Jan 21, 2022
Matt and Nic return for a busy week of deals and news. In this episode:
- We cover the witness selection for the House energy hearing on Bitcoin mining
- The SEC goes to war with its employee union
- The SEC rejects the Skybridge Bitcoin ETF proposal
- GBTC is trading at a 30% discount
- Walmart is building its own...
Jan 7, 2022
Matt and Nic return for more news and deals of the week. In this episode:
- Everything is selling off
- Is the US losing its status as global reserve?
- We announce our policy miniseries
- Sen. Lummis will reportedly propose a crypto bill
- Opensea raising $300m at a $13b valuation
- Illicit activity in 2021 was only 0.15% of...
Dec 31, 2021
Nic and Matt return for the last episode of 2021. In this episode:
- Someone makes an unauthorized Nic NFT
- Microstrategy buys more BTC
- Blake Masters sells a political NFT
- Why do gamers and artists hate NFTs?
- We look back at our 2021 crystal ball predictions
- Best predictions of 2021
- Our outlook for crypto policy in...
Dec 24, 2021
Matt and Nic return for a festive Christmas eve roundup. In this episode:
- Reevaluating our intro song
- Jack Dorsey’s web3 beef
- What’s on our Christmas list
- Is PoW inherently high-fee?
- We steelman the Jack Dorsey and the pro web3 arguments
- Is there a paradox in web3?
- We advance a model of tapered token issuance for...
Dec 17, 2021
Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- A glitch in the CoinMarketCap data feed causes disturbances in the crypto industry
- AscendEX is hacked last week to the tune of $77 million
- Coinbase urges the SEC to approve NYSE Arca’s application to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into...