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AI Podcasts

February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI compute market is transitioning from an opaque, intuition-driven capital expenditure model to a commoditized, transparent, and financially engineered asset class. This shift de-risks infrastructure investments and optimizes resource allocation.
  2. Data center operators and large compute buyers should explore futures markets for GPUs and memory to lock in costs or revenues. Investigate residual value products to secure future hardware liquidity and reduce financing costs.
  3. Financial engineering of AI compute unlocks capital. Investors gain new opportunities in de-risked infrastructure. Builders get cheaper capital, clearer profitability, and faster scaling.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI infrastructure market is transitioning from speculative, intuition-driven investment to a financially engineered asset class, driven by the commodification of compute and memory.
  2. Evaluate your compute procurement and data center buildout strategies through a financial lens, leveraging futures and residual value products to hedge against price volatility and secure better financing terms.
  3. Quantifying future compute demand and hardware value is no longer a luxury; it is a necessity for sustainable growth and competitive advantage in the AI era.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Explore Ornn's futures and residual value products to hedge against volatile compute costs or secure future hardware value.
  2. Financial engineering for AI compute is no longer optional.
  3. It is a core component for efficient capital deployment and risk management, directly impacting the viability and growth of AI infrastructure over the next 6-12 months.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI gold rush is bottlenecked by capital efficiency. The shift is from speculative, intuition-driven data center investments to a financially engineered approach where future compute demand and hardware value are quantifiable and hedgeable. This unlocks institutional capital by reducing risk.
  2. Data center operators and large compute buyers should explore Orn's futures and residual value products to lock in costs, secure future revenue, and significantly reduce financing expenses, thereby gaining a competitive advantage in a capital-intensive market.
  3. The financialization of AI compute is not just about trading; it's about building a more robust, predictable foundation for the entire AI industry. Understanding these financial instruments is critical for anyone planning or investing in AI infrastructure over the next 6-12 months, as it directly impacts profitability and scalability.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI infrastructure boom is transitioning from speculative intuition to financially engineered certainty, driven by the need for predictable costs and asset values in a rapidly evolving hardware landscape.
  2. Evaluate your compute procurement and data center investment strategies through the lens of financial hedging. Explore futures and residual value products to lock in costs or guarantee asset liquidity.
  3. Financial instruments for AI compute are not just a nice-to-have; they are becoming a foundational layer for efficient capital allocation in the AI economy. Understanding and utilizing them will be key to competitive advantage and sustainable growth over the next 6-12 months.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Evaluate your compute and memory procurement strategies for hedging opportunities. Use Ornn's futures to lock in prices or guarantee residual value, optimizing your balance sheet.
  2. The AI infrastructure buildout is moving from speculative intuition to data-driven financial engineering. This shift will enable significant capital flow for expansion and efficiency.
  3. Financial tools for AI compute are no longer optional; they are critical infrastructure. Understanding and utilizing these markets will be a competitive advantage for investors and builders operating in the next phase of AI growth.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI infrastructure boom is transitioning from speculative buildouts to financially engineered, risk-managed investments, driven by the commodification of compute and memory.
  2. Explore futures and residual value products to de-risk your AI compute procurement or data center investments, securing predictable costs and monetizing hardware lifecycles.
  3. Quantifying future compute demand and hardware value is no longer a luxury, it's a necessity. Over the next 6-12 months, those who integrate financial hedging into their AI strategy will gain a significant competitive advantage in capital allocation and operational efficiency.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Implement compute futures and residual value products to cap future costs or floor future revenue, significantly reducing exposure to spot market volatility and hardware obsolescence.
  2. Ornn's residual value product allows data centers to sell GPUs years in advance, translating to lower financing costs for massive hardware investments.
  3. Ornn's index tracks dynamic marketplace GPU pricing, empowering smaller buyers to avoid overpaying.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Data center operators and large compute buyers should explore Ornn's futures and residual value products to lock in costs, secure future revenue, and access more favorable financing terms.
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Crypto Podcasts

