Kazakh Bitcoin mining outage, Synthetic actors, Memes + Ben Awad: Gen Z Programming Mentor | E1355

Published: Jan. 7, 2022, 6:50 p.m.

Jason and Molly cover how 15% of the world\u2019s bitcoin mining network went down when Kazakhstan\u2019s internet was shut off (3:11) and Chainalysis' scam report (12:32). Then they do a "We Live in the Future" segment about AI created actors (16:49) and \u201cMemes of the Week\u201d review of Marc Andreessen's tweets (25:32). Finally, Producer Rachel wraps with an "OK Boomer" interview with YouTube creator and software engineer Ben Awad (38:43).