Episode 296
Weekly Roundup 03/11/22 (Biden's executive order, Korea's pro-crypto President, Is Bretton Woods over?) (EP.296)
On The Brink with Castle Island · Castle Island Ventures
March 11, 202238m 37s
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Show Notes
Nic and Matt return for more deals and news of the week. In this episode:
- The fallout from the seizure of the Russian fx reserves
- Did America default on its obligations?
- How are Chinese interests served by the US weaponizing the dollar?
- Can Bitcoin become an inter-state settlement asset and sovereign-scale SoV?
- Zoltan Pozsar declares an end to Bretton Woods
- We digest Biden's executive order
- The White House calls for 14 studies on crypto and CBDCs
- A pro-crypto candidate wins the Korean presidential election
- BNY Mellon gets into MPC crypto custody
- Stripe now supports crypto payments
- The Verge profiles Justin Sun
- Does insider trading apply to commodities?
- Coinbase blocks 25k Russian users from the platform
Content mentioned:
- Nic in Coindesk, America's Quiet Default
- The Verge, The Many Escapes of Justin Sun
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