On The Brink with Castle Island
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Pat Larsen (ZenLedger) on the State of Crypto Taxes
39 mins; April 24, 2022
Weekly Roundup 04/22/22 (Elon's Twitter purchase, the US sanctions BitRiver, Australia gets an ETF)
40 mins; April 22, 2022
Adam Jackson (Braintrust) on Building a Web3 Talent Network
32 mins; April 20, 2022
Josh Mandel on Running on a Pro Bitcoin Platform
30 mins; April 18, 2022
Weekly Roundup 04/14/22 (FDIC stalls bank crypto activity, Bitcoin 2022 recap, Elon's Twitter campaign)
42 mins; April 15, 2022
John Adler (Fuel Labs, Celestia) on building the fastest modular execution layer
78 hours 29 mins; April 14, 2022
Paolo Fragomeni (Socket Supply Co) on the Definition of web3
49 mins; April 13, 2022
Andrew Myers and Brock Peterson (Satoshi Energy) on Monetizing Renewables with Bitcoin
50 mins; April 11, 2022
Weekly Roundup (04/01/22) (Greenpeace and Chris Larsen attack Bitcoin, Axie sidechain hacked, the ECASH Act, SEC goes after AMMs)
42 mins; April 01, 2022
Ben Gagnon (Bitfarms) on Separating Fact from Fiction in Bitcoin Mining
53 mins; March 30, 2022
Michael Sonnenshein and Craig Salm (Grayscale) on the GBTC ETF Application and Market Commentary
46 mins; March 28, 2022
Weekly Roundup 03/25/22 (Terra buying BTC, a new ETF timeline, Russia accepting BTC for energy?)
36 mins; March 25, 2022
Jon Birnbaum (Domain Money) on Increasing Access for Retail Investors
23 mins; March 23, 2022
Nick White (Celestia) on building the first modular blockchain network (EP.299)
76 hours 57 mins; March 21, 2022
Weekly Roundup 03/18/22 (EU PoW ban defeated, Lummis bill details, Ukraine legalizes crypto)
43 mins; March 18, 2022
Brett Harrison (FTX.US) on Crypto Market Structure
35 mins; March 17, 2022
Izabella Kaminska (The Blind Spot) on Reconsidering Bitcoin Skepticism
92 hours 25 mins; March 14, 2022
Weekly Roundup 03/11/22 (Biden's executive order, Korea's pro-crypto President, Is Bretton Woods over?)
38 mins; March 11, 2022
VÉRITÉ and Vanessa on empowering artists to be CEOs of their own world
57 mins; March 10, 2022
Sohrob Farudi on Fan Controlled Football
31 mins; March 07, 2022
Weekly Roundup 03/04/22 (Sanctions chaos, Ukraine's crypto fundraiser, remonetizing gold, web3 geofencing)
34 mins; March 04, 2022
Blake Masters on Inflation, CBDCs, and Setting a Pro-Crypto Agenda
38 mins; March 02, 2022
Brandon Arvanaghi and Bryce Crawford (Meow) on Bringing DeFi yields to Institutions
37 mins; February 28, 2022
Weekly Roundup 02/24/22 (Russia and SWIFT, DAO hacker identified, Trudeau backs down)
36 mins; February 25, 2022
Leo Lucisano (Decentral Park Capital) on Regulatory Predictions for 2022
39 mins; February 23, 2022
Bill Spence and Gregory Beard on The Real Story Behind Stronghold
54 mins; February 21, 2022
Weekly Roundup 02/18/22 (Canadian Truckers, BlockFi settles with SEC, CIV III)
43 mins; February 18, 2022
Matthew Chaim (Songcamp) on collective creation with music NFTs
54 mins; February 16, 2022
Jared Nusinoff (Mash) on Remonetizing the Internet with Lightning
43 mins; February 14, 2022
Weekly Roundup 02/11/22 (Bitfinex hacked coins recovered, NY Fed attacks Stablecoins, Gofundme bans truckers)
32 mins; February 11, 2022
Jeremy Welch (Kraken) on Contemporary Proofs of Reserve
28 mins; February 07, 2022
Weekly Roundup 02/04/22 (Wormhole hack, PoR is back, Boston Fed pilots a CBDC, TX miners shut down) (EP.282)
39 mins; February 04, 2022
Cherie Hu (Water & Music) on the evolving role of web3 in music
71 hours 31 mins; February 02, 2022
Paul Sztorc (Drivechain) on Bitcoin Security Budget and the Importance Merge Mining
94 hours 12 mins; January 31, 2022
Weekly Roundup 01/28/22 (Putin warms to Bitcoin mining, Wonderland's Quadriga connection, Libra/Diem shutters)
33 mins; January 28, 2022
Chris King (Eaglebrook Advisors) on Digital Assets and the RIA Industry
28 mins; January 25, 2022
Will Peck (WisdomTree) on Crypto Asset Management
39 mins; January 24, 2022
Weekly Roundup 01/21/22 (Congressional PoW hearing, Walmart's Metaverse, Twitter NFTs)
