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Weekly Roundup 03/31/23 (CFTC v Binance, McHenry's stablecoin bill, Gruenberg's questionable testimony)
41 mins; March 31, 2023
Matt Hougan (Bitwise) on Crypto Market Narratives and the Launch of BITC
32 mins; March 28, 2023
Weekly Roundup 03/24/23 (Do Kwon apprehended, SEC v Coinbase, bank crisis retrospective)
47 mins; March 24, 2023
Jamil Dhanani & Nick Sainato (Gamma) on Building a Trustless Ordinals Marketplace
65 hours 34 mins; March 20, 2023
Nick Hansen (Luxor) on Ordinals, Blockspace, and Mining Pools
54 mins; March 20, 2023
Weekly Roundup 03/17/23 feat. Alex Thorn (Bank crisis, Fed makes $2T available, Signature mysteries)
44 mins; March 17, 2023
Weekly Roundup 03/10/23 (Silvergate wind-down, NYAG comes after ETH, more bank runs)
34 mins; March 10, 2023
Weekly Roundup 03/10/23 (Silvergate wind-down, NYAG comes after ETH, more bank runs)
34 mins; March 10, 2023
Rob Hamilton (AnchorWatch) on Ordinals and Miniscript
49 mins; March 08, 2023
Michael Gronager (Chainalysis) on Building a Blockchain Analytics Juggernaut
39 mins; March 06, 2023
Weekly Roundup 03/03/23 (Silvergate in trouble, Oasis hacks back, Regulation by Blog Post)
31 mins; March 03, 2023
Matt Cutler (Blocknative) on block building and the economics of MEV
65 hours 4 mins; February 27, 2023
Weekly Roundup 02/24/23 (SEC vs Terra, Stables as Securities, the CoinBASE L2)
38 mins; February 24, 2023
Casey Rodarmor on Ordinals, Inscriptions, and Digital Property Rights
52 mins; February 22, 2023
Ray Hindi & Jake Lynch (L1 Digital) on Crypto Funds, RWAs and DAOs
44 mins; February 20, 2023
Weekly Roundup 02/17/23 (BUSD Wells notice, Howey vs Reves, the SEC's custody guidance)
40 mins; February 17, 2023
Weekly Roundup 03/10/23 (Choke Point 2.0, staking in the crosshairs, ordinals take off)
48 mins; February 10, 2023
Josh Benaron (Bundlr) on the Importance of Permanent Storage and Provenance
58 mins; February 06, 2023
Weekly Roundup 02/03/23 (Ordinals frenzy, Charlie Munger, Tether truthers are back)
53 mins; February 03, 2023
Julien Niset (Argent) on Improving Self Custody with Account Abstraction
74 hours 21 mins; January 30, 2023
Weekly Roundup 01/27/23 (Modulo Capital, PoR legislation, Tungsten mounts a comeback)
43 mins; January 27, 2023
Maneesh Gandhi & Michael Liddy (Evanston Capital) on The Institutional Allocator Landscape
34 mins; January 25, 2023
Dhruv Patel and Himanshu Sahay (Arch) on Building a New Alternative Lender
23 mins; January 23, 2023
Weekly Roundup 01/20/23 (DOJ takes down Bitzlato, loyalty point inflation, FTX US still solvent?)
