News! The cult of Bitcoin maximalists, Bezos is going to space, & Facebook’s smartwatch | E1230
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of This Week in Startups. |
| 0:03.8 | We're gonna do some news today because there's been so much news backing up that I want |
| 0:07.8 | to comment on it and really three things I want to talk about today. |
| 0:11.0 | One is Bitcoin toxicity which has been spreading like wildfire during the Bitcoin conference |
| 0:15.8 | in Miami. |
| 0:17.2 | Maybe the chances that Bezos dies going to space, he's announced that he wants to be the |
| 0:21.3 | first billionaire to go to space and that's really just a crazy idea. |
| 0:25.9 | We're gonna talk about some of the statistics there. |
| 0:27.9 | And then Facebook versus Apple, the privacy worse, continue, and Facebook wants you to |
| 0:32.0 | wear a watch and wants to put a camera up a pedometer, a location, and a microphone on |
| 0:38.2 | your watch. |
| 0:39.2 | Hmm, and do you really want to do that? |
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| 1:20.1 | Let's talk about the coin toxicity up top here because I think this is a really important |
| 1:24.8 | moment for the Bitcoin community. |
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