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What Satoshi Understood: Nobody Knows You're a Dog on Social Media, Feat. The Crypto Dog
A conversation about pseudo-anonymity, global digital nomadism and the trader’s mindset.
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 8:53 a.m. Published Jun 17, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
A conversation about pseudo-anonymity, global digital nomadism and the trader’s mindset.
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This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace.
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
See also: A Vision for Digital Property Rights, Feat. Nic Carter
Our main conversation:
The Crypto Dog is one of crypto Twitter’s best known characters. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss:
- Mining bitcoin in 2011
- The difficulty of hodling across a decade
- The emergence of the crypto trader in the Ethereum era
- Trader agnosticism
- Pseudo-anonymity and social media
- Developing the character behind the avatar
- Global nomadism and the acceleration of “work from anywhere”
- The vibe and feel of Hong Kong today
Find our guest online:
Twitter: @TheCryptoDog
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