How to Win at Bitcoin

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🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week we’re talking about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with journalists Jay Caspian Kang and Aaron Lammer, co-hosts of the podcast Coin Talk. They explain the weird "Coinworld" that's grown up around blockchain technology, and who will be its winners and losers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:17.4	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker.
0:20.3	And I'm Alice Bradley, Deputy Editor of Lifehacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, deputy editor of
0:22.3	lifehacker. And this week, we're talking about cryptocurrency. Our guests today are Jay Caspian
0:28.3	Kang, who is a host of HBO's Vice News Tonight and a writer for The New York Times Magazine,
0:33.7	and Aaron Lamer, who co-hosts the Long Forum Podcasts and writes songs with Francis and The Lights.
0:39.8	Together, they host Coin Talk, a podcast about Bitcoin and shitcoins and everything entertaining happening in cryptocurrencies.
0:47.0	Conducting the interview today will be Lifehacker, staff writer Nick Douglas.
0:51.1	Take it away, Nick.
1:00.7	Music Nick Douglas. Take it away, Nick. I'm here with Aaron Lamer and Jay Caspian Kang of the podcast, Coin Talk.
1:06.1	We're going to talk Bitcoin, crypto, blockchain, whatever you're supposed to call it.
1:11.4	What are you supposed to call it, guys?
1:13.2	I like the way that you pronounce coin talk.
1:16.0	It sounds like there's like a question mark at the end of it.
1:18.1	Coin talk?
1:18.7	Coin talk?
1:21.6	Sorry, I cut off your question there.
1:23.4	Well, no, what do you, when you have to use one generic reference to all of it.
1:27.6	I've been trying to push the term coin world, but it has not caught up.
1:31.2	Coin world.
1:32.1	Yeah, you also, it was a very half-hearted push, so when Aaron says he was trying to push it,
1:37.0	I believe he texted to me once.
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