Weekly News Roundup 5/8/20 (Paul Tudor Jones, the stablecoin invasion, Cash App's Q1) (EP.77)

Matt and Nic review the top stories of the week in the cryptoasset industry. This week’s topics include:

• Renowned commodities investor Paul Tudor Jones announces his intent to trade Bitcoin and releases a Bitcoin thesis
• NEAR protocol gets funded
• Are fair launches dead?
• The under-appreciated merit of PoW issuance
• Libra's new CEO hire
• Wyoming's Special-Purpose Depository Institution legislation
• The privacy-auditability tradeoff in blockchains
• Whether the growth of stablecoins threatens the security model of public blockchains
• Thoughts on the imminent halving
• Our guess of who the next high profile hedge fund investor will be to flip bullish on Bitcoin