Matt and Nic return to cover news of the week. In this episode:
- Our review of NFL week 1
- Whether or not securities law topics come up at parties
- Why we’re so excited about Kraken getting the Wyoming SPDI
- Why the SPDI being full reserve is so important – and why it eliminates certain regulators from the picture
- How Kraken’s bank charter is reminiscent of a classic scene in There Will Be Blood
- Why Wyoming’s SPDI is a long-awaited rebuke to Operation Choke Point
- Michael Saylor stacks MORE sats
- How Matt was able to initially break the Microstrategy news
- Why financial services firms looking at crypto need buy-in from the top
- Michael Saylor’s revealing quote about Bitcoin’s hard forks
- Why shrugging off hard forks defeats a key critique of Bitcoin
- What the SEC settlement with Unikorn inc means for other tokens
- The SEC sanctions rapper TI
- Matt’s embarrassing TI story
- Our current view on handshakes
- Why the settlement quality of stablecoins is context-specific