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Amazon’s $8.5BN deal with MGM has officially closed. Not only does the acquisition open access to vaults of 4,000 film titles, 17,000 TV episodes, 180 Academy Awards and 100 Emmy Awards, it also pronounces a final departure from the era…

The Biden administration is asking for greater regulation around cryptocurrencies. We see this as a long-term positive for the platform given that it moves crypto from a fringe value transfer to the mainstream. The Department of Justice has more questions…

Nasdaq closed down nearly 4% as investor anxiety begins to shift from the conflict in Ukraine to a global recession.  Apple has been rumored to be bidding on NFL live content. We see a big opportunity for Apple in sports…

Gene and Doug discuss Crypto.com’s $15M hack, Apple’s long-term take rate and recent tech price increases. Takeaways: Even though Crypto.com got hacked, there’s still a lot of value in a centralized exchange. Apple’s App Store is in the news again.…

Gene and Doug discuss Jack Dorsey’s recent Web 3.0 comments and conclude that they win the 2021 “Most Entertaining in Crypto” award.

For twenty years, the team at Loup has had a pulse on technology and a point of view on how that tech will change the world. The cutting edge of that change is frontier tech, driven today by AI, fintech,…

Last year, we predicted a few items for this year’s gift guide: AirTags | $29 | Apple’s network-driven approach to tracking your stuff. AirPods Studio [AirPods Max] | $549 | The ultimate AirPods listening experience. Tickets to Broadway | $29+…

This piece was originally published on Doug’s Substack, Uncomfortable Profit. Any idea that touches gender or race is uncomfortable. It’s easy to devolve into political and ideological beliefs when you talk about the most powerful components of personal identity. But…

This piece was originally posted on Doug’s blog, Uncomfortable Profit.  Imagine a world where you bought a new $200 pair of Genesis Jordan 1s. Nike validates your ownership of those Jordans on the blockchain. When the next pair of Jordans…

This NFT market overview was originally posted on Doug’s blog, Uncomfortable Profit.  I’m more certain than ever that 95%+ of NFT projects are zeroes, but that the NFT space is still going to be bigger than almost everyone realizes. The…

Gene’s joined by crypto experts, Hector Fernandez and Sal Ternullo, to discuss why Bitcoin 2021 was analogous to Woodstock, an industry’s turning point.

Being non-consensus and right is the only way to generate extraordinary results. Howard Marks knows this. Warren Buffet knows this. Andy Rachleff knows this. And I think Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, knows this. Armstrong made a non-consensus move this week, particularly for a Silicon Valley…