The Satoshi-fication of Social Media: Why The Future Is Pseudoanonymous, Feat. The Crypto Dog

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On the Brief:  Big tech vs. the American political right and left Why TikTok users are pretending to love China for clout Decentralizing venture capital   Our main conversation: The Crypto Dog is one of crypto Twitter’s best known characters....

On the Brief: <ul> <li>Big tech vs. the American political right and left</li> <li>Why TikTok users are pretending to love China for clout</li> <li>Decentralizing venture capital </li> </ul> Our main conversation: The Crypto Dog is one of crypto Twitter’s best known characters. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss: <ul> <li>Mining <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin">bitcoin</a> in 2011</li> <li>The difficulty of hodling across a decade</li> <li>The emergence of the crypto trader in the Ethereum era</li> <li>Trader agnosticism </li> <li>Pseudo-anonymity and social media </li> <li>Developing the character behind the avatar </li> <li>Global nomadism and the acceleration of “work from anywhere” </li> <li>The vibe and feel of Hong Kong today</li> </ul> Find our guest online:Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/TheCryptoDog">@TheCryptoDog</a>

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