This week saw the Pixel 6 and MacBook Pro launch with each event showcasing Google and Apple’s culture in microcosm, HTC photoshopping VR onto stock photos; and our non-sponsor.

In This Week in Crypto, an all time high for Bitcoin and the arrival of various ETFs, checking in on El Salvador’s bitcoin deployment, and the US political opportunity after Trump II.

In This Week in NFTs, are NFTs dead? Also Sotheby’s Metaverse, an NFT project involving the organic growth of a crystal reef; and we close out with CryptoPunk or CryptoFunk.

Links we mentioned:

Photos physicalised: https://www.whitewall.com

HTC and Panasonic photoshopping:

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/10/14/22726604/htc-vive-flow-wearable-photoshopped-wearable-models-stock-images

Andrew Yang’s Party of Crypto:

https://decrypt.co/83967/andrew-yang-bankless-release-nft-support-forward-party