The Business of Tech

NZ gets its own stablecoin | Why we should care about the OpenAI drama


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Easy Crypto CEO and co-founder Janine Grainger joins us to explain why she and her team decided to launch a locally owned wallet, and the NZDD stablecoin pegged to the NZ dollar, and backed 1:1 by funds in the bank.

Plus, we discuss the biggest tech story of the year, the ousting of OpenAI founding CEO Sam Altman, and why the news should matter to Kiwis and their businesses.

Note: When Ben said artificial generative intelligence, he meant artifical general intelligence.

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