The Bitcoin Halving, Jeopolitics, Telegram (TON), and Special Guests
Imran and Qiao sat down to talk about the Bitcoin Halving, Geopolitics, and Telegram (TON) with special guests: Alexei Zamyatin (BOB) and David Tse (Babylon). No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:13 Welcome to Good Game 02:58 Is The Bull Market Over? 09:20 Keeping Up With Everything That's Happening 11:32 NodeMonkes and Bitcoin Puppets Competing for The #1 Spot 17:55 Imran's Bridging Experience 21:12 BitVM Fud 25:14 Welcome Alexei (BOB) 26:33 What Alexei is Working On 30:51 What Does Layer 2 Mean for BOB? 32:41 When Will BOB Launch and What Will Be The Security Assumptions? 34:49 What Alexei is Excited About 40:17 How Easy Is It To Support Runes On A Layer 2? 44:07 One Advice for Somebody That Wants To Build On Bitcoin Today 49:21 Welcome David (Babylon) 50:20 What Makes David Excited To Work In The Bitcoin Ecosystem 52:44 David Talks About Babylon 55:16 Explaining BitVM 01:02:33 Thoughts On The Halving 01:04:59 "Attention Matters Most" 01:07:56 (TON) Telegram 01:15:48 Open Platform 01:16:57 OP_CAT Announcement 01:18:48 Hong Kong ETFs
Hot Topics: Solana Congestion, Bitcoin Runes, Echo, and Ethena
Imran and Qiao sat down to discuss the current hot topics such as Solana Congestion, Bitcoin Runes, Echo, and Ethena. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:39 Welcome to Good Game 01:12: Qiao Tried to Ape In To Some Runes 01:26 What Are Runes? 02:55 How Do You Receive RSICs? 04:00 Do RSICs Come with a JPEG? 06:12 What Runes and RSICs? 07:20 Other BTC L2s That Want to Offer Support For Runes 08:07 When Will BTC L2s Launch? 09:26 Design Trade-offs For Runes 12:47 Runes Competing With Bitcoin L2s? 14:30 Who are the Runes Accounts on Twitter? 16:56 How Runes Will Play Out Alongside Bitcoin L2s 21:07 Game of Blocks (GOB) 23:11 The Bitcoin Renaissance 26:24 Qiao Shares A Funny Story 32:22 Critiques From Our Last Episode 33:49 Solana Congestion 40:02 Are We Biased Towards Solana? 43:23 Crypto Startup Stories: Fig Investments 46:00 Ethena 56:16 Echo by Cobie 01:05:22 The ETA for The Solana Patch
Crypto Market Outlook with CMS & Split Capital
Imran and Qiao sat down with Daniel Matuszewski (CMS) and Zaheer Ebtikar (Split Capital) to discuss the current crypto market. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:51 Welcome to Good Game 03:33 Daniel and Zaheer's Macro View 06:24 Daniel and Zaheer's Primary Focus 08:14 Interesting Leading Indicators 10:53 Zaheer's Eth ETF Approval Estimate 14:51 The TradFi World Doesn't Care About ETH? 17:05 Thoughts on Jim Bianco's Theory 19:42 What Daniel and Zaheer are Trading Right Now 23:55 Render (RNDR) vs. Bittensor (TAO) 28:27 What Daniel and Zaheer are Bullish on Recently 32:46 Is There Organic Activity Happening on Avalanche? 34:07 Thoughts on Ethena 38:56 Where are We in The Cycle? 40:13 The Biggest Bullsh*t Daniel and Zaheer Have Seen in The Industry That They Want to Call Out 42:46 Crypto Startup Stories: Thunder Terminal 45:58 Advice For The Average Retail or Crypto Founders Who Has a Full-Time Job 48:12 How Daniel and Zaheer See The Venture Market Today 53:09 Trading Ordinals? 53:21 Any Favorite Projects? 54:40 Final Thoughts/Comments Daniel Matuszewski Twitter/X: https://x.com/cmsholdings Zaheer Ebtikar Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SplitCapital
Mert Steelmans Ethereum, Unpacks Firedancer, and Talks Solana L2s
Imran and Qiao bring on Mert Mumtaz (Helius Labs) to discuss Ethereum, Firedancer, Solana L2s, and more. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:17 Welcome to Good Game 03:05 Mert Steelmanning Ethereum 08:44 Mert's Solana Prediction 10:54 Mert's Estimate on Firedancer's Timeline and Throughput Improvement 15:12 Thoughts on a Narrative Regarding Consumer Apps 17:02 Thoughts on What's Happening in The Layer 3 World 20:38 Layer 2 on Solana? 29:22 "There Are Other Ways to Decentralize" 30:18 Mert's Decentralizing Approach 31:55 MEV Comparison Between Ethereum and Solana 35:34 Calling Out The BS Mert Had Seen Recently 39:47 "The Whole Modular Narrative is Getting Out of Control" 40:47 Could There Be a World Where Solana Turns Out To Be in Ethereum’s Position? 43:42 The Two Hottest Narratives Right Now in Crypto 50:48 Mert's Favorite Apps on Ethereum
Market Trends: Memecoins, Blast L2, and SocialFi
Imran and Qiao sat down to talk about the current market trends such as Memecoins, Blast L2, SocialFi, and more. No BS crypto insight for founders. 00:00 Intro 00:56 Welcome to Good Game 01:24 Memecoins Becoming Very Consensus 04:11 “There's a Culture Shift” 08:28 Shitcoins Imran is Following Right Now 11:28 Tremp and Boden 17:47 Qiao: I Really Like the Idea of Trading Personal Tokens 20:24 The Blue-Chip Memecoins 23:30 A Tweet That Lost Imran a Lot of Followers 25:55 This Cycle is Unlike Any Other Cycle 26:34 Why Imran is Still Very Bullish on HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu 27:21 Bitcoin Puppets 30:29 Why Memecoins Are Taking Off on Solana 34:02 Base God (TYBG) 35:31 "Crypto is Going to Lead Culture Moving Forward" 39:20 Could Layer 2 Have Its Own Geo-based Chain? 42:07 Things on SocialFi Imran is Excited About 43:21 What Friend.tech V2 is About 46:08 Crypto Startup Stories: Pump.fun 54:28 Do You Think Friend.tech 2 Will Launch on Blast? 55:13 Let's Talk About The Blast Launch 56:51 Unique Apps Built on Blast: Baseline Protocol 01:02:43 Solana is Retail, Blast is Degen Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3N675w3 Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3snLsxU Website: https://goodgamepod.xyz Twitter: https://twitter.com/goodgamepodxyz