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Wed. 06/29 – Netflix Running Up That Hill

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

I joke its Groundhog Day, but if you’re a crypto billionaire, you probably want the repetition to end as much as anyone. Wait, is TikTok suddenly in trouble with the US government again? A new line of chips from Arm. Sony wants to play to PC gamers. And why Netflix doling out Stranger Things in portions is one of the biggest experiments being run in Hollywood right now. Links: Crypto Crash Widens a Divide: ‘Those With Money Will End Up Being Fine’ (NYTimes) Crypto crash threatens North Korea's stolen funds as it ramps up weapons tests (Reuters) U.S. FCC commissioner wants Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores (CNBC) Ray tracing and 64-bit only: What you should know about Arm's 2023 CPUs and GPUs (Android Authority) Sony targets PC gamers with new hardware brand, Inzone (Washington Post) Here’s why Netflix made you wait a month to watch the rest of Stranger Things (Recode) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, June 29th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

0:08.6

Today, I joke that it's a Groundhog Day, but if you're a crypto billionaire, you probably want the repetition

0:14.7

to end as much as anybody at this point.

0:17.1

Wait, is Tik-Tok suddenly in trouble with the U.S. government again?

0:20.8

A new line of chips from Arm, Sony wants to play to PC gamers, and why Netflix doling out

0:26.8

stranger things and portions is one of the biggest experiments being run in Hollywood right

0:30.9

now. Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.

0:36.3

Groundhog Day. Sources are saying a British Virgin Islands court has ordered the

0:40.6

liquidation of Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital.

0:44.2

It actually did so on June 27th.

0:46.4

So in classic market crisis fashion, as some of the lending coins have blown up, basically

0:51.8

due to bank runs.

0:53.4

Now the contagion has taken down a major hedge fund player,

0:56.7

and I guess their counterparties are also in danger as well.

1:00.8

Speaking of counterparties, I don't know if we mentioned them, but CoinFlex is a crypto exchange, and they froze withdrawals recently, and they now say that they plan to issue up to 47 million what they're calling recovery value

1:13.7

U.S.D. tokens offering a 20% annual return

1:17.5

to those who purchase them, all in order to pay

1:20.7

or repay, I should say, a $47 million debt.

1:24.4

And speaking of $47 million debts,

1:27.8

coin flex CEO Mark Lamb has said

1:31.0

that crypto investor Roger Vbe owes coin flex $47 million in USDC.

1:37.0

After Ver denied, quote, some rumors he defaulted on a debt to a counterparty.

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