BREAKDOWN: What Satoshi Understood... Nobody Knows You're a Dog on Social Media, Feat. The Crypto Dog
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
A conversation about pseudo-anonymity, global digital nomadism and the trader’s mindset.
This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace.
On the Brief:
- Big tech vs. the American political right and left
- Why TikTok users are pretending to love China for clout
- Decentralizing venture capital
Our main conversation:
The Crypto Dog is one of crypto Twitter’s best known characters. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss:
- Mining bitcoin in 2011
- The difficulty of hodling across a decade
- The emergence of the crypto trader in the Ethereum era
- Trader agnosticism
- Pseudo-anonymity and social media
- Developing the character behind the avatar
- Global nomadism and the acceleration of “work from anywhere”
- The vibe and feel of Hong Kong today
Find our guest online:
Twitter: @TheCryptoDog
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to the breakdown, an everyday analysis breaking down the most important stories in Bitcoin, crypto, and beyond. |
| 1:03.2 | This episode is sponsored by BitStamp and Cipher Trace. |
| 1:07.5 | The breakdown is produced and distributed by Coin Desk. |
| 1:12.6 | And now, here's your host, NLW. |
| 1:17.6 | Welcome back to The Breakdown. |
| 1:19.8 | It is Wednesday, June 17th, and today's featured conversation is with the Crypto Dog. |
| 1:26.5 | That's coming up in a minute, but first, the brief. |
| 1:29.5 | First up on the brief, the big tech debacle. Right now, there are really only two things that the |
| 1:34.7 | left and the right can agree on in America. The first is being against China, and the second is |
| 1:39.8 | being against big tech. Two leading stories on the Wall Street Journal today are about |
| 1:44.0 | assaults on tech |
| 1:45.1 | from the right and the left, respectively. The first, and focused on from the right, is that the |
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