33 mins; January 21, 2022
Daniel Roberts (Iris Energy) on Sustainable Bitcoin Mining
50 mins; January 20, 2022
Weekly Roundup 01/14/22 (Crypto-dollarization in Turkey, Paypal's stablecoin, Banning CBDCs)
39 mins; January 14, 2022
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) on MMT, CBDCs, and crypto policy for 2022
61 hours 31 mins; January 10, 2022
Weekly Roundup 01/07/22 (Kazakhstan mining stutters, Chainalysis 2022 illicit volume report, Washington is interested in PoW)
37 mins; January 07, 2022
Ethan Vera and Guzman Pintos (Luxor) on Mining Data and Analytics
48 mins; January 03, 2022
Weekly Roundup 12/31/21 (Year in review, why gamers hate NFTs, 2021 predictions evaluated)
55 mins; December 31, 2021
Gabe Frank and Robert Masiello (Arcade) on the financialization of NFTs
40 mins; December 27, 2021
Weekly Roundup 12/24/21 (Bitcoin ownership concentration, Jack Dorsey's web3 beef, Corporate Greed causing Inflation?)
59 mins; December 24, 2021
Anders Larson (U.S. Bitcoin Corp) on strategic miner decision making
48 mins; December 20, 2021
Weekly Roundup 12/17/21 (Crypto-dollarization in Myanmar, CMC glitches, Bitwise's NFT index fund)
41 mins; December 17, 2021
Alex Wilson (The Giving Block) on crypto philanthropy
38 mins; December 13, 2021
Weekly Roundup 12/10/21 (Congressional Hearing takeaways, 26% of Americans own BTC?)
47 mins; December 10, 2021
Matt Cutler (Blocknative) On Making Sense of Blockchain Mempools
47 mins; December 06, 2021
Weekly Roundup 12/03/21 (Square is now Block, Crypto Basel, Cowen's Regulatory Projections)
30 mins; December 03, 2021
Karim Helmy and Brandon Bailey (Galaxy Digital) on Standardizing Miner Accounting
50 mins; November 29, 2021
Weekly Roundup 11/26/21 (El Salvador's Bitcoin Bond, who we are thankful for, Big Poultry causing inflation?)
42 mins; November 26, 2021
James McGinniss (David Energy) on Mining as a Load Resource
46 mins; November 22, 2021
Weekly Roundup 19/11/21 (Keep Innovation in America, ConstitutionDAO, Chaum's Quantum FUD)
36 mins; November 19, 2021
Kevin Anetsberger (Midwest Tungsten) on the Midwest Tungsten Story
44 mins; November 15, 2021
Weekly Roundup 11/12/21 (Inflation hits 6.2%, Discord dithers on Web3, Is is really about the supply chain?)
36 mins; November 11, 2021
Brannin McBee (Core Weave) on moving from GPU mining to specialized compute
53 mins; November 10, 2021
Weekly Roundup 11/05/21 (Do stablecoins need bank charters, Mayors taking salaries in Bitcoin)
43 mins; November 05, 2021
Nikos Andrikogiannopoulos (Metrika) on blockchain reliability
32 mins; November 01, 2021
Weekly Roundup 10/29/21 (FATF publishes guidance, More Tungsten, Facebook is Meta)
41 mins; October 29, 2021
Ray Cline and Shaun Connell (Lancium) on Stabilizing the Grid with Bitcoin Mining
94 hours 1 min; October 25, 2021
Weekly Roundup 10/22/21 (Proshares ETF launches, CBOE acquires ErisX, FB's Metaverse ambitions, Tungsten takes over)
44 mins; October 22, 2021
Tom Chippas (ErisX) and Chris Isaacson (CBOE) on CBOE's Acquisition of ErisX
43 mins; October 20, 2021
NFTs as the gateway to mainstream adoption with Gmoney
61 hours 16 mins; October 18, 2021
Weekly Roundup (ETF chatter, Tungsten cubes, USA #1 in mining, insider airdropping)
40 mins; October 15, 2021
Mark Coe (Intrinsic Edge) on Blockchain Public Equity Investing
29 mins; October 11, 2021
Weekly Roundup 10/08/21 (How to offset emissions, SocGen's Maker play, Tether revelations)
33 mins; October 08, 2021
Esteban Castaño (TRM Labs) on Blockchain Forensics
34 mins; October 04, 2021
Weekly Roundup 10/01/21 (Flare mining in WY, nuclear BTC mines, Compound exploited)
34 mins; October 01, 2021
Chris Maurice (Yellow Card) on driving fundamental crypto adoption in Africa
42 mins; September 29, 2021
Christian Dittmeier on NFT analytics
31 mins; September 27, 2021
Weekly Roundup 09/24/21 (Regulators keep talking about Free Banking, Twitter rolls out LN support, Biden's new OCC nominee)
38 mins; September 24, 2021
Weekly Roundup 09/17/21 (Fidelity's spot ETF plea, Solana goes down, Are Bitcoiners cosplayers?)
