A Possible Russian Crypto Ban and Vitalik’s Synthetic Womb: This Is 2022
This week on “Opinionated,” the gang dives deep into some big news out of Russia, looks at the issue of rampant intellectual-property theft with NFTs and interrogates Vitalik Buterin’s idea for synthetic wombs.(Yes, you read that last one right. The founder of Ethereum thinks babies should be made in Cosmic Cocoons.)Download this episodeCould Russia ban crypto? That’s a possibility raised by a highly critical Bank of Russia report this week. It said cryptocurrencies are volatile and widely used in illegal activities, such as fraud. The report called for the Kremlin to outlaw mining and issuance, if not the holding of…