This week we talk about the mesh networks of Amazon and Apple, about trading card mania and ask, “what is it you have, when you have the NFT of a song?”
Our Non-Sponsor this week is Asket
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On This Week in Crypto we look back over a week that started with Elon playing the Dogefather on SNL and ended with him repudiating bitcoin’s carbon intensity. Also Shiba Inu vs Vitalik, and some reflections on the echoes of 2017 in 2021. We close out with Shitcoin or Fakecoin
Links:
2019 explanation of Apple’s “Find My”:
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluetooth/amp
Deep dive on Amazon Sidewalk’s security:
https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/796
Play-to-Earn: NFT Gaming in the Philippines:
https://youtu.be/Yo-BrASMHU4
Theme by Jonathan Mann:
https://www.jonathanmann.net