BREAKDOWN: 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
ABOUT
A conversation about pseudo-anonymity, global digital nomadism and the trader’s mindset.
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
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
HOST
CoinDesk is the world leader in news, prices and information on bitcoin and other digital currencies.
We cover news and analysis on the trends, price movements, technologies, companies and people in the bitcoin and digital currency world.

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