Just a few years in the past, throughout the absolute peak of the cryptocurrency craze, a considerably stunning skeptic emerged. Most individuals know Ben McKenzie from his appearing work on Southland or Gotham, or would acknowledge him immediately as Ryan Atwood from The O.C. Whereas seemingly everybody else was shopping for Bitcoin, McKenzie determined to determine what Bitcoin was truly all about. And, in fact, he determined to movie it.
On this episode of The Vergecast, McKenzie takes us into his many adventures in crypto. His documentary, Everybody Is Mendacity To You For Cash, is out this week, and it’s a enjoyable and revealing journey into the chaos of the crypto world. (You possibly can most likely guess from the title the place McKenzie in the end lands on the topic.) He tells us what he noticed all over the world that solidified his ideas about crypto’s issues, whether or not he sees related points within the present rise of prediction markets, and whether or not any of that is truly about cash in any respect.
After that, The Verge’s Victoria Music tells us of her personal lengthy, crazy-making journey, this time into the world of steady glucose displays. After greater than a yr of testing these gadgets, watching them flip right into a government- and influencer-endorsed phenomenon, and grappling with some very actual points that got here from a lot self-quantification, Vee tells us the place this pattern is basically headed.
Lastly, David solutions a query from the Vergecast Hotline (name 866-VERGE11 or electronic mail vergecast@theverge.com!) about why all devices appear the identical now. The place are the large, new, daring concepts about laptops? Or telephones? Or something? We’ve been asking that query for some time, too, and we’ve some solutions. However they’re not totally passable.
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