Weekly Roundup 11/04/22 (Fidelity Crypto Launches, Alamedas balance sheet, SDNY looks at Tether) (EP.368)

Published: Nov. 4, 2022, 10 a.m.

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Matt and Nic return for another week of deals and news. In this episode:\\xa0

  • Bitwise is moving into active management
  • What\\u2019s the deal with Uber on the blockchain?
  • The boys review House of the Dragon
  • The history of land-based blockchain bets
  • Fidelity launches no-fee retail trading for trading BTC and ETH on their platform
  • Matt reminisces on Fidelity\\u2019s crypto journey
  • Google announces blockchain node engine
  • Nic\\u2019s 2-year pending transaction on Venmo
  • SBF continues to wrangle with CT
  • Sam\\u2019s debate with Erik Voorhees
  • Alameda\\u2019s questionable balance sheet is leaked
  • Can FTX buy its way into respectability despite the existence of Alameda?
  • What\\u2019s the deal with the MAPS token?
  • Is it far for FTX to start offshore and buy way into the regulated system?
  • Elon\\u2019s schemes for Twitter
  • Coinbase and the Blockchain Association are supporting Ripple in their case against the SEC
  • The Tether case is reopened at the SDNY
  • Tether rips us off with their own bootleg FUD Dice
  • What happens to Chinese Tether holders if Tether has to unwind
  • If Tether fails, do funds flow back into BTC?
  • The mining sector is deeply distressed
  • Why the mining bankruptcies may cause concentration in who controls hashrate
  • Circle delays their SPAC
  • Coin Metrics releases a taxonomy with Goldman and MSCI
  • Protos\\u2019 weird hatchet job on Nic\\u2019s tungsten cube infatuation
  • Did we manipulate the market for tungsten?

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