Episode 243
Weekly Roundup 09/24/21 (Regulators keep talking about Free Banking, Twitter rolls out LN support, Biden's new OCC nominee) (EP.243)
On The Brink with Castle Island · Castle Island Ventures
September 24, 202138m 21s
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Show Notes
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
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