Weekly Roundup 09/24/21 (Regulators keep talking about Free Banking, Twitter rolls out LN support, Biden's new OCC nominee) (EP.243)

On The Brink with Castle Island

Nic and Matt return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:

• Latest on the infrastructure bill
• The latest on the platinum coin
• Zany things that financial regulators said this week
• Gensler continues to misrepresent the free banking era
• How bad was the wildcat banking era really?
• Why are financial regulators so interested in free banking?
• The SEC and CFTC are nearing the end of their fiscal year
• The prospects for 'pipe to crypto'
• Why miners are participating in 'demand response' programs
• Matt's 20-year-old cereal
• Twitter adds lightning tips and NFT authentication
• Binance is under CFTC investigation
• Biden's new OCC nominee is anti-bank, anti-crypto
• FASB takes comment on GAAP treatment of digital assets

Content mentioned:

• George Selgin on antebellum Free Banking

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