As the largest “stimulus” measures in history are being put into place during a crisis, we put our thinking caps on.
In this feature-length episode, we talk about the global fallout of the Coronavirus: financial, technological, and social.
We also discover a microphone to another dimension, in which the hosts have some… strange views.
Lastly, we take a whistle-stop tour of the last few weeks of bitcoin and technology news. Thanks for joining us!
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Show Links
- Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine
- /e/ Mobile Operating System — Google-free OS
- Remain Indoors • Mitchell & Webb
- Internet Straining Under Coronavirus
- Working from home called off after nation experiences an hour of the NBN
- Governments mobilized digital surveillance to contain the spread of the virus
- “We’re not going back to normal” — MIT Technology Review
- The Memetic Institute
- brrr.money
- Toilet Paper Crisis Solved as Government Prints Trillions Of Fresh, Soft Dollar Bills
- Rob Irwin Video
- You Can Virtually Tour These 500+ Museums And Galleries From Your Couch
- Binance buys Coinmarket cap (“they have the users”)
- Coinbase Card Users Can Now Make Crypto-Backed Payments With Google Pay
- GitHub Is Burying Bitcoin Code Inside an Arctic Mountain to Ride Out the Next 1,000 Years
- 3 Major Developments That Will Change How You Use Bitcoin
- TeamViewer Pilot — AR upgrade to TeamViewer
Show Segments
0:00 The Shock Doctrine
0:49 Welcome to the show!
2:11 What’ve We Been Up To?
9:24 Microphone To Another Dimension
15:45 Privacy & Security, & Blockchain Basics
16:43 The Coronavirus Fallout
18:00 U.S. Stimulus
20:00 UK Paying 80% of Furloughed Workers’ Salaries
20:56 Australia’s Stimulus
27:30 EU Fallout
30:05 Social Fallout
34:58 Internet Falling Apart
38:16 Surveillance is Booming!
40:08 MIT’s Thought Leadership: “We’re Not Going Back to Normal”
40:55 Broad Economic Outlook
46:34 Positive Fallout of Coronavirus
51:26 Healthcare → Telehealth
55:58 Our Views, in Summary
56:09 Joe’s Thoughts
59:14 Matt’s Thoughts
1:11:22 The News in Brief
1:11:33 Binance buys CoinMarketCap (CMC)
1:12:20 Coinbase Card Can Now Use Google Pay
1:13:30 Github Buries Bitcoin Code in Mountain
1:14:13 Three Bitcoin Developments: Scalability, Privacy, & Cross-Chain Functionality
1:14:49 Teamviewer Augmented Reality Pilot
1:17:05 Wrap Up
1:18:22 Outtakes & Extras
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