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Apr 2024
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#327: Andreas Brekken, Founder of SideSh...

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Andreas Brekken is the founder of SideShift.ai, a platform offering direct-to-wallet trading. The exchange has processed over $1.25B in volume to date. Andreas first discovered Bitcoin in 2011 and has a deep technical understanding of the cryptocurrency space. In addition to being a long-term supporter of the cryptocurrency space, Andreas has substantial hands-on industry experience. He founded Justcoin.com, a Norway-based cryptocurrency exchange in 2013 (later acquired by ANX INTL), and then worked at Kraken as a software engineer in 2015 and 2016. He is also the founder of Shitcoin.com, a wide-reaching crypto content platform.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Meme coins
- When will meme coin mania end?
- Interacting with crypto exchanges
- ETH Dencun upgrade
- Eigenlayer mainnet launch
- The impact of Bitcoin halving on asset liquidity
- Balancing short-term optimization with long-term scalability
- Meme coin trading’s impact on the limits of current protocols
- How we reached the era of ‘peak degeneracy'
- Which blockchain network to build meme coins on
- Discovering Bitcoin back in 2011


SideShift.ai
Website: sideshift.ai
X: @sideshiftai
Telegram: t.me/sideshift

Andreas Brekken
X: @abrkn
LinkedIn: Andreas B.

 
 
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