ROLLUP: Trump Crypto Reserve | SBF Prison Interview | Ethereum Leadership Shuffle

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Joining the Weekly Rollup this week is Haseeb Qureshi, dissecting Trump's controversial Crypto Strategic Reserve announcement featuring Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, and Ripple—causing an initial market surge and a swift reversal. They unpack Sam Bankman-Fried's candid prison interview with Tucker Carlson, revealing a stark divide between human empathy and detached pragmatism. Plus, Trump's erratic tariff policies are rattling macro markets; is it strategic or simply chaotic? Finally, they delve into Ethereum's leadership shuffle, Base's new speed upgrade challenging Solana, and AI's profound reshaping of crypto startups and blockchain usability.

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TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES

0:00 Intro

0:26 Tucker Carlson Interviews SBF
https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1897709140535132442

5:10 Trump announced strategic crypto reserves
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114093946326587357
https://x.com/cz_binance/status/1896246000161001877
https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1896588091235656190
https://x.com/EleanorTerrett/status/1896966911721607536
https://imgur.com/a/Q3tPnYI
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1896240960788627681
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1896305838144548884
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1896958095424729133
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1896949387856933048
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1896951231266140234

25:14 Tariffs & Macro Markets

41:20 Ethereum Foundation has new leadership!
https://x.com/ethereumfndn/status/1895851576251826227
https://x.com/tkstanczak/status/1895862549578469523
https://x.com/tkstanczak/status/1896246373919453285
https://x.com/ethereumfndn/status/1895442343689363652
https://x.com/TimBeiko/status/1892593175845368316
https://x.com/dannyryan/status/1895851747865944114
https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1895863075527700959

52:23 Base is getting faster and faster!
https://x.com/buildonbase/status/1895223243713458184?s=46
https://x.com/jessepollak/status/1895283716597166514
https://base.mirror.xyz/HwG1GQ5hoxz0OTOF_nQhNcVTk4Ae9cRIrcqVQ14N4-c

55:41 Devconnect
https://x.com/BanklessHQ/status/1897321244158255567

1:00:14 AI Developments & Kaito
https://x.com/Punk9277/status/1897684877098770736

1:16:12 Closing & Disclaimers

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0:00.0	Bankless Nation, welcome to the weekly roll-up.
0:06.1	Each week I'm bringing on a different co-host to help me go through the news.
0:08.6	And this week, I have the pleasure of being joined with once again by Haseeb Qureshi.
0:12.5	Haseeb. Happy Friday.
0:13.5	Happy Friday to you here today.
0:14.7	Happy Friday to you too, man.
0:16.7	So we have a pretty good agenda here today. We're going to talk about Trump's antics with the crypto-strategic reserves,
0:22.1	also his tariff yo-yoing, his implementation and retraction of tariffs.
0:27.0	We're going to talk about Ethereum as well.
0:28.8	But first, before we get into all of that stuff,
0:31.2	something that just dropped right before we started recording is a Tucker Carlson interview
0:36.7	with Sam Bankman-Fried. I was not expecting
0:38.9	this to see on my timeline. You know, when you see weird stuff on your timeline, your first, my
0:43.4	first reaction is like, oh, this is AI. Somebody just made an AI interview of Tucker Carlson and
0:48.1	Sam Bankman-Fried. No, it turns out this one's real. It's a 42-minute interview with Sam
0:52.8	Bankman-Fried in prison. And Hizib, I believe,
0:55.6	you just actually wrapped up watching this. What are your takeaways? I watched the entire thing.
1:00.4	It's really, I don't know, it's eerie. It's very sad. I mean, the thing is, like, we saw so much
1:06.0	of SBF when he was in his prime. You know, he's now, it's been two years that he's been in prison.
1:11.8	And just seeing what prison does to somebody,
1:15.1	it's like, it's sad.
1:16.5	Obviously what FtX did was sad
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