You can buy that latte with Bitcoin today after PayPal just did its mainstream crypto dance. Newspaper disruptors The Athletic and Axios have a crush on each other that may blossom into a media SPAC marriage (aka “The Great Re-Bundling”). And Big Wind is having its big moment so we whipped up the 3 big numbers from the Biden infrastructure plan.
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🛍️ “Fake-flation & Dumb Deals” — Prime Day’s shopping tricks. Dishoom’s dice restaurant. H-E-B’s Texas rescue team.
London’s most popular restaurant, Dishoom, has a wild growth hack… Roll the dice, get a free meal.Amazon Prime Day is now Prime Week… but it’s really a fake deal mind game.One biz is saving flood victims in Texas: H-E-B… the $47B grocery chain bigger than Uber.Plus, Ozzy Osborne ... Show More
21m 29s
Jan 2022
Mobile Bitcoin Gaming Is Powering Up on Lightning
On today's show, author and CoinDesk Columnist, Jeff Wilser, explores the past, present and future of bitcoin's use in mobile games.Read the story here.Additional Resources:Apple Approves iOS Game That Tips Players in BitcoinThis episode is sponsored by Kava.This episode was edit ... Show More
19m 1s
Jan 2022
How Bitcoin's Lightning Network and Taproot Upgrade Work to Make It More Private
On today’s show, Alyssa Hertig, programmer and journalist specializing in Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, dives into bitcoin’s not-so-private present and how that could change.Read the story here.This episode is sponsored by Kava.This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Bl ... Show More
7m 14s
Jan 2022
Bitcoin, Inflation and the Expectations Game
On today's Martin Luther King Jr. Special, David Z. Morris, CoinDesk's Chief Insights Columnist, takes a look at the intersection of inflation expectations and bitcoin.Read the story here.This episode is sponsored by Kava.This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust-Kava le ... Show More
5m 35s
Jan 2022
Crypto Is the Biggest Thing to Change Culture Since Hip Hop
On today's show, Pavel Bains, CEO of Bluzelle, reflects on how revolutionary Hip Hop was in the 90s and relates that effect to the evolution of Web 3 today.Read the story here.This episode is sponsored by Kava.This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust with additional pro ... Show More
3m 54s
May 2022
Inflation Will Create a Political Vacuum. Can Bitcoin Fill It?
On today’s show, Michael J. Casey, CoinDesk's Chief Content Officer, takes a look at the longer term impacts of inflation, and where bitcoin might fit.Read the full story here.This episode is sponsored by Kava and BCB Group.This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust with ... Show More
7m 45s
Jan 2022
Is Moxie Marlinspike Right About Web 3?
On today's show, Will Gottsegen, CoinDesk's media and culture reporter, takes a look at one critique of Web3 and how it’s not that different from Web2, not yet at least.Read the story here.This episode is sponsored by Kava.This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust-Kava l ... Show More
6m 26s
Mar 2024
E169: Elon sues OpenAI, Apple's decline, TikTok ban, Bitcoin $100K?, Science corner: Microplastics
(0:00) Bestie intros! (0:55) Elon sues OpenAI: complex structure, tax issues, damages, past comparables (37:06) OpenAI's focus on AGI, different interpretations of AGI in tech (44:46) Groq update with Sunny Madra! (49:53) Have we hit peak Apple?: Losing regulatory battles, iPhone ... Show More
1h 34m