Slate Money: Bedazzle Your Elliptical

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🗓️ 12 February 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, Felix Salmon and Emily Peck are joined by Kevin Roose of The New York Times to talk about the crypto money launder scheme Heather Morgan and Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein are accused of taking part in; the possible usefulness of crypto; and what’s going on with Forbes. In the Plus segment: The Sotheby’s auction of CryptoPunks. Mentioned In the show: “How The Crypto Couple Went From Wannabe Tech Luminaries To Targets In The Biggest Financial Seizure In Justice Department History” by David Jeans and Cyrus Farivar “Maybe There’s a Use for Crypto After All” by Kevin Roose “Joe Rogan Wrapped: A Year of COVID-19 Misinformation, Right-Wing Myths, and Anti-Trans Rhetoric” by Alex Paterson “Podcasts Are No Longer Private Conversations” by Kaitlyn Tiffany “Binance’s Unusual Forbes Deal Comes Amid SPAC Drama” by Sara Fischer Email: [email protected] Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello! Welcome to the bedazzle your elliptical episode of Slate Money, your guide to the
0:19.7	business and finance and bedazzling news of the week. This is going to be a crypto
0:26.2	episode. I am Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck, also of Axios. Hello, hi. And we have
0:35.7	the New York Times's best crypto mind on the case to explain everything to us. Kevin,
0:42.6	Bruce, my former fusion colleague, welcome to Slate Money. Thanks for having me, long time to see.
0:48.8	It's been a minute. How long have you been on the crypto beat? I've been writing about crypto
0:54.3	for like a decade, but I took a little break in there. I would say pretty intensely since last
1:02.2	year when I accidentally sold an NFT for half a million dollars. That's right. You NFT, the New York
1:09.6	Times article. Has it changed hand since then? Do you know what it's worth now? Well, the price
1:15.2	of Ethereum, the cryptocurrency that it was purchased in has spiked. So I think today it's worth
1:21.2	more than a million dollars, which I did not get to keep. I gave to charity. Oh, man.
1:29.5	We are going to talk to you about the hipster grifters, the latest failed attempt to
1:37.4	launch a bunch of Bitcoin. We're going to talk about your article, which is an amazing article
1:42.1	about how Bitcoin or crypto can actually make the world a better place. CZ, we're going to talk
1:48.2	about CZ, the richest man in the world, quite possibly, who was putting $200 million into trying to
1:53.8	buy a stake in Forbes. It's all coming up on Slate Money, but Kevin, because we love you here on
2:00.6	this show, before we get into all of that, please to plug your book. Thank you. Just came out in paper
2:06.8	back a couple days ago. It's called Future Proof 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automations.
2:11.4	It's about AI and automation and the weird future. Buy it at your local independent bookstore.
2:18.4	This episode is brought to you by Tinder. Life is full of possibilities. A cheeky reply to a message
2:24.8	here could lead to a world of fun new experiences over there. And with Tinder, it all starts with a
2:30.4	swipe. Strangers can become mates. Mates can become lovers with matching tattoos. Or maybe it's not
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