Sep 29, 2023
Matt and Nic return for deals and news. In this episode:
- Is AI going to cause unemployment for IB associates?
- Blockchain based sneakers
- Tungsten business cards
- What’s happening with OTB merch?
- Nic’s Vespa catastrophe
- Gensler’s HSFC hearing
- How Gensler is the Tonya Harding of crypto
- Made up airlines
- What’s...
Weekly Roundup 09/22/23 (SBF family in focus, Tether is lending again, BTC security budget) (EP.454)
Sep 22, 2023
Matt and Nic return for news and deals. In this episode:
- We recap the conferences
- Nic's Columbia lecture snafu
- The Bitcoin security budget debate
- One theory for what might provide Bitcoin with long term security
- FTX sues Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried
- Tether has resumed their lending operations
- Did SBF's parents...
Sep 21, 2023
Henri
Stern, CEO and co-founder of Privy, joins us to discuss:
- The contradictory functions that wallets serve
- Offering in-app non-custodial embedded wallets
- Balancing the trade offs of security versus convenient recovery
- How customers are customizing their embedded wallet experience
- The decision to build third...
Sep 15, 2023
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode.
- We review Singapore and Token 2049
- Singapore food reviews
- Is crypto pivoting to Asia?
- Singapore bans the 3ac boys from the Securities industry for 9 years
- The offshoring of dollar stablecoins
- Stablecoins are becoming interest bearing
- Fortress...
Sep 13, 2023
Peter Johnson, co-head of Venture at Brevan Howard Digital, returns to the show to talk about his latest theses on stablecoins. In this episode:
- The origins of Peter's interest in stables
- We review Peter's prior stablecoin predictions
- USDC versus USDT market share trends
- Peter's main takeaways from the Relentless...