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Bitcoin was created as a peer-to-peer payment system, but these days people mostly hold it as an investment. Flexa was founded to make a consumer-to-merchant payment system so that crypto holders could splurge sometimes when the numbers are green (and also to enable a different kind of economy). Listen to Flexa co-founder Tyler Spalding talk about the work they've done to make payments work alongside one of his early investors, Lasse Clausen, of the venture fund 1kx.

Hosts:

• Brady Dale (@BradyDale)

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Going deeper on the news covered this week on the Techmeme Ride Home podcast. This week, @loudmouthjulia talks us through Amazon buying MGM and all things streaming wars and @lorakolodny walks us through Tesla dropping radar.

Hosts:

• @chrismessina
• @brianmcc

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Emil Protalinski and Ken Yeung discuss some of the headlines from the BTN newsletter. This week: Amazon acquires MGM, Jeff Bezos reveals Andy Jassy's CEO start date, DC sues Amazon on antitrust grounds, AmaZen, Facebook sues India, and disinformation.

Hosts:

• Emil Protalinski (@epro)
• Ken Yeung (@thekenyeung)

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Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they dissect the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Poparazzi hype (and data concerns), the sky clears around Twitter Blue, Likes become optional on Instagram... and plenty more besides.

Hosts:

• Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
• Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP)

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In crypto, investors with deep pockets, so-called whales, move the market. Whale watching has proved to be a strong strategy for many crypto traders who prefer the open markets of decentralized exchanges like Uniswap, SushiSwap and Binance Smart Chain. The CEO of Uniwhales describes how his company has built a community of traders around making information rapidly available about the biggest trades on the leading decentralized exchanges. Aaron also describes the loose cooperative that has formed around the Uniwhales token, the membership card for their system.

Hosts:

• Brady Dale (@BradyDale)

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Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they dissect the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Twitter verification opens up, Snap is quietly one of the most interesting social companies, and what Parler's return to the App Store says about how we can experience the same social space in different ways depending on where we're standing. Oh, and lots more.

Hosts:

• Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
• Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP)

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