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Citadel's Ken Griffin brutally chastises SEC Chair Gary Gensler over crypto regulations. Attorney John Deaton has filed a motion letter asking the judge in the SEC Ripple case to let him write a brief on behalf of the 67,300 XRP holders. Biden Administration wants Crypto Exchanges to separate customer and corporate funds.Sponsors
New Republican bill would protect crypto investments in retirement accounts via Fidelity's Bitcoin 401k service. Ripple's Stuart Alderoty and LBRY call out SEC hypocrisy. Charles Hoskinson Interview - https://youtu.be/Hj9w-fK7mWoCongressman Byron Donalds interview - https://youtu.be/73AeD9KWEGQSponsors
Charles Hoskinson is the founder of Cardano (ADA). In this interview we discuss the latest updates with Cardano such as Wave Financial Launching ADA Yield Fund to Support Cardano's DeFi Ecosystem Growth, Wingriders DEX, Wanchain integration, ERC-20 converter tool, Twitter space with Snoop Dogg, ISO20022 Plans, President Biden's crypto executive order, crypto regulations, SEC Ripple lawsuit, Tweet at Vitalik Buterin.Sponsors
Ripple is committing $100 million to invest in carbon markets and boost building on the XRP ledger. Ripple's CEO Brad Garlinghouse weighs in. $500 billion Swiss bank Julius Baer to offer bitcoin and crypto services. FTX exchange launches commission-free stock trading without payment for order flow. Propy has launched US licensed Escrow and Title services on blockchain! Sponsors
Ric Edelman is the #1 Independent Financial Advisor in the country and is the author of the new book "The Truth About Crypto". Ric discusses his new book, Bitcoin in 401ks, crypto regulations, President Biden's crypto executive order, the latest updates around the two groups he founded Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals and the Funding Our Future Coalition and more.The Truth About Crypto book on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3MszKdzSponsors
Gensler tells Congress that the SEC is 'really out-personed' on crypto. Big updates around the SEC Ripple XRP lawsuit. Ripple will launch ODL in Lithuania. Legalizing Bitcoin and crypto in Russia is just a matter of when. – Minister of Industry and Trade. Aave's decentralized Social Media platform arrives on Polygon. A16z launches first Gaming Fund with $600M commitment.Sponsors
China has returned as the second-largest Bitcoin mining hub, with 21.1% of the total global BTC mining hash rate. Ledger is adding a browser extension on Safari called Ledger Connect that will allow users of Ledger hardware wallets to easily connect with Web 3 applications. Investors withdraw over $7 billion from tether, raising fresh fears about stablecoin's backing. Terraform's legal team has reportedly resigned following the $UST crash. The Jump Crypto-backed cross-chain bridge Wormhole has launched support for the Algorand blockchain.Sponsors
FTX CEO says Bitcoin has no future as a payments network. Terra LUNA sells 80,000 Bitcoin. Dawn Capital, Goldman Sachs plow $70M into crypto infrastructure provider. Sponsors
Joe Endoso is the COO at Linqto. We discuss how Linqto makes private equity investing in crypto companies easy, building a payments solution on the XRP ledger, crypto adoption and growth, crypto regulations, and more.Sponsors
Congressman Pete Sessions talks Texas's embrace of Bitcoin mining, cryptocurrency, and blockchain. We also discuss US crypto regulations, CBDCs, and more.Sponsor
Greg Dickerson talks about the current state of the markets with Crypto, Stocks, and Real Estate. We also discuss the Fed and Interest Rate hikes, Terra LUNA UST collapse, Economic outlook, investment strategies and more.Sponsors
Janet Yellen talks Terra LUNA's stablecoin UST collapse and the need for crypto regulations. Citadel appears to be behind the collapse of UST stablecoin in a massive short. Australia's first bitcoin spot ETF to list Thursday after 2-week delay. Hivemind Cap and Algorand today announced the acquisition of Napster.Sponsor
Bitcoin and Altcoins crash as fear hits the crypto market. $508 million has been liquidated from the cryptocurrency market in the past 24 hours. What will happen next? LUNA stablecoin UST de pegs from the dollar. El Salvador buys the dip, acquiring 500 Bitcoin. Non-fungible tokens from some of the most popular blockchain networks for crypto art are coming to Instagram with the announcement of a pilot as soon as Monday.Sponsors
Gareth Soloway is the Chief Market Strategist at InTheMoneyStocks.com and VerifiedInvestingCrypto.com. In this interview Gareth talks about the Fed's .50% interest rate hikes on Bitcoin, Crypto, and Stocks.Sponsors
In the cryptocurrency news today California governor issues executive order on crypto as state embraces blockchain technology, Elon Musk tweets about bored ape NFTs, SEC boosts enforcement unit, Ripple release Q1 XRP report, Fed increases interest rates by .50%.Ron Hammond interview - https://youtu.be/IOkJE4y2aW8Sponsors
Ron Hammond of the Blockchain Association talks the latest crypto regulation news which includes the SEC vs CFTC for crypto regulations, SEC doubling its Enforcement Unit, Senator Cynthia Lummis cryptocurrency bill, 401K bill, California's Executive Order on crypto and more.Sponsors
Delubac & Cie becomes the first bank in France to offer Bitcoin & Ethereum trading and crypto custody services. The Swiss National Bank (SNB) isn't currently interested in holding bitcoin (BTC), but could move quickly to do so at some point, said Chairman Thomas Jordan. SEC Gary Gensler gets called out by Congressman Tom Emmer. Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart plans web3 expansion.Congressman Byron Donalds interview - https://youtu.be/73AeD9KWEGQ
Goldman Sachs has offered its first Bitcoin backed loan. Panama approved Bitcoin and crypto law. JPMorgan's crypto veteran Christine Moy joins investment firm Apollo. Judge Torres has updated the timeline in the SEC Ripple XRP lawsuit. New regulation proposal for CFTC to take control of crypto exchanges away from the SEC.
