Weekly Roundup 05/06/22 (Metaverse NIMBYism, the BMC EPA letter, the SEC doubles the Cyber Unit) (EP.316)

Published: May 6, 2022, 10 a.m.

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Nic and Matt return for news and deals of the week. In this episode:

  • Matt\'s takeaways from the Medici conference\\xa0
  • The rapid growth of ZKPs
  • We review Brink Nation posts on GM
  • We look back at the history of the FUD dice\\xa0
  • Are tungsten dice possible?\\xa0
  • Big thunderstorm in Miami\\xa0
  • Is the crypto industry sitting out the recession?\\xa0
  • We consider the merits of virtual real estate\\xa0
  • Does proximity matter in the metaverse?\\xa0
  • Metaverse land rights and NIMBYism\\xa0
  • The Bitcoin Mining Council letter to the EPA and what motivated it
  • Ohio\'s primary yields an entirely pro-crypto field\\xa0
  • CBOE acquires ErisX
  • Goldman takes out a Bitcoin-collateralized USD loan
  • Jane Street dives into DeFi\\xa0
  • The SEC doubles the size of its cyber unit\\xa0
  • CA issues an EO on the crypto industry
  • The Dept. of Labor criticizes Fidelity for their Bitcoin 401k product
  • The IMF criticizes the Central African Republic\'s adoption of Bitcoin\\xa0
  • The divergence between public and private valuations in crypto and equities, and why they can\'t always be arbitraged away

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