Erik Voorhees

CEO of ShapeShift

CEO of ShapeShift, Voorhees discusses cryptocurrency trading and decentralization.

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Bitcoiners would have more credibility in calling out garbage like XRP if they didn’t call everything garbage.

Mentioned on : 01/25/2025

Tell me something... do you believe Bitcoin adoption would be higher or lower today if stablecoins were never invented? How about EVM and smart contracts? You think Bitcoin as digital money is stronger in the absence of such things? You would prefer a world in which Bitcoin existed but not privacy coins, such that every transaction you ever made digitally was observed by Chainalysis? Perhaps you rarely even use onchain transactions, sitting cozily in your KYC'd custodial Bitcoin companies? Perhaps you still use banks for your loans instead of defi lending markets? Bitcoin's ascent has been greatly helped by the ecosystem of digital assets all around it. I know you don't agree with me, but some of us don't think these other things are "ancillary."

Mentioned on : 07/29/2025

@attorneysanders @MartyBent @brian_armstrong I perceive a meaningful difference between Ethereum and Fortnite vBucks, yes. How does one get by in this world with a mind so easily boggled?

Mentioned on : 07/29/2025

@MartyBent @brian_armstrong It's so weird how maxis cannot recognize that Bitcoin is best money AND that digital assets might exist and be useful that aren't narrow money.

Mentioned on : 07/29/2025

@1984_is_today @THORChain Hyperliquid is a great product, but it's for gambling Thorchain is a messy protocol, but it's actually important technology for permissionless finance The latter is the more noble project

Mentioned on : 07/23/2025

@BTC_Archive So they're just doing that one purchase then

Mentioned on : 07/22/2025

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