508. Does the Crypto Crash Mean the Blockchain Is Over?

508.加密货币崩溃是否意味着区块链已经结束?

Freakonomics Radio

社会与文化

2022-06-23

49 分钟
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No. But now is a good time to sort out the potential from the hype. Whether you’re bullish, bearish, or just confused, we’re here to explain what the blockchain can do for you. (Part 1 of a series.)

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  • My name is Tom Sachs.

  • I'm a sculptor.

  • I'm 55 years old.

  • You may remember Tom Sachs from a recent series we made about the art market.

  • He had a lot to say about the art market.

  • Things like this.

  • It is extremely unregulated and subject to all kinds of monkey business like this.

  • There's this phrase coined by a friend of mine called LPM lies per minute.

  • After that series, we kept in touch with Sachs and visited his studio in lower Manhattan.

  • It is huge, most of it underground, and it feels like a mashup of wood shop, pirate ship and circus.

  • He has a lot of assistants and collaborators, a lot of workstations and power tools, all sorts of projects being built.

  • One project in particular caught my eye because it was related to the next podcast series.

  • We were planning to make this one.

  • So we invited Sachs up to our studio to talk about his project, and he brought a prop.

  • So the rocket is nine and one quarter inches tall and about an inch in diameter.

  • Just to be clear, it's a model rocket.

  • Some people might call it a toy rocket, but this one is much more than a toy, although it does look like a toy.

  • The nose cone is about two inches tall.

  • It's matte gray with a portrait of Brian Griffin, the dog on family Guy.

  • The body is about five inches.