Factually! with Adam Conover

Popping the Crypto Bubble with Nicholas Weaver

Jun 29, 2022

01:15:24

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The Death Spirale of Cryptocurrency

03:58

Cryptocurrency Centralization - Is That Correct?

05:21

The Crypto Currency Is a Positive Ome Gain

02:50

Introduction

4min

The Death Spirale of Cryptocurrency

4min

Crypto Currency

3min

The Crypto Currency Is Fundamentally Incompatible With the Banking System

2min

Cryptocurrence

3min

The Crypto Currency Is a Positive Ome Gain

3min

Cryptocurrency Is a Zero Sum Gamerigt

2min

Is Bitcoin a Good Thing?

2min

Investing in the Stock Market

2min

10.

Is There Potential in Crypto Currency?

2min

11.

Is the Cryptocurrency So New?

3min

12.

Ethereum Propouts, Code Is Law

2min

13.

Cryptocurrency

3min

14.

Is There a Legitimate Use Case for Crypto Currency?

3min

15.

Cryptocurrency Space Has the Long Term Memory of a Horny Mayfly

1min

16.

Cryptocurrency Centralization - Is That Correct?

5min

17.

Crypto Currency

4min

18.

How to Get a Free NFT on a Socker Team

4min

19.

Is There No Part of the Cause?

2min

20.

Is There Any Potential for That Good to Be Done?

2min

21.

Is There a Vision for Crypto Currency?

2min

22.

The Future of Cryptocurrency?

3min

23.

The Death Spirale of Cryptocurrency

3min

24.

The Crypto Currency Space Is Not Innovated on Payments

2min

25.

The Cryptocurrency Space Is a Bumber, Right?

3min

26.

Is Bit Coin the Next Big Thing?

2min

27.

How to Find Out What's Going on in the Space?

2min

28.

Slash Adam Conover, I Want to Think O Producer, Sam Roud, Nicky Battelli, Rachel Neto, Kelly Lucas, Julia Russell, Paul Malk, Nicholas

2min

Crypto is crashing, which makes it the perfect time to ask whether blockchain technology is actually — you know — useful for anything. Computer scientist Nicholas Weaver joins Adam to discuss the inherent flaws in the technology, the shockingly slow state of innovation considering that the technology has been around for a decade, and what a better system for digital money might be. You can follow Nicholas on Twitter at @ncweaver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.