Weekly Roundup 09/24/21 (Regulators keep talking about Free Banking, Twitter rolls out LN support, Biden's new OCC nominee) (EP.243)

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

• Latest on the infrastructure bill
• The latest on the platinum coin
• Zany things that financial regulators said this week
• Gensler continues to misrepresent the free banking era
• How bad was the wildcat banking era really?
• Why are financial regulators so interested in free banking?
• The SEC and CFTC are nearing the end of their fiscal year
• The prospects for 'pipe to crypto'
• Why miners are participating in 'demand response' programs
• Matt's 20-year-old cereal
• Twitter adds lightning tips and NFT authentication
• Binance is under CFTC investigation
• Biden's new OCC nominee is anti-bank, anti-crypto
• FASB takes comment on GAAP treatment of digital assets

Content mentioned:

• George Selgin on antebellum Free Banking

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