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

• Bitwise is moving into active management
• What’s the deal with Uber on the blockchain?
• The boys review House of the Dragon
• The history of land-based blockchain bets
• Fidelity launches no-fee retail trading for trading BTC and ETH on their platform
• Matt reminisces on Fidelity’s crypto journey
• Google announces blockchain node engine
• Nic’s 2-year pending transaction on Venmo
• SBF continues to wrangle with CT
• Sam’s debate with Erik Voorhees
• Alameda’s questionable balance sheet is leaked
• Can FTX buy its way into respectability despite the existence of Alameda?
• What’s the deal with the MAPS token?
• Is it far for FTX to start offshore and buy way into the regulated system?
• Elon’s schemes for Twitter
• Coinbase and the Blockchain Association are supporting Ripple in their case against the SEC
• The Tether case is reopened at the SDNY
• Tether rips us off with their own bootleg FUD Dice
• What happens to Chinese Tether holders if Tether has to unwind
• If Tether fails, do funds flow back into BTC?
• The mining sector is deeply distressed
• Why the mining bankruptcies may cause concentration in who controls hashrate
• Circle delays their SPAC
• Coin Metrics releases a taxonomy with Goldman and MSCI
• Protos’ weird hatchet job on Nic’s tungsten cube infatuation
• Did we manipulate the market for tungsten?

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