This Week on Unchained: A Crypto Skeptic, Why Grayscale Is Suing the SEC, and a Bonus Chopping Block
Not Just FTX: One Skeptic’s Take on Why Crypto Is a Scam
James Block, author of the Dirty Bubble Media newsletter, rose to prominence with a timely post predicting FTX’s insolvency. The blogger, a doctor by day, explains why he sees crypto as an unregulated morass of would-be securities and outright “Ponzi schemes.”
Why Grayscale Is Suing the SEC Over Its Denial of a Bitcoin ETF
Michael Sonnenshein, CEO of Grayscale Investments, gives an overview of his firm’s case against the SEC, which has denied requests to turn Grayscale’s bitcoin trust into an exchange-traded fund (ETF).
The Chopping Block: Will Genesis Creditors Be Made Whole?
Early this week, Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra covered why the markets were up so much recently, how and why Genesis entered into bankruptcy, and more.
The Chopping Block: Why the Once-Taboo MEV Is Now a Core Part of Ethereum
It’s your lucky week - you got a double-chop! This time, Flashbots co-founder Phil Daian joins the show to go deep on what maximal extractable value (MEV) means and how it’s shaping the Ethereum ecosystem.
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