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*PREVIEW* The Sotadic Economic Zone feat. Ed Zitron

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Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

For this week's bonus, the nearly-full cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice speak with technology publicist and crypto sceptic Ed Zitron about the current state of the cryptocurrency market--of course it's a scam, everyone knows that, but just how much is it on the precipice? The answer will probably not shock you, but might unsettle you regardless. Hope you enjoy! Check out Ed's newsletter on Substack here: https://ez.substack.com Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sotadic-economic-77121349

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is not something that is that I'm looking at for a while ago.

0:03.6

This is something from the last several weeks is that a meeting about in Edinburgh,

0:07.9

so the Edinburgh reforms, as these are being called,

0:10.3

one of the pillars of the UK's strategy is going to try to still to become a global hub for crypto assets.

0:17.6

Like, at this point, what crypto assets?

0:21.6

Yeah. And at this point, what crypto assets? Yeah. And also, increasingly illegal looking almost everywhere.

0:27.6

Like, who are you bringing to the hub?

0:32.6

I kind of like this though, because I think we could, as a nation, be shadier.

0:42.5

I think we could sort of become more of a sort of a thieves guild, you know?

0:47.4

Rishi Sunak sort of like striding up to the podium, wearing like a cowl, you know? Opening his coat to reveal a bunch of watches.

0:50.4

Yeah, yeah.

0:51.8

I would like to see more disheveled merchants like in Resident Evil.

0:57.2

Like, what are you playing?

0:59.3

You want to get into a Bitcoin.

1:01.3

And that, that'd be great.

1:02.9

The impression that I got was that like, well, the impression that I get from this is,

1:07.9

I don't know quite how to describe it, but it's very much like they kind of want to be like Dubai in the sense for like you know because Dubai is like whole and the UAE's strategy is being uh like doing the whole sexist. Yeah. But but like the reason why like from what I understand watching like far too many YouTube videos about like crypto guys who are now moving to Dubai.

1:31.6

The impression I get is that like they actually like going to Dubai because Dubai is like a fun place to be and like, you know, if you have like, or at least if you kind of project

1:35.3

the idea that you have lots of wealth, then you're going to have like a really good time.

1:38.6

But the problem with Britain is that doesn't really offer any of that type of stuff.

1:42.4

So it's sort of like... Yeah, it's sort of like... Glamorous destination.

1:45.0

So it's like we want to be a crypto hub,

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