On The Brink with Castle Island

Weekly Roundup 08/12/22 (Tornado Cash OFAC'd, Dai reconsiders USDC, Merge scheduled) (EP.339)

Aug 12, 2022

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I'm Sure as Hell Would Not Spend It, Right?

04:35

I Think It's an Extension of the Privacy Wars of the Late 19th Century

02:07

A Theorem Isn't the Cutting Edge, Right?

03:10

Introduction

2min

Is There Any Attrition in Bitcoin Core?

2min

Coinmetrix - The Metrics of the Week

2min

The Best Crypto Startups of the Week

3min

The Deals of the Week

2min

Tornado Cash - A Zero Nowlegfied Mixer

3min

Cryptocurrency Laundering

4min

Do You Know What You're Doing?

4min

I'm Sure as Hell Would Not Spend It, Right?

5min

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I Think It's an Extension of the Privacy Wars of the Late 19th Century

2min

11.

A Theorem Isn't the Cutting Edge, Right?

3min

12.

The Big Corners vs the Cryptocurrency Chain?

5min

13.

The Problem With Multi Collateral Dye, Is It a Good Idea?

2min

14.

The Second Order Effect in Cryptocurrency

2min

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Black Rock - The Biggest Institutional News of the Week

3min

16.

Irs Staffing Up to 87 Thousand New Irs Agents

3min

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

Underwhelming Taproot adoption
Tornado Cash gets sanctioned by OFAC
Is Tornado a better mixer than coinjoin
Why the Tornado Cash sanctioning is the first of its kind
How much of the liquidity in Tornado Cash was illicit?
Are we at a turning point in financial privacy?
Why was Tornado Cash specifically targeted and not other mixers
Account-based versus UTXO systems and their effect on your ability to segregate funds
Can you really sanction a blockchain or smart contract?
The crypto wars of the 90s continue
Is Ethereum the biggest crypto platform for privacy today?
Is Dai at risk from USDC?
The Merge finally gets a launch date
BlackRock launches a Bitcoin spot trust

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