Weekly Roundup 09/17/21 (Fidelity's spot ETF plea, Solana goes down, Are Bitcoiners cosplayers?) (EP.242)

On The Brink with Castle Island

Matt and Nic return to recap a tumultuous week. In this episode:

• Matt's ongoing war against the turkeys
• Fidelity thinks the SEC should approve a spot ETF
• The Futures based Bitcoin ETFs are nearing approval
• The SEC stonewalling an ETF is a political choice
• The OpenSea insider scandal
• Elizabeth Warren's critiques of the industry get more and more specific and niche
• Do we event want to know which tokens are securities according to the SEC?
• Ripple is asking the SEC to compare them to Ethereum
• Solana goes down for 17h
• Our interaction with a blockchain fraudster
• The NYT doesn't understand cryptography
• Are Bitcoiners cosplayers?
• The Epic games v Apple case has implications for the crypto industry

Content mentioned:

• Fidelity's Wise Origin Bitcoin ETF presentation to the SEC on Sep. 8

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