US Marshals BTC theft arrest

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

• What Dario Amodei and SBF have in common
• Trump wades in to the market structure debate and asks the banks to come to the table
• Why stablecoins are not like banks
• Kraken Financial gets a skinny Fed master account
• Visa and Bridge are rolling out stablecoin-linked cards
• The FBI arrests a suspect accused of stealing $46m in BTC from the US marshalls
• Morgan Stanley is coming out with their own Bitcoin ETF
• The Aave token governance controversy rumbles on
• Kalshi's traders are upset about their "death market" policy

Content mentioned in this episode:

• The CIV Youtube Channel
• Alpen Labs, Size Matters: Architecting BTC Credit Markets