is mid-cycle

August 05, 2021 21:40 - 1 hour - 85.5 MB

Links Avi Felman Twitter Website Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX (formerly Blockfolio). Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes *Cobie is coping HARD today, very hungover and may leave at any time to be sick Intro – Co-PM of BlockTower investment fund along with Ari Paul – Anything in crypto they’ll touch it or flip it if it can make money – Providing acc...

Regulatory deep dive with crypto lawyers

August 03, 2021 22:41 - 2 hours - 115 MB

Links Gabriel Shapiro Twitter Sarah H. Brennan Twitter Marc Goldich Twitter Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX (formerly Blockfolio). Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes Gensler Comments – Everyone is saying its incredibly important – Cobie: “Are we all gonna die or are we all gonna make it?” – Lex: “probably somewhere in the middle” FACK lol – *extreme...

Doug Polk on crypto, poker, and epic scams

July 29, 2021 22:43 - 1 hour - 95.7 MB

Links Doug Polk Twitter Upswing Web Podcast Show Partner This episode is presented by FTX (formerly Blockfolio). Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/ftx Show Notes FTX? - Ledger nailed new intro - UpOnly sponsored by FTX now! - Blockfolio is now FTX (as everything soon will be) - Doug was watching an MLB game and saw FTX on an umpire - So wild LEDGER DRINKS EVERY DAY - *one b...

Teen Executive on the Game of Investing

July 22, 2021 23:07 - 1 hour - 79.9 MB

Links TeenExec Twitter TeenExec TikTok Show Partner This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio   Show Notes Kicking it Off – Real name is Adam – 14 years old – Not taking outside noise into his trades – Just holding unless there’s something really clear cut to signal a temporary sell – ALWAYS FALL BACK TO HOLDING Trading – Cobie: “y...

Doom & Gloom with Light

July 21, 2021 04:22 - 2 hours - 116 MB

Links Light Twitter Show Partner This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio Full shownotes: https://uponly.tv/?p=230 Notes by Kevin Music by GiovanniPickle

Cobie’s Back: State of the Market with eGirl Capital

July 15, 2021 23:52 - 2 hours - 140 MB

Links Loomdart Twitter CL Twitter eGirl Twitter eGirl web Mewn Twitter Show Partner This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio Notes by Kevin Music by GiovanniPickle

Trading wisdom from CryptoCred, DonAlt and CMSIntern

July 09, 2021 00:50 - 1 hour - 102 MB

Links Cred Twitter Don Twitter Tech Roundup CMS Intern Twitter Show Partner This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio Show Notes cmsintern Intro  ⁃ Cold called Dan (@cmsholdings) for 2 minutes during a break and got grilled by Bobby (@robertjcho) for a whole 20 minutes  ⁃ Started a blockchain club in college  ⁃ Didn't Study memes in ...

Exit Scams & Crypto Economics with Taylor Monahan, Aaron Lammer, & Allison Reichel

July 02, 2021 02:28 - 1 hour - 108 MB

Links Aaron Lammer Twitter Exit Scam Allison Reichel Twitter Taylor Monahan Twitter Mycrypto Show Partner This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio Show Notes Ledger & Allison Reichel <> Aaron Lammer <> Taylor Monahan LedgerOnlyTV notes Exit Scam Podcast Story ⁃ Quadriga (large Canadian exchange) had a decent reputation ⁃ The Quadriga...

Justin Sun addresses market crash rumors, talks collecting & creating in crypto

June 24, 2021 16:05 - 1 hour - 102 MB

Links Justin Sun Twitter Tron Network Show Partner This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio Show Notes Beeple NFT Auction – Justin bought Jack’s first ever tweet, was second highest bidder on Beeple’s huge auction – Justin’s a traditional art collector – Also believes in 10 years all of our collections will be on the internet – The g...

John Bollinger, Creator of Bollinger Bands

June 23, 2021 01:12 - 1 hour - 104 MB

Links John Bollinger Twitter Main Site Show Partner This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio Full show notes

Solana founders on why the Solana ecosystem will thrive

June 17, 2021 22:57 - 1 hour - 102 MB

In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie & Ledger chat with the founders of Solana, Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, discussing Solana, what makes it different from other L1s, why they think it will last, and more. Links RAJ G◎KAL ANAT◎LY Solana Show Partner This episode is presented by Blockfolio. Trade on an awesome mobile interface fee-free, and still get all the great portfolio tracking features you know and love: https://uponly.tv/blockfolio Show Notes Marketing Solana – It’s hard to e...

Guests

Haseeb Qureshi
1 Episode
Joseph Lubin
1 Episode
Tom Schmidt
1 Episode
Travis Kling
1 Episode

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