What's next for Ripple and XRP? Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Bloomberg interview.
Fidelity plans to let investors put a bitcoin account in their 401(k)s—the first major retirement-plan provider to do so. MicroStrategy (MSTR) plans to offer its employees access to bitcoin (BTC) retirement plays through Fidelity's new bitcoin 401(k) service. Fort Worth, Texas, becomes the first city government in the US to mine Bitcoin. Three former traditional finance executives have teamed up to form the latest cryptocurrency exchange targeting institutional investors. Sponsors
Elon Musk acquires Twitter which has Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and the crypto market pumping. Elon's acquisition could be big for crypto and web3 adoption. Bitcoin mining council releases q1 2022 results. Kraken crypto exchange gets UAE license.Sponsors
The Central African Republic has unanimously passed a bill to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. Grayscale makes fresh push for SEC approval to become bitcoin ETF. Fidelity Investments has opened an eight-story building in the Decentraland metaverse. The SEC ripple xrp lawsuit timeline will not affect Flare and songbird.Sponsors
The SEC Ripple XRP lawsuit potential settlement is being pushed to 2023. Alien Director Ridley Scott to work on a movie about Ethereum. USDC is integrated with Stripe which will be used on Twitter.Sponsors
A Wall Street vet launching a crypto VC firm. Goldman Sachs wants to “forge closer ties” with Bitcoin exchange FTX. Goldman Sachs expects Apple to launch its Metaverse product in early 2023. Bitcoin's Lightning Network is "more practical" for small payments than a debit card – Morgan Stanley. Tesla hasn't sold any of its Bitcoin and could buy more.Sponsors
Kai Leroy is the co-founder and CEO of onXRP and XPUNKS. In this interview we discuss Kaj's background, XPUNKs, future plans for building on the XRP Ledger and much more.https://twitter.com/xrplpunkshttps://twitter.com/onxrpdotcomhttps://onxrp.com/https://xpunks.club/Sponsors
Australia's first Bitcoin ETF set to be launched next week with $1 billion expected to flow into it. Robinhood acquires British crypto firm Ziglu to push expansion plans. KuCoin-backed companies launch $100M Web3 developer fund. Venture capital firm Framework Ventures has raised $400 million for a fund focused on investing in early-stage startups involved in some of the crypto industry's frothiest sectors.Chris Giancarlo interview - https://youtu.be/i2yZ3kGV6mQBrett Harrison FTX interview - https://youtu.be/Y2bzSkODo-g
Former CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo (CryptoDad) talks about the latest updates on the Digital Dollar project and launch of CBDC pilots with the DTCC via project Lithium. We also discuss could a stablecoin such as Circle's USDC be used as a CBDC. In addition we discuss President Biden's Crypto executive order, Ukraine crypto adoption, Russia and sanctions evasion via cryptocurrency.Privacy Principles for a Digital Dollar:https://digitaldollarproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DDP-Privacy-Principles-10.25.21_Final.pdfDigital Dollar Project White Paperhttp://digitaldollarproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Digital-Dollar-Project-Whitepaper_vF_7_13_20.pdf
One economist says crypto & gold will go higher if the Fed raises its inflation target from 2% to 3%. Snoop Dogg & Clay Nation launch an NFT collection on the Cardano blockchain. Congressional members send SEC Gary Gensler a letter raising concerns with the impact of recent SEC rulemakings on the digital asset ecosystem, including DeFi. A month after closing its last deal, Canada-based decentralized finance company WonderFi Technologies has announced plans to purchase Coinberry, another regulated cryptocurrency exchange. Pantera to close Blockchain Fund soon after raising $1.3B — double the target.
Will the Crypto market pump this week as Tax selloff ends? Fidelity launches crypto and metaverse ETFs, Russia crypto regulations, FTX crypto bahamas event speakers.
David Schwartz is the CTO at Ripple and in this interview we discuss the XLS-20 update which will enable NFTs to be built at scale on the XRP Ledger, Ripple ODL, CBDCs on Private Ledgers, SEC Lawsuit, Biden Crypto Executive Order, Polysign, Flare SongBird, Elon Musk Twitter and Free Speech, and much more.