Episode Details

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

Sponsor notes: 

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