Weekly Roundup 03/31/23 (CFTC v Binance, McHenry’s stablecoin bill, Gruenberg’s questionable testimony) (EP.411)
Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. Cooper and Kirk’s white paper on Operation Choke Point 2.0 How bank regulators put crypto-facing banks in a catch-22 SBF charged with bribing a Chinese official Is Sam funding his legal defense with funds purloined from FTX users? The CFTC charges Binance with operating […]
Matt Hougan (Bitwise) on Crypto Market Narratives and the Launch of BITC (EP.410)
Matt Hougan, the Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management joins the show. In this episode we discuss: The banking crisis and Operation Chokepoint 2.0 The decisions facing the Fed and the second order impacts of Fed policy How the cryptocurrency industry has evolved post FTX Prospects for stablecoin and market structure regulation in the […]
Weekly Roundup 03/24/23 (Do Kwon apprehended, SEC v Coinbase, bank crisis retrospective) (EP.409)
Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode: Matt’s turkey trouble continues Nic’s vespa problem Nic’s latest Choke Point 2.0 article Did the government destroy Signature on purpose? Who is the main architect of Choke Point 2.0? Why was Signature closed when PacWest and First Republic were given time? […]
Jamil Dhanani & Nick Sainato (Gamma) on Building a Trustless Ordinals Marketplace (EP.408)
Jamil and Nick, co-founders of Gamma.io, join us on the show to discuss: Lowering the barrier to inscribing NFTs on Bitcoin Why creators and collectors are excited about NFTs on Bitcoin Designing a trustless Ordinals marketplace that aligns with its unique culture The emerging collecting and trading culture on Bitcoin and it’s key differences […]
Nick Hansen (Luxor) on Ordinals, Blockspace, and Mining Pools (EP.407)
Nick Hansen is the cofounder and CEO of Luxor, a Bitcoin mining pool. He joins to talk to us about his excitement around ordinals and inscriptions, and how Luxor is thinking about the opportunity. The history of ordinals and how Luxor got started in the space How Luxor mined the first 4MB block in Bitcoin […]
Weekly Roundup 03/17/23 feat. Alex Thorn (Bank crisis, Fed makes $2T available, Signature mysteries) (EP.406)
Matt and Nic are back to cover a dramatic week in crypto. Galaxy Digital’s Alex Thorn also joins to provide market color. In this episode: Bitcoin’s price action in response to the bank runs USDC recovers its peg FTX crime family news Signature bank is shut down somewhat arbitrarily What happened with Silvergate? Is Operation […]
Weekly Roundup 03/10/23 (Silvergate wind-down, NYAG comes after ETH, more bank runs) (EP.405)
Matt and Nic are back for another tumultuous week of news and deals. In this episode: Nic’s Vespa crisis FTX crime family update Grayscale’s oral arguments go well against the SEC in the GBTC case Binance.US wins the right to buy the Voyager assets in court NYAG sues Kucoin and alleges that ETH is a […]
Rob Hamilton (AnchorWatch) on Ordinals and Miniscript (EP.404)
Rob Hamilton, the founder and CEO of AnchorWatch joins the show. In this episode we discuss: Rob’s career journey and path to finding Bitcoin. The origins of miniscript and how Rob started to build in this area. The potential applicability for miniscript to the custody market. The current state of bitcoin core development. Ordinals and […]
Michael Gronager (Chainalysis) on Building a Blockchain Analytics Juggernaut (EP.403)
Chainalysis CEO and co-founder Michael Gronager joins us for an episode chronicling the rise of the blockchain analytics firm. In this episode: Michael’s origin story and how he went from helping build Kraken to founding Chainalysis Responding to early market pull from the public sector when building products Responding to criticism around privacy vs. anonymity […]
Weekly Roundup 03/03/23 (Silvergate in trouble, Oasis hacks back, Regulation by Blog Post) (EP.402)
Matt and Nic are back for news and deals of the week. In this episode: Is Yuga Labs’ NFT collection on Bitcoin genuine? Will the environmentalist attacks on PoW move to other industries? FTX’ Nishad Singh pleads guilty Ramnik Aurora maxed out donations to George Santos Silvergate is in trouble Why concentration risk makes it […]