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What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, November 15th, and today we are checking in on the

market reactions to the FTX collapse. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying

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All right, friends, well, first of all, thank you to all of you who have sent messages and

shared your thoughts after yesterday's episode. It seems to

have helped many people understand, and I'm really grateful for all the feedback. Second,

in terms of going forward with content, on the one hand, I am, like I'm sure many of you are,

pretty ready to not have everything be the Sam Bankman fraud show all the time. But that's said,

the fallout from FTX continues to dominate industry news,

and so for this week at least, I expect a lot of the show to be continuing to give updates as

that story develops. What's more, SBF's incredibly narcissistic main character syndrome

seems to mean he won't let himself stay out of the limelight, so we're going to be dealing

with that as well.

However, a couple of announcements that should give you some non-SPF light at the end of the tunnel.

The first is that next week, for the second year in a row, I'm doing a Thanksgiving week interview series called Grateful for Bitcoin. I'd been planning this second edition for a while now,

but in light of the last couple of weeks, I think the series is even better time than I had imagined.

I'll have a number of folks on who are in the Bitcoin mining space, a number of entrepreneurs

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