Mar 31, 2023
Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals.
- Cooper and Kirk’s white paper on Operation Choke Point 2.0
- How bank regulators put crypto-facing banks in a catch-22
- SBF charged with bribing a Chinese official
- Is Sam funding his legal defense with funds purloined from FTX users?
- The CFTC charges Binance with...
Mar 28, 2023
Matt Hougan, the Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management joins the show. In this episode we discuss:
- The banking crisis and Operation Chokepoint 2.0
- The decisions facing the Fed and the second order impacts of Fed policy
- How the cryptocurrency industry has evolved post FTX
- Prospects for stablecoin and...
Mar 24, 2023
Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- Matt’s turkey trouble continues
- Nic’s vespa problem
- Nic’s latest Choke Point 2.0 article
- Did the government destroy Signature on purpose?
- Who is the main architect of Choke Point 2.0?
- Why was Signature closed when PacWest and First Republic...
Mar 20, 2023
Jamil and Nick, co-founders of Gamma.io, join
us on the show to discuss:
- Lowering the barrier to inscribing NFTs on Bitcoin
- Why creators and collectors are excited about NFTs on Bitcoin
- Designing a trustless Ordinals marketplace that aligns with its unique culture
- The emerging collecting and trading...
Mar 20, 2023
Nick Hansen is the cofounder and CEO of Luxor, a Bitcoin mining pool. He joins to talk to us about his excitement around ordinals and inscriptions, and how Luxor is thinking about the opportunity.
- The history of ordinals and how Luxor got started in the space
- How Luxor mined the first 4MB block in Bitcoin
- Luxor’s...