Rogan often has very left leaning guests including scientists, authors, and politiciana. They just get less coverage. For example, Rogan had Bernie Sanders as a guest and openly endorsed him.

What's powerful about it is that it's available to literally anyone as opposed to only financial institutions.

I'm willing to take a raise and never go into the office again.

This still happened as recently as 100 years ago. Con men would set up false banks in small towns and make off with a lotnof money. Lookup Yellow Kid Weil.

I wonder how many bank robberies were scams.

Bank owner embezzles for awhile, bank robber shows up, publicly robs the bank, makes off with $1000, bank owner claims $10,000 was stolen. Bank owner now has a reason why he can't give everyone their money back.

So what changed? I'm not concerned with any current bank making off with my money (although I'm more concerned with risky practices leading to them to go under, which is legal and as 2008 proved, the tax payer will absorb).

This exists: ENS

On most platforms, yes, and its part of the appeal.

This would tarnish their reputation

For the huge sales yes, but it's not for nothing. They are pouring 10s of millions into NFTs as a land grab in a potential new economy. If they lose it, nbd, since they have "fuck you" money anyway.

I should hope at C level comp levels, these folks can manage their money well enough to weather a multi year dry spell after a few years of gainful employment.

Maybe if there was a little less regulation in the first place, things like bitcoin wouldn't have as much appeal as they do.

This is old rhetoric. Sidestepping the government no longer has anything to do with Bitcoin appeal. At this point, it's purely speculation and money laundering, all subversiveness potential has been evacuated for good.

I realize many people don't care about credit cards spying on them, but I do value cryptocurrencies offering alternatives. From what I understand the Apple Credit Card was somewhat of a similar attempt (Goldman Sachs isn't allowed to sell the information). I'm not saying that the benefits outweigh the costs, but it does seem that they allow for more than money laundering, and speculation.