Laser Eyes Stay On With Allen Farrington The Gwart Show | Bitcoin Tech & Culture

Allen Farrington, co-founder of Axiom, discusses Bitcoin scaling, the role of venture capital in Bitcoin's ecosystem, his thoughts on DeFi, NFTs, and stablecoins, and the potential for Bitcoin to supplant fiat money. He also shares his insights on the ordinals debate and the future of Bitcoin infrastructure.

00:00:00 Start
00:00:32 Allen intro
00:01:22 Allen's background
00:06:30 Investing in public Bitcoin companies
00:10:44 Axiom
00:13:26 What wrong with DeFi
00:20:38 How does Axiom decide what to invest in
00:24:11 Lightning gaming
00:28:49 Criticisms of lightning
00:33:02 Do L2s have to have trust tradeoffs?
00:36:00 Will BTC kill fiat?
00:38:52 How is Axiom NOT like other VCs?
00:42:23 Are tokens always silly?
00:48:56 Stablecoins
00:53:06 Are stablecoins doomed?
00:57:56 People want centralized stablecoins
00:59:42 What is DLCVM?
01:06:25 Rollups
01:10:47 Companies must ROI
01:19:20 Ordinals
01:27:25 The circular logic of scams
01:38:56 Wrap up


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