The Gokhshtein Transparency Experience is a podcast hosted by David Gokhshtein. David talks about a range of topics. From blockchain and digital assets to entrepreneurship to mental health.

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Machines could soon be paying other machines for data, compute, and identity — and crypto is the coordination layer that lets that happen without intermediaries. Should Burniske be building for that future, not just the human user?

AI agents will become crypto's native economic participants

Most of the money in the last cycle went into blockchains themselves, but the next wave of value creation is going to be in consumer apps, decentralized social, and payments. Is Chris Burniske's portfolio weighted toward that thesis today?

The infrastructure era is over and the application era is now

If the US keeps fighting with itself while EU and Asian markets publish clearer frameworks, the next generation of crypto companies will simply be born outside America. Is this a technology policy failure or just a political speed bump?

Regulatory uncertainty is now an American competitive disadvantage

One of the most important shifts from the last cycle is that crypto assets behaved like high-beta risk assets when liquidity tightened. Have we permanently lost the 'uncorrelated' storyline, or was that just a central-bank artifact?

Crypto can no longer hide from the equity market correlation

Every strong investor has a line where they would dump the whole portfolio. What observed market behavior or on-chain signal would make him think that this time really is different in the worst way?

What would falsify the crypto investing thesis for Burniske right now?

The pitch is that crypto succeeds through culture, not just speculation. What would have to be true for a decentralized social network to pull in users who don't care about technology — and is that a venture-scale theme?

Do creator and social tokens really become consumer on-ramps to crypto?

For an investor coming from traditional markets, what is the actual evidence that owning early-stage tokens captures value created by usage — rather than just speculation on future demand?

Do tokens deserve a seat next to equity and venture capital?

With attention shifting, what are the practical frameworks Burniske uses to distinguish real accumulation from dead-cat bounces during bear market phases?

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