At this year’s inaugural Web3Summits event in Miami, BCCN3 got an exclusive interview with the Blonde Broker. She is a crypto influencer, investor and public speaker.

We asked her about the ongoing bear market, the impact of crypto regulations, and her take on the FTX bankruptcy. 

Give us your thoughts on the current bear market? 2022 has been rough. What do you see going into 2023?

“I'll give you something that you all haven’t gotten yet. I actually have a very conflicted viewpoint on what is going to happen and what has happened. I actually was invited as a guest of FTX out to the Bahamas, so I worked out of the FTX offices for a few months this year. 

“So a lot of us didn’t know what was going on because we were split up into houses to work out of, but I think we’re going to see more contagion; I’m worried about Genesis, I’m worried about a lot of other centralized exchanges. 

“I’m worried about crypto on the whole. I think what they’ve uncovered and what they want to do with regulation is only going to set us back, you know, at least six months to two more years with everything that this whole community and group has been working towards. 

“So, we’ll see if we do get true decentralized finance at some point, but I think it’s going to be a long time; and I think right now we are in the best, best possible time to be building. 

“So for people who are curating different projects, different TV shows, running events, like having these conferences, you can tell people’s spirits are still high, they’re still showing up. 

“We were at Dcentral [Miami] yesterday, there was a good amount of people there, there’s a good amount of people here at [Web3Summits] there’s tons at NFT Now. Everyone is still here, no one is really going anywhere, so I think everyone is hopeful and praying for what the future of crypto is going to look like.”

With the fall of FTX, do you see regulation as positive or negative for the market?

“Negative for the short term, but long term I think we’re going to start weeding out these monsters. So, Sam [Bankman-Fried, former CEO of FTX], literally yesterday [Dec. 1], during his interview was blaming his mom and dad, which I’m sure his mom and dad, Barbara and Joe, basically probably said, ‘blame us’ so you don’t take the fall for it. 

He’s doing his tour to try and revamp and mint his reputation. So, I think that it looks bad. But if we continue to take down people like Sam, like other leaders of centralized finances, we tend to as a community in crypto hold a lot of people like that on a pedestal. 

And we forget who they are, and we start thinking, ‘Oh, we like him because it’s cool to like him.’ Not [liking him] because, hey, he didn’t have a CFO, he didn’t have a council, like, what are we doing? We’re not doing [our] due diligence when we should be. 

So, I think long term it’s going to be good for the community and we’re actually going to be more aware of what’s happening in our space.

Podcast interview

You can listen to our interview with the Blonde Broker on our podcast, BCCN3 Talk. Follow the Blonde Broker on her Twitter @theblondebroker and Instagram @theblondebroker.eth.