Jul 30, 2021
Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- Warren's shadowy super coders
- Was Digicash the first stablecoin?
- Is TVL overrated?
- Castle Island adds a new partner
- An anti crypto rider inserted into the Congress infrastructure bill
- Does taxation pay for government spending?
- Goldman applies...
Jul 23, 2021
Nic and Matt are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- We debate the merits of the Merritt parkway
- We reflect on the B Word conference
- SpaceX owns Bitcoin
- We cover the Elonfolio
- Gensler covers tokens giving synthetic exposure to underlying securities
- Are stablecoins appropriately regulated?
- Can...
Jul 16, 2021
Nic and Matt are back for a sideways week. In this episode:
- BlockFi's credit card comes out
- How mesopotamian clay tablets are blockchains
- Cambridge releases new data regarding bitcoin mining distribution
- Shapeshift decentralizes itself
- Can corporations successfully decentralize?
- Elizabeth Warren writes a letter to the...
Jul 9, 2021
Nic and Matt are back. In this episode:
- Circle's SPAC filing
- Circle's evolution over the year
- The business model behind stablecoins
- Circle's risk factor slides
- The SEC is targeting centralized exchanges for trading unregistered securities
- Senator Pat Toomey buys BTC and ETH
- Matt tries out the Blockfi credit card
- GBTC...
Jul 2, 2021
Nic and Matt return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- A new twist in the turkey tale
- Why airdrops historically haven't work
- Sam Altman's eyeball-based cryptocurrency
- Brady partners up with FTX
- The FCA tangles with Binance
- Nic's paper on DeFi risks
- NYDIG deepens their bank partnerships
- Mexico's...