Diaries of an ETH Maxi on Wall Street | Sam Jernigan

Sam Jernigan, the “Unofficial ETH Maxi of Wall Street”, has been evangelizing Ethereum to institutional funds and billionaires from inside the house for the past five years. Having the perfect blend of deep Ethereum knowledge and the full Wall Street experience, Sam guides us through how he became an ETH Maxi, why the lack of understanding of ETH in TradFi is the most bullish case for the asset and what the future holds for ETH institutional adoption. ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/17  ------ 📣STAKEWISE | LIQUID SOLO STAKING https://bankless.cc/Pod_StakeWise  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2    ⁠ 🌐 TRANSPORTER | CROSS CHAINS WITH CONFIDENCE https://transporter.io/  🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON https://bankless.cc/Celo  🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle  ⚡️ CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS https://bankless.cc/CartesiGovernance    ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum   ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 7:47 Defining TradFi 20:05 Ethereum’s P/E Ratio 23:49 Sam’s Background 40:44 Becoming an ETH Maxi 52:57 The State of ETH in TradFi 57:38 ETH Bull Case 1:06:11 The Flippening 1:12:11 ETH ETF 1:19:26 Security vs Commodity Debate 1:24:00 TradFi: Friend or Foe? 1:34:39 Regulation 1:46:07 Closing & Disclaimers ------ RESOURCES Sam Jernigan on X https://x.com/sjerniganiv   Sam Jernigan on LikedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/samjernigan07302015/   ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