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Podcast: On The Brink with Castle Island
Episode: Martin Carrica (Mountain) and Philippe Bekhazi (XBTO) on Digital Assets in Bermuda
Description: We sit down in Bermuda with Mountain Protocol founder Martin Carrica and XBTO founder Philippe Bekhazi for a talk on stablecoins and doing business on the island. In this episode:Â Why XBTO is Bermuda-first and why Mountain set up there The "Bermuda triangle" for doing business on the island The overlap between Bermuda's reinsurance industry and crypto The partnership between Mountain and XBTO The rise of interest-bearing stablecoins USD stables as extending the reach of the dollar The relationship between crypto and big 4 auditors The coming race between interest and non-interest bearing stablecoins Blackrock's BUIDL product and tokenized t...