Listen to the DevNews Podcast Season 7 Premiere 🎤
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Published: 2022-01-13 19:00:21

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The DevNews podcast is back for a brand new season. Catch it right here or wherever you get your favorite podcasts

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_As a refresher, DevNews is the news show for developers by developers. Each season, our hosts cover the latest in the world of tech, and speak with diverse guests from a variety of backgrounds to dig deep into meaty topics such as security, the pros and cons of outsourcing your authentication, and the latest bugs and hacks._

**Hosts:** 
- @saronyitbarek is the founder of Disco, founder of [CodeNewbie](https://community.codenewbie.org) host of the [CodeNewbie Podcast](https://dev.to/codenewbie), and co-host of the [base.cs podcast](https://dev.to/basecspodcast).
- @joshpuetz is the Principal Software Engineer at [Forem](https://forem.com) — the open source community software that powers DEV, CodeNewbie and a growing number of other online communities.



**Guest:** 
- [Dr. Merav Ozair](https://twitter.com/mackabiecapital) is a leading blockchain expert, a FinTech Professor, and the Editor-in-Chief of the World Scientific Series in FinTech. Her work focuses on decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and the Metaverse, across different industries and business use cases. She is a member of the Academic Advisory Board at INATBA (International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications) and holds a PhD from Stern Business School at NYU.

In this episode, we talk about a developer who broke around 19-thousand projects by intentionally corrupting his own open source libraries, and how iMessage won in the smartphone battle for favor amongst Gen Z. Then we speak with Dr. Merav Ozair, Leading Blockchain expert and FinTech Professor at Rutgers Business School, about NFTs and the turbulent removal of the founders of the Pudgy Penguins project.


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## **Quick Listening Links**
- [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s7-e1-the-pudgy-penguins-nft-debacle-a/id1525581923?i=1000547762058)
- [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/78jRVgcG9PCZOicdPLipOh)
- [Google](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmNvZGVuZXdiaWUub3JnL2Rldm5ld3NfcG9kY2FzdC54bWw/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly9kZXZwb2RzLmRldi9wb2RjYXN0cy9kZXZuZXdzLzQ5?sa=X&ved=0CAQQkfYCahcKEwj4hK-KtK_1AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCg)
- [Stitcher](https://www.stitcher.com/show/devnews/episode/s7-e1-the-pudgy-penguins-nft-debacle-a-dev-intentionally-breaks-his-own-open-source-libraries-and-gen-zs-distaste-for-green-text-bubbles-89666831)
- [Listen Notes](https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/devnews/s7e1-the-pudgy-penguins-nft-o9HuI_r2qgG/)
- [TuneIn](https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/DevNews-p1352512/?topicId=169004712)
- [RSS Feed](http://feeds.codenewbie.org/devnews_podcast.xml)
- [DEV Pods website](https://devpods.herokuapp.com/podcasts/devnews/episodes/242)

#### _Acknowledgements_ 
- _@levisharpe for producing & mixing the show_ 
- Our Season 7 Sponsor: [Scout APM](https://scoutapm.com/?utm_campaign=ad_q2_2021&utm_content=sponsored&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=devnews)


We hope you enjoy this kickoff to a new season of DevNews 📰