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Weekly Roundup 03/04/22 (Sanctions chaos, Ukraine's crypto fundraiser, remonetizing gold, web3 geofencing) (EP.293)

Mar 4, 2022

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Is Metamask a Good Alternative to Ethereum?

01:52

Using Fire Blocks to Scale Up Your Cryptocurrency Business

01:45

Cryptocurrence and the Preliminary Discount

02:18

Introduction

2min

I'm in a Market Where So Much of This Is Just Micro Structure

2min

Despite Everything, There Were Deals This Week

2min

The Ukranian War Fund

2min

Cryptocurrency Crowd Funding - The Real Story

3min

Is the Central Bank of Russia Going to Be Trapped Like Money?

4min

Is It Possible to Get Remonetized Gold?

3min

Russian Trade Is Going Unsold, Especially to Chinese Firms, Because of the Sanctions

2min

Using Fire Blocks to Scale Up Your Cryptocurrency Business

2min

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Cryptocurrence and the Preliminary Discount

2min

11.

Is Metamask a Good Alternative to Ethereum?

2min

12.

Is Open C a Security?

2min

13.

Cryptocurrency Strategy

2min

14.

CoinMetrics Podcast - The New Sponsor

3min

15.

Crypto Currency - The Status Quo Is No Major Crypto Base.

4min

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

OTB theme music controversy
Is Bitcoin a risk off asset
Ukraine raises crypto to fund the war effort
Why Ukrainians were better positioned to deal with a banking sector failure
The U.S. cuts Russia out of SWIFT (mostly)
Can the U.S. pull the SWIFT deplatforming again?
Will gold be remonetized?
Metamask, Infura, and Opensea are banned in Iran and Venezuela
Why the cost of running a full node matters
Can NFTs be securities?
Is Russia evading sanctions with crypto?
Powell’s comment on multiple reserve currencies

Content mentioned:

JP Schnapper-Casteras in the New Atlanticist, Here’s why crypto won’t save the Kremlin from sanctions
Jon Sindreu in the WSJ, If Russian Currency Reserves Aren’t Really Money, the World Is in for a Shock

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