Episode 166
Weekly Roundup 01/08/21 (Banks can use blockchains, best FinCEN comment letters) (EP.166)
On The Brink with Castle Island · Castle Island Ventures
January 8, 202132m 14s
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Show Notes
Nic and Matt return for another week of ATHs. In this episode:
- Coindesk acquires Tradeblock
- The OCC says that banks can use public blockchains and stablecoins
- We digest the OCC letter
- Potential drawbacks to the new OCC guidance
- Has Brian Brooks had the most successful regulatory term in recent memory?
- The Treasury's comment period expires
- Does the Treasury even have the authority to pass these new rules?
- Our favorite comment letters in response to the Treasury rules
- Does JPM's price call make them hypocrites on the topic of Bitcoin?
- Ripple's series C lead investor is suing Ripple
- Strike announces Strike Global
- How crypto-based fiat-to-fiat remittances work
- Our favorite quarterly investor letters
Content mentioned in this episode:
- Coin Center, Supplemental Comments to FinCEN
- Neha Narula and Patrick Murck, Letter to FinCEN
- Fidelity Digital Assets, Letter to FinCEN
- Bill Miller, Q4 2020 Market Letter
- Stone Ridge, 2020 Shareholder Letter
- Matt Hougan and David Lawant, CFA research brief on Cryptoassets