Steve Aoki on why he’s a ‘crypto believer’

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Vergecast is on spring break this week! In the meantime, check out Nilay's discussion with Steve Aoki from this week's episode of Decoder with Nilay Patel. Steve Aoki is a superstar DJ, producer, record label owner, and prolific entrepreneur. He has been part of the music industry since 1996, so he’s been through a lot of these big tech transitions, and now he’s heavily invested in another, with Web3, the Aokiverse. It involves selling tokens and NFTs and, over time, is meant to be part of the metaverse. Because, of course. Subscribe the Decoder in your favorite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Nealye. I'm on Spring Break this week, so there's no
0:04.2	Verge cast, but I didn't want to leave you without something to listen to, so
0:06.8	we're gonna run this week's decoder on the feed. It's an interview I did with
0:10.9	Steve Aoki, the superstar DJ. Steve recently launched a whole NFT and Metaverse
0:15.9	situation called the Aokiverse. I'm always interested in how tech and music
0:20.1	influence each other, so it's a pretty fun one. I hope you enjoy it. The Verge cast
0:23.7	will be back next week.
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