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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 04/23/21 (Estimating hashrate, mining Bitcoin with solar, capital gains hike?) (EP.209) Apr 23, 2021

Show notes

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

43% capital gains taxes?
Are decentralized storage networks reaching fruition
Binance US hires ex-Comptroller Brian Brooks
Matt's Turkey problem
A Turkish exchange apparently exit scams
Scott Minerd has a new target for Bitcoin
Bernstein isn't worried about Bitcoin's energy consumption
Ark Invest thinks Bitcoin is an incentive for renewables
How much did Bitcoin hashrate really collapse?
What did we learn from the Xinjiang shutdown?
Why hashrate is hard to estimate
Xinjiang is more renewable than you think

Content mentioned in this episode:

Alliance Bernstein, Is Bitcoin ESG Friendly for Equity Investors?
Square and Ark Invest, Bitcoin is Key to an Abundant, Clean Energy Future [pdf]

This episode supported by:

Sovryn, DeFi on Bitcoin
Eventus, global leader in trade surveillance, market risk and transaction monitoring solutions

Nick Neuman (Casa) on resilient self-custody with multisig (EP.208) Apr 19, 2021

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Nick Neuman, the CEO of multisig software provider Casa, joins the show to discuss how to harden your Bitcoin custody setup. In this episode:

Nick's own journey to Bitcoin and to becoming CEO of Casa
Casa's design philosophy
The merits of native multisig on Bitcoin
Casa's decision to stay Bitcoin-only
Nick's experience raising capital as a Bitcoin-only startup
Is it easier to be a Bitcoin-only startup today?
How complicated is multisig?
Why Casa recommends the usage of multiple brands of hardware wallets
Why self-custody matters
Nick's vision for the future and how private keys will power the decentralized web
Nick's responses to common criticisms of Casa
The purpose of Casa's new subaccounts feature

Sponsor notes:

Copper is transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets by developing award-winning custody and next-gen trading infrastructure. Headquartered in London, the firm is scaling rapidly across Asia and North America to bring its suite of products to a wider pool of institutional investors. To learn more visit copper.co or reach out on Twitter, @CopperHQ

Aave is a decentralized, open source, and non-custodial protocol where users can deposits and borrow digital assets, and earn interest on those assets. Head over to aave.com to experience and learn more about DeFi.

Weekly Roundup 04/16/21 ($COIN lists, NYT FUD, Hester's Safe Harbor 2.0, Gensler confirmed) (EP.207) Apr 16, 2021

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

Nic's feud with the NYT
How Lysenkoism fits in
Issues with the contemporary press
Coinbase does the biggest direct listing of all time
Is COIN a trojan horse for Bitcoin?
Coinbase mafia?
The best thing about Coinbase being public
Gary Gensler finally confirmed as SEC chairman
Our thoughts on Hester Pierce's token safe harbor 2.0
How do you do disclosures in token land?
The former CIA director points out that Bitcoin has less illicit usage then believed

Content mentioned:

SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce's Safe Harbor 2.0
Nic Carter, On Bitcoin, the Gray Lady Embraces Climate Lysenkoism

This episode is brought to you by Sovryn, DeFi on Bitcoin.

Dmitry Tokarev (Copper) on building crypto settlement infrastructure (EP.206) Apr 14, 2021

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Dmitry Tokarev, the cofounder and CEO of Copper joins the show. In this episode we discuss:

Dmitry's path to crypto and the pain points that led him to starting Copper
How Dmitry sees the competitive landscape and how legacy financial firms are reacting
How MPC enables Copper to quickly add support for new blockchain platforms
Views on what it's like to hire in a rapidly growing startup
Outlook for settlement and custody services in the years to come

To learn more about Copper and Clearloop visit: www.copper.co

Larry Cermak and Mike Rogers (The Block) on the Stablecoin Market (EP.205) Apr 12, 2021

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The Block's Director of Research Larry Cermak and Research Analyst Mike Rogers join the show to talk through their latest report on stablecoins. In this episode:

Why the Block chose to focus on stablecoins for this report
Larry and Mike's opinion on why stablecoins are so disproportionately dollar-based
China's influence in the Tether market
The history of Tether and why it attained so much traction initially
How you can determine the location of stablecoin users
The Tetherification for offshore exchanges – and how it displaced Bitcoin as the reserve asset
The influence of USDC in DeFi and whether it represents a systemic risk to the sector
Dai's transition to non-native collateral types
Mike and Larry's view of algorithmic stablecoins
Why stablecoins are so divisive between economists and crypto entrepreneurs
Why Tether's dominance is declining
Where the NYAG settlement leaves Tether now
What Larry makes of USDT on TRON stealing some market share from Ethereum
Why investors are settling deals in stablecoin terms
The prospects for Libra/Diem
Mike and Larry's expectations for the next decade in stablecoins

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