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Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson
Episode: Crypto Crash Part I: The Case Against Crypto
Description: Today, we have the first in a two-part series on lessons from the crypto crash.Crypto, also known as Web3, also known as blockchain-based technologies, remains the weirdest space I’ve ever reported on. I’ve never learned so much about a topic where there were people I trusted roughly equally, whose intelligence I trusted roughly equally, coming to completely opposite opinions. People I consider brilliant think this is the wave of the future. Others are fairly positive that the bulk of this world is a giant Ponzi scheme that’s even worse than most people realize.Today...