Shameless celebrities are hawking cryptocurrencies to the masses — Jacob Silverman (2/15/22)
Top stars from cinema, sports, and music are putting their brands behind cryptocurrency and NFTs, leading their fans toward questionable financial investments.
Jacob Silverman is a writer at The New Republic and a critic of the cryptocurrency industry. He joins SH!TPOST to talk about the ongoing wave of celebrities throwing their reputations and star powers behind the cryptocurrency industry and the potential devastation it wreak have on consumers who don’t understand the high risks involved. Jared and Jacob discuss NFTs, all those cryptocurrency Super Bowl ads, and Web3’s reliance on a sketchy promise of a future technology.
Jacob Silverman’s Twitter account: @SilvermanJacob
Jacob’s author page at The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/authors/jacob-silverman
Read Jacob and Ben McKenzie in Slate with their column ‘Not Gonna Make It’: https://slate.com/tag/not-gonna-make-it