Discussion on Misunderstood Coinbase Stock and Nostalgic Reflections on Network Outage

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

• Wireless outage in the US
• Russia's space weapons and Rods from God 
• Will the market like the cubes once again? 
• Brink nation farcaster update 
• Our ETH ETF skepticism
• Circle leaves Tron
• Revolving door between SEC and biglaw
• Whip Emmer's letter to the OMB
• The ECB's very bad, no good Bitcoin blog
• Reddit hold Bitcoin and ETH 
• SBF's photoshoot
• Latest on the 3AC boys
• The SEC's mysterious ETF correlation analysis

Content mentioned in this episode: 

• ECB, ETF approval for bitcoin – the naked emperor’s new clothes
• Rep. Emmer letter to OMB over Bitcoin mining data request
• NYMAG, 'They are very comfortable lying' 3AC update

Sponsor notes: 

• The Coin Metrics Team will be hosting a Data Challenge at ETH Denver! Learn more about the event & register for it here.
• At the Crossroads: Bitcoin ETFs & Coinbase
• In Coin Metrics State of the Network Issue 247, we zoom into the latest developments with Bitcoin ETFs and Coinbase Q4 2023 earnings