Crypto’s white knight was a black hat all along and other TC news

This week Darrell talks with Dom-Madori Davis about the coalition of VCs that are standing for reproductive rights. And Jacquelyn Melinek comes on the break down the FTX- Binance saga that’s unfolded over the past week. And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech.

Articles from the episode:

• More than 100 VC firms join VCs for Repro coalition to support reproductive rights
• Here’s the rundown on the Binance and FTX fiasco 
• Binance’s plan to acquire FTX is ‘real-life Game of Thrones’ as crypto winter winds blow
• Binance backs out of deal to buy FTX
• Crypto giant Binance agrees to buy rival FTX amid ‘liquidity crunch’

Other news from the week:

• All of the Elon Musk and Twitter news here
• US DOJ announces seizure of $3.36B in cryptocurrency
• Meta confirms 11,000 layoffs, amounting to 13% of its workforce
• Salesforce confirms it has laid off hundreds of employees

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell.