This week Jonathan returns from the diminishing Maldives to find COP26 in full blah. Also, hydrogen and how to decarbonise transport.

After a short non-sponsor, in This Week in Crypto, Jonathan and Doug cover: a busy fortnight in the markets and crypto, 13 years since the bitcoin white paper was published, Coinbase as a Service, ETH ATH, and these meme dogs. Also the mayor-elect of New York wants to be paid in bitcoin.

In a new segment we look at This Week in the Metaverse and how it diverges from the sci-fi which informed it.

In This Week in NFTs, a PSA on hacking by airdrop, EA considers Play-to-Earn, and using NFTs as collateral.

And in a format twist, we close out with a segment called Metaverse or Metaworse.

Links we mentioned:

Michael Liebreich’s Clean Hydrogen Ladder:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/clean-hydrogen-ladder-v40-michael-liebreich

Regulatory gaps around stablecoins to be patched:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/business/stablecoins-cryptocurrency-regulation.amp.html

The Enjin Metaverse Fund:

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/123271/enjin-floats-100m-efinity-metaverse-fund-to-boost-nft-marketplace

SoftBank invests in Sandbox:

https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/02/softbank-invests-93m-in-the-sandboxs-nft-game-platform/

On using NFTs as loan collateral:

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/v7e58j/people-are-taking-out-loans-against-their-nftsand-defaulting

NFTfi itself:

https://nftfi.com