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On The Brink with Castle Island

May 26, 2023

Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

  • Validators sign up to stake ETH post merge
  • Will there be MEV on Bitcoin? 
  • What's the deal with Worldcoin? 
  • Is the wash sale tax loophole stalling the debt ceiling negotiations? 
  • Have ordinals changed Bitcoin culture? 
  • The Fed releases new data on...


May 19, 2023

Nic and Matt return for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

  • Nic and Matt reminisce on the Bitcoin Miami conference
  • Ripple wins a key victory over the SEC in the Hinman test
  • Texas passes a proof of reserve bill
  • The SEC alleges that Filecoin is a security 
  • What's the deal with Worldcoin? 
  • How biometrics and...


May 17, 2023

Chris Ellis, Head of Strategic Initiatives at FactSet and Tim Rice, founder of Coin Metrics join the show. In this episode we discuss:

  • The partnership between FactSet and Coin Metrics how the companies are jointly going to market.
  • How FactSet thinks about partnerships and how digital assets has evolved as an area of...


May 12, 2023

Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

  • BRC20 PEPE versus ERC20 PEPE
  • Is PEPE an alt right coin?
  • What’s driving up fees on Bitcoin?
  • The relationship between HEX, XEN, and VPMX
  • Bitcoin’s circular firing squad
  • The upside of high fees in Bitcoin
  • Why the White House’s DAME mining tax...


May 8, 2023

Steven Walbroehl, the co-founder and CTO of Halborn joins the show. In this episode we discuss:

  • Steven’s crypto origin story and how he began tinkering with public blockchains.
  • How Halborn’s work differs across traditional financial services customers versus decentralized organization customers.
  • Basic...