Quarterly Market Recap Q3 2022

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[00:02:22] - [First question] - General thoughts and most memorable points of Q3 2022

[00:06:52] - Getting comfortable with the idea of a floor in an industry without the means of being bailed out by something like the Fed

[00:11:54] - The level playing field and other players that have come out looking strong given the downside in the market

[00:15:13] - A quick recap of the Ethereum merge, current takeaways, and the road ahead

[00:21:06] - Whether or not there’s a way to measure the merge’s success going forward

[00:25:46] - The ultimate vision for Ethereum staking and its reward system

[00:27:22] - Whether or not leverage is what brought the system down

[00:30:43] - Major institutional momentum and adoption in crypto

[00:34:36] - The growth equity trolls were louder than the crypto trolls and crypto social stigma

[00:41:47] - Sentiments around the new wave of Free-To-Own NFTs

[00:45:16] - Material impacts on NFTs with a trend towards creative commons licensing and the experimentation phase of Intellectual Property 

[00:50:15] - What’s driving his interest around Bitcoin mining in the near future