Sep 4, 2020
Nic and Matt return with deals and news of the weak. In this episode:
- Nic and Matt happen to buy the same book
- Nic's article on why the US should embrace stablecoins and credibly neutral crypto-financial infrastructure
- Our theory on why NYDFS went after Tether
- Can the US successfully disrupt itself as the administrator of financial infrastructure?
- Coinbase IPO prospects
- Coinshares adds transparency to their Bitcoin ETN and the prospects for Proofs of Reserves
- How Proofs of Reserves can ward off regulation
- Arca takes an activist stance towards Gnosis
- What recourse do jilted tokenholders have?
- Publicly traded energy companies are mining Bitcoin with stranded natural gas
- Matt's suggestion for a Bitcoin-themed sequel to Armageddon
- The single most impactful way you can help Bitcoin
- Nic's theory about the effect of a fee-transaction count oscillation on Ethereum
- How fees are a regressive tax on users
Content mentioned in this episode:
- Nic in Coindesk, The Crypto-dollar Surge and the American Opportunity
- Larry White in Alt-M, Should the US Government Create a Token-based Digital Dollar?
- Electronic Frontier Foundation, It's Past Time for Coinbase to Issue Transparency Reports
- Nic in Coindesk, The Last Word on Bitcoin's Energy Consumption
- Coin Center, Are Regulators Poised to Demand Cryptocurrency Address Whitelisting? Probably Not
- Tyler Winklevoss, The Case for $500k Bitcoin