Small Time Bets: The Only Annual Podcast

This week we talk “the overview effect” for non-billionaires, Tesla’s AI Day, Comma.ai, and Audius decentralising the music industry with TikTok. After our non-sponsor, in This Week in Crypto we ask why Dogecoin has a Foundation and then literally walk around in the metaverse of Decentraland. And we close out with CryptoPunk or CryptoFunk. Links we mentioned: Tesla’s AI Day: https://youtu.be/j0z4F...

This week Jonathan and Doug reflect on the Coinbase IPO 4 months on; as well as prefab houses, and tokenising the process of buying a house. After our non-sponsor we pick up the pieces of the Biden infra / crypto tax bill, the Poly Network hack, and Reddit NFTs. Links we mentioned: Prefab self-contained houses, formerly Dom.ai https://haus.me A bigger prefab house shipping to Europe and US: https:...

This week Jonathan and Doug ask whether Buy Now Pay Later is a Good Thing, consider the 4 day workweek, get excited about the Pixel 6 with Tensor; plus: Amazon’s big workforce, time crystals, Apple child safety. After a non-sponsor segment we turn to This Week in Crypto and survey a buoyant market, ethereum post-London, more NFT buzz, the Biden infrastructure bill’s crypto provisions, and how to c...

This week Jonathan and Doug talk Amazon emails (fixed), Monzo doing fintech poorly, Damien Hirst’s Currency issued, and the “bigger than wearables” success of AirPods. After a non-sponsor tea break, we turn to This Week in Crypto to answer the question, “will Bitcoin now go up?” The Binance clampdown sees some results, Amazon’s crypto plans, Ethereum counts down to London, and defi governance powe...

This week Jonathan and Doug talk about the billionaire space race, gaming taking centre stage, and Damien Hirst’s “Currency” NFT project. After a brief non-sponsor segment we turn to This Week in Crypto and chat about an uptrend, whales creating a $30k floor, the B Word conference and we close with Shitcoin or Fakecoin. Links we talk about: The upcoming video game handset from Valve: https://store...

This week we talk about finding a good home for Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs, Amazon destroying stock, how people talked about the internet back in the day, and Axie Infinity keeps growing. Then after our non-sponsor, we turn to This Week in Crypto. Binance got two more regulatory darts to the neck on the day of recording, this time from Lithuania and Hong Kong. As the founder of Doge rage quits cr...

This week we start with a puzzler. Because we can’t keep putting tiny bits of forever-plastics into the oceans, into the Arctic ice, into our food chains and into every fibre of everything; because of that, what’s replacing plastic? Might it be mushrooms? Also good news that smart home stuff will now “just work” in a rare case of cross-industry collaboration called “Matter”. After our non-sponsor...

This week Jonathan and Doug talk Windows 11, what’s happening in the whole market / economy, NFTs of everything, then this week’s Not a Sponsor. In This Week in Crypto, we ask the question “are we in a bear market?”. Or in any case what is the system of a down? El Salvador airdrops Bitcoin, Ethereum EIP 1559 launches, plus UFO breaking news. And we close out with Shitcoin or Fakecoin. Links we men...

This week Jonathan and Douglas catch up on WWDC, talk UK medical data sharing, the Fastly outage, rising food prices, and Brave gets its own search engine. After our non-sponsor we dive into This Week in Crypto, covering China’s coal Bitcoin crackdown, MicroStrategy buying half a billion dollars more Bitcoin, El Salvador’s acceptance of Bitcoin as their personal saviour, and Kraken’s security meas...

This week we start with the “jobs reset” called by the World Economic Forum, how we’re evolutionarily wired for audiobooks, we talk about the difficulty of making sure Trump and Elon behave, Y2K fashion meets crafty Etsy makers, and YouTube degrading service a little here and there so the show can go on. After our non-sponsor segment we dive into This Week in Crypto, with a recap on a bearish few...

Jonathan’s been driving about trying to charge his EV. He reports back. We talk about Netflix moving into gaming, GameStop moving into NFTs, and AI moving onto meeting notes. Following our non-sponsor segment, we turn to This Week in Crypto, which begins with a quick fire round including: Ray Dalio and Carl Icahn get into bitcoin, China’s miners get out, Iran does too, Charlie bit my finger goes N...

This week Jonathan and Doug catch up on Google I/O developments and find out why Jonathan keeps having to identify fire hydrants to use Google through his VPN. Then we have a rapid-fire round because so much happened this week, then in This Week in Crypto (proper) we talk about Bitcoin’s price drop from $50k down to $30k, and why Wednesday may have been the most bullish day yet for crypto as an as...

This week we talk about the mesh networks of Amazon and Apple, about trading card mania and ask, “what is it you have, when you have the NFT of a song?” Our Non-Sponsor this week is Asket https://www.asket.com On This Week in Crypto we look back over a week that started with Elon playing the Dogefather on SNL and ended with him repudiating bitcoin’s carbon intensity. Also Shiba Inu vs Vitalik, and...

