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Ian Dunning

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
301 total appearances

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Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

It's getting better at this point.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

I think we've entered enough deals with enough people that I think we have that.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

But we've had everything from people being like, oh, you've issued bonds?

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

What's the rating on those?

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

To not wanting us to sell too much of one site because if we take all their power rights and then go bust,

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

they might have a long lead time where they can't get another tenant and fill that.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

And so there's a kind of two-party problem to this where it's like they want customers, but there's presumably a lot of customers, but maybe not as many customers are willing to do the big size and pay more upfront.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

But, you know, we're looking at their CDSs on some of these ones and thinking about how that affects our, you know, maybe we should pay you $3.50 an hour and take out a CDS for $0.10 per hour equivalent of insurance on your heavy leveraged neocloud.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

You're having a disruption.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

No names.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

But I think there's reason to be cagey on both sides, because this has all come from nothing like a year ago.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

We weren't there asking for it, and they didn't exist to sell it.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

And so the only rock is Nvidia, I guess, an extremely well-capitalized entity who is not going anywhere and is making a lot of GPUs.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

And we have a very positive relationship with them.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

And I think that is also a material factor.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

Or build your own.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

Yes, say more.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

Well, many people, I guess, now are working on building their own chips for inference, which is a strictly simpler technological problem.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

And ourselves and many of our peer trading firms have hardware teams to tackle this.

Odd Lots
Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

And you can outsource parts of that process, so it's not as daunting as it seems.