{"id":25650,"date":"2023-06-20T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=25650"},"modified":"2023-06-20T17:13:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T17:13:54","slug":"foreign-policy-britain-is-still-making-dumb-bets-on-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2023\/06\/20\/foreign-policy-britain-is-still-making-dumb-bets-on-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy: Britain Is Still Making Dumb Bets on Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest for Foreign Policy! A year after crypto collapsed, Rishi Sunak wants <em>in<\/em>. Plus a bit on how Sunak and a16z are both still trying to do crypto <em>and<\/em> simultaneously pivot to AI. [<em><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2023\/06\/20\/britain-crypto-market-crash-sunak-a16z-web3\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a>, paywalled<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>$5-and-up patrons got the draft of this last week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidgerard\">Join up today!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2023\/06\/20\/foreign-policy-britain-is-still-making-dumb-bets-on-crypto\/rishi-sunak-tech\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25651\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25651\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/rishi-sunak-tech.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/rishi-sunak-tech.jpg 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/rishi-sunak-tech-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/rishi-sunak-tech-348x215.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small><i>&#8220;Anything where Rishi looks bright, enthusiastic and gormless, his trademark &#8216;I just discovered a new Excel function!&#8217; look&#8221; \u2014 me to James Palmer<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnything where Rishi looks bright, enthusiastic and gormless, his trademark \u2018I just discovered a new Excel function!\u2019 look\u201d \u2014 me to James Palmer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/rishi-sunak-tech.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25655,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25650\/revisions\/25655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}