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104: Balaji $1m Bitcoin Bet, Banking Crisis, Ryan Reynold’s Business Empire & GPT-4

Trung & Bilal discuss Balaji's $1m Bitcoin bet, the banking crisis, Ryan Reynolds business empire, Trung’s meme going super viral and GPT-4.


Timestamps:

  • (00:00:00) - Intro 
  • (00:04:11) - Meme of the Week
  • (00:08:50) - The Backstory to Trung’s Tweet
  • (00:11:31) - How a meme goes viral
  • (00:13:11) - Balaji's Background
  • (00:15:28) - Balaji's $1m Bitcoin Bet
  • (00:16:55) - Banking Crisis Explained
  • (00:21:57) - SVB Post-Mortem
  • (00:27:03) - Infinite Money Printing Back?
  • (00:32:36) - Swap Lines Explained
  • (00:36:32) - Trung's take on Balaji’s Argument
  • (00:41:28) - Bilal’s take on Balaji’s Argument
  • (00:47:54) - Doing it for the meme?
  • (00:50:28) - Hyperbitcoinization?
  • (00:53:29) - Ryan Reynolds Business Empire
  • (00:55:30) - Van Wilder
  • (00:57:06) - Deadpool and Aviation Gin
  • (00:59:39) - Fastvertising
  • (01:01:08) - Mint Mobile and MVNO Businesses
  • (01:04:38) - Wrexham F.C.
  • (01:07:26) - Bearly A.I. Plug
  • (01:08:00) - GPT-3 vs GPT-4
  • (01:09:17 ) - Microsoft Copilot



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