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This Social Network Wants to Pay You (in Crypto) to Do Good

This Social Network Wants to Pay You (in Crypto) to Do Good

This Social Network Wants to Pay You (in Crypto) to Do Good

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

February 20, 202010m 30s

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Show Notes

Last June, at a swanky, strobe-lit event in Washington, DC, Brendan Blumer, the 33-year-old CEO of a blockchain company called Block.one, unveiled a new product with Steve Jobs-like theatrics: a social network called Voice. A year earlier, Blumer’s company had raised $4 billion selling a crypto token called EOS. It was, by far, the largest-ever initial coin offering—more money than just about any US initial public offering that year.

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