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Hass McCook on Bitcoin's energy use in context
62 hours 21 mins; May 24, 2021
Weekly Roundup 05/21/21(Taproot edges closer to activation, IRS demands reports for $10k txns, OCC reversal on Bitcoin?)
43 mins; May 21, 2021
Alex Thorn (Galaxy Digital) on Dogecoin and Monetizing Memes
46 mins; May 17, 2021
Weekly Roundup 05/14/21 (Tom Brady is a Bitcoiner, Elon betrays us, Tether's questionable reserves)
55 mins; May 14, 2021
Katie Chase on the maturation of cryptoasset data
30 mins; May 10, 2021
Weekly Roundup 05/07/21 (PoR is back, NY considers a mining ban, NYDIG's FIS partnership)
39 mins; May 07, 2021
Noah Buxton and Jeremy Nau (Armanino) on the Proof of Reserve Restoration
49 mins; May 04, 2021
Nicholas Gregory (CommerceBlock) on statechains for scalability and privacy
43 mins; May 03, 2021
Weekly Roundup 04/30/21(Matt's Turkey Jerky, Elon 'proves' Bitcoin liquidity, Nexon's BTC buy)
35 mins; April 30, 2021
Andrew Steinwold on Investing in the Metaverse
42 mins; April 26, 2021
Weekly Roundup 04/23/21 (Estimating hashrate, mining Bitcoin with solar, capital gains hike?)
33 mins; April 23, 2021
Nick Neuman (Casa) on resilient self-custody
54 mins; April 19, 2021
Weekly Roundup 04/16/21 ($COIN lists, NYT FUD, Hester's Safe Harbor 2.0, Gensler confirmed)
35 mins; April 16, 2021
Dmitry Tokarev (Copper) on building crypto settlement infrastructure
34 mins; April 14, 2021
Larry Cermak and Mike Rogers (The Block) on the Stablecoin Market
52 mins; April 12, 2021
Weekly Roundup 04/09/21 (Coinbase Q1 Earnings, TB12 gets into NFTs, GBTC ETF update)
33 mins; April 09, 2021
Matthew Mežinskis (Crypto Voices) on How to Compare Bitcoin with Fiat
74 hours 44 mins; April 07, 2021
Jeth Soetoyo (Pintu) on building a cryptoasset brokerage in a frontier market
36 mins; April 05, 2021
Weekly Roundup 04/02/21 (Our Dice Crisis, Paypal opens Bitcoin to Merchants, USA Retail CBDC?)
38 mins; April 02, 2021
Rafael Cosman (TrustToken) on Uncollateralized On-Chain Lending
44 mins; March 31, 2021
James Davolos (Horizon Kinetics) on Betting on Inflation
50 mins; March 29, 2021
Weekly Roundup 03/26/21 (The most violent people on earth, Fidelity's Wise Origin ETF, can GBTC be saved?)
41 mins; March 26, 2021
Dan Tapiero (10T Holdings) on Macro, Crypto and Growth Equity
45 mins; March 24, 2021
Michael Greenwald (Tiedemann Advisors) on the Dollar as a Policy Tool
46 mins; March 22, 2021
Weekly Roundup 03/19/21 (NYDIG's rumor, NFT taxonomies, BoFa's bad Bitcoin report)
39 mins; March 19, 2021
Dennison Bertram and Raf Solari on Reforming DeFi Governance
38 mins; March 18, 2021
Robby Guttman (NYDIG) on the Institutionalization of Bitcoin
52 mins; March 15, 2021
Weekly Roundup 03/11/21 (GBTC redemption scenarios, Norwegian energy in Bitcoin, the NFT missing link)
45 mins; March 12, 2021
Zac Prince (BlockFi) on the Series D raise and a market update
31 mins; March 11, 2021
Matthew Le Merle on technology trends and the cryptoasset markets
55 mins; March 10, 2021
David Vorick (Nebulous) on the Maturation of Decentralized Cloud Storage
47 mins; March 08, 2021
Weekly Roundup 03/05/21 (GBTC discounted, Private Blockchains are Back, the Last Cycle?)
32 mins; March 05, 2021
Brian Flynn (Rabbit Hole) on NFTs and DeFi Customer Acquisition
29 mins; March 01, 2021
Weekly Roundup 02/26/21 (Bitcoin vs Fedwire, ETF prospects, Is the Tether Saga Over?)
