The documents showed that Alameda Research, a trading and investment firm founded by SPF, Sam Bankman-Freebo, had its finances intertwined with those of FTX. Bitcoin dropped below $16,000 for the first time in two years. This really is, as far as I can tell, this whole market is you exchange fiat currency to go into a casino and get tickets that are worth nothing. And hope that at the end of the day, you get a stuffed animal or something for your tickets and you get the hell out of the Chuck E. Cheese that has become the crypto market.
Kara and Scott dissect what the FTX meltdown means for cryptocurrency, Meta's layoffs, and how the midterms might impact big tech. Friend of Pivot Jonathan Haidt stops by to talk about the impacts of social media on teens and society. And hours after our regular taping, we dragged Scott out of a fancy London bar to record an updated reaction to the latest Twitter news: Elon Musk was warning of a possible Twitter bankruptcy, while top executives were jumping ship.
You can check out more of Jonathan Haidt's work here.
Send us your questions! Call 855-51-PIVOT or go to nymag.com/pivot.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices