Ep. 20 - Gabriel Haines & crowdfunding on Juicebox to investigate SBF in The Bahamas The Juicecast

Matthew and Brileigh are joined by Gabriel Haines. Gabriel is a crypto content creator known for his shirtless videos in which he yells at the camera while waving a machete. After a recent crowdfund on Juicebox, Gabriel went to the Bahamas to investigate SBF in the wake of the collapse of FTX.

In this conversation, he tells us about the hummus to crypto pipeline and his journey as a content creator from making DeFi tutorials to his more recent yelling videos. He also tells us about the early days of DeFi, his reflections on what has changed, and what it’s like hanging around in Crypto Twitter during the bear of 2022.



Chapters:

00:01:00 Welcome

00:01:09 Gabriel's hummus to crypto pipeline

00:06:59 Gabriel's Juicebox project and his investigation in the bahamas

00:11:15 Juicy security incident in The Bahamas

00:18:39 The Haines family and Lee's background in creating content

00:20:30 The old days of DeFi when Gabriel first got involved

00:23:49 Building up a following as a content creator

00:25:20 The story of how Gabriel started yelling shirtless with a machete

00:28:32 NFTs vs web2 models of funding content creators

00:31:49 Explaining what your job is to people outside of web3

00:32:59 Being on crypto Twitter during the bear market

00:34:33 Fatigue of the "10 ways you can do X" giga-chad Twitter thread poster

00:36:55 Wrapping up



Topics Discussed:

Juicebox

Content creators in web3

Hot Dog Finance

Yearn Finance

Lee Eller



Follow Gabriel on Twitter @gabrielhaines

Follow Juicebox on Twitter: @juiceboxETH

Juicebox Protocol's website: juicebox.money

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @0xmatthewb

Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh



Credits:

Hosts: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Production: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Engineering: Matthew Brooks

Music by Darby Trash (Fruit Gushers)