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A unconventional & philosophical take on the #cryptocrash and why #crypto #blockchain & #bitcoin narratives don’t make sense to this grizzled, recovering payments & finance executive.
EPISODE CONTENTS:
- 01:18 Paying Our Disrespects
- 03:48 How Govt Created Crypto
- 05:19 Beautiful Believers
- 05:57 Useless Dopaminers
- 07:59 Cynical Alchemists
- 09:24 Dorsey’s War on “Decentralization”
- 10:48 How Capitalism Trumps Web3
- 12:37 Rebranding Bitcoin & Blockchain
- 14:23 The Amazing Race…is Lost
- 16:49 The Dirty Secret of Middlemen
- 19:37 Real Reason VCs Love Crypto
- 20:34 What’s The Maximum Value of Bitcoin? Is it still worth the gamble?
- 22:35 Dupe Capital
- 23:35 Is Crypto A Ponzi Scheme?
- 24:04 Crypto’s Biggest Losers: El Salvador
- 24:40 Crypto’s Biggest Losers: Michael Saylor
- 26:20 Why Crypto is a Trojan Horse
- 28:20 Two Biggest Lessons From The Cryptocrash
- 29:22 What’s Next? Maybe, Worst of Both Worlds
- 30:12 Better Solutions Ahead?
- 30:55 The Achille’s Heels in Vitalik Buterin’s “Soulful Crypto” — And All Crypto Visions
- 34:41 Bonus: Tardy To The Crypto Party
- 36:06 Bonus: Saylor’s Shipwreck
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