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Today’s guest, whom we’ll refer to by his popular discord handle, “Homestead Hacker”, thought he found his dream job, working in the exciting world of “web3”.
This was supposed to be the cutting edge of emerging technology, involving crypto, blockchain, gaming and more.
Unfortunately our guest realized it didn’t turn out the way he’d imagined. He takes us through his experience working for a web3 gaming company and his realization that the crypto industry isn’t what he originally thought.
As part of our outreach to engage and educate people in the crypto community, this is another in our “debate a crypto bro” series. We encourage people in the crypto industry to open a dialogue and exchange ideas and arguments to better understand all sides of this “industry.”
In today’s episode I talk with “Dr. Rob”, a veterinarian in New Zealand who wants to discuss what he believes are the strongest arguments for Bitcoin’s utility. This is part 2 of a 2 part series. In this final part, we discuss another “use case” for Bitcoin involving issues relating to energy.
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I speak with author and former crypto industry insider, Jake Donoghue about his new book, “Crypto Confidential: An Insider’s Account From The Frontlines Of Fraud.” In this book, Jake talks about his time working on launching a crypto company and then pivoting to start an agency that helps launch other crypto projects. He pulls no punches in describing the multi-layered fraud and deception which seems to encompass every aspect of the industry.
Details on the book:
From Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crypto-Confidential-Insiders-Account-Frontlines/dp/1803996188
https://books.google.com/books/about/Crypto_Confidential.html?id=N0cJEQAAQBAJ
In this episode I sit down with the author of two books on the crypto industry, IT professional and writer, David Gerard. David has been calling attention to the irrationality and criminality in the crypto industry for many years. Let’s see what he thinks of the current state of the industry and its many colorful players.
One of the most detailed and prolific sources of data on the shenanigans of people like Elon Musk, Andrew Tate, Kevin O’Leary and others can be found on a YouTube channel called, “The Common Sense Skeptic.” In the short time he’s been producing videos, he’s managed to publish a wide array of very detailed, very damning details of some of these controversial characters’ pasts and present. We talk about what he’s discovered and what’s happening now with some of these people.
You can catch The Common Sense Skeptic’s work here:
https://youtube.com/@CommonSenseSkeptic
You’ve heard the stories about people who go “all in” on Bitcoin.
These are the “pink unicorns” of investing.
Does it make sense to put all your eggs in one crypto basket?
Well, we talk to one guy who’s done that, and try to explain why that might be a bad idea.
It’s been a few weeks and there’s been some interest to check back in with our infamous crypto unicorn who has gone “all in” on Bitcoin and see if our last discussion had any impact on his outlook.
I also dive a little deeper into how his crypto adoption has manifested and how much actual experience he’s had testing the exchanges to see if he can get his “money” back?
There are some very interesting and/or shocking revelations towards the end.
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You’ve heard the stories about people who go “all in” on Bitcoin. These are the “pink unicorns” of investing. Does it make sense to put all your eggs in one crypto basket? Well, we talk to one guy who’s done that, and try to explain why that might be a bad idea.
Our last episode and the story that Sal exposed regarding the questionable “objectivity” of those behind the crypto media company “Protos” caused quite a bit of stir among a certain “Crypto Critic” community, to the point where Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey blocked everybody associated with the criticisms and began spiraling downwards into some kind of odd meltdown.
Along the way, we were accused of trying to ‘attack’ and ‘cancel’ the Crypto Critics.
This seemed quite odd because all we basically did was ask a few basic questions.
It seems the “Crypto Critics” are very good at casting aspirsions and critiques at others, but not at all comfortable having the light shown on themselves.
This culminated in a two hour impromptu Twitter Spaces showdown between Adam and one of their people, a guy by the name of Cameron Crews.
Watch the train wreck in all its glory here:
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https://ioradio.org/ccc/
In this special extended episode of IO-Radio, Adam and Sal, in an effort to establish peace and solidarity with a strange new alien race, unknowingly travel to the planet… CRYPTO BRO… Originally thought to be residents of planet Earth, the real world, they discover they are not in the same place.
Follow us on this strange journey, where the “specific” is strangely “abstract.”
Where “permanence” and “reliability” manifest into “utility” and “value” despite not actually being qualified.
We attempt to find some kind of common ground with a bona fide crypto enthusiast who proves to be as evasive and slithery as the fearsom Dianoga, changing the subject with incredible speed, moving laterally as soon as they sense they’re near a corner, hiding behind huge abstractions that nobody completely understands.
In order to make sense of this strange alien encounter we had to fabricate a special new technology, the “Vague Abstraction Meter” which tracked our guest’s nimble verbal moves in real time so we could attempt to gain some common ground. Watch the video and our new (potentially disruptive technology), the “Vague Abstraction Meter.”
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Peter Howson is a professor of International Development and a researcher who’s worked around the world on projects related to environmental sustainability in the global south. We recently sat down with him to discuss his new book, ‘Let Them Eat Crypto’.
When he first heard about blockchain through his NGO partners, he bought into the hype that the technology could help solve some of the problems he was seeing in his field. But he soon discovered that instead of a solution, blockchain based crypto projects offer a vehicle through which the ultra-wealthy exploit the poor and enrich themselves at the expense of the most vulnerable.
Peter wrote the book, in part, to make amends for his initial enthusiasm about blockchain, and the conclusions he presents are a scathing indictment of the industry who promotes its spread. Howson disassembles cryptocurrency’s core narratives by putting their greed, flagrant hypocrisy, and utter contempt for other humans on display, and demonstrates that from green washing fraudulent carbon credits, to crypto colonizers displacing indigenous populations, to recruiting impoverished children into financial schemes, all of blockchain’s solutions are ultimately ‘Scammydocious’.
Get the Book: ‘Let Them Eat Crypto: TheBlockchain Scam That’s Ruining the World‘
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