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Weekly Roundup 11/04/22 (Fidelity Crypto Launches, Alameda’s balance sheet, SDNY looks at Tether) (EP.368)

Nov 4, 2022

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Is There Any Impropriety in Cryptocurrency?

01:58

Crypto Twitter - What Are the Assets?

02:14

Tether Fudd Dice

02:02

Introduction

2min

Coin Metrics Podcast - The Best Leadership Team in the Business

2min

The Biggest Week for Coin Mechanics

2min

A Bitwise Podcast - Salted Meats and D.E.C Tech

2min

Deck D.E.C.

2min

How's the Dragon in Game of Thrones?

2min

EOS Network Foundation Invests $100 Million in Busan, South Korea

2min

Blockchain, Not Crypto?

2min

Fidelity Crypto - The Real Deal?

2min

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Is Fidelity a Leader in Cryptocurrency?

2min

11.

CoinMetrics

2min

12.

Is PayPal Going to Launch a Crypto Business With That Type of Job?

2min

13.

DeFi - Should DeFi Be Out of the Bill?

2min

14.

Crypto Twitter - What Are the Assets?

2min

15.

Alameda Coin Desk Leak - Bitcoin Miners Taking Out Loans Against FTT

2min

16.

Is There Any Impropriety in Cryptocurrency?

2min

17.

Is FTT Competitive With FTX Equity?

2min

18.

Are You Going to Pay $8 a Month to Have Your Blue Checkmark?

2min

19.

Coinbase and the Blockchain Association Think Ripple's Going to Win

2min

20.

Tether Case Back Open

2min

21.

Tether Fudd Dice

2min

22.

Tether

2min

23.

Bitcoin Mining

2min

24.

The Business Model of Mining Could Be Fundamentally Impaired

2min

25.

Coinmetrics, Goldman Sachs and MSCI - A Crypto-Native Approach to the Crypto Industry

2min

26.

Crypto Twitter - Goldman's Engagement Around the Tungsten Cube Issue

2min

27.

Weird Hit Pieces for the Week

2min

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

Bitwise is moving into active management
What’s the deal with Uber on the blockchain?
The boys review House of the Dragon
The history of land-based blockchain bets
Fidelity launches no-fee retail trading for trading BTC and ETH on their platform
Matt reminisces on Fidelity’s crypto journey
Google announces blockchain node engine
Nic’s 2-year pending transaction on Venmo
SBF continues to wrangle with CT
Sam’s debate with Erik Voorhees
Alameda’s questionable balance sheet is leaked
Can FTX buy its way into respectability despite the existence of Alameda?
What’s the deal with the MAPS token?
Is it far for FTX to start offshore and buy way into the regulated system?
Elon’s schemes for Twitter
Coinbase and the Blockchain Association are supporting Ripple in their case against the SEC
The Tether case is reopened at the SDNY
Tether rips us off with their own bootleg FUD Dice
What happens to Chinese Tether holders if Tether has to unwind
If Tether fails, do funds flow back into BTC?
The mining sector is deeply distressed
Why the mining bankruptcies may cause concentration in who controls hashrate
Circle delays their SPAC
Coin Metrics releases a taxonomy with Goldman and MSCI
Protos’ weird hatchet job on Nic’s tungsten cube infatuation
Did we manipulate the market for tungsten?

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