World’s biggest podcaster Joe Rogan has a ‘lot of hope’ for crypto

Controversial comedian and commentator Joe Rogan said that helium “has a batch of hope” for cryptocurrencies successful a caller podcast interview.

In the 1760th Jan. 8 episode of his podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Rogan discussed the aboriginal of crypto with chap podcaster, Adam Curry. Rogan’s podcast has an estimated 11 cardinal listeners per episode, contempt Spotify’s attempts to censor immoderate of the much violative episodes.

Rogan, whose podcast took the apical spot arsenic astir fashionable connected Spotify during 2021, stated:

“It’s either going to autumn isolated completely, oregon we’re going to usage this arsenic an accidental to close the vessel and travel up with a amended mode to unrecorded our lives,”

Curry is the big of right-wing podcast “No Agenda” which has been criticized by the mainstream media and aesculapian assemblage for promoting conspiracy theories.

Curry explained that “there is simply a full slew of young radical who are conscionable opting out, and they are moving to physique parallel systems and parallel networks,” earlier adding, “I’m connected the Bitcoin bid due to the fact that I judge my wealth is safer there.”

“The wealth strategy is broken. It causes inflation, it causes misery, it causes wars due to the fact that it is linked to oil.”

Rogan’s imaginativeness for the Metaverse

Rogan and Curry besides discussed the possibilities of a “Silicon-Valley-controlled” digital Metaverse, and the imaginable relation of NFTs successful this space.

Rogan theorized a aboriginal wherever companies travel up with their ain integer tokens which customers would request to usage to acquisition their products.

“Apple could easy bash that,” Rogan said, “you would bargain coins, and done those coins you would bargain products… It’s astir similar different mentation of stocks oregon something.”

However, Curry wasn’t convinced, saying “that’s not the plan,” and helium expects almighty institutions and governments volition alternatively acceptable their sights connected cardinal slope integer currencies (CBDCs).

“You volition person crypto. You volition person a integer wallet. It volition beryllium straight from the Federal Reserve to you. And determination volition beryllium small retail banking - that conscionable won't hap anymore.”

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Despite the podcasters’ affirmative appraisal of crypto, galore members of the assemblage remained skeptical. In a Reddit post to the r/Cryptocurrency subreddit, 1 idiosyncratic “thenudelman” commented, “An endorsement from Captain Pseudoscience. Coulda done without it.” Another user, “Dubsy 101” added, “He's an idiot and the past idiosyncratic we privation associated with Crypto.”

Both Rogan and Curry person proved to beryllium highly arguable figures successful the crypto abstraction and beyond. Rogan is known for his vocal rejection of “political correctness” and has received disapproval successful the past for making racist, sexist, and transphobic jokes.

In July 2021, CashApp paid Rogan to archer his listeners to bargain Bitcoin (BTC), and helium accepted a BTC outgo of $100,000 successful November.