What do I see? I see some like scamy gamblers, which whatever they're saying they're that now, so I like that better

I see a handful of people working on things that I think could be really cool and I think that's really nice.

And then you still see a bunch of people sort of being dishonest, like looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist and

pretending they're working on something that doesn't really actually matter and all they really want to do is launch a coin and make some money.

And those are my least favorite of all the groups. Welcome to Bankless, where today we explore the frontier of tech, culture, and politics.

Maybe some crypto sprinkled in too.

This is Ryan John Adams. I'm here with David Hoffman and

we're here to help you become more bankless. The guest today is Mike Salana.

Now there's no relation to the Salana chain. That's just his last name. We do discuss that. Yeah, we did. He is the editor of the Pirate Wires. He's the guy that broke the recent Trump coin news. This is Donald J Trump. And we start the conversation on that, interestingly enough.

He doubled down on his take that the Donald J Trump coin was actually associated with Trump.

So stay tuned for that and why that could be bullish for crypto.

But then we broaden the conversation to a number of other subjects,

including why tech has pivoted right,

why the Democrats are bad on crypto.

How the tech worldviews crypto?

Is it like one giant Ponzi casino to those guys?

Growth versus de-growth and the memetic wars?

The state of media and why it's broken, including social media?

And is the US going to be okay after the election of

2024 Mike is a podcaster he's got his own podcast which it's always just

fantastic hosting other podcasters on your podcast because they know how to

podcast it's always just a good conversation he's always got someone to say

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