40 mins; February 26, 2021
Tieshun Roquerre (Namebase) on the Prospects for Decentralized DNS
63 hours 13 mins; February 25, 2021
Andy Edstrom on Bitcoin Adoption in the RIA Channel
42 mins; February 23, 2021
Brannin McBee (Core Weave) on Greening the Grid, the Texas Meltdown, and Bitcoin Mining
73 hours 26 mins; February 22, 2021
Weekly Roundup 02/19/21 (MSTR's speculative attack, Coinbase trading at $77b, The Tulip Bubble Myth?)
33 mins; February 19, 2021
Teddy Fusaro (Bitwise) on the Bitwise DeFi Index Fund
49 mins; February 17, 2021
Rene Van Kesteren (BlockFi) on how BlockFi manages risk
33 mins; February 16, 2021
Zachary Kelman (Kelman Law) on the lingering effects of Choke Point
44 mins; February 15, 2021
Weekly Roundup 02/12/21 (BNY Mellon supports Bitcoin, the Bitcoin energy debate, Elon Day)
40 mins; February 12, 2021
Edan Yago (Sovryn) on Bitcoin-Native DeFi
53 mins; February 10, 2021
Galen Wolfe-Pauly (Tlon) on Urbit and the Architecture of the Internet
54 mins; February 08, 2021
Weekly Roundup 02/05/21 (Saylor Day reflections, IBM jettisons 'Blockchain', India Bitcoin ban)
37 mins; February 05, 2021
Amanda Fabiano (Galaxy Digital) on the North American Mining Ecosystem
45 mins; February 03, 2021
Boaz Sobrado on Bitcoin adoption trends in Cuba
46 mins; February 01, 2021
Weekly Roundup 01/29/21 (Reflections on the debate, the Robinhood affair, Ray Dalio warms to Bitcoin)
32 mins; January 29, 2021
Prof. Ladislav Krištoufek (Charles University) on the market effects of stablecoin issuance
52 mins; January 25, 2021
Weekly Roundup 01/22/21 (Bitcoin's 'double spend', our Tether perspective, Bitcoin as an escape valve)
40 mins; January 22, 2021
Iain Murray (Competitive Enterprise Institute) on the history of Operation Choke Point
60 hours 54 mins; January 18, 2021
Weekly Roundup 01/15/21 (Gensler in at SEC, the Spakkt, a new OCC charter)
31 mins; January 15, 2021
Matthew Gould (Unstoppable Domains) on the blockchain domain name opportunity
32 mins; January 11, 2021
Weekly Roundup 01/08/21 (Banks can use blockchains, best FinCEN comment letters)
32 mins; January 08, 2021
Travis Schwab (Eventus) on trade surveillance, Bitcoin ETFs and 2021 predictions
35 mins; January 04, 2021
Weekly Roundup 01/01/21 (XRP delistings, OFAC fines BitGo, 2021 ETF prospects)
31 mins; January 01, 2021
Brian Venturo (CoreWeave) on the journey from mining crypto to the cloud
64 hours 20 mins; December 30, 2020
Craig Warmke (N. Illinois University) on what Bitcoin is, and other philosophical questions
100 hours 49 mins; December 28, 2020
Weekly Roundup 12/25/20 (FinCEN's proposed rules, the SEC takes aim at Ripple, predictions for 2021)
38 mins; December 25, 2020
Matt Hougan (Bitwise) on the prospects for a Bitcoin ETF in 2021
39 mins; December 21, 2020
Weekly Roundup 12/18/20 feat. a pseudonymous fixed income trader (Our MSTR mea culpa, are CME futs cursed, what isn't a commodity?)
35 mins; December 18, 2020
Amber Scott (Outlier Canada) on crypto-bank relationships in Canada
45 mins; December 14, 2020
Weekly Roundup 12/11/20 (What's Treasury up to?, MSTR's bond offering, would the STABLE act kill Dunkin?)
44 mins; December 11, 2020
Muneeb Ali (Blockstack) on Bitcoin-based Smart Contracts
64 hours 39 mins; December 09, 2020
Mustafa Yilham (Bixin) on the industrial Bitcoin miner perspective
47 mins; December 07, 2020
Weekly Roundup 12/04/20 (The Dastardly STABLE Act, USDC partners with Visa, Larry Fink evolves on Bitcoin)
35 mins; December 04, 2020
Mathias Imbach (Sygnum Bank) on the importance of crypto banking
49 mins; December 02, 2020
Pelle Brændgaard (Notabene) on how crypto service providers are dealing with the Travel Rule
56 mins; November 30, 2020
Weekly Roundup 11/27/20 (What we are thankful for, USDC in Venezuela, is GBTC behind the rally?)
