Weekly Roundup 06/12/26 (Strategy survives, Zcash Orchard bug, the thin model hypothesis) (EP.725)
Matt and Nic are back with a new week of news and deals. In this episode: Spanish soccer club Osasuna hedges their relegation on Kalshi Strategy shocks people by buying the dip Is Strategy sacrificing MSTR to save STRC? Saylor bolsters his cash position What factors are dragging on the BTC price? Zcash fixes a […]
Omid Malekan (Columbia Business School) on Private Money, Financial Systems, and Crypto in Geopolitics (EP.724)
Wyatt sits down with Omid Malekan, a Professor at Columbia Business School, author of several books, and “Explainer-in-Chief” of blockchain technology. In this episode, Wyatt and Omid discuss: Why do stablecoins carry a persisent sense of being “dangerous” or “ungovernable? Are stablecoins truly private money? How do we define private money? Who owns our current […]
Weekly Roundup 06/05/26 (MSTR wobbles, Polymarket’s MSTR market, Andrew Left convicted) (EP.723)
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: FIFA’s World Cup ticketing scandal Andrew Yang is now a crypto and telecoms entrepreneur Are Strategy’s woes responsible for the Bitcoin pullback? Will Saylor defend STRC or MSTR? What are Saylor’s options here? Polymarket has another market resolution SNAFU How […]
Weekly Roundup 05/29/26 (Was debanking real, SoFiUSD, WSJ gets free banks wrong, trouble in ETHland) (EP.722)
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode: The CEO of Lead bank says debanking was made up Which aspects of debanking were real? The SEC scraps its 50-year-old gag rule The WSJ gets free banking history wrong in their attack on stablecoins What does history tell us […]
Weekly Roundup 05/22/26 (AI and power bills, SpaceX IPO, Prime Trust clawbacks, USG invests in quantum) (EP.721)
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode: Are AI datacenters better or worse for the environment than Bitcoin miners? AI is not responsible for your power bills Why AI could actually drive down residential power prices Is AI less popular than crypto ever was? The negative societal […]
Weekly Roundup feat. Gus Coldebella 05/15/26 (Clarity advances, Circle’s Arc token) (EP.720)
Matt and Nic are aback with another week of news and deals, today joined by Gus Coldebella to cover the CLARITY Act. In this episode: The Clarity Act advances resoundingly from committee Sen. Warren doesn’t like the Clarity Act Will there be an ethics provision inserted into Clarity? The next fight in DC What’s up […]
Weekly Roundup 05/08/26 (Consensus Miami, AI layoffs strike Coinbase, Clarity compromise, AI energy and water use) (EP.719)
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: Will Hantavirus become another global pandemic? Kraken buys Reap for $600m Bullish buys Equiniti for $4.2b Reflections on 10 years of attending Consensus Is it acceptable to wear a backpack with a suit a16z crypto announces a $2.2b fundraise Coinbase […]
Weekly Roundup 05/30/26 (DeFi’s worst ever month, PTJ on Bitcoin, quantum canaries) (EP.718)
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: DeFi had its worth month of hacks ever How are people falling for the fake Zoom link hack The KelpDAO Aave bailout is happening Is Bitcoin’s security degrading because miners are pivoting to AI? Litecoin suffers a 51% attack Is […]
Pluto (Harbor) on the fate of DeFi after KelpDAO (EP.717)
Pluto is a veteran of DeFi and cross chain systems, with prior stints at Thorchain and Airswap, now building Harbor, a native asset DEX. In this episode, we talk about the KelpDAO exploit and how DeFi can regain people’s trust. Nic sits down with him to discuss: What exactly happened with the KelpDAO/ Aave hack? […]
Weekly Roundup 04/24/26 (Finding Satoshi, KelpDAO retrospective, Insider weather betting, Coinbase’s Quantum report) (EP.716)
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals: The Finding Satoshi documentary has a new guess Was it Hal or Len? Could Satoshi have been a team? Why Stylometry might not reveal Satoshi Why the cypherpunks were interested in resurrection What happened with KelpDAO? Is DeFi cooked? Is Arbitrum decentralized? The […]