Podcasts Other On The Brink with Castle Island Weekly News Roundup feat. Lucas Nuzzi 08/14/20 (Asteroid gold mining, Microstrategy, Ethereum's "supplygate") (EP.112)

Weekly News Roundup feat. Lucas Nuzzi 08/14/20 (Asteroid gold mining, Microstrategy, Ethereum's "supplygate") (EP.112)

Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 7:38 p.m.

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Coin Metrics network data product lead Lucas Nuzzi joins the show to help explain how to audit the supply of Ethereum \\u2013 and other, even more challenging blockchains. Also covered in this episode:\\xa0

  • Does the Winklevoss gold asteroid mining talking point have any merit?
  • Are the Winklevii being ironic or sincere
  • The Boston Fed is hiring crypto engineers
  • Why DeFi tokens remind us of PoW launches from 2014
  • Why we need a new taxonomy for autonomous fair launched DeFi tokens
  • Why DeFi might not herald a resurgence of the ICO phenomenon
  • Microstrategy surprises to the upside
  • Facebook focuses on payments
  • ETH supplygate explained
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