Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, June 21st, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Did something happen while I was away? Sort of like everything crashing in crypto all at once.

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Well look, the big story since I've been gone has been crypto. I'm actually not sure how to cover this exactly, because even though lots of folks spent the last four days dancing on the grave of

crypto and Web3 I definitely don't think crypto is dead. Yes, Bitcoin fell to

under $18,000 a coin on June 18th,

below its $19,511 high back during its 2017 bull cycle.

And Ether dropped below $1,000.

Both are down more than 70% since November.

Yes, the total value of all cryptocuracies

has gone down by roughly $2 trillion or 2 thirds

since, you know, crypto hit its all-time highs.

But this show has been around long enough that I'd humbly submit that just the amount of

times we cover crypto is a decent parameter of the health of the crypto space.

This show launched right after the crypto winter following the ICO craze.

If you go back in the archive, there are entire weeks and months where we didn't mention

a single crypto story at all.

And I remember asking at the beginning of COVID where was crypto shouldn't it have been, you know,

in a perfect situation given that the world was blowing up but then in late

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