Slate Money - Bedazzle Your Elliptical
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
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
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Welcome to the Bedazzle your elliptical episode of Slate Money, |
| 0:19.0 | your guide to the Business and Finance and Bedazzling use of the week. This is going to be a crypto episode. I am Felix |
| 0:28.3 | Simon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck, also of Axios. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello, hi. |
| 0:34.0 | And we have the New York Times's best |
| 0:38.7 | crypto mind on the case to explain everything to us. |
| 0:42.1 | Kevin Roos, my former fusion colleague, welcome to Slate Money. |
| 0:47.0 | Thanks for having me, a long time to see. |
| 0:49.0 | It's been a minute. How long have you been on the crypto beat? |
| 0:52.0 | Well, I've been writing about crypto for like a decade, |
| 0:56.0 | but I took a little break in there. |
| 0:58.0 | So I would say pretty intensely since last year when I accidentally sold an NFT for like half a million dollars. |
| 1:07.0 | That's right. |
| 1:08.0 | You, NFT, the New York Times article, has it changed hand since then? Do you know what it's worth now? |
| 1:14.0 | Well the price of Ethereum the cryptocurrency that it was purchased in has |
| 1:19.4 | spiked so I think today it's worth more than a million dollars which I did not get to keep I gave to charity. |
| 1:25.4 | Oh man! |
| 1:27.4 | I know. |
| 1:28.4 | We are going to talk to you about the hipster grifters the latest failed attempt to |
| 1:37.4 | launder a bunch of Bitcoin. |
| 1:39.0 | We're going to talk about your article which is an amazing article |
| 1:42.2 | about how Bitcoin can or crypto can actually make the world a better place. |
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