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Can a DeFi Smart Contract Be Regulated? Two CFTC Commissioners Discuss
CFTC Commissioners Dan Berkovitz and Brian Quintenz discuss the difficulties of regulating crypto derivatives and DeFi. Show highlights: their backgrounds what the CFTC’s duties are regarding crypto how the CFTC’s[…]

Why It Might Be Too Late for Binance to Avoid Regulatory Action
Christine Parker, partner at Reed Smith, summarizes the slew of regulatory headlines facing Binance and how such scrutiny may affect the exchange going forward. Show highlights: which countries are investigating[…]
3 Publicly Traded Crypto Exchanges?
PLUS: More takes on “WTF is an NFT?” There is something fitting about Bitcoin crossing $60k for the first time on March 13, 2021, a year and one day after[…]

Willy Woo on Why It’s ‘an Extremely Great Time to Buy Bitcoin’
Willy Woo, on-chain Bitcoin analyst and writer of “The Bitcoin Forecast,” a market intelligence newsletter, discusses how the Bitcoin markets have been changing amidst what may be a forthcoming ebbing[…]

What You Need to Know About the DOJ’s Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework
Jessie Liu, partner at Skadden and the former US attorney for the District of Columbia, headed up the team that has prosecuted what some believe is the greatest number of[…]

Bitcoin 🐳🚀📈?
+ CFTC Chair Gushes About ETH This week, another big institutional player invested an eye-opening sum in Bitcoin, while BTC’s overall bullish trend shows no signs of slowing down. CFTC[…]

Why ‘Bitcoin Has Never Been Healthier’
Not Ethereum 2.0 but 1.5? This week saw Jack Dorsey’s Square become the second publicly listed company to invest its assets in Bitcoin. Dorsey said the investment is a step[…]

Up to 10 Years in Prison
And the third-largest exchange hack in crypto history This hectic news week in crypto began with the third-largest hack ever of a crypto exchange. The hacker or hackers who attacked[…]

Coinbase in Turmoil: Why Employees Walked Out
Frank Chaparro, director of news at The Block, discusses a controversial blog post by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong about how the company intends to take an apolitical stance, the pushback[…]