Tales from the Crypto ft. Jacob Silverman
Added 2022-11-29 10:28:35 +0000 UTCThis week, we focus on the collapse of FTX, a former crypto exchange worth multiple billion dollars, which declared just last year that it would be the company to ‘save’ crypto from extreme fluctuations, fraud, schemes etc. Sam Bankman-Fried, the 30 year old former CEO of FTX, was hailed as the next Warren Buffett, met with Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, and was extremely influential in government and policy circles in promoting cryptocurrency. He even stated that FTX could eventually buy Goldman Sachs.
We talk to Jacob Silverman, a journalist who has long warned about the fraudulence inherent in crypto, about how we got here, what SBF’s rise and fall tells us about the crypto/web3 economy, and whether the collapse of FTX is the final death knell for any use-case for crypto, other than to do scams.
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Further reading:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-bankruptcy-what-happened.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7epm/sam-bankman-fried-was-supposed-to-be-different-he-wasnt
https://newrepublic.com/article/168991/ftx-effective-altruism-bankman-fried-climateƒ
https://newrepublic.com/article/162448/bitcoin-price-drop-market-clubhouse
https://newrepublic.com/article/161894/bitcoin-digital-wallet-currency-surveillance
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Comments
Great episode! I never considered the crypto-guy-as-influencer angle, and don’t think I’ve seen it discussed anywhere else, but it makes a lot of sense
Cat Mara
2022-11-29 16:41:35 +0000 UTC
