Why Crypto’s Thriving Post-SBF, Sports Betting Crisis Deepens, Jon Stewart vs. AI

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news, with special guest Zeke Faux of Bloomberg News and Number Go Up fame. We cover 1) Why crypto is thriving after poster boy SBF was convicted and sentenced 2) The latest rise of memcoins including dogwifhat and NFTs like CryptoDickbutts 3) Is this evidence of a deeper societal problem or just gambling? 4) The resilience of crypto, including Tether 5) Zeke's reporting on pig butchering scams 6) The rise of Nudes In Bio scams on Twitter 7) Sports betting's deepening crisis 8) Louisiana bans prop bets on college players 9) Jon Stewart's position against AI 10) Is a broader societal backlash against AI coming. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology Premium? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why is crypto thriving after SBF? The sports betting crisis is deepening and John Stewart comes out against AI.
0:08.9	All that and more is coming up with special guest, Zeke Fox, right after this.
0:14.0	Hi, I'm Jonathan Fields. Tune in to my podcast for conversations about the sweet spot between work,
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0:28.0	wherever you enjoy podcasts. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down
0:35.6	the news in our cool-headed and nuanced format.
0:38.5	We have quite a show for you today. We have Ranjan Roy here. Ranjan is back from France.
0:42.7	Ron John, welcome.
0:43.7	I'm very excited about today. Number Go Up was one of my favorite books of last year.
0:48.3	Yeah, this is another episode that's Ranjan inspired. Ronjan, you kept shouting out,
0:52.9	Number Go Up on the show. I read it
0:55.2	definitely one of my favorite books as well. And we're so lucky to have the author here,
0:59.3	Zeke Fox, who's the author of Number Go Up. He's also a reporter at Bloomberg. Zeeke, welcome to the show.
1:05.4	Thanks for having me on. And I should, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that it's Earthquake
1:09.9	Friday here in New York.
1:11.7	Uh, I know anybody listening to this show is probably over the long media cycle that New Yorkers have had over a manageable 4.8 magnitude earthquake.
1:22.7	But I'm not. I mean, we just had the earth shake beneath our feet. Pretty cool stuff.
1:34.3	We should continue talking about it for weeks on end as New Yorkers experiencing that. That's my platform. We also have some big earth shaking developments. See what I did there? In the crypto world, including the fact that SBF is going away for 25 years, or at least
1:45.5	that's the sentence. It will probably be less than that. Last week, we talked about the sentencing.
1:49.8	This week, I want to talk really about the most confusing thing about all this, which is that
1:54.4	SBF is gone, a 25 year sentence, yet Bitcoin is up 53% this year. Mean coins are proliferating and it seems like crypto really hasn't lost a step.
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