Is Elon Musk in the News?

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Elon musk has been in the news for so much crazy stuff in the past couple of weeks, feels like every single day i wake up and i get like a push notification telling me who else? Elon musk has a kid with. This is what wasth straw for them. Like, this was the thing, was him selling bit coin that really pissed em off. So it's been some bad p r times.

Welcome back, this week Lucas and Anita dive into a conversation around Coinbase’s legal woes and the insider trading scandal surrounding an employee at the firm. We also discussed Elon Musk’s bitcoin sale and Minecraft’s ban of NFTs from its platform.

In their interview this week, Anita and Lucas interviewed David Nage. Nage is a portfolio manager at Arca where he makes early-stage bets on crypto startups. We talked about finding hot opportunities in seed stage crypto and then broke into a wide-ranging conversation on crypto regulation and what comes next.

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https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/25/crypto-valuations-may-sink-until-september-as-vcs-play-a-waiting-game/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/20/tesla-dumped-75-of-its-bitcoin-holdings/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/20/minecraft-says-no-f-ing-thanks-to-nfts/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/26/if-it-walks-like-a-dog-and-barks-like-a-dog-perhaps-its-actually-a-non-security-crypto-digital-asset/

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