On The Brink with Castle Island Weekly Roundup 10/16/20 (Does China control Bitcoin?, Filecoin launches, Heath Tarbert praises Ethereum) (EP.138)
Oct 16, 2020
37:51
Matt and Nic cover deals and news of the week. In this episode:
- NYDIG emerges from stealth and announces a Bitcoin balance sheet position
- More companies add Bitcoin to their balance sheet
- Filecoin launches at a $200b implied fully diluted valuation
- Is the Filecoin SAFT different from the other SAFTs?
- Why token projects are strongly incentivized to be untransparent about their tokens
- CFTC chair Heath Tarbert praises Ethereum
- The relationship between securities and commodities
- Ripple complains about securities regulation and claims China controls Bitcoin
- Grayscale Ether Trust becomes an SEC reporting entity
- Grayscale raises $1b in Q3
- Breitling creates NFTs as an anti-counterfeiting measure
- Risks involved with brainwallets
- Coinbase plans to sponsor Bitcoin developers
- A new deadline in the Mt Gox saga
Content mentioned in this episode:
- Crypto VC panel on privacy from the Fidelity privacy conference
- Ripple, What's at Stake for the U.S. When It Comes to Digital Asset Regulation
- The Block's new data dashboard
- Bitmex Research, Call me Ishmael
- Ryan Castellucci talk at DevCon, Cracking Cryptocurrency Brainwallets