On the Brief:

• Big tech vs. the American political right and left
• Why TikTok users are pretending to love China for clout
• Decentralizing venture capital 

Our main conversation:

The Crypto Dog is one of crypto Twitter’s best known characters. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss:

• Mining bitcoin in 2011
• The difficulty of hodling across a decade
• The emergence of the crypto trader in the Ethereum era
• Trader agnosticism 
• Pseudo-anonymity and social media 
• Developing the character behind the avatar 
• Global nomadism and the acceleration of “work from anywhere” 
• The vibe and feel of Hong Kong today

Find our guest online:Twitter: @TheCryptoDog