Month: August 2024

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - UNCHAINED: How Crypto Tokens Get Launched and How That’s Evolved Over Time

Leaders from Flowdesk, a market maker doing billions in volume, reveal the complexities of token launches and crypto OTC markets.


In this episode, Reed Werbitt, US CEO of Flowdesk, and Hanson Birringer, Head of US OTC Sales, delve into the intricacies of launching a token and the evolving landscape of over-the-counter markets. They discuss what factors teams should consider when choosing market makers and exchanges, how the launch of bitcoin and ether ETFs has impacted the markets, and the role of points systems in attracting users to tokens. The conversation also covers the challenges faced by Bitcoin miners amid recent market developments and the opportunities presented by solving fragmentation.

Show highlights:

  • Reed’s and Hanson’s backgrounds and what Flowdesk aims to do
  • How market makers work with token issuers
  • How a token issuer decides where to launch their tokens and what market maker to choose 
  • Why Binance and OKX are the most desirable exchanges on which to list a token
  • Whether the crypto markets have changed with the launch of spot ETFs
  • The ideal ways to launch a token, and why it’s important to analyze the type of token 
  • How points systems have affected the go-to-market strategies
  • How the low float/high FDV coins have affected whether Flowdesk engages with a new project
  • The benefits of OTC trading and how crypto OTC differs from TradFi OTC
  • The challenge of having multiple banking relationships
  • How this year’s developments, such as the ETFs and Trump’s promises, have changed the landscape for Flowdesk
  • Why solving fragmentation is the next big opportunity, according to Hanson
  • Whether the result of the U.S. elections will affect Flowdesk’s business
  • How the halving and bitcoin ETFs have affected miners
  • The significant differences between the prices of locked tokens vs. their market price


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Guests:

  • Reed Werbitt, US CEO of Flowdesk and 
  • Hanson Birringer, Head of OTC Sales of Flowdesk


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CBS News Roundup - 08/21/2024 | World News Roundup

Barack and Michelle Obama wow the crowd at the Democratic Convention. Donald Trump returns to outdoor rallies. Pushing the military to adjust enlistment rules. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What’s That Building: Ravinia

For Reset’s “What’s That Building” series, architecture expert Dennis Rodkin and host Sasha-Ann Simons continue their summer run of visiting music venues across Chicagoland. Next up: Ravinia. We’ll learn more about how the venue that used to house a casino in the early 1900s eventually became a concert goer's dream just north of the city. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Up First from NPR - DNC Day Two, Trump Campaign On Tour, Lewiston Shooting Report

On day two of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Barack and Michelle Obama took aim at former President Donald Trump. Trump and his running mate — Ohio Senator JD Vance — plan to visit vital swing states every day this week, and the final report is out in an investigation into the deadliest mass shooting in Maine's history.

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Amarica's Constitution - Circuit of Shame

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has been overruled by the Supreme Court more often, and more forcefully, than any other circuit during the past term.  Why?  What are the consequences for the judges of the Fifth Circuit, if any?  Is this a problem for our judicial system, and if so, are there any remedies available?  Listeners to Amarica’s Constitution will not be surprised to learn that Professor Amar has some ideas on this topic.  He also grounds the problems and the solutions in history and structure, and lest one think this is a partisan attack on a conservative court, he tells of his past criticism of the then-ultra-liberal ninth circuit for analogous behavior. 

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Big Technology Podcast - Fyre Festival’s Billy McFarland Dishes On Social Media Marketing, VC, and Prison

Billy McFarland is the founder of Fyre Festival. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss what he learned about social media, investing, and prison during his ordeal at the helm at the world's most infamous music festival. Tune in for McFarland's clear-headed insights on what he did wrong, how social media sells a version of the world that is not there, how inflating his numbers changed investors' approach to his business, and what ten months on solitary confinement does to a man. Tune in for a fascinating, deep discussion covering the making and downfall of an internet phenomenon.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - The human strain: can mpox be contained?

Mpox is spreading fast across Africa, yet public information campaigns are scant and vaccines in short supply. Is a new pandemic in the offing? Strategists are pondering a new potential threat from Russia: the possibility that it could detonate a nuclear weapon in space (09:42). And an Economist correspondent answers another of your questions about Artificial Intelligence (18:16). 


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Money Girl - 6 Money Moves to Make When Interest Rates Drop

Laura reviews smart money moves to improve your finances when the Fed cuts interest rates.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 8.21.24

Alabama

  • 3rd Nitrogen hypoxia execution date set for November 21st by Governor Ivey
  • State will not implement new voting rights removal law until after November
  • State lawmaker will re-offer post election audit bill in 2025
  • State lawmaker looks to re-evaluate funding formula for AL public schools
  • Sen. Britt honors service of Baldwin county sheriff before his retirement
  • Country singer Keith Urban thanks fans for great pop up concert in Athens

National

  • Heritage Foundation says illegals registered to vote is no small matter
  • Day 2 of DNC Convention has protestors in streets and Bernie Sanders confirming the Kamala Harris espouses his socialist ideology
  • Dem VP candidate Walz caught lying about IVF used for his 2 kids
  • RFK Jr's VP running mate suggests a joining of efforts with Trump campaign
  • Trump speaks in MI about crime and safety, is open to suggestion from RFK
  • The body of shooter at Trump rally was cremated just 10 days after event
  • Utah launches lawsuit against Federal land management to SCOTUS
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NBN Book of the Day - Joachim C. Häberlen, “Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe” (Penguin, 2023)

In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague, Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the streets, fighting for a better world. Their efforts came to a head most dramatically in 1968 and 1989, when mass movements swept Europe and rewrote its history.

 In the decades between, Joachim C. Haberlen argues in Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe (Penguin, 2023), new movements emerged that transformed the nature of protesting. Activism moved beyond traditional demonstrations, from squatting to staging 'happenings' and camping out at nuclear power plants. People protested in the way they dressed, the music they listened to, the lovers they slept with, the clubs where they danced all night. New movements were born, notably anti-racism, women's liberation, gay liberation and environmentalism. And protest turned inward, as activists experimented with new ways of living and feeling, from communes to group therapy, in their efforts to live a better life in the here and now.


Some of these struggles succeeded, others failed. But successful or not, their history provides a glimpse into roads not taken, into futures that did not happen. The stories in Haberlen's book invite us to imagine different futures; to struggle, to fail, and to try again. In a time when we are told that there are no alternatives, they show us that there could be another way.

Joachim C. Häberlen is a historian of modern Europe. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and worked until 2022 at the University of Warwick; he now lives and works in Berlin.

Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter.

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