March 25, 2019· 36 min
A Critic of Cryptocurrencies Says Bitcoin Needs To Be Burnt With Fire
Orality
Model
66%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(964 words)
M:28%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,294 words)
M:29%
GuestNicholas Weaver(2,809 words)
M:28%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic41%
literally, completely, massive
Engagement57%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
they (42x), cryptocurrency (41x), bitcoin (38x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Joe Weisenthal...., So, Joe, I think at this point..., But, in the last, several mont...
Sound Patterns27%
15 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases4%
i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging10%
quite, maybe, apparently
Passive Voice14%
being invested, be given, are given
Abstract Nouns26%
investment, recommendation, fairness
Subordination11%
because, until, however
Sentence Length45%
Avg: 16.2 words/sentence
Word Complexity50%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style43%
312 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
literally, completely, really
Description
There's a problem in many debates about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. While many people are inclined to dismiss them as fraudulent ponzi schemes, most of those critics aren't particularly well informed by them, so their dismissals are hollow and uncompelling. On this week's episode, we speak with Nicholas Weaver, a Berkeley computer scientist who is well versed on the technology, who argues why the entire space ought to be burnt down in a fire. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.