Grayscale v. SEC: Who Won This Week’s Hearing? - Ep. 465
Elliott Stein, senior litigation analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, shares his insights from a court hearing this week on the SEC’s rejection of Grayscale’s bid to convert GBTC into a spot bitcoin ETF...
10 Mar 202337min
ETH Denver Debate: Should Testnet ETH Be Free or Have a Price? - Ep. 464
LayerZero launched a testnet bridge that allows users to swap mainnet ETH for Goerli ETH (GoETH), which led to a sudden emergence of a liquid market for GoETH tokens. This was a hugely controversial d...
7 Mar 202346min
The Chopping Block: Is Coinbase’s Base ‘the Binance Smart Chain for White People’? - Ep. 463
In-person at ETH Denver, crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest crypto news. This week, Kyle Samani, scion of Solana, joins the show. Show highligh...
4 Mar 202347min
Bitcoin Ordinal NFTs Are Hot and Getting Hotter. What's the Hype About? - Ep. 462
Muneeb Ali, co-creator of Stacks, discusses the Bitcoin trend that has everyone – or at least, many Bitcoiners – buzzing: Bitcoin ordinals. Ali explains why it is that they’ve taken up block space, pu...
3 Mar 202339min
Have Crypto Detectives Killed the Cypherpunk Dream? - Ep. 461
Andy Greenberg, senior writer for WIRED and author of “Tracers in the Dark,” takes us inside the world of crypto-tracing crimebusters and voices the ambivalence of Bitcoin – a cypherpunk creation – er...
28 Feb 20231h 11min
Is Asia Going to Lead the Next Bull Run? - Ep. 460
Emily Parker, CoinDesk’s executive director of global content, joins the show to discuss the Asian crypto markets. From Hong Kong to Tokyo, Parker sees bullish signs in recent developments. Hear why s...
24 Feb 202336min
The Chopping Block: The Inside Story of How Blur Toppled NFT Giant OpenSea - Ep. 459
Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. This week, it’s time for a case study: Special g...
22 Feb 20231h 10min
Just a Coincidence? Coinbase and Polygon Lawyers See Bad Omens in SEC Crackdown - Ep. 458
A settlement with Kraken, a proposed custody rule, and lawsuits against Paxos and Terraform Labs. “This week has been a very long year,” said Polygon Labs Chief Policy Officer Rebecca Rettig. She join...
21 Feb 20231h 9min
