Crypto’s de-platforming and the balkanization of AI with Vinny Lingham | E1710
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Vinny Lingham joins Jason to break down the state of crypto’s de-platforming by the US government. They discuss recent happenings with Coinbase (2:13), Balaji’s Bitcoin bet (20:00), Binance (38:23), SBF (44:07), and more! Then, they wrap with a discussion about the coming balkanization of AI (52:54).
(0:00) Jason tees up today’s topics
(2:13) Coinbase’s Wells notice & the state of crypto
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(9:36) Clarity within the crypto industry
(15:06) The future of Bitcoin in the US
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(20:00) Balaji’s bet and hyperinflation
(25:50) A debate on whether to short Coinbase
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(38:23) CFTC sues Binance
(44:07) SBF’s indictment
(49:00) Why is the government clamping down on crypto?
(52:54) The balkanization of AI
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody, we have a great show. If you're today, Vittiglingham joins me for a solo dolo |
| 0:05.6 | crypto roundtable Sundays at sick, but we chop up all the imported news coinbase has been issued |
| 0:11.5 | a Wells noticed by the SEC. That leads to a big and final debate about whether or not I should |
| 0:17.6 | make my first j-trade to short a stock. Should I start a short coinbase where you're going to find |
| 0:21.6 | out at the end of the segment and then we dive into the news that CZ and Binance are being sued by |
| 0:27.3 | the CFTC and we have a crypto sociopath update. Sandbackman Freed is facing over a hundred years |
| 0:35.2 | in jail because the indictments keep coming. He has now been accused of bribing Chinese officials |
| 0:41.6 | while shocking. And then we wrap up with an amazing conversation about generative AI, how Vittigling |
| 0:47.1 | is building on top of open AI into his awesome startup weightroom.com. And then we talk about the |
| 0:54.4 | Balkanization of different pools and different territories of data. Who's going to win shopping in AI, |
| 1:00.0 | who's going to win consumer, who's going to win in the enterprise, etc. And it's actually a pretty |
| 1:06.8 | interesting discussion. And I talk about who might buy Reddit, Kora, and Stack Overflow. It's |
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| 2:14.0 | All right, everybody. Sunny, Madra is out today. So feeling a little sick in under the weather, |
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