On The Brink with Castle Island

Weekly Roundup 05/20/22 (Terra aftershocks, El Salvador’s Bitcoin summit, Tether's redemption crisis) (EP.320)

May 20, 2022

48:30

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Is It Galoi or Galo Gala?

01:58

Tether Shorting the Wrong Coin?

02:42

Is He Still Suing the C C?

01:58

Introduction

2min

The Us T Was Not a Panse

2min

The G B D C Isn't Allowed Out There for Trades

2min

Is the Bottom in When It's Maximum Hate From Traditional Economists?

2min

Is the World Bank a Good Friend to Crypto?

3min

Evaluate Market and NFT Analytics, a Folio Management Platform.

2min

Are You Suggesting That Elizabeth Warren Is Orchestrating Legal Harassment?

2min

Crypto Trading Platform

2min

Block Chain Fundraising

2min

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Cryptocurrency Markets

2min

11.

Crypto Funding Spaces - Is There an Impetus to Get on the Board?

2min

12.

The Story of the Ear

2min

13.

Cryptocurrency

3min

14.

The Pseudonymous Economy of Cryptocurrency

2min

15.

Coin Base Is About to Collapse, I'm Getting a Lot of Phone Calls, but It's the Same Stable, Crod.

2min

16.

Tether Shorting the Wrong Coin?

3min

17.

Is It a Scamta?

2min

18.

Is It Galoi or Galo Gala?

2min

19.

Cloud Fair

2min

20.

Doquan, Are You Ever Setting in the United States Again?

2min

21.

Is He Still Suing the C C?

2min

22.

The Last Thing I Have on Terra Is a Washington National Stadium

2min

23.

Terra

2min

24.

Is This Going to Be a Great Book?

3min

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

Was UST/Terra a ponzi or not?
Fintech apps put client deposits into Anchor
Tradfi yields are competitive with DeFi yields
The GBTC discount reaches its highest ever level at -31% MSM crypto hate reaches a fever pitch
The World Bank publishes a new paper on crypto adoption
The Warren staff have a dossier of mean tweets
Will generalist VCs lose interest in web3?
El Salvador hosts a Bitcoin summit for a number of central banks
Nic’s secret origin story
Is eSwatini a dark horse candidate for the next Bitcoin Nation?
The Biden admin suggests segregating client deposits at exchanges
TradFi thinks Tether is about to collapse
Why no stablecoins are able to secure audits
Tether receives a new assurance opinion showing $39b of treasuries
How many outflows can Tether accommodate?
Differences in redemption between USDC and USDT
What does a crackdown in offshore assets by the CCP have to do with Tether?
Cloudflare’s wall of lava lamps
Is it time for a new batch of FUD dice?
We assess the quality of the Terra mea culpas

Content mentioned in this episode:

World Bank, The ascent of crypto assets: Evolution and macro-financial drivers

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