35 mins; January 20, 2023
Tony Scuderi (Imperii) on Crypto Banking and Advisory
35 mins; January 18, 2023
Luuk Strijers (Deribit) on a New Model for Proof of Reserves
39 mins; January 17, 2023
Weekly Roundup 01/13/23 (Nexo raided, crypto charity boxing, DCG vs Gemini II)
40 mins; January 13, 2023
Weekly Roundup 01/06/23 (DCG vs Gemini, SBF's plea, India's crypto framework)
40 mins; January 06, 2023
Weekly Roundup 12/30/22 (Avi Eisenberg arrest, weather affects the hashrate, our predictions for 2023)
49 mins; December 30, 2022
Weekly Roundup 12/23/22 (Caroline pleads, SBF is extradited, Visa's autopayments)
39 mins; December 23, 2022
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) on FTX, the SEC, and the House Crypto agenda for 2023
53 mins; December 20, 2022
Weekly Roundup 12/16/22 (SBF Arrest, Binance's 'Bank run', Gensler, FTX, and IEX)
42 mins; December 16, 2022
Weekly Roundup 12/08/22 (FTX's Venture Portfolio, SBF's mining investment, BlockFi retrospective)
58 mins; December 08, 2022
John Palmer (CBOE Digital) on Regulated Digital Asset Derivatives
38 mins; December 07, 2022
Robert Miller (Flashbots) on Decentralizing Block Building with SUAVE
78 hours 33 mins; December 05, 2022
Weekly Roundup 12/01/22 (Is SBF playing the media, more Bad Boys, Binance's Proof of Reserve)
48 mins; December 01, 2022
Mahesh Ramakrishnan (Escape Velocity) on Decentralized Wireless
36 mins; November 30, 2022
Mike Belshe (BitGo) on FTX and the impact on crypto market structure
38 mins; November 28, 2022
Weekly Roundup 11/24/22 (SBF is at large, DCG's fate, what we are thankful for)
43 mins; November 24, 2022
Travis Scher on the FTX impact on Crypto VC
32 mins; November 21, 2022
Weekly Roundup 11/17/22 (John Ray's FTX filing, will FTX political contributions be repaid, what's wrong with effective altruism?) (EP.372)
44 mins; November 17, 2022
Garrett Weaver (Juke) on Digital Collectibles
33 mins; November 17, 2022
Weekly Roundup 11/10/22 (FTX fiasco, Su Zhu and Do attempt comebacks, Proof of Reserves redemption)
56 mins; November 10, 2022
Josh Schwartz and Dima Kogan (FORDEFI) on Building Institutional Custody for DeFi
35 mins; November 08, 2022
Weekly Roundup 11/04/22 (Fidelity Crypto Launches, Alameda's balance sheet, SDNY looks at Tether)
50 mins; November 04, 2022
Jeff Park (Bitwise) on Active Management in Crypto
36 mins; November 01, 2022
Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee (CoreWeave) on Building an Industrial Scale GPU Cloud
61 hours 22 mins; October 31, 2022
Roundup 10/28/22 (Bitcoin's hashrate spike, Miner insolvencies, Lightning v Rollups)
39 mins; October 28, 2022
Mike Cahill (Pyth) on Solving the Oracle Problem
34 mins; October 24, 2022
Weekly Roundup 10/21/22 (Aptos launch, crypto vigilantes, FTX's regulatory draft)
50 mins; October 21, 2022
Blake King (Galaxy) on Mining, Transmission, and Curtailment
74 hours 7 mins; October 17, 2022
Weekly Roundup 10/13/22 (FASB accounting rules update, Warren's letter to Texas, Howey's orange groves)
41 mins; October 14, 2022
Rob Behnke (Halborn) on Public Blockchain Cybersecurity
40 mins; October 12, 2022
Jon Charbonneau (Delphi Digital) on Building for Censorship Resistance
65 hours 49 mins; October 10, 2022
Weekly Roundup 10/07/22 (Gensler's theatrics, tokenization picks up, MKR buys Treasuries)
29 mins; October 07, 2022
Vivek Raman (BitOoda) on Second Order Effects of the Merge
39 mins; October 05, 2022
Alexandra DaCosta and David Yi (Aspen Creek) on a New Model for Renewable Mining
51 mins; October 03, 2022
Weekly Roundup 09/30/22 (CFTC comes after Ooki/bZX, the Fed abandons CFTC ambitions, the convenience yield of stables)
41 mins; September 30, 2022
Sergey Gorbunov (Axelar) on Blockchain Interoperability
37 mins; September 28, 2022
Christine Kim (Galaxy Research) on the merge and what comes next
64 hours 0 mins; September 26, 2022
OTB Live! Weekly Roundup 09/23/22 (EU's MiCA regulation finalized, XRP lawsuit, SEC dings Balina, Audience Q&A)
40 mins; September 23, 2022
Steven Goldfeder (Offchain Labs) on Building Arbitrum
48 mins; September 19, 2022
Weekly Roundup 09/16/22 (Merge makes it, Chainalysis crypto adoption report, Starbucks NFTs, Coinbase grades Congress)
49 mins; September 16, 2022
Dan Mottice (Ansible Labs) on Building the Offramp for Web3
33 mins; September 14, 2022
David Hoffman (Bankless) on Everything About the Merge
66 hours 37 mins; September 14, 2022
Weekly Roundup 09/09/22 (Stablecoin wars, White House energy report, Gensler attacks)
39 mins; September 09, 2022
Bennett Collen and Stephanie Howard (Endstate) on building a web3-native fashion brand
50 mins; September 06, 2022
Weekly Roundup 09/02/22 feat. Kyle Waters (Merge priced in, Roche and Ava Labs, Will Dai float freely?)
