On The Brink with Castle Island

Weekly Roundup 05/27/22 feat. Dan Matuszewski (VC dry powder, FTX' CFTC proposal, more Tether concerns) (EP.322)

May 27, 2022

50:55

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Is There a Way to Make Cryptocurrency Markets Work?

02:09

F T X

01:40

Is There a Natural Opponent of Crypto?

02:02

Introduction

2min

The Cryptocurrency Crisis in the United States

2min

Cryptocurrency Markets Are a Little Slow, Right?

2min

Seed Stage Financing

2min

Coinbas

2min

Is There a New Crypto Narrative?

3min

Cryptocurrency Market Structure

2min

Dow Tooling Is a Hot Category These Days

2min

Is There an F Ts Fraud Detection?

3min

10.

The Energy Debate - The Time, the Ages Old.

2min

11.

Is There a Way to Make Cryptocurrency Markets Work?

2min

12.

F T X

2min

13.

Deota Liquidation, Is It a Weapon of Mass Destruction?

2min

14.

Cryptocurrency

2min

15.

Bitmex

2min

16.

The Market Chatter on Tether Just Continues

3min

17.

We're Going to Short the 50billion Dollar, Once in a Lifetime Short

2min

18.

Is This the Death of Algo Stablecorns?

2min

19.

Apathy Is Great, Yes. In Just Tik Way.

3min

20.

Is There a Natural Opponent of Crypto?

2min

21.

The Most Spended Republican in the House of Representatives

2min

22.

Is Your House of Representatives, Like, in Reach?

2min

23.

Bitcoin

2min

24.

Is There a Max Pand on This Cycle?

2min

25.

Hex - What the Hell Is Hex?

3min

Matt returns with CMS Holdings' Dan Matuszewski, filling in for Nic, covering deals and news of the week. In this episode:

Bitcoiners brief Norwegian policymakers
History of the BitLicense
Circle’s physical BitLicense
a16z raises a massive $4.5b fund
The effect of VC dry powder on crypto startups
Can crypto catch a bid until macro calms down
Adam Neumann is back with a blockchain startup
FTX attends a heated CFTC roundtable
Arthur Hayes gets house arrest and probation
Why certain Tether holders will never redeem
An unlikely winner from Tether concerns
Does shorting Tether make sense?
Fallout from Terra’s collapse
Are algostables going to exist forever
CMS’s Super Pac and reflections on conversations in Washington
SBF announces his intention to spend $1B on the 2024 election
Scott Minerd is very bearish on Bitcoin
What on earth is HEX
ETH Merge concerns

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