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Weekly Roundup 04/07/23 (OCP2.0 remedies, Treasury on DeFi, FTX.com relaunch?) (EP.414)

Apr 7, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Pros and Cons of Operation Choke Point 2.0

3min

Ethereum Withdrawals Are Going to Start Here

2min

The Gox Debacle

2min

How to Relaunch FTX

2min

The Colonists' Advice on Offshore Exchanges

2min

The Border Between Visionary and Fraudster

2min

How to Be a Fraudster

2min

The Top 5 Cryptocurrencies in the World

2min

10.

The Consolidation of the Canadian Cryptocurrency Market

2min

11.

Elon Musk Changes Twitter Logo to Dogecoin Logo

2min

12.

The April Fool's Thing

2min

13.

The Bug Eating Meme

2min

14.

The Role of Cockroaches in the Meme

2min

15.

The Future of Venture Capital

2min

16.

Hong Kong's Crypto Ambitions Are Progressing

2min

17.

The CCP's Ambitions in Cryptocurrency

2min

18.

The Trade-Offs Around DeFi Protocols

3min

19.

The Case for Bannning Crypto in Foreign Affairs

2min

20.

Bitcoin White Paper on Every Mac OS Since 2018

3min

21.

How to Pick the Best UFC Fighters for the Week

2min

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

What are the prospects for dealing with OCP 2.0?
Creditors are considering relaunching FTX int’l
The boundary between being a visionary and a scammer
Nic’s feud against NPR
What’s the deal with the bug eating meme?
Are lobsters bugs?
What happened to the tungsten cube NFTs?
Singapore banks might be warming up to crypto
Hong Kong is red hot as a crypto zone
A new paper alleges the Fed has overstepped its discretionary authority
The Case for Banning Crypto
The US treasury report on DeFi protocols
Apple embeds the Bitcoin whitepaper on all laptops
Nic’s UFC picks and Matt’s golf picks

Content mentioned in the episode:

Julie Hill, From Cannabis to Crypto: Federal Reserve Discretion in Payments
Politico, U.S. Diplomat to Washington: You’re Becoming Obsolete in One Big Area of Tech Policy
US Treasury, Illicit Finance Risk Assessment of Decentralized Finance
Kathleen Breitman in Fortune, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and why L2 solutions are such a mess

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