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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
Like how easy is it for somebody to change
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
And like if you look at something like Solana, which has 800 validators versus Ethereum, which has like almost a million validators, more people are kind of like realizing that like sovereignty is really the most important property and not kind of like transaction speed or some of those things that are just kind of like slower databases.
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
Yeah, I mean, the S&P is a great asset that has performed extremely well over time, but it is not money, right?
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
Because it's not a bearer instrument, right?
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
So if you own the S&P 500, you're accepting counterparty risk, right?
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
Your stock is stored in your brokerage account, right?
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
And then there's counterparty risk of the company as well there.
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
So it's not really money that you can transact with.
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
So the biggest thing is just that it's not a bearer instrument.
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
So that's what separates like a monetary good where you could take actual possession of it without having to rely on a category.
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
So that would be like the big thing that's different.
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
But yeah, I am bullish on the S&P 500 as well.
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
I think the biggest risk is technical risk, probably.
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
There's a lot of upgrades in the pipeline over the next three years of the ZK, EVM, the post-quantum upgrades.
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
I think I'm less concerned today than I was a couple years ago about competitive risks.
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
I think at this point, Ethereum's network effects are...
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
mostly unassailable, right?
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
It's like 60% of DeFi, 60% of stable coins.
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
That's where the liquidity is.
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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman
That's where the institutions are.