SEC investigates Bored Apes, AI-generated Steve Jobs/Joe Rogan interview & more | E1585
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Vinny Lingham and Sunny Madra are back for another crypto roundtable! The show starts with a discussion on Nvidia's new high-powered graphics cards (2:35) and an AI-generated podcast interview. (15:21) Then, the group breaks down the SEC investigating Yuga Labs over whether or not Bored Apes are securities! (27:07)
(0:00) J+M tee up today's crypto roundtable!
(2:35) J+M welcome Sunny Madra and Vinny Lingham; Vinny breaks down his new Nvidia purchase and how graphics cards will power the next wave of AI
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(15:21) Podcast.ai's AI-generated Steve Jobs/Joe Rogan interview
(25:50) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist
(27:07) The SEC is investigating Yuga Labs over its Bored Apes NFT collection, regarding whether or not the NFTs are securities
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(37:26) What is this SEC investigation actually about? Why or why not are they securities? What are other similar examples?
(50:55) More interesting developments in the NFT space, Google announces it will use Coinbase to accept crypto payments
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody, it's Thursday, yes. |
| 0:02.3 | The day after Wednesday, and of course, it's Thursday, |
| 0:04.7 | so we should have our Wednesday crypto roundtable. |
| 0:07.0 | We had to publish it today, folks. |
| 0:10.4 | There's no easy way to put it up. |
| 0:11.4 | We have a unicorn series, it's a thing. |
| 0:12.8 | We have a little air traffic issue going on here |
| 0:16.6 | on the show, but Vinny Lingham and Sonny Madra, |
| 0:20.9 | Sundee are back to break down |
| 0:22.6 | all of the biggest news in crypto. |
| 0:24.6 | And actually, the biggest developments in compute power, |
| 0:28.0 | we talk about super powerful graphics cards, |
| 0:32.0 | Vinny's new GPU, and how all that compute power |
| 0:35.3 | is going to change art, gaming, even NFT creation, |
| 0:39.1 | just like AI, geeky stuff, AI, all of that. |
| 0:43.4 | These new cards are breaking down. |
| 0:45.2 | And then of course, we get into the big news, Molly, |
| 0:47.0 | that Bloomberg is reporting, the SEC is probing. |
| 0:49.8 | The board, AAP maker, UGLABS over, |
| 0:52.8 | we think our NFTs and the AAP coin, securities. |
| 0:56.7 | It is a vibrant, detailed debate on what should happen |
| 1:00.7 | in terms of crypto regulation from this point forward. |
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