BitLift Discord members Shoegazer and Gwindarr take a break from ETHDenver 2023 to hang with Gerbz and discuss crypto at the first ever IRL BitLift Meetup!
Show Notes
We covered a wide range of topics including:
- Meeting BitLift Discord friends IRL and figuring out what names to call each other
- Shoegazer being in crypto “for the tech”
- Gwindarr being in crypto “for the POAPS”, and how onchain transactions is what he wants to see happen most
- Gwindarr’s shitcoin trading back in the Poloniex days
- TradFi middlemen and transaction fees
- Filtering the signal from the noise in crypto Discords
- Shoegazer’s adventures solo staking ETH and running Ethereum 2.0 nodes
- Unfortunate consequences of CeFi last cycle
- Using the Boom4 Planner to prepare for next cycle
- Shoegazer’s biggest learning from his first cycle, “Take Winnings”
- Considering the time commitment before apeing into shitcoins
- The crypto tax software nightmare
- Gerbz’s system for tracking his crypto movements
- Takeaways from ETH Denver 2023
- Coinbase’s Base Chain on Optimism announcement
- Crypto regulatory crackdowns
- None of us used FTX
- The BitLift discord community
- BitLift POAPS, and should we bring them back?
- Reddit being the center of the cryptoverse before Twitter and Discord ever existed
- Gerbz’s source of crypto news, BitLift’s “Crypto Twitter” list