Unconfirmed: Alameda Research's Sam Trabucco: What Solana Does Better Than Ethereum - Ep.289

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Sam Trabucco, co-CEO of Alameda Research, discusses the different price drivers that led to BTC, ETH, SOL, and LUNA reaching new all-time highs in the past week. Show highlights:

• why Sam believes no bad news from regulators is good news
• what effect leverage has on the crypto markets
• the significance of Bitcoin hitting a new all-time high and the crypto market cap reaching $3 trillion
• how the approval of a bitcoin futures ETF affected the crypto market
• what Sam thinks about the actions of US crypto regulators (hint: it’s probably not what you would think)
• why Sam thinks ETH’s price hit a new all-time this week
• what Sam thinks about the changes to ETH monetary policy and the upcoming merge to Ethereum 2.0
• how Sam views the competition among layer 1 blockchains and why he is not a fan of maximalism
• what factors he believes are driving the price of SOL
• what sort of projects are being built on Solana, and why people are excited about the ecosystem
• what Sam thinks about Terra passing a proposal to burn LUNA

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Sam Trabucco

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-trabucco-79215263/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlamedaTrabucco

Alameda Research

• Website: https://www.alameda-research.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlamedaResearch

Recent all-time highs:

• BTC: https://www.yahoo.com/now/bitcoin-sets-time-high-above-152238016.html
• ETH: https://fortune.com/2021/11/08/ethereum-all-time-high-bitcoin-btc-ether-spot-etf/
• SOL: https://decrypt.co/85457/solana-hits-all-time-high-of-260
• LUNA: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/11/10/terra-passes-highly-anticipated-proposal-to-burn-nearly-89m-luna/

Links mentioned:

• Alexis Ohanian’s Solana investment: https://www.forbes.com/newsletters/forbescryptoassetadvisor/2021/11/09/reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanian-bets-big-on-solana-and-web-30/
• Breakpoint conference: https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2021/11/solana-network-highlights-from-breakpoint-conference-paint-a-very-healthy-picture/
• Sam Bankman-Fried on Solana: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/solana-ethereum-rival-price-rising-bitcoin-000139765.html
• Sam Trabucco on leverage trading: https://twitter.com/AlamedaTrabucco/status/1451281805584310273

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