Controversial comedian and commentator Joe Rogan said he "has a lot of hope" for cryptocurrencies in a recent podcast interview.
On the Jan. 8 episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast, Rogan discussed the future of cryptocurrencies with fellow podcaster Adam Curry. Rogan's podcast has an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, despite Spotify's attempts to censor some of the more offensive episodes.
Rogan, whose podcast ranked as the most popular on Spotify in 2021, stated:
"It's either going to completely fall apart, or we're going to use this as an opportunity to right the ship and figure out a better way to live."
Curry is the host of the right-wing podcast "No Agenda," which has been criticized by the mainstream media and medical community for promoting conspiracy theories.
Curry explained that "there's a whole bunch of young people who just give up and want to build parallel systems and parallel networks," then added, "I'm on the Bitcoin train because I think my money is safer there ".
"The monetary system is broken. It causes inflation, it causes misery, it causes wars because it's tied to oil.
Rogan and Curry also discussed the possibilities of a "Silicon Valley-controlled" digital Metaverse and NFT's potential role in that space.
Rogan presented a theory of the future in which companies invent their own digital tokens that customers will need to use to purchase their products.
"Apple could easily do that," Rogan said, "you would buy coins, and through those coins you would buy products ... It's almost like another version of a stock or something."
But Curry wasn't convinced, saying "that's not the plan," and expects powerful institutions and governments to instead focus on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
