Nic and Matt cover the week's deals and news. In this episode:
- Bitcoin full node count
- Celo and the viability of seigniorage shares stablecoins
- Telegram winding down their TON project
- Why we think the SAFT window of opportunity is closed
- Why the SAFT is just ICOs in a suit
- Why the next global monetary asset will never be massively premined and disproportionately owned by VC funds
- How the success of Bitcoin drove VC funds crazy
- Stablecoins pass $10B
- ErisX announces Ethereum physically settled futures
- How futures contracts would handle contested hard forks
- The importance of JPM banking Coinbase and Gemini
- Our retrospective on the halving
- What we're reading and listening to this week
- Why we don't believe in space mining
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