Balaji's movie "Technodemocracy" bombs - eviltoast
Balaji Srinivasan, VC pushing dystopian vision of SF, gets a crowd but produces a dud
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He said Bitcoin might cause a new U.S. civil war: Some states would attempt Bitcoin seizures, and others would become Bitcoin sanctuaries.
  • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
    10·
    5 months ago

    Srinivasan, a former partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, who is allegedly based in Singapore, conducted the Q&A through a free Zoom account with a 40-minute time limit — Srinivasan left seconds before the timer hit zero.

    oh that’s fucking embarrassing

    e: wait, people paid to attend this shit and they couldn’t allocate the price of even one ticket to pay for zoom? that’s worse

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      should’ve used some of that networked state technology so they didn’t have to be reliant on such tawdry oldworld dead weight as mere webrtc