JPMorgan Discusses $600B in Potential New Bitcoin Demand
Today on the Brief: First COVID-19 vaccines roll out in the U.S. Are IPOs the new ICOs? U.S. Treasury and other federal departments hacked Our main discussion: A massive new category of bitcoi...
15 Dec 202014min
How Much Debt Can a Country Handle?
This week’s edition of Long Reads Sunday is a reading of “How Much Debt Is Too Much?” by Raghuram Rajan on Project Syndicate. In it, the author explores the shifting conventional wisdom on national d...
13 Dec 202011min
The Bitcoin Banking Battle Heats Up
On this edition of the weekly recap, NLW looks at the brewing battle to be the bitcoin and crypto bank of the future. He looks at three stories reporting banks getting into crypto (BBVA, Standard Char...
12 Dec 202010min
Why a Massive 169-Year-Old Insurance Company Just Bought $100M in Bitcoin
Today on the Brief: FDA panel recommends Pfizer vaccine approval as initial jobless claims soar Antitrust lawsuit calls for Facebook breakup Crypto-friendly CFTC chairman to resign at the beginnin...
12 Dec 202014min
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on a Bitcoin ETF, Custody Rules and What's Next for the SEC
Hester Peirce is a commissioner at the Securities Exchange Commission, sworn in for her second term in August. Sometimes referred to as “Crypto Mom,” Peirce has been a fierce advocate for the indust...
11 Dec 202020min
The Most Important Trends and People Shaping Crypto 2020, With Ryan Selkis
What were the most important trends? Who were the most important people? Was it the year of Bitcoin Macro, the year of DeFi or both? Ryan Selkis is the founder and CEO of Messari. Each year he puts t...
10 Dec 20201h 2min
MicroStrategy Is Raising Another $400M to Buy BTC
Today on the Brief: BBVA set to offer crypto trading and custody Wells Fargo discusses bitcoin in recent investor memo Square launches Bitcoin Clean Energy Initiative with $10 million Our main ...
9 Dec 202017min
China's Latest Digital Currency Trial Is Its Most Important Yet
Today on the Brief: COVID-19 vs. Stimulus Small hedge funds outperform large brethren Equities now worth 115% of global GDP Our main discussion: Why the newest trial of China’s central bank d...
8 Dec 202013min
