{"id":23187,"date":"2022-06-19T13:27:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T13:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=23187"},"modified":"2022-06-19T20:31:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T20:31:56","slug":"saturday-night-dive-me-on-60-minutes-australia-cbc-griftonomics-scam-economy-coindesk-tv-truthdao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/06\/19\/saturday-night-dive-me-on-60-minutes-australia-cbc-griftonomics-scam-economy-coindesk-tv-truthdao\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Dive: me on 60 Minutes Australia, CBC, Griftonomics, Scam Economy, CoinDesk TV, TruthDAO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My media policy is generally <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/comment\/#commentary-media\">\u201cyes.\u201d<\/a> Here are some appearances I hadn\u2019t posted about yet.<\/p>\n<h3>Saturday Night Dive<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/06\/18\/bitcoin-drops-below-20000-ether-cracks-1000-what-this-means\/\">This week\u2019s comedy gold<\/a> spawned a few podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson Palmer, the regretful co-founder of Dogecoin, is back with a new podcast called Griftonomics. It goes further afield than crypto \u2014 but crypto is absolutely in there. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC5HJ4xNOwCjKj0SEiMaCing\"><i>YouTube<\/i><\/a><i>; <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/griftonomics\"><i>Anchor.fm<\/i><\/a><i>; <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/griftonomics\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Jackson spoke to Crikey about why he\u2019s doing this. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2022\/05\/30\/dogecoin-jackson-palmer-elon-musk-crypto-bubble-pauline-hanson\/\"><i>Crikey<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Jackson pinged me at about ten minutes\u2019 notice last night to do a Twitter Space on Bitcoin\u2019s Saturday night dive. Other speakers included Amy Castor, Matt Binder and Ben Doernberg, also ex-Dogecoin. It\u2019s two hours and it was reputedly pretty good! [<i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/griftonomics\/status\/1538248060194545664\">Twitter<\/a><\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Going LIVE in 10 min: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XuqRzxR70k\">https:\/\/t.co\/XuqRzxR70k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GRIFTONOMICS (@griftonomics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/griftonomics\/status\/1538248060194545664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amy Castor and I went on Matt Binder\u2019s Scam Economy podcast. This is where I first said &#8220;it&#8217;s like a huge <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/06\/18\/bitcoin-drops-below-20000-ether-cracks-1000-what-this-means\/\">Rube Goldberg machine slapstick custard pie clown car<\/a> where each custard pie triggers three more custard pies.&#8221; 69 minutes. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sm5OeO-yr68\"><i>YouTube<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sm5OeO-yr68?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s Wrong with Crypto? Author David Gerard on TruthDAO&#8217;s Crypto DeFined with Kathy Chu \u2014 this is a DAO-based very pro-crypto small outlet. I got to rant my usual thoughts about what just happened to solidly crypto media. It came out well. [<a href=\"https:\/\/truthdao.news\/crypto-defined-recap-author-david-gerard-warns-of-more-pain-in-crypto-world\/\"><i>TruthDAO<\/i><\/a><i>; <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/I2jyxihj0QU\"><i>YouTube<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I2jyxihj0QU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>CBC, CoinDesk TV<\/h3>\n<p>Back on 17 May, I did CBC Radio 1\u2019s The Current with Matt Galloway: \u201cEl Salvador bet big on Bitcoin, but was reported to have suffered heavy losses when cryptocurrency markets recently slumped. We talk to Isabella Cota and David Gerard.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-63-the-current\/clip\/15913073-el-salvador-bet-big-bitcoin-faces-heavy-losses\"><i>CBC<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>I signed the Concerned.Tech letter from actually-technical computer people to the US Senate.\u00a0 We asked the Senate not to accept the word \u201cblockchain\u201d as an excuse, and to regulate all these real-money financial instruments as if they were real-world financial instruments.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t work on the wording itself, but Stephen Diehl invited me to sign and I was delighted to join such illustrious company as the other initial signers \u2014 including tech luminaries such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_Bray\">Tim Bray<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grady_Booch\">Grady Booch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miguel_de_Icaza\">Miguel de Icaza<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Schneier\">Bruce Schneier<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamie_Zawinski\">Jamie Zawinski<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/concerned.tech\/\"><i>Concerned.Tech<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to CoinDesk TV about what we were thinking with this letter \u2014 if you want real money, you work by the rules of real money, and that\u2019s not at all a controversial position to advocate. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tv\/first-mover\/first-mover-june-3-2022\/\"><i>CoinDesk<\/i><\/a><i>, from 30:36<\/i>]<\/p>\n<h3>60 Minutes Australia<\/h3>\n<p>I thought my <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/05\/27\/filming-for-60-minutes-australia-on-sunday-evening\/\">60 Minutes Australia appearance<\/a> had been dropped\u00a0 but no, it showed up the following Sunday 5 June! [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6IRgSSBPrWY\"><i>YouTube<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>(If you\u2019re in Australia and it\u2019s geo-blocked, I think you need to view it via their 9Now portal)<\/p>\n<p>60 Minutes also published article versions of the piece. \u201c&#8217;You can&#8217;t get rich for free&#8217;: Expert predicts crypto crash is only going to get worse\u201d \u2014 looks like I was right, though it wasn\u2019t that hard a prediction. [<a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/60-minutes\/crypto-prices-expert-predicts-crash-is-only-going-to-get-worse\/54fd9c01-710b-4b25-a78d-98f0efbca622\"><i>9Now<\/i><\/a><i>; <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/60-minutes\/crypto-price-crash-sergei-sergienko-the-man-who-lost-600-million-on-crypto-but-isnt-giving-up\/67ab620e-de8c-4a22-97dc-54a303430c92\"><i>9Now<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>News.com.au also wrote up the show. I\u2019m \u201crenowned\u201d now, see? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/money\/investing\/crypto-expert-says-mumanddad-investors-are-going-to-get-absolutely-wrecked\/news-story\/540f7f6e40be322726ae866ba617ae4b\"><i>News.com.au<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>I was delighted with my 60 Minutes segment. They used far more from me than I expected. Usually you film a long thing and they pull a few quotes; I got a solid few minutes of the best bits.<\/p>\n<p>The interviewer, Tom Steinfort, started the segment with a confession: that he himself got burnt in May&#8217;s Terra\/Luna-induced crash. Friends told him crypto was good to get into. I expect the friends got burnt too.<\/p>\n<p>Tom didn\u2019t mention that to me in the interview. He did ask \u201cwhat do you think of the people who got burnt?\u201d I said that some of them are annoying, like the guys who were saying \u201chave fun staying poor\u201d a month earlier, but then I talked about the suicide hotline going up on \/r\/terraluna and how ordinary investors got absolutely wrecked. 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