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**On The Brink with Castle Island**

Hosts Matt Walsh and Nic Carter of Castle Island Ventures explore news and deals in the public blockchain space and talk to some of the leading experts in the industry. Learn more and stay up to date at CastleIsland.vc and follow on twitter @CastleIslandVC

Latest Episodes:

Weekly Roundup 10/01/21 (Flare mining in WY, nuclear BTC mines, Compound exploited) (EP.246) Oct 01, 2021

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Matt and Nic return for another week. In this episode:

Is fasting lindy?
Ripple's 250m NFT fund
Kraken reaches a $1.25m settlement with the CFTC
Could Ripple win their case against the SEC?
Wyoming gives a tax break to flare gas miners
Coinbase adds direct deposits to their platform
Should stablecoins be issued by banks?
China is tapped out of their Bitcoin FUD
Compound suffers an exploit
Bitcoin miners look at nuclear

Sponsor notes:

This show supported by Coinbase Prime, an integrated solution that provides advanced multi-venue trading, custody, and prime services for institutions. For more information see coinbase.com/prime

Chris Maurice (Yellow Card) on driving fundamental crypto adoption in Africa (EP.245) Sep 29, 2021

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In this episode, Chris Maurice, co-founder and CEO of pan-African crypto platform Yellow Card, joined us to talk about his background, the business, and the state of crypto adoption in Africa. The company's goal is to provide a seamless on and off ramp to anyone in Africa. We also discuss:

Yellow Card's recently announced fundraise
The diversity in culture, language, history, and economy across the 54 countries in the region and why Yellow Card is on a pan-African journey
The popular use cases for crypto in the region, including as a savings and transaction tool for individuals and businesses
The challenges Yellow Card faces in driving crypto adoption in the region and what the firm can do to address them
The details about Yellow Card's recent raise and the future of the company

Based on this conversation with Chris, it's clear that crypto provides fundamental utility beyond speculation in the region that rings true to the ethos on which this industry was built.

Sponsor notes

This episode is brought to you by Withum, a top 25 accounting firm with a cutting-edge Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology practice. To learn more, visit withum.com/crypto.

Christian Dittmeier on NFT analytics (EP.244) Sep 27, 2021

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Christian Dittmeier, cofounder and CEO of Evaluate Market joins the show. In this episode we discuss:

How Christian and his cofounders Alex and Cody came to find themselves spending their free time analyzing NFTs
The insight that led them to start Evaluate Market, a platform for discovering, search for, and evaluating NFTs
Christian's perspective on the emerging taxonomy of NFTs and how Evaluate prioritizes the assets that it lists
The projects and categories of NFTs that Christian is most excited about

To learn more about Evaluate visit evaluate.market

Weekly Roundup 09/24/21 (Regulators keep talking about Free Banking, Twitter rolls out LN support, Biden's new OCC nominee) (EP.243) Sep 24, 2021

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Nic and Matt return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:

Latest on the infrastructure bill
The latest on the platinum coin
Zany things that financial regulators said this week
Gensler continues to misrepresent the free banking era
How bad was the wildcat banking era really?
Why are financial regulators so interested in free banking?
The SEC and CFTC are nearing the end of their fiscal year
The prospects for 'pipe to crypto'
Why miners are participating in 'demand response' programs
Matt's 20-year-old cereal
Twitter adds lightning tips and NFT authentication
Binance is under CFTC investigation
Biden's new OCC nominee is anti-bank, anti-crypto
FASB takes comment on GAAP treatment of digital assets

Content mentioned:

George Selgin on antebellum Free Banking

Sponsor notes:

This show supported by Coinbase Prime, an integrated solution that provides advanced multi-venue trading, custody, and prime services for institutions. For more information see coinbase.com/prime
This episode is brought to you by Withum, a top 25 accounting firm with a cutting-edge Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology practice. To learn more, visit withum.com/crypto.

Weekly Roundup 09/17/21 (Fidelity's spot ETF plea, Solana goes down, Are Bitcoiners cosplayers?) (EP.242) Sep 17, 2021

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Matt and Nic return to recap a tumultuous week. In this episode:

Matt's ongoing war against the turkeys
Fidelity thinks the SEC should approve a spot ETF
The Futures based Bitcoin ETFs are nearing approval
The SEC stonewalling an ETF is a political choice
The OpenSea insider scandal
Elizabeth Warren's critiques of the industry get more and more specific and niche
Do we event want to know which tokens are securities according to the SEC?
Ripple is asking the SEC to compare them to Ethereum
Solana goes down for 17h
Our interaction with a blockchain fraudster
The NYT doesn't understand cryptography
Are Bitcoiners cosplayers?
The Epic games v Apple case has implications for the crypto industry

