On the Brief: Big tech vs. the American political right and left Why TikTok users are pretending to love China for clout Decentralizing venture capital  Our main conversation: The Crypto Dog is one of crypto Twitter’s best known characters. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss: Mining bitcoin in 2011 The difficulty of hodling across a decade The emergence of the crypto trader in the Ethereum era Trader agnosticism  Pseudo-anonymity and social media  Developing the character behind the avatar  Global nomadism and the acceleration of “work from anywhere”  The vibe and feel of Hong Kong today Find our guest online:Twitter: @TheCryptoDog