This Week in Startups: Crypto drops ~$200B, Celsius freezes, Binance’s BTC pause, Google AI sentience, Magic Spoon: DTC isn’t dead | E1483

On today's show, Jason and Molly cover crypto losing $200B from its total market cap this weekend (14:51) and Binance pausing withdrawals of Bitcoin for almost 4 hours this morning (29:53). We also quickly talk about a Google engineer claiming Google's AI chat bot has become sentient (38:15). For our We Live in the Future, we cover Amazon announcing drone delivery for later this year (48:52). Finally, we wrap on our Startup of the Day: Magic Spoon, a high-protein cereal maker (53:57).

(0:00) Jason and Molly tee up today’s news stories

(2:44) Catching up with Jason and Molly (hikers vs mountain bikers, rattlesnakes)

(13:51) Ourcrowd - Check out the deal of the week at https://ourcrowd.com/twist

(14:51) Crypto lost $200B from total market cap this weekend, major currencies are down ~25% over past week

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(29:53) Binance paused withdrawals of Bitcoin for almost 4 hours earlier this morning

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(38:15) Google’s AI is sentient according to engineer Blake Lemoine

(48:52) WLitF: Amazon announced they will officially launch drone delivery this year

(53:57) SotD: Magic Spoon (high-protein cereal maker) raised a $85M Series B