Crypto for Beginners with Kevin Roose

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Roose, technology columnist at the New York Times, answers all your crypto questions. What’s an NFT? Is Bitcoin bad for the environment? Does our economy run on vibes? Sharing perspectives from crypto’s biggest skeptics, but also its biggest proponents, Kevin joins Jon to make the case that crypto isn’t scary, it’s just terribly explained.

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0:00.0	Yeah, I was going to say like from the outside with my limited base of knowledge on all of this,
0:06.2	it feels like a lot of this is people with a ton of money not really knowing what else
0:13.2	to do with their money, though as you point out, that's not necessarily a new phenomenon
0:17.7	right?
0:18.7	Like, because people have been doing that with art for a long time in a whole bunch of
0:22.5	other areas.
0:23.5	Totally.
0:24.5	Like every journalist I shared the story of my NFT sale with was like open-mouthed gasping
0:29.8	and every artist I shared it with was like, oh, some rich guy showed up and like paid
0:33.8	a lot of money for something that you made for reasons that you don't quite understand.
0:37.6	Like, that's what to do with my world.
0:41.8	I'm John Favreau.
0:42.8	Welcome to Offline.
0:43.9	Hey, everyone.
0:46.9	My guest today is Kevin Rousse, technology columnist at the New York Times.
0:51.7	Kevin came on to talk about crypto.
0:53.8	Now, maybe you're someone who's into crypto.
0:57.0	Maybe you're someone who absolutely hates it.
0:59.3	Or, if you're like me, your view on crypto is that you have no fucking idea what everyone's
1:04.4	talking about.
1:06.1	Either way, this episode is for you.
1:08.8	Kevin's been covering this topic for years and he recently wrote a fantastic explainer
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