Matt and Nic are back for another rocky week in the markets. In this episode:
- Our thoughts on the Chinese mining situation
- Is Sichuan being spared the crackdown?
- Why Bitcoin's hashrate may not recover for a while
- Why China is cracking down on mining now
- How China's ultra-high voltage transmission is affecting mining policy
- How is miner selling influencing price?
- Our remaining China grey swans
- Our theories on the relationship between price and hashrate
- The SEC settles another ICO from 2017
- Our analysis of the NYDIG/ core banking provider integrations
- Why social graph portability is so important
- Taleb writes a bad bitcoin paper
- Bitcoin still has a GBTC overhang
Content mentioned in the episode:
- Nic in Coindesk, Go West, Bitcoin! Unpacking the Great Hashrate Migration
- NYDIG/FIS press release
- Rebuttals to Taleb's paper on Bitcoin
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