Today on the Brief:

• Jobless claims down and retail sales up
• The U.S. Federal Reserve is running distributed ledger technology experiments 
• The end of an era, as BitMEX begins KYC

Our main discussion: the big battle brewing between Epic Games and Apple/Google.

NLW looks at:

• Why Fortnite got kicked off the Apple and Google app stores 
• Why Epic Games is suing in response
• Why this was all very clearly planned by Epic Games
• Why Apple and Google should be nervous about anti-trust 
• Why this is about a much bigger future than just a single game