Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

Making Sense of the FTX Catastrophe and a Reality Check on Twitter Under Musk

Nov 14, 2022

01:07:36

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Episode guests

Sam Bankman-Fried

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

The Conflation of Ownership With Usage With Cryptocurrency

01:24

Is Crypto a Security?

01:32

Is There a Future for Cryptocurrency Regulation?

02:06

Blockchain

02:35

Introduction

2min

Alameda Research and FTX - What's the Problem?

3min

What Do You Think of the Sandmaker Freed?

5min

Decentralization in Cryptocurrency

3min

FTX Positioning on Cryptocurrency

3min

FTX

2min

Sam Bankman Freed - Theranos in Homes - It Just Never, Never Added Up

2min

Bankman Fried and Alameda Research

2min

FTX and Alameda - The Ripple Effects

2min

10.

Is There a Future for Cryptocurrency Regulation?

2min

11.

DeFi and CFI - What's the Underlying Asset?

4min

12.

Is There a User Regulator?

4min

13.

Blockchain

3min

14.

The Power of Narrative in Cryptocurrency

4min

15.

Twitter

4min

16.

I Don't Have a Check.

3min

17.

The Challenges for Twitter Going Forward Other Than Advertisers

3min

18.

Is Twitter Taking Our Ads Off Twitter?

3min

19.

Wouldn't It Be a Great Time for Meta to Buy Twitter?

4min

20.

Is Elon Musk Going to Kill Twitter by Doing That?

2min

21.

Is There a Second Twitter?

3min

22.

Is Twitter the Only Place You Can Have a Voice?

4min

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm

Narratives — Stratechery

Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies — Stratechery

The 30-Year-Old Spending $1 Billion to Save Crypto — Wall Street Journal

Billionaire Bankman-Fried Tries to Fix Crypto’s Hacking Problem — Bloomberg

FTX’s Collapse Casts a Pall on a Philanthropy Movement — New York Times

Sam Bankman-Fried and Tom Brady — YouTube

Twitter’s ad problem is Elon Musk — Vox

Trump, Musk and Kanye Are Twitter Poisoned — New York Times

The real reason to get off Twitter — Financial Times

How the newest megadonor wants to change Washington — Politico

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