July 26, 2025

Base Just Launched Crypto's Everything App | Jesse Pollak

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Content is the New Capital: The Base App transforms every post into a tradable asset. This makes content creation a direct form of capital formation, rewarding creators for attention in a way that’s native to the internet of value.
  2. The Rise of the Native Creator: The biggest winners on Base won't be Web2 transplants, but new creators who master the platform's unique blend of content and commerce. The strategy is to find and elevate undiscovered talent from every vertical.
  3. From Algorithm to Free Market: Base is trading the black box of social media algorithms for the transparent chaos of a free market. The central experiment is whether market-based incentives can build a healthier, more aligned social network.
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July 25, 2025

Crypto Hits Record $4 Trillion Marketcap BUT We're Just Getting Started

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **ETH is the New Institutional Primitive.** The "ETH Treasury" model is a new unlock, leveraging ETH's native yield to create a self-financing acquisition engine that is attracting billions in institutional capital.
  2. **The Floodgates Are Open.** The Genius Bill and explosive ETF inflows are not just bullish signals; they are structural shifts that are unleashing a torrent of capital and legitimizing the asset class for mainstream finance.
  3. **Risk is Ramping.** The excitement is palpable, but so is the risk. The treasury meta feels like a potential bubble, and legal threats against core DeFi and infrastructure remain a significant overhang. Buyer beware.
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July 24, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 123 - YUMA's Big Bittensor Bet

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Playbook is Proven. YUMA is running DCG's time-tested Bitcoin strategy on Bittensor—solving access, building infrastructure, and investing to catalyze the entire ecosystem.
  2. The Arbitrage is Complexity. Subnets are wildly undervalued compared to Web2 counterparts. The friction to invest creates a massive opportunity for sophisticated players and platforms (like YUMA and Sturdy) that can simplify it.
  3. The Moat is More Than Code. Bittensor's defense isn't just its protocol. It’s the flywheel of token incentives, a deeply committed community, and a decade-long head start on solving hard problems—a combination that capital alone can't easily replicate.
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July 24, 2025

Why I Ditched Bitcoin Mining for Ethereum

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Bitcoin Mining Business is Broken.** The model of guaranteed profit-halving and a relentless hardware arms race is unsustainable, forcing miners to pivot to more viable ventures like AI infrastructure or ETH staking.
  2. **Ethereum's Target is 10x Bigger Than Bitcoin's.** Ethereum isn't competing with Bitcoin; it's competing with the multi-trillion-dollar traditional finance industry. Its utility in powering stablecoins and DeFi makes its total addressable market exponentially larger.
  3. **A New "Race to a Billion" in ETH Has Begun.** The new competitive arena for public crypto companies is the ETH treasury. Success hinges on aggressive acquisition, capturing investor mindshare, and—critically—generating superior, risk-adjusted yield through staking.
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July 23, 2025

Exposing Crypto Market Makers With Matt Jobbé-Duval

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Playbook is a Trap.** So-called "active market making" is a destructive financing loop. Projects trade their future for a brief, artificial price pump fueled by selling locked tokens at catastrophic discounts.
  2. **Perps Are the Canary in the Coal Mine.** A sudden, plummeting perpetual futures funding rate is a massive red flag. It often signals that insiders are rushing to hedge their positions before an imminent and devastating spot price collapse.
  3. **Your Chart Is Your Reputation.** Once a token's chart is destroyed by one of these schemes, it becomes incredibly difficult to be taken seriously by the community, investors, or builders, leaving a permanent stain on the project's credibility.
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July 22, 2025

Trading Bitcoin Cycles With Willy Woo

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Don't Get Sidelined. Most of the cycle's gains happen in a handful of days. Trying to trade in and out of a bull market is a high-risk strategy that can easily leave you behind.
  2. Watch the Macro Clock. The Bitcoin cycle top will be dictated by the timing of the global business downturn. This, not internal metrics, is the primary indicator to watch.
  3. Use Price Levels as Triggers, Not Targets. If the macro downturn hits this year, a cycle top in the $140k-$160k range is plausible. Use these levels to re-evaluate risk rather than trying to perfectly time an unknowable peak.
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