Weekly News Roundup 5/8/20 (Paul Tudor Jones, the stablecoin invasion, Cash App’s Q1) (EP.77)

Matt and Nic review the top stories of the week in the cryptoasset industry. This week’s topics include:

  • Renowned commodities investor Paul Tudor Jones announces his intent to trade Bitcoin and releases a Bitcoin thesis
  • NEAR protocol gets funded
  • Are fair launches dead?
  • The under-appreciated merit of PoW issuance
  • Libra’s new CEO hire
  • Wyoming’s Special-Purpose Depository Institution legislation
  • The privacy-auditability tradeoff in blockchains
  • Whether the growth of stablecoins threatens the security model of public blockchains
  • Thoughts on the imminent halving
  • Our guess of who the next high profile hedge fund investor will be to flip bullish on Bitcoin

Check out this episode!