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What Unchained Says About Technology
31 episodes about technology
Crypto assets and blockchain technology are about to transform every trust-based interaction of our lives, from financia...
Key Insights on Technology
College graduates are booing AI mentions at commencement speeches, reflecting anxiety about job displacement from technology whose architects promise career destruction
- Meta laid off 8,000 employees (10% of staff) while installing screen tracking software allegedly for AI training, creating 'new lows' in company morale
- OpenAI's Sam Altman shifted messaging from doom to augmentation: 'way cooler to help software developers Pokemon evolve into superheroes than replace them'
- Dr. Christina Maher combines software engineering, finance, and neuroscience backgrounds to develop brain-computer interfaces for enhanced human communication
- "You have this innovation bazooka with these models. Why would you point it at rebuilding payroll or ERP or CRM?" - Anisha argues AI should target the other 90% of enterprise spend, not just the 8-12% on software
- "Weird wins" - startups can thrive building products touching disagreement, persuasion, and sexuality that big tech committees explicitly avoid due to brand risk
- Workday has 97% gross dollar retention but takes 6.5 minutes for a tech investor to find basic compensation information
- HR software serves as a bellwether for AI adoption reaching mass enterprise takeoff beyond coastal tech hubs
Episodes
Why Pandl Calls Gold and Bitcoin Buys Here
Why AI Censorship and Reg NMS Repeal Matter for Crypto Markets: DEX in the City
Can Hyperliquid Come Onshore Without Killing What Makes It Special?
Why Arthur Hayes Thinks the AI Bubble Bursting Could Spark a Crypto Bull Market
DEX in the City: With the Stablecoin Yield Compromise, Can the Clarity Act Get Passed?
A16z Crypto Raised $2.2 Billion for Fund 5. Here's How They Plan to Deploy It
Why Wrapped Energy or Compute Will Be the New Store of Value: Bits + Bips
How Microsoft Won the OpenAI Fight as Markets Rally on Iran
Bits + Bips: Bitcoin's Geopolitical Upturn and the $100K Question
The Chopping Block: Who's Really Satoshi? Quantum Panic, and AI Eating Code
How Does Crypto Remain Secure in a World of Always On AI Hacks? - Uneasy Money
How State-Sponsored Hackers Like DPRK Drain DeFi Protocols: Uneasy Money
How Bitcoin Is Both a Risk Asset and a Hedge Against Debasement
Quantum Computing Got 20x Closer. It Threatens A Third of All Bitcoin
Bits + Bips: Why Iran Is Trump’s Greatest Taco. Plus, Is Elon’s TeraFab ‘Bullshit’?
Bits + Bips: What Iran, Oil Shocks, and No Rate Cuts Mean for Crypto
The Chopping Block: The Ethereum Foundation Manifesto + Who Really Runs Crypto?
DEX in the City: How Regulators Are Preparing for a World Without the Clarity Act
Bits + Bips: Why This U.S. General Believes Iran Could Be a Huge Opportunity
Why It's Easy to Pitch TradFi on Ethereum: 'It's the Only Game in Town'
Is the Bitcoin Bottom In? Why the Outlook for Real Rates Is in Its Favor
Bits + Bips: Is Crypto the Only Asset That Works When Geopolitics Breaks Down?
Uneasy Money: Why the AI Singularity May Already Be Out of Our Hands
Can Solana Edge Out Ethereum to Win the AI Agent & RWA Race?
The Chopping Block: AI's Role in Crypto, Agentic Coding, & Citrini Financial Crisis
Is Nic Carter Exaggerating Bitcoin's Quantum Risk? Yes, Says One Core Dev
Uneasy Money: Why Peter Steinberger and Non-Crypto People Hate the Crypto Mob
DEX in the City: Why Prediction Markets Could Spark a Huge Constitutional Fight
Bits + Bips: Is AI CapEx a Bubble? And Is Inflation Already Dead?
Bits + Bips: Bitcoin Miners Turn to AI for a Boost as BTC Falls
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