2018
Bankman-Fried said Bitcoin in Korea traded 10-50% above US prices, but Korea's restricted won currency prevented a simple arbitrage between them.
“Korean Bitcoins were trading 10 to 50 percent above American Bitcoins.”
Topic
South Korea
7 facts from 7 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2023
Ulf Sverdrup said Microsoft's market capitalisation was larger than the GDP of South Korea.
“Microsoft, your market cap is bigger than the GDP of Korea.”
Undated
Chenyi Shi and Hamilton Helmer used Netflix's expansion into Korea as an example of growth that reuses fixed content costs across countries.
“And so Netflix streaming in Korea, it built on, so you're saying you can share content across countries, right?”
Undated
Elon Musk claimed that South Korea would lose roughly 60% of its population if its already low birth rate did not fall further.
“I think if the birth rate doesn't decline further, uh, South Korea will lose roughly 60% of its population.”
Undated
Jordan Peterson says about 30% of Japanese men and women under thirty are virgins, with a similar figure in Korea.
“I think 30% now of Japanese men and women under thirty are virgins. It's about the same in Korea.”
Undated
Joelle Pineau says Cohere's research-led focus on multilingual models opened commercial markets in Korea and Japan.
“it's opened up new commercial markets because when we get to Korea and to Japan, you know, of course, there's like, oh, you have world-class models in the local language”
Undated
People in South Korea were arrested for hacking Teslas to enable Full Self-Driving.
“a bunch of people got arrested recently in South Korea because they had hacked into their Teslas and they had enabled full self-driving, which is a subscription thing.”
Episodes
- 4 Apr 2023Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business1h 31m
- 15 Dec 2021FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)1h 37m
- 13 Jan 2025Jordan B Peterson: You Need To Listen To Your Wife! We've Built A Lonely & Sexless Society! If You & Your Partner Do This, You'll Divorce!2h 29m
- 2 Aug 2024#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity8h 46m
- 30 Oct 2026#2573 - Legion of Skanks2h 44m
- 9 Aug 2023Vice Chair and President of Microsoft: AI and Geopolitics33m
- 11 Feb 2026The “ChatGPT moment” for agentic AI39m