On The Brink with Castle Island

Weekly Roundup 02/03/23 (Ordinals frenzy, Charlie Munger, Tether truthers are back) (EP.394)

Feb 3, 2023

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Putting Assets on Exchanges That Don't Prove Reserves

01:50

Cryptocurrency - The SEC's Job Is to Promote Capital Formation

02:08

The Podcast Podcast - Ria and Julian Nissett

01:52

Introduction

2min

Putting Assets on Exchanges That Don't Prove Reserves

2min

The White House Doesn't Like Crypto Very Much

2min

Is Tether the Cause of the Bull Run in Bitcoin?

2min

Bitcoin Energy

2min

The Podcast Podcast - Ria and Julian Nissett

2min

The Deals of the Week - Castle Island

2min

The FTX Crime Family - Alex Moshinsky

3min

Bitcoin Mining

2min

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Is FTT a Good Idea?

2min

11.

Is FTX Going to Be a Big Problem if They Go Public?

2min

12.

ICOs

3min

13.

The SEC Says They Don't Have a Handle on This

2min

14.

Cryptocurrency - The SEC's Job Is to Promote Capital Formation

2min

15.

Is There Really New Stuff on FTX as There Is Every Week?

2min

16.

FTX Crime Family Update - Sam Bankman-Fried

3min

17.

Is That What They're Doing?

2min

18.

FTX - No More Sam With Signal, Which Is a Shame

1min

19.

Is That What I Wanted to Talk About on the Crypto Podcast?

3min

20.

Is There a Future for Cryptocurrency?

4min

21.

Is It OK for Miners to Discriminate and Not Push Out Nonstandard Transactions?

2min

22.

The Monetarist View on Bitcoin

3min

23.

I Just Put My Elbow Through This Dress Shirt

2min

24.

Brady - Is He Going to Be a Fox Announcer?

2min

25.

How to Fix Soccer?

2min

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

Nic’s Proof of Reserves for Policymakers
Charlie Munger attacks crypto
The academic Tether truthers are back
We unveil a new bad boy
New allegations about Celsius surface
The problem with exchange tokens
How do you retire a token?
The paradox of issuing tokens via an offshore foundation
SBF is allegedly tampering with witnesses
Did Sam really believe in EA?
We review Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto
Were the Maya really that bad?
What on earth is going on with Ordinals?
Are Bitcoin NFTs a DOS attack?
A conflict of visions in Bitcoin reemerges
Matt keeps tearing his shirts
VC dress codes

Content mentioned in this episode:

Ark Invest Big Ideas 2023 Report
Coin Metrics’ report on MEV
Dennis Porteaux, Illegitimate Bitcoin Transactions
Nic Carter, Proof of Reserves for Policymakers

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