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Weekly Roundup 03/04/22 (Sanctions chaos, Ukraine's crypto fundraiser, remonetizing gold, web3 geofencing) (EP.293)
On The Brink with Castle Island
English - March 04, 2022 11:00 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsInvesting Business Technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Nic and Matt return for another wild week. In this episode:
OTB theme music controversy Is Bitcoin a risk off asset Ukraine raises crypto to fund the war effort Why Ukrainians were better positioned to deal with a banking sector failure The U.S. cuts Russia out of SWIFT (mostly) Can the U.S. pull the SWIFT deplatforming again? Will gold be remonetized? Metamask, Infura, and Opensea are banned in Iran and Venezuela Why the cost of running a full node matters Can NFTs be securities? Is Russia evading sanctions with crypto? Powell’s comment on multiple reserve currenciesContent mentioned:
JP Schnapper-Casteras in the New Atlanticist, Here’s why crypto won’t save the Kremlin from sanctions Jon Sindreu in the WSJ, If Russian Currency Reserves Aren’t Really Money, the World Is in for a ShockSponsor notes:
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