49 mins; September 17, 2021
Weekly Roundup 09/10/21 (Bukele buys the dip, oil majors are mining, SEC v Coinbase)
40 mins; September 10, 2021
Alex Svanevik (Nansen) on extracting signal from on-chain noise
52 mins; September 06, 2021
Weekly Roundup 09/03/21 (Two years of OTB, Matt's NFT strategy, Square's Bitcoin DEX)
47 mins; September 03, 2021
Weekly Roundup 08/27/21 (Celeb NFT buys, Visa's cryptopunk, Choke Point 2.0?)
42 mins; August 27, 2021
Weekly Roundup 08/20/21 (Uniswap governance wars, Bitcoin adoption in EM, OnlyFans gets Choke Pointed)
36 mins; August 20, 2021
Weekly Roundup 08/13/21 (More Infra Bill Chaos, an emerging Bitcoin Bloc, the crypto lobby shows up)
35 mins; August 13, 2021
Weekly Roundup 08/06/21 (Infra Bill Chaos, Gensler's Speech, BSV 51% attack)
39 mins; August 06, 2021
George Selgin (Cato Institute) on Stablecoins, Bitcoin, and Free Banking
71 hours 40 mins; August 02, 2021
Weekly Roundup 07/29/21 (Shadowy super coders, Goldman's DeFi ETF, is TVL overrated?)
35 mins; July 30, 2021
Michel Rauchs (Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance) on quantifying Bitcoin's energy use
62 hours 4 mins; July 26, 2021
Weekly Roundup 07/22/21 (The B Word, SpaceX owns Bitcoin, Stablecoins and Wildcats)
40 mins; July 23, 2021
Weekly Roundup 07/16/21 (New mining data, Shapeshift decentralizes, are clay tablets proto blockchains?)
45 mins; July 16, 2021
Weekly Roundup 07/09/21 (Circle is going public, SEC targets exchanges, the Bullish SPAC, good takes on stables from the Fed)
37 mins; July 09, 2021
Anton Katz and Ethan Feldman on Trading Infrastructure in Cryptoassets
48 mins; July 05, 2021
Weekly Roundup 07/02/21 (Eyeball based coins, why airdrops don't work, the Mining Council shares data)
42 mins; July 02, 2021
Kinjal Shah (Blockchain Capital) and Manasi Vora (Skynet Labs) on DAOs as a New Investing Paradigm
45 mins; June 28, 2021
Weekly Roundup 06/25/21 (China's Hashrate Migration, holding BTC in your bank, Taleb's bitcoin paper)
48 mins; June 25, 2021
Hunter Horsley (Bitwise) on the State of Crypto Asset Management
37 mins; June 21, 2021
Weekly Roundup 06/18/21 (Bukele's Bitcoin ambitions, the World Bank spurns El Salvador, DeFi risks)
34 mins; June 18, 2021
Ask Me Anything 2.0 with Matt, Nic, and Ria
43 mins; June 14, 2021
Weekly Roundup 06/11/21 (Bitcoinización in LatAm, volcano mining, El Salvador turns orange)
39 mins; June 11, 2021
Chris Blec (DeFi Watch) on the Pursuit of Transparency in DeFi
48 mins; June 07, 2021
Jeff Kirt and Ted Rogers on the Story Behind the Greenidge Plant
52 mins; June 02, 2021
Matteo Leibowitz and Eric Stone on Uniswap V3
54 mins; May 31, 2021
Weekly Roundup 05/26/21 (The Mining Council, Lael Brainard's Free Banking mistake, Kazakh FUD)
48 mins; May 27, 2021