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On The Brink with Castle Island

Hosts Matt Walsh and Nic Carter of Castle Island Ventures explore the political, ethical, and economic significance of Bitcoin and other public blockchains and talk to some of the leading experts in the industry. Learn more and stay up to date at CastleIsland.vc and follow on twitter @CastleIslandVC
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-11-30

Mahesh Ramakrishnan (Escape Velocity) on Decentralized Wireless (EP.376)

Mahesh Ramakrishnan of Escape Velocity joins the show. In this episode we discuss: Mahesh’s career …
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-11-28

Mike Belshe (BitGo) on FTX and the impact on crypto market structure (EP.375)

Mike Belshe, co-founder and CEO of BitGo joins the show. In this episode we discuss: Mike’s thought…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-11-24

Weekly Roundup 11/24/22 (SBF is at large, DCG’s fate, what we are thankful for) (EP.374)

Matt and Nic return for a Thanksgiving episode of OTB. In this episode:  Liz Warren writes her firs…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-11-21

Travis Scher on the FTX impact on Crypto VC (EP.373)

Travis Scher, co-founder of North Island Ventures joins the show. In this episode we discuss: Travi…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-11-18

Weekly Roundup 11/17/22 (John Ray’s FTX filing, will FTX political contributions be repaid, what’s w…

Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode: Matt’s blog post, ‘It’s Ti…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-11-17

Garrett Weaver (Juke) on Digital Collectibles (EP.371)

Garrett Weaver, the co-founder and CEO of Juke joins the show. In this episode we discuss: Garrett’…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-11-10

Weekly Roundup 11/10/22 (FTX fiasco, Su Zhu and Do attempt comebacks, Proof of Reserves redemption) …

Nic and Matt return for one of the craziest weeks in crypto history. In this episode:  Coin Metrics…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-11-08

Josh Schwartz and Dima Kogan (FORDEFI) on Building Institutional Custody for DeFi (EP.369)

Josh Schwartz and Dima Kogan, co-founders of Fordefi, join the show. In this episode we discuss: MP…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-11-04

Weekly Roundup 11/04/22 (Fidelity Crypto Launches, Alameda’s balance sheet, SDNY looks at Tether) (E…

Matt and Nic return for another week of deals and news. In this episode:  Bitwise is moving into ac…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-11-01

Jeff Park (Bitwise) on Active Management in Crypto (EP.367)

Jeff Park, an active Portfolio Manager at Bitwise joins the show. In this episode we discuss: The s…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-10-31

Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee (CoreWeave) on Building an Industrial Scale GPU Cloud (EP.366)

CoreWeave's Brian Venturo (CTO) and Brannin McBee (CSO) return to On The Brink for a discussion of t…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-10-28

Roundup 10/28/22 (Bitcoin’s hashrate spike, Miner insolvencies, Lightning v Rollups) (EP.365)

Matt and Nic are back for another week of deals and news. In this episode:  Full time crypto haters…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-10-24

Mike Cahill (Pyth) on Solving the Oracle Problem (EP.364)

Mike Cahill, Director of the Pyth Data Association joins the show. In this episode we discuss: The …
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-10-21

Weekly Roundup 10/21/22 (Aptos launch, crypto vigilantes, FTX’s regulatory draft) (EP.363)

Matt and Nic return for news and deals of the week. In this episode:  Why USDC is suffering redempti…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-10-17

Blake King (Galaxy Digital) on Mining, Transmission, and Curtailment (EP.362)

For another episode of the mining miniseries, Nic sits down with Blake King, power markets engineer …
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-10-14

Weekly Roundup 10/13/22 (FASB accounting rules update, Warren’s letter to Texas, Howey’s orange grov…

Matt and Nic are back for another week of deals and news. In this episode:  What is XEN and why is …
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-10-12

Rob Behnke (Halborn) on Public Blockchain Cybersecurity (EP.360)

Rob Behnke, co-founder and CEO of Halborn joins the show. In this episode we discuss: Rob’s career …
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-10-10

Jon Charbonneau (Delphi Digital) on Building for Censorship Resistance (EP.359)

In this episode, Ria sits down with Jon Charbonneau from Delphi Digital to discuss layers of potenti…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-10-07

Weekly Roundup 10/07/22 (Gensler’s theatrics, tokenization picks up, MKR buys Treasuries) (EP.358)

Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  Kim Kardashian settles …
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-10-05

Vivek Raman (BitOoda) on Second Order Effects of the Merge (EP.357)

Vivek Raman, Head of Proof of Stake at BitOoda joins the show. In this episode we discuss: Vivek’s …
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-10-03

Alexandra DaCosta and David Yi (Aspen Creek) on a New Model for Renewable Mining (EP.356)

Alexandra DaCosta (CEO) and David Yi (Chief Commercial Officer) join the show to talk about Aspen Cr…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-09-30

Weekly Roundup 09/30/22 (CFTC comes after Ooki/bZX, the Fed abandons CFTC ambitions, the convenience…

Matt and Nic return for news and deals of the week. In this episode: What caused the Pound Sterling…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-09-28

Sergey Gorbunov (Axelar) on Blockchain Interoperability (EP.354)

Sergey Gorbunov, co-founder of Axelar joins the show. In this episode we discuss: Sergey’s path to …
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-09-26

Christine Kim (Galaxy Research) on the merge and what comes next (EP.353)

In this episode, Christine Kim from Galaxy Research joins us to discuss the Ethereum Merge and prosp…