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Block Climbing: A crypto and web3 podcast by Finder
Blockchain without the BS
Block Climbing is fortnightly podcast exploring the impacts of crypto and web3 on our lives - from the good, to the bad, to the fungible.
This is a Crypto Bro free zone where beginners, skeptics and everyone in between are welcome to learn, question and have a lol.
Hosted by seasoned journalists Tegan Jones and Tim Bennett, Block Climbing aims to be a trusted source of information that won't try to sell you on a new NFT drop. Promise.
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This week Tim & Tegan are joined by Finder's investments editor, Kylie Purcell, to explain what crypto ETFs are and how they work. They also dive into the wild world of digital real estate.
This week we chat to Lisa Wade, CEO of DigitalX, about where crypto regulation is currently at in Australia. We also take a look at the fascinating concept of decentralised identity and how it might be applied in the future.
This week Tim & Tegan look at the Australian Labor government's stance on crypto regulation and Adam Neumann (of WeWork fame) foray into blockchain start ups. They also chat to Dr Peter Howson about the potential positive environmental impact of the Ethereum Merge.
The Ethereum merge is finally happening! So this week Tegan and Tim dive into what this actually means and why it's a big deal. They also look at Tiffany & Co NFTs and the Sports Chain crypto scam in Sri Lanka.
This week a new ETF that shorts bitcoin enters the chat and the Bored Ape Yacht Club is accused of having connections to online alt-right troll culture. Meanwhile, Tegan visits an art exhibition where a reproductive cell has been minted in an NFT.
This week everything crypto continues to be on fire. So Tegan and Tim look at CeFi platform Celsius freezing all of its withdrawals. One might say its hit... zero degrees Celsius. On the plus side, the market downturn could be somewhat good for the environment?
This week Tim and Tegan are obsessed with bears. And by that we totally mean what's happening in the crypto bear market. They talk to some Finder experts to get their take on what's going on.
Tegan and Tim explain the history of meme coins and where their value stems from. They also take a look at the United State's historic sanction of a cryptocurrency mixer blender.io and debate whether the NFT landscape is collapsing.
This week Tegan and Tim explain what Web3 actually is and what enthusiasts hope it will be in the future. They also take a look at privacy coins and some NFTs that allegedly contain coordinates to 'stolen' Russian tanks in Ukraine.
Tegan Jones is the global reviews editor at Finder and the host of our crypto and Web3 podcast, Block Climbing.
An award winning journalist, she has been reporting on consumer tech, gaming and telecommunications for the past 10 years. She won best reviewer and best consumer tech coverage in the 2021 IT Journalism Awards.
She regularly appears on ABC News, A Current Affair, The Project, Triple J and other mainstream media channels as an expert tech commentator. Her previous roles include editor and deputy editor of Gizmodo Australia, as well as commercial editor of Business Insider, Lifehacker, Kotaku and Gizmodo Australia.
She is also the co-host of one of the top technology podcasts in Australia, Queens of the Drone Age.
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