Weekly Roundup 12/18/20 feat. a pseudonymous fixed income trader (Our MSTR mea culpa, are CME futs cursed, what isn't a commodity?) (EP.159)

Matt and Nic return to cover a blockbuster week of ATHs. We invite a pseudonymous bond trader to give a rebuttal to our somewhat misguided take on the Microstrategy bond offering on last week's episode. Also in this episode: 

• Our take on the STABLE Act (again)
• Are balances on the Dunkin and Starbucks apps stablecoins
• Paxos raises a $142m Series C
• SBI acquires B2C2
• The BITW premium explodes
• Ruffer's telling reasons for investing $740m in Bitcoin
• The CME announces ETH futures
• ... three years to the day since the CME Bitcoin Futures launch
• Did the CME futures pop the 2017 Bitcoin bubble?
• We screwed up with our take on the MSTR bond offering
• We revisit the MSTR convertible note
• Who is buying the MSTR fixed income offering?
• Coinbase inches towards an IPO
• ErisX introduces sports-based futures contracts
• Why onions aren't a commodity
• Bitcoin values are American values

Content mentioned: 

• Nic in Coindesk, Nationalizing Stablecoins Won't Improve Financial Access