Weekly News Roundup 09/04/20 (Armageddon II, Activist token investors, emergent effects of high fees) (EP.121)

Nic and Matt return with deals and news of the weak. In this episode:

• Nic and Matt happen to buy the same book
• Nic's article on why the US should embrace stablecoins and credibly neutral crypto-financial infrastructure
• Our theory on why NYDFS went after Tether
• Can the US successfully disrupt itself as the administrator of financial infrastructure?
• Coinbase IPO prospects
• Coinshares adds transparency to their Bitcoin ETN and the prospects for Proofs of Reserves
• How Proofs of Reserves can ward off regulation
• Arca takes an activist stance towards Gnosis
• What recourse do jilted tokenholders have?
• Publicly traded energy companies are mining Bitcoin with stranded natural gas
• Matt's suggestion for a Bitcoin-themed sequel to Armageddon
• The single most impactful way you can help Bitcoin
• Nic's theory about the effect of a fee-transaction count oscillation on Ethereum
• How fees are a regressive tax on users

Content mentioned in this episode:

• Nic in Coindesk, The Crypto-dollar Surge and the American Opportunity
• Larry White in Alt-M, Should the US Government Create a Token-based Digital Dollar?
• Electronic Frontier Foundation, It's Past Time for Coinbase to Issue Transparency Reports
• Nic in Coindesk, The Last Word on Bitcoin's Energy Consumption
• Coin Center, Are Regulators Poised to Demand Cryptocurrency Address Whitelisting? Probably Not
• Tyler Winklevoss, The Case for $500k Bitcoin