37 mins; November 27, 2020
John Newbery (Brink) on funding Bitcoin development
54 mins; November 24, 2020
Weekly Roundup 11/20/20 (Clayton leave the SEC, the not so quiet Quiet Rally, Bitcoin interest rates) (EP.149)Weekly Roundup 11/20/20 (Clayton leave the SEC, the not so quiet Quiet Rally, Bitcoin interest rates)
33 mins; November 20, 2020
Parker Lewis (Unchained Capital) on unlocking Bitcoin's potential with multisig
72 hours 40 mins; November 16, 2020
Weekly Roundup 11/13/20 (Cred insolvency, Zelleification in Venezuela, Can Bitcoin be 6102'ed?)
37 mins; November 13, 2020
Alan Lane (Silvergate) on banking the cryptoasset industry
42 mins; November 09, 2020
Weekly Roundup 10/05/20 (Blockchain voting, a $1B Bitcoin forfeiture, election outcomes and inflation)
43 mins; November 06, 2020
Josh Cincinnati on the challenge of blockchain governance
79 hours 3 mins; November 02, 2020
Weekly Roundup 10/30/20 (Iran stockpiling Bitcoin?, more bank charters, is Paypal a Bitcoin Sidechain?)
43 mins; October 30, 2020
Yoann Turpin (Wintermute) on launching a cryptoasset market making firm
33 mins; October 28, 2020
Joel Revill (Two Ocean Trust) on building a Qualified Custodian in Wyoming
45 mins; October 26, 2020
Weekly Roundup 10/23/20 (PayPal jumps in, the banks push back at the SPDI, are CBDCs inflationary?) (EP.140)Weekly Roundup 10/23/20 (PayPal jumps in, the banks push back at the SPDI, are CBDCs inflationary?)
34 mins; October 23, 2020
Bruce Fenton (Chainstone Labs) on the paradox of governance tokens
67 hours 39 mins; October 19, 2020
Weekly Roundup 10/16/20 (Does China control Bitcoin?, Filecoin launches, Heath Tarbert praises Ethereum)
37 mins; October 16, 2020
Kyle Samani (Multicoin Capital) on breakout applications for Web3
56 mins; October 12, 2020
Weekly Roundup 10/09/20 feat. Zachary Kelman (Square buys Bitcoin, effect of fees on DeFi, FinCEN files retrospective)
45 mins; October 09, 2020
Mitchell Nicholson (DACS Conduit) on leaving central banking for Bitcoin
71 hours 58 mins; October 07, 2020
Mason Borda (Tokensoft) on the convergence of tokens and capital markets
63 hours 1 min; October 05, 2020
Weekly Roundup 10/02/20 feat. Michael Moro (BitMEX goes down, Genesis launches custody, the SEC scores wins)
52 mins; October 02, 2020
Trent and Brock Elmore on Building Yam Finance
42 mins; September 30, 2020
Chase Lochmiller (Crusoe Energy Systems) on turning stranded energy into Bitcoin
53 mins; September 28, 2020
Weekly News Roundup 09/25/20 (Bank custody for stablecoins, two new congressional bills, "stablecoin" vs "cryptodollar")
42 mins; September 25, 2020
Jeff Dorman (Arca) on asserting tokenholder rights
49 mins; September 23, 2020
Tom Lombardi (3iQ) on the Crypto-Asset-Management Opportunity
47 mins; September 21, 2020
Weekly News Roundup 09/18/20 (Why Wyoming's SPDI is so exciting, a shift in tone from the SEC, Microstrategy keeps stacking)
38 mins; September 18, 2020
David Kinitsky and Marco Santori (Kraken) on obtaining the first Wyoming SPDI
45 mins; September 16, 2020
Gabriel Shapiro (BSV Law) on compatibility between blockchains and the law
75 hours 33 mins; September 14, 2020
Weekly News Roundup 09/11/20 (Crypto penetration by country, DeFi moats and valuations, how DeFi reminds us of PoW launches)
48 mins; September 11, 2020
Ruben Galindo (Airtm) on distributing USD to Venezuelan healthcare workers
54 mins; September 09, 2020
Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital) on developer communities, raising institutional capital and more
63 hours 26 mins; September 07, 2020
Weekly News Roundup 09/04/20 (Armageddon II, Activist token investors, emergent effects of high fees)
39 mins; September 04, 2020
Kyle Davies (Three Arrows Capital) on finding value in DeFi
39 mins; September 02, 2020
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