PERSON DIRECTORY
Dave Blundin
Dave Blundin appears in 107 indexed conversations across Moonshots. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot
Peter DiamandisDave BlundinAlexander Wissner-GrossVlad Tenev
Robinhood Chain already handles well over $1 billion in daily DEX volume and roughly 200 tokenized U.S. stock tokens across 120-plus countries.That evidence strengthens Vlad Tenev’s tokenization thesis, while Bessant’s liability stance and Robinhood’s plumbing-not-alpha view define the regulatory, automation and competitive risks ahead.
Brian Armstrong on Bitcoin, Anthropic Drops Fable 5 & Mythos 5, NewLimit's $435M Age-Reversal | 264
Peter DiamandisBrian ArmstrongSalim IsmailDave BlundinDr. Alexander Wissner-Gross
Bitcoin has probably bottomed near $60,000, but becoming digital gold depends on 30% of capital treating it as a hedge.Coinbase reports 100 million AI-agent transactions worth $50 million, while stablecoins could become default settlement through self-custodial Base wallets.Frontier-AI IPOs reportedly face only $75 billion of liquidity, even as SpaceX infrastructure and NewLimit clinical catalysts advance.
Davos 2026: The US-China AI Race, GPU Diplomacy, and Robots Walking the Streets | #225
Peter DiamandisSalim IsmailDave BlundinAlexander Wissner-Gross
AI has become Davos’ dominant economic story, with roughly $50 trillion in annual human labor, only a few hundred billion dollars spent on infrastructure, and opportunity spanning chips, power, AI factories, and applications.The US retains better frontier models and chips, but China’s power buildout, deployment speed, and 83% versus 39% AI optimism could outweigh benchmarks, while energy timelines and agent rails remain deployment risks.
Balaji on the State of AI/AGI, Bitcoin & America’s Incoming Collapse w/ Dave & Salim | EP #191
Peter DiamandisBalajiDave BlundinSalim Ismail
Balaji sees AI capability distributed across competing models, while Dave Blundin expects recursive self-improvement to produce a dominant ASI within six months to two years.Crypto’s programmability could make it the settlement layer for machines and network states, but regulation, verification, quantum risk and a possible political backlash against tech remain key constraints.
Tech Experts Break Down the Incoming AI-Crypto Collision That Will Redefine Global Power
Peter DiamandisEric PulierDave BlundinSalim Ismail
Washington’s crypto turn is shifting policy toward dollar-backed stablecoins, instant settlement, tokenized collateral, and yield-bearing assets across a multitrillion-dollar base.AI agents could transact natively through this programmable financial layer, while chip fabrication, 401(k) access, liquid staking, and synthetic-instrument risks remain key execution and market-structure catalysts.
Meta’s 15 Billion Dollar AI Bet & The Race To ASI w/ Salim Ismail & Dave Blundin
Peter DiamandisAlexander Wissner-GrossDave Blundin
The AI race is becoming an energy race as China targets nuclear leadership by 2030 and produced roughly 700 GW of solar panels in 2024, while US licensing takes 10–12 years.Frontier models could become winner-take-all through self-improvement, while Cursor’s $500 million ARR and AI startup revenue demonstrate unusually capital-light economics; generation, distribution, storage, and regulation remain key constraints.
Emad Mostaque: The Plan to Save Humanity From AI | EP #184
Peter DiamandisEmad MostaqueSalim IsmailDave Blundin
Emad Mostaque argues that within “a few years,” wrapped compute—not labor—becomes the productive asset, concentrating economic power among GPU owners.His proposed counterweight combines specialized sovereign AI, Foundation Coin’s proof-of-benefit mining, and locally owned compute, including an 8-billion-parameter medical model running on a Raspberry Pi in 106 languages.Foundation Coin has reportedly mined since January, with coin sales targeted this year and a cancer-support AI potentially launching next year, while community governance remains unfinished.
OpenAI's $6.5B iPhone & Google Ending Hollywood w/ Blundin & Ismail
Peter DiamandisDave BlundinSalim Ismail
OpenAI’s $6.5 billion Jony Ive deal is a distribution bet to control an AI-first consumer endpoint rather than merely improve its model.Google’s benchmark gains, hardware control through TPU v7, and AI Mode challenge Search while Anthropic continues to leapfrog it.Efficiency could expand chip and data-center demand through Jevons Paradox, while agentic back offices and Veo 3 create near-term enterprise and media catalysts.
Tech Leaders on Bitcoin, AI, and the New Global Power Shift w/ Salim Ismail & Dave Blundin | EP #172
Salim IsmailDave BlundinPeter Diamandis
Michael Saylor’s doubled “42/42” plan could fund $84 billion of Bitcoin purchases, while corporate buying already equals 3.3 times 2025’s new supply.Saudi Arabia is combining Middle Eastern capital with US technology through Amazon and HUMAIN’s $5 billion AI zone and Nvidia’s 18,000 GB300 Blackwell chips.The investable battleground spans concentrated AI leadership, debt-financed compute, TSMC exposure, software labor displacement, and robotics deadlines including Archer’s LA28 air-taxi commitment.
The Trillion Dollar AI Reset: Advertising & Gaming is Next w/ Salim Ismail & Dave Blundin | EP #170
Salim IsmailPeter DiamandisDave Blundin
AI’s constraint is shifting from ideas to compute, with a cited millionfold increase needed within four to five years and 5 million–10 million GPUs projected.Trusted agents could replace search-and-select purchasing, while reported revenue per AI-dialogue session is one-tenth to one-hundredth of Google search against its cited $300 billion advertising business.AI-written software makes product judgment scarcer, while power, fabs, and permitting remain constraints worth monitoring.









