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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
2022-08-19

Weekly Roundup 08/19/22 (Treasury Activated Soft Fork, Coinbase vs Vitalik, do BTC miners censor?) (…

Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  NYMag writes a long piece…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-08-15

Uddhav Marwaha (Friktion Labs) on Building Durable Portfolios through DeFi (EP.340)

In this episode, Uddhav Marwaha, co-founder and CEO of Friktion Labs, joins us to discuss Friktion's…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-08-12

Weekly Roundup 08/12/22 (Tornado Cash OFAC'd, Dai reconsiders USDC, Merge scheduled) (EP.339)

 Matt and Nic return for another week of deals and news. In this episode:  Underwhelming Taproot ad…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-08-12

Weekly Roundup 08/12/22 (Tornado Cash OFAC'd, Dai reconsiders USDC, Merge scheduled) (EP.339)

 Matt and Nic return for another week of deals and news. In this episode:  Underwhelming Taproot ad…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-08-05

Weekly Roundup 08/05/22 (BlackRock jumps in, CFTC oversight bill, ETH PoW forks?) (EP.338)

Matt and Nic return for another week of deals and news. In this episode:  Is there any hope for ETH…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-07-29

Weekly Roundup 07/29/22 (Physical NFTs, SEC investigates Coinbase, Stablecoin Legislation) (EP.337)

Matt and Nic return for news and deals of the week. In this episode:  Damien Hirst's physical NFT p…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-07-28

Itai Turbahn and Yoni Goldberg (Dynamic) on wallet-based logins (EP.336)

Itai Turbahn and Yoni Goldberg, the founders of Dynamic join the show. In this episode we discuss: …
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-07-22

Weekly Roundup 07/22/22 (More insider trading, SEC regulates via enforcement, more 3AC shenanigans) …

Matt and Nic return for news and deals of the week. In this episode:  Inert ETH from the crowdsale?…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-07-15

Weekly Roundup 07/15/22 (Celsius files Chapter 11, 3AC not cooperating, Circle clarifies USDC reserv…

Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  Stablecoin actives outpac…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-07-08

Weekly Roundup 07/08/22 (Voyager files for Chap. 11, 3AC files Chap. 15, EU agrees on MiCA regulatio…

Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  USDC gains ground on USDT…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-07-07

Dave Balter and Jim Myers (Flipside Crypto) on NFTs and on-chain data (EP.332)

Dave Balter and Jim Myers, the founders of Flipside Crