On The Brink with Castle Island

Weekly Roundup 10/16/20 (Does China control Bitcoin?, Filecoin launches, Heath Tarbert praises Ethereum) (EP.138)


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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
...more
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