Aug 28, 2026
Matt and Nic return for another week of deals and news. In this episode:
- Matt and Nic consider candidates for the new bad boys intro music
- 39 state banking associations form the BankChain alliance
- Blockstream researchers proposed SHRINCS, a PQ signature scheme for Bitcoin
- How much should depositors care about bank...
Aug 21, 2026
Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- The boys review SALT Wyoming in Jackson Hole
- Why did Stripe buy Openrouter?
- Stripe says we have entered the Singularity
- People are upset about data centers
- The SEC proposes Reg Crypto governing token issuance
- The CFTC convenes a crypto roundtable...
Aug 14, 2026
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- Who is the main character in AI?
- Why are people so mad about datacenters?
- Sherrod Brown is back and he’s running against AI
- Are datacenters being built with Flock?
- Culturally scarce goods and dinosaurs are rallying
- The SEC starts to fill the...
Aug 7, 2026
Matt and Nic are back with more news and deals. In this episode:
- Why the Coldcard hack is worse than some major exchange and DeFi hacks
- What the Coldcard hack told us about the need for open weight models
- Is self custody over?
- MSTR sells more Bitcoin
- An FBI agent steals $1m in crypto
- NY state sues Kalshi
- Ethereum...