Weekly News Roundup 5/8/20 (Paul Tudor Jones, the stablecoin invasion, Cash App's Q1) (EP.77)

Matt and Nic review the top stories of the week in the cryptoasset industry. This week’s topics include:

Renowned commodities investor Paul Tudor Jones announces his intent to trade Bitcoin and releases a Bitcoin thesis NEAR protocol gets funded Are fair launches dead? The under-appreciated merit of PoW issuance Libra's new CEO hire Wyoming's Special-Purpose Depository Institution legislation The privacy-auditability tradeoff in blockchains Whether the growth of stablecoins threatens the security model of public blockchains Thoughts on the imminent halving Our guess of who the next high profile hedge fund investor will be to flip bullish on Bitcoin