Episode 105
Weekly News Roundup 07/24/20 (the bombshell OCC letter, the custodian gold rush, Ampleforth mania) (EP.105)
On The Brink with Castle Island · Castle Island Ventures
July 24, 202033m 8s
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Show Notes
Matt and Nic review the stories of the week. Covered in this episode:
- Why holding Bitcoin in banks isn't necessarily contrary to the nature of Bitcoin
- VALR, a South African exchange, raises $3.45m from 100x Group and others
- The OCC's bombshell letter saying that banks can custody cryptocurrency
- What this means for established crypto custodians
- Follow-up questions we have for the OCC
- Hester Pierce expresses her disappointment with the outcome of the Telegram case
- Standard Chartered working on cryptoasset custody
- Paypal partnering with Paxos
- Coinbase blacklists the Twitter hacker addresses
- Our explanation of what's going on with Ampleforth
- The potential pro-Bitcoin regulatory troika in the US