On The Brink with Castle Island

Weekly Roundup 10/21/22 (Aptos launch, crypto vigilantes, FTX’s regulatory draft) (EP.363)

Oct 21, 2022

50:49

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Is There a Better Way to Launch Cryptocurrencies?

01:34

X-Meni Token Unlocks - Is That a Good Idea?

02:04

Bitcoin Mining Hardware Company - Fabric Systems

01:48

Introduction

2min

The Three Arrows Manhunt Is Intensifying

2min

The Three Arrows News - Voyager Bankruptcy

3min

Voyager - Is 3AC a Borrower?

3min

Is There a Follow-Up Question?

2min

D&O Insurance

2min

Code Is Not Law, Code Is Code

2min

CFTC - What Is the Dollar Amount Here That He Actually Got Out of This?

2min

The Third Bad Boy of the Week, Dokwan

2min

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What Are You Going to Do With the Three Arrows Boys?

2min

11.

Dokwan Says It Takes Years Off of Your Life?

2min

12.

Early Stage Crypto Deals Are Still Happening

2min

13.

Yolo Investments - What a Name?

2min

14.

Bitcoin Mining Hardware Company - Fabric Systems

2min

15.

Bitcoin Mining Paperweights - What Are They Really?

5min

16.

The State of Texas Is Looking Into Unregistered Securities

2min

17.

Is FTT Worthless?

2min

18.

X-Meni Token Unlocks - Is That a Good Idea?

2min

19.

Is There a Better Way to Launch Cryptocurrencies?

2min

20.

Is There a Safe Harbor for GPU Launches?

2min

21.

Binance's 12% Increase in Difficulty Will Kill Those Miners

2min

22.

Dot Coin Domains

2min

23.

Bitcoin Is Just Hanging in Like a Champ at 19 K

2min

24.

Bitcoin Mining

3min

Matt and Nic return for news and deals of the week. In this episode:
Why USDC is suffering redemptions but not USDT
Some new 3AC shenanigans are unearthed
The SEC and CFTC are investigating 3AC
Details from the Voyager bankruptcy filing
Avraham Eisenburg is crypto’s hottest new villain Is the Mango exploit against the law?
Is there a vigilante group out to get Do Kwon?
SBF is criticized for his regulatory draft proposal
The Texas securities regulators are investigating FTX
FTX shareholders at odds with FTT holders?
Aptos’ controversial launch
Have we forgotten how to do a fair launch?
How Ethereum’s merge put pressure on Bitcoin miners
Reuters’ Binance investigation
Unstoppable domains deprecates over 100k .coin domains
Is Bitcoin finally decorrelating from risk assets?

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