On The Brink with Castle Island
Weekly News Roundup feat. Lucas Nuzzi 08/14/20 (Asteroid gold mining, Microstrategy, Ethereum's "supplygate") (EP.112)
Aug 14, 2020
57:26
Coin Metrics network data product lead Lucas Nuzzi joins the show to help explain how to audit the supply of Ethereum – and other, even more challenging blockchains. Also covered in this episode:
- Does the Winklevoss gold asteroid mining talking point have any merit?
- Are the Winklevii being ironic or sincere
- The Boston Fed is hiring crypto engineers
- Why DeFi tokens remind us of PoW launches from 2014
- Why we need a new taxonomy for autonomous fair launched DeFi tokens
- Why DeFi might not herald a resurgence of the ICO phenomenon
- Microstrategy surprises to the upside
- Facebook focuses on payments
- ETH supplygate explained