This week Jonathan has to prove his identity to Amazon, Douglas buys NFT art. SpaceX lands well, Elon and Iron Man, Royal Navy jet pack, drugs on the stock market. On This Week in Crypto, Bitcoin sideways, Taproot and London updates, ether on fire, some Doge advice, the Bank of England on intrinsic value, Dfinity keeps spinning. And we close out with Shitcoin or Fakecoin. We mentioned the followin...

This week we talk: Google Maps helping you drive greener, Formula E, stealth inflation, a mighty browser, and lab meat. Then after our non-sponsor we have This Week in Crypto: Tesla’s 10% bitcoin sale, JP Morgan volte-face, Circles, China’s digital currency expiry feature, and the EIB puts a bond on ethereum. We close with Shitcoin or Fakecoin. Links (in order of appearance): Former Waze CEO Noam...

This week we talk Apple’s Spring event, hacking Octopus Agile, and Amazon Hair. Then after our non-sponsor segment, we review This Week in Crypto including: Bitcoin’s double dip, ethereum’s quiet all time high (again) and sports celebs getting paid out in bitcoin. We close with Shitcoin or Fakecoin Links: Thortful (with 30% off): https://thortful.mention-me.com/me/referee/registerko/78560775/31258...

We begin with Coinbase’s IPO, decode Amazon’s mysterious order emails, Taylor Swift re-making the original; and WallStreetBets decentralises. Then in This Week in Crypto: who let the Doge out. Ethereum’s Berlin update had a moment; ConsenSys attracts UBS, MasterCard, JPMorgan; we preview Central Bank Digital Currencies; can Binance themselves explain BNB’s boom; and Shitcoin or Fakecoin. This week...

We start this week with GameStop’s raise, Nvidia remasters video calls, and Neuralink macaque feedback. Non-sponsor of the week is: https://ground.news/ (use referral code 602472) On This Week in Crypto: massive Coinbase IPO next week, Akon’s real life Wakanda, CryptoPunks, and Signal claims to do crypto. We close as ever with “Shitcoin or Fakecoin”. Links: CryptoPunks: https://www.larvalabs.com/c...

This week, Jonathan is licking his wounds from the Deliveroo IPO, we ask whether it’s already over for proper cameras. Then SpaceX SN11 crash, Voltswagen, Dualingo and an Urban Gardening update. On This Week in Crypto, Elon’s lunatic tweet, NFT is everywhere, two big developments - Visa and PayPal take crypto, should Brexit Britain double down on Bitcoin because after all it’s apparently British....

This week we talk about robot dogs, Daniel Suarez, GameStop part VI, the $100B Mormon investment strategy, enterprise grade Wikipedia, Taiwan Semiconductor and investing on the basis of magic, conversely the Deliveroo IPO. Our non-sponsor is Monkee Genes, who do ethical denim and apparel (use offer code HCPOD10 for 10% off): https://monkeegenes.com/ This Week in Crypto: Tesla starts taking bitcoin...

Making a 3D model of a kitchen, WallStreetBets adopts apes, buying the sweater from a specific sheep, GameStop’s day of reckoning, Stripe is now worth nearly $100B but no one knows what they do. The Fed said more about inflation (2.4%) so we try to understand unlimited printing of the world’s reserve currency and why that’s okay. [a message from our non-sponsor of the week] This Week in Crypto: Fi...

This week we ask whether GameStop stuck it to the Man. Then “how long can Roblox be cool”, a huge Outlook hack gets buried; and our weekly non-sponsor. This week in crypto: NFT art’s $69M debut at Christie’s, Bitcoin’s energy consumption vs the planet, a fun look at ethereum’s upgrade and classic “shitcoin or fakecoin”. Links: Our non-sponsor: http://www.lorodinapoli.co.uk Jonathan gripes about th...

This week: the frothy stock market, Starship SN10, Trump 2024, journos killed the video mic, the Amazon Fresh of Ealing Broadway and our semi-regular Urban Gardening segment. Then we talk about the coming upheaval in advertising and privacy, Jonathan buys an NFT NBA sticker and DigiByte’s GIF strategy.

We start by talking about Mibo, which is like Zoom if Zoom was an informal hangout on a private island. Then Gardeners’ World, TikTok including deepfake Tom Cruise, Texas winter storm and the grid, Teams backgrounds, GameStop’s second pumping, Facebook and fair use of Aussie news. Non-sponsor break. This Week in Crypto: the so-called death of Bitcoin, expected BTC low, Tether vs NY Attorney Genera...

First, shelves and gardening. Then electric vehicles, TikTok, Animal Crossing, Thrift+, Facebook vs Australia. This Week in Crypto: number go up; Elon(g) on doge; and is this institutional watershed or December ’17? Link to our non-sponsor: https://thrift.plus/ Atmosphere provided by: http://www.imissmybar.com https://www.zapsplat.com