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May 1, 2026

Summary

In Episode 313 of The Block Runner Podcast, William and I-man break down the latest stress test for crypto launch platforms: Believe’s rapid rise, the Printer token ICO backlash, the $2M refund, and what the failed attempts to disrupt Pump.Fun reveal about launching in a permissionless market.

The conversation centers on how quickly community momentum can reverse when a platform moves too fast into tokenization, why founders face extreme psychological pressure once market attention arrives, and why examples like Believe, Heaven, Bonk-adjacent launch efforts, and Printer matter directly to the NAT.fun launch thesis.

Key topics:

  1. Believe’s position in the launch ecosystem and how quickly market attention can concentrate around a new platform
  2. The Printer ICO, Coinbase/Sonar rails, and why selling a token too early can reverse community sentiment
  3. The mental-health pressure founders face when crypto Twitter turns from attention into personal attack
  4. The $2M refund and what it says about trust, timing, and execution in token launches
  5. Why attempts to disrupt Pump.Fun keep failing, from Believe to Heaven to Printer
  6. How these failures become direct lessons for NAT.fun as it prepares to enter the launch-platform arena

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We’ve seen some scary lows for the 2019 year of Bitcoin. We discuss what the probability is for Bitcoin to go to $8k. Meanwhile, Binance continues its parade of Launchpad tokens that seem to always pump and we question how much of it is greed versus valuable for the startup? On this journey, we look into as many cryptocurrencies as we can and this time we land on MakerDAO and decentralized loans. Finally, tokenizing real world assets can become then next new phase of blockchain with a spirited debate on the real value of gold.

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15

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Emotions play a sneaky role in evaluating cryptocurrency prices and we discuss the causes and effects and how much influence it has on your next move. As a result, we discuss some strategies that will help remove emotions from decision making that can help improve the probability of a better outcome. Does it make sense to try to time the top of a market or should we consider other metrics in decision making. Finally, universal basic income, taxes and other cultural expectations and their relation to the crypto-verse.

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14

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This week, we see Bitcoin rise to $10,000 after over a year long bear cycle. We discuss what this could mean for the future price of Bitcoin and how this affects the altcoins. Libra has quickly become a source of debate for many in the crypto community, how much of an impact could Libra make? With Mitch, who’s background is in finance, we discuss how Bitcoin has not gone through a recession. Economists have their own view of the crypto space and we dive in and provide our thoughts. Finally stay tuned to the end of the show where we see how robots can fight back!

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13

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We talk to our friend Joe and get how he was introduced to cryptocurrency and what his thoughts are on the whole thing. William and Iman introduce him to the concept of Decentraland and what it could bring to the future of NFT’s (Non Fungible Tokens). Joe brings up his thoughts on Quantum Computing and the effects it could have on cryptography, the foundation of all cryptocurrencies. Finally we introduce Basic Attention Token and how it will improve advertising on the internet.

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12

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Our guest returns to discuss more of Decentraland! We get his background on game development and we discuss ideas we could build on land we obtain in Decentraland. Ideas that we could build all revolve on passive income and the ability to execute on them will be critical. The conversation evolved into the philosophy behind Artificial Intelligence and Automation. Last, we touch on the $Libra token and how Facebook could take crypto into new recognition levels.

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