Content mentioned:

Fidelity's Wise Origin Bitcoin ETF presentation to the SEC on Sep. 8

Sponsor notes

This show supported by Coinbase Prime, an integrated solution that provides advanced multi-venue trading, custody, and prime services for institutions. For more information see coinbase.com/prime

Weekly Roundup 09/10/21 (Bukele buys the dip, oil majors are mining, SEC v Coinbase) (EP.241) Sep 10, 2021

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Matt and Nic are back for another week. In this episode:

El Salvador's bitcoin launch
Was the Chivo rollout really that bad?
Bukele buys the dip
Did El Salvador's bitcoin day cause a 20% selloff?
McDonalds supports lightning in El Salvador
SEC v Coinbase
Introducing the Reves test
Takeaways from the Miami Bitmain conference
What is the NFL planning with NFTs?
Oil majors are getting into bitcoin mining
Is flare gas the future?

Sponsor notes

This episode is brought to you by Withum, a top 25 accounting firm with a cutting-edge Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology practice. To learn more, visit withum.com/crypto.
This show supported by Coinbase Prime, an integrated solution that provides advanced multi-venue trading, custody, and prime services for institutions. For more information see coinbase.com/prime

Alex Svanevik (Nansen) on extracting signal from on-chain noise (EP.240) Sep 06, 2021

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We welcome Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nansen.ai to On the Brink to provide color on Nansen's unique approach to on-chain data and analysis. We discuss:

The evolution of Nansen from a wallet labelling tool to an end-to-end analytics platform
How Nansen provides actionable insights from its analysis of individual addresses, transactions, and contracts
Nansen's process to scale the collection of individual wallet level data over time
Specific ways end-users are leveraging Nansen to make data-driven NFT investments
And more broadly, the application of AI to the analysis of blockchain data

You can learn more about the company and its offerings at Nansen.ai and the company's YouTube channel.

Weekly Roundup 09/03/21 (Two years of OTB, Matt's NFT strategy, Square's Bitcoin DEX) (EP.239) Sep 03, 2021

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Nic and Matt are back for another week.

Patriots choose Mac Jones
Kanye releases Donda
Two year anniversary of OTB
The fate of the OTB lost episode
Matt's peculiar NFT acquisition strategy
What the hell is Loot
Punks weren't the first NFTs
Square is making a Bitcoin DEX
The SEC sues Bitconnect

Sponsor notes

This episode is brought to you by Withum, a top 25 accounting firm with a cutting-edge Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology practice. To learn more, visit withum.com/crypto.

Weekly Roundup 08/27/21 (Celeb NFT buys, Visa's cryptopunk, Choke Point 2.0?) (EP.238) Aug 27, 2021

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Matt and Nic return for another week. In this episode:

Nic sells an NFT to Von Miller
OnlyFans and financial inclusion
Visa buys a cryptopunk
Do stablecoins have a future outside of the banking sector?
The history of Choke Point and what it means today
Our merch supply chain issues
Tungsten talk

Content mentioned

Iain Murray's OTB appearance on Choke Point
Nic in Coindesk, OnlyFans Shows How the Banking System Is Politicized

Sponsor notes

This episode is brought to you by Withum, a top 25 accounting firm with a cutting-edge Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology practice. To learn more, visit withum.com/crypto.

Weekly Roundup 08/20/21 (Uniswap governance wars, Bitcoin adoption in EM, OnlyFans gets Choke Pointed) (EP.237) Aug 20, 2021

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Nic and Matt are back for news and deals. In this episode:

Our current sentiment on the Senate infrastructure bill
The controversial Flipside/Uniswap portfolio
MIT's 2014 Bitcoin airdrop
Chainalysis' new data on Bitcoin adoption shows that it's a developing markets phenomenon
Is there a conflict between good stablecoins and a competitive market for stablecoins?
Are lossmaking stablecoins anti-competitive?
Gensler makes more noise about DeFi
The problem with futures-based ETFs

Content mentioned in this episode:

Bitmex's new Proof of Reserve/Liability
Nic in Bitcoin Magazine, The Bitcoin Energy Debate is a Modern Reprise of the Gold Resource Cost Debate
Chainalysis, The 2021 Global Crypto Adoption Index
David Marcus on Medium, Good Stablecoins

Sponsor notes

This episode is brought to you by Withum, a top 25 accounting firm with a cutting-edge Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology practice. To learn more, visit withum.com/crypto.

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