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Eric Voorhees

Eric Voorhees

Founder of Venice.ai; cryptocurrency entrepreneur; previously founded ShapeShift exchange and SatoshiDice.

Jun 22, 2026

45:28
My main question here, and this is, don't get me wrong, there's a lot to go into there, but where I kind of want to start this is, why now? Why did you decide that the tools available to you were appropriate to make this change, whereas previously they weren't?
45:45
Great question.
45:47
Yeah, so if you had asked me a year ago, hey, Eric, are you going to decentralize ShapeShift, I would have considered it, but wouldn't have known how to do it, wouldn't have known that it could be done.
46:01
and wouldn't have realized how powerful of a decision it could be.
46:05
And so I would have probably just dismissed the idea.
46:08
So this is relatively new.
46:11
This started with us integrating decentralized protocols for trading in ShapeShift.

15 MINS LATER

DemetrickHOST
61:04
And so do you fear that happening at all? Or are you like, nah, that can't, that's not a thing?
8:14
What-- how did you s- get into this?
8:17
So, like, cryp- crypto runs in my blood.
8:19
It is, it has been my life and hobby and passion for a decade and a half.
8:24
Um, so I kind of thought, like, never will I work in any other field than this.
8:31
I know it well.
8:32
I ha- I have all the contacts.
8:34
Like, it is my world.

12 MINS LATER

20:17
Is that, is that just open source? Is there any way around it to get to-

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