Prime Trust's Outsourcing of Cryptocurrency

Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• Bitcoin hits 30k
• Wyoming’s stable token developments
• The story behind FTX’s mammoth $500m outflow to K5 global
• Why was SBF spending hundreds of millions cozying up to talent agents?
• Do Kwon will spend 4 months in jail in Montenegro
• The Bitgo Prime Trust acquisition falls apart
• Deutche Bank applies for a crypto license in Germany
• EDX officially launches
• Blackrock files for their ETF and others follow
• Our theory for why Blackrock is filing now
• Is the SEC back-channeling to Blackrock?
• Was surveillance sharing really a blocker for other ETF applications?
• Does the notion of spot market surveillance even make sense for a global commodity?
• What’s the deal with the Bitcoin bathhouse in Brooklyn?

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