Weekly Roundup 04/07/23 (OCP2.0 remedies, Treasury on DeFi, FTX.com relaunch?) (EP.414)

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

What are the prospects for dealing with OCP 2.0? Creditors are considering relaunching FTX int’l The boundary between being a visionary and a scammer Nic’s feud against NPR What’s the deal with the bug eating meme? Are lobsters bugs? What happened to the tungsten cube NFTs? Singapore banks might be warming up to crypto Hong Kong is red hot as a crypto zone A new paper alleges the Fed has overstepped its discretionary authority The Case for Banning Crypto The US treasury report on DeFi protocols Apple embeds the Bitcoin whitepaper on all laptops Nic’s UFC picks and Matt’s golf picks

Content mentioned in the episode:

Julie Hill, From Cannabis to Crypto: Federal Reserve Discretion in Payments Politico, U.S. Diplomat to Washington: You’re Becoming Obsolete in One Big Area of Tech Policy US Treasury, Illicit Finance Risk Assessment of Decentralized Finance Kathleen Breitman in Fortune, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and why L2 solutions are such a mess