Weekly Roundup 01/21/22 (Congressional PoW hearing, Walmart’s Metaverse, Twitter NFTs) (EP.279)
Matt and Nic return for a busy week of deals and news. In this episode: We cover the witness selection for the House energy hearing on Bitcoin mining The SEC goes to war with its employee union The SEC rejects the Skybridge Bitcoin ETF proposal GBTC is trading at a 30% discount Walmart is building […]
Will Peck (WisdomTree) on Crypto Asset Management (EP.280)
Will Peck, the head of digital asset at WisdomTree joins the show. In this episode we discuss: Will’s path to WisdomTree and how the firm began researching digital assets How WisdomTree is approaching exchange traded products in the public blockchain ecosystem Views on the Bitcoin futures ETF products vs. the proposed spot products Views on […]
Paul Sztorc (Drivechain) on Bitcoin Security Budget and the Importance Merge Mining (EP.280)
Veteran Bitcoin commentator and inventor of Drivechains Paul Sztorc joins the show to talk Bitcoin’s sustainability and the role of merged mined side chains. In this episode: Why Paul is the ‘Steely Dan’ of Bitcoin Revisiting ‘Measuring decentralization’ Revisiting Paul’s argument on Proof of Stake being veiled PoW Why you should roll your own statistics […]
Cherie Hu (Water & Music) on the evolving role of web3 in music (EP.281)
In the first episode in our web3 music series, Cherie Hu, founder of Water & Music, sits down with Ria to talk about transitioning Water & Music into a research DAO and Cherie’s thoughts on the growing interest of musicians in crypto. We discuss: How Cherie found a niche covering the intersection of music, technology, […]
Weekly Roundup 02/04/22 (Wormhole hack, PoR is back, Boston Fed pilots a CBDC, TX miners shut down) (EP.282)
Tom Brady retires to focus on NFTs Was Satoshi interested in altcoins? Our thoughts on startups raising 69.420m The Solana-Ethereum bridge is hacked for over $300m– and then bailed out by Jump Capital Was Vitalik’s warning about cross-chain interoperability prophetic? Is the cross-chain vision dead? Kraken revives their Proof of Reserve – after 7 years […]
Jeremy Welch (Kraken) on Contemporary Proofs of Reserve (EP.283)
In this episode, Kraken chief product officer Jeremy Welch joins the show to cover Kraken’s newly announced Proof of Reserve procedure. In this episode: Why bring back PoR? What distinguishes today’s proof of reserve from the procedure Kraken undertook back in 2015 Why haven’t exchanges done PoR historically? What Kraken’s PoR actually proves to depositors […]
Weekly Roundup 02/11/22 (Bitfinex hacked coins recovered, NY Fed attacks Stablecoins, Gofundme bans truckers) (EP.284)
Matt and Nic return for another week of deals and news. In this episode: Kraken brings back PoR Bitfinex hack money launderers are arrested The long history of Bitfinex, hacks, Recovery rights, Tether, and LEO Who is entitled to the recovered BTC from the Bitfinex hack? The NY Fed attacks stablecoins, and private banknote issuance […]
Weekly Roundup 01/28/22 (Putin warms to Bitcoin mining, Wonderland’s Quadriga connection, Libra/Diem shutters) (EP.279)
Matt and Nic return for deals and news of the week. In this episode: Fidelity’s Wise Origin spot Bitcoin ETF is denied Putin walks back the central bank ban on mining NY isn’t processing BitLicense applications Facebook is selling their IP being Diem/Libra to Silvergate Ripple buys out their Series C Investors Google’s cloud division […]
Jared Nusinoff (Mash) on Remonetizing the Internet with Lightning (EP.285)
Mash founder Jared Nusinoff joins the show to explain how internet monetization is broken and how lightning-based payments fixes it. In this episode: Jared’s professional history and how he came to work on Bitcoin Going from an adventure guide to bitcoin Jared’s early entrepreneurial work Jared’s early history sharing music prior to torrents Why Jared […]
Weekly Roundup 02/18/22 (Canadian Truckers, BlockFi settles with SEC, CIV III) (EP.287)
Matt and Nic return for a huge week of news and a big CIV announcement. In this episode: Matt scans the Coinbase QR code ad The post-Superbowl backlash against crypto ads Is there any hope for music NFTs Castle Island announces a third fund Binance buys a stake in Forbes Is Circle a bet on […]