57 mins; September 02, 2022
Obi Nwosu (Fedi) on Second-Party Custody with Fedimint
61 hours 24 mins; August 29, 2022
Weekly Roundup 08/26/22 (Emmer's OFAC letter, Stables resist TC blacklists, Gensler's OpEd)
42 mins; August 26, 2022
Brooke Pollack (Hutt Capital) on the Blockchain Fund of Funds Landscape
42 mins; August 22, 2022
Weekly Roundup 08/19/22 (Treasury Activated Soft Fork, Coinbase vs Vitalik, do BTC miners censor?)
42 mins; August 19, 2022
Uddhav Marwaha (Friktion Labs) on Building Durable Portfolios through DeFi
57 mins; August 15, 2022
Weekly Roundup 08/12/22 (Tornado Cash OFAC'd, Dai reconsiders USDC, Merge scheduled)
45 mins; August 12, 2022
Weekly Roundup 08/05/22 (BlackRock jumps in, CFTC oversight bill, ETH PoW forks?)
49 mins; August 05, 2022
Weekly Roundup 07/29/22 (Physical NFTs, SEC investigates Coinbase, Stablecoin Legislation)
54 mins; July 29, 2022
Itai Turbahn and Yoni Goldberg (Dynamic) on wallet-based logins
37 mins; July 28, 2022
Weekly Roundup 07/22/22 (More insider trading, SEC regulates via enforcement, more 3AC shenanigans)
42 mins; July 22, 2022
Weekly Roundup 07/15/22 (Celsius files Chapter 11, 3AC not cooperating, Circle clarifies USDC reserves)
33 mins; July 15, 2022
Weekly Roundup 07/08/22 (Voyager files for Chap. 11, 3AC files Chap. 15, EU agrees on MiCA regulation)
37 mins; July 08, 2022
Dave Balter and Jim Myers (Flipside Crypto) on NFTs and on-chain data
29 mins; July 07, 2022
Weekly Roundup 07/01/22 (GBTC ETF denied, Bitcoin rationalism, CoinFLEX)
51 mins; July 01, 2022
Blake King on How Grids can Accommodate Bitcoin Mining
54 mins; June 27, 2022
Zac Prince (BlockFi) on Navigating Through the Storm
37 mins; June 24, 2022
Weekly Roundup 06/24/22 (FTX steps in, 3AC postmortem, fraying DeFi governance)
52 mins; June 24, 2022
Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny (Starkware) on Scalability with STARKs
55 mins; June 20, 2022
Weekly Roundup 06/17/22 (Celsius chaos, Market contagion, the Fed's Quandary)
43 mins; June 17, 2022
Weekly Roundup 06/10/22 (What's in the Lummis bill, NY State mining ban, Custodia sues the Fed)
42 mins; June 10, 2022
Weekly Roundup 06/03/22 (Insider trading in NFTs, takeaways from Oslo, Biden wants to lower BTC emissions)
35 mins; June 03, 2022
Andrew Cahill and Saurabh Deshpande (The Block) on Ethereum L2 Scaling
25 mins; May 31, 2022
Weekly Roundup 05/27/22 feat. Dan Matuszewski (VC dry powder, FTX' CFTC proposal, more Tether concerns)
50 mins; May 27, 2022
Ric Edelman on The Truth About Crypto
46 mins; May 23, 2022
Weekly Roundup 05/20/22 (Terra aftershocks, El Salvador's Bitcoin summit, Tether concerns)
48 mins; May 20, 2022
Jon Kol and Asa Oines (Abacus) on the Third Era of Interoperability
65 hours 53 mins; May 16, 2022
Weekly Roundup 05/13/22 (Terra collapses, FASB reconsiders Bitcoin accounting, the Fed's third mandate)
38 mins; May 13, 2022
Mark Lamb (CoinFLEX) on crypto derivatives and stablecoins
35 mins; May 09, 2022
Weekly Roundup 05/06/22 (Metaverse NIMBYism, the BMC EPA letter, the SEC doubles the Cyber Unit)
40 mins; May 06, 2022
Paul Prager (TeraWulf) Building a Zero Carbon Bitcoin Miner
46 mins; May 02, 2022
Weekly Roundup 04/29/22 (Elon buys Twitter, CAF Legalizes Bitcoin, Fidelity adds Bitcoin support for 401(k)s) feat. Dave Grey of Fidelity
48 mins; April 29, 2022
Bruce Fenton on running for Senate in New Hampshire
36 mins; April 27, 2022
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