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

Where we stand on the Senate infrastructure bill
Is Bitcoin a bipartisan issue?
What the prospects for the House to change the language in the infrastructure bill?
The crypto lobby shows its teeth
Why is Bitcoin rallying in the presence of this bill?
What is Gensler cooking up for the crypto industry?
The Economist publishes a pair of critical articles on Bitcoin
Should stablecoins be regulated like banks
What's Tether's leverage ratio?
Is there a political Bitcoin bloc being formed?

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Weekly Roundup 08/13/21 (More Infra Bill Chaos, an emerging Bitcoin Bloc, the crypto lobby shows up) (EP.236)