Matt returns with CMS Holdings' Dan Matuszewski, filling in for Nic, covering deals and news of the week. In this episode: 

• Bitcoiners brief Norwegian policymakers
• History of the BitLicense
• Circle’s physical BitLicense
• a16z raises a massive $4.5b fund
• The effect of VC dry powder on crypto startups
• Can crypto catch a bid until macro calms down
• Adam Neumann is back with a blockchain startup
• FTX attends a heated CFTC roundtable
• Arthur Hayes gets house arrest and probation
• Why certain Tether holders will never redeem
• An unlikely winner from Tether concerns
• Does shorting Tether make sense?
• Fallout from Terra’s collapse
• Are algostables going to exist forever
• CMS’s Super Pac and reflections on conversations in Washington
• SBF announces his intention to spend $1B on the 2024 election
• Scott Minerd is very bearish on Bitcoin
• What on earth is HEX
• ETH Merge concerns

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