Weekly Roundup 01/08/21 (Banks can use blockchains, best FinCEN comment letters) (EP.166)

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

• Coindesk acquires Tradeblock
• The OCC says that banks can use public blockchains and stablecoins
• We digest the OCC letter
• Potential drawbacks to the new OCC guidance
• Has Brian Brooks had the most successful regulatory term in recent memory?
• The Treasury's comment period expires
• Does the Treasury even have the authority to pass these new rules?
• Our favorite comment letters in response to the Treasury rules
• Does JPM's price call make them hypocrites on the topic of Bitcoin?
• Ripple's series C lead investor is suing Ripple
• Strike announces Strike Global
• How crypto-based fiat-to-fiat remittances work
• Our favorite quarterly investor letters

Content mentioned in this episode:

• Coin Center, Supplemental Comments to FinCEN
• Neha Narula and Patrick Murck, Letter to FinCEN
• Fidelity Digital Assets, Letter to FinCEN
• Bill Miller, Q4 2020 Market Letter
• Stone Ridge, 2020 Shareholder Letter
• Matt Hougan and David Lawant, CFA research brief on Cryptoassets