Matt and Nic review the top stories of the week in the cryptoasset industry. This week’s topics include:
- Renowned commodities investor Paul Tudor Jones announces his intent to trade Bitcoin and releases a Bitcoin thesis
- NEAR protocol gets funded
- Are fair launches dead?
- The under-appreciated merit of PoW issuance
- Libra’s new CEO hire
- Wyoming’s Special-Purpose Depository Institution legislation
- The privacy-auditability tradeoff in blockchains
- Whether the growth of stablecoins threatens the security model of public blockchains
- Thoughts on the imminent halving
- Our guess of who the next high profile hedge fund investor will be to flip bullish on Bitcoin
Blog posts and articles mentioned in this episode:
- Paul Tudor Jones’ letter to LPs: The Great Monetary Inflation
- Nic Carter in Bankless: Crypto-Fiat: Mutualistic or Parasitic?
- Nick Prince on Medium: Where are the Institutional Investors in Crypto? Demystifying the ever-elusive wall of capital
- Bitwise Asset Management: The Case for Bitcoin in an Institutional Portfolio
- Ray Dalio on LinkedIn: The Changing Value of Money
- Forbes: Cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox Aims To Bring Anonymous Zcash To Law-Abiding Masses