Author: Lex Fridman

Tue. Aug 9th, 2022

John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309

John Carmack is a legendary programmer, co-founder of id Software, and lead programmer of many revolutionary video games … source

Arts & Culture

Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church | Lex Fridman Podcast #304

Jul 31, 2022 Lex Fridman

Robert Barron is a bishop and founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Please support this podcast by checking out…

Arts & Culture

Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang | Lex Fridman Podcast #305

Jul 26, 2022 Lex Fridman

Lord Martin Rees is a cosmologist and astrophysicist at Cambridge University and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of…

Cryptos

Bitcoin likely to transition to a risk-off asset in H2 2022, says Bloomberg analyst
As the global economy moves into a recession in the second half of 2002, Bitcoin will likely rally alongside gold and treasury bonds, according to Mike McGlone, a senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg.
Fed reverse repo reaches $2.3T, but what does it mean for crypto investors?
Investors avoid risk assets during a crisis, but excessive cash sitting in financial institutions could also be good for the cryptocurrencies.
Binance sides with Indian regulators in WazirX fallout to cease support for off-chain transfers
Binance denied any equity ownership in the India-based crypto exchange after the latter came under regulatory scrutiny.
US Treasury sanctions USDC and ETH addresses connected to Tornado Cash
The protocol was at the center of some recent hacks and exploits in decentralized finance, including the alleged theft of $455 million by the North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group.
Bitcoin price targets 8-week highs as Ethereum reaches $1.8K
Optimism and expectations increase around crypto markets, but U.S. inflation data looms large this week.
Metaverse housing bubble bursting? Virtual land prices crash 85% amid waning interest
The virtual real estate market is crashing despite a McKinsey report predicting a $5 trillion market by 2030.
US ethics advisory on federal employee's crypto has basis in legislation
The Office of Government Ethics reminded federal agency ethics officers of current law and extended its interpretation of the law to mutual funds.
A slice of the punk: CryptoPunk NFT to be split into thousands of pieces
A valuable CryptoPunk NFT is to be fractionalized as more than 56,000 addresses sign up for a share of ownership.
Ethereum Name Service founder reflects as 2 million registration mark nears
As the Ethereum Name Service edges closer to 2 million domain registrations, its founder reflects on the parallels with the internet’s Domain Name Service.
Crypto lending platform Hodlnaut suspends services due to liquidity crisis
Hodlnaut avoided 3AC exposure and earlier denied ever buying UST, but several reports and on-chain data have shown that the lending firm at one point owned over $150M worth of UST.

John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309

Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church | Lex Fridman Podcast #304

Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang | Lex Fridman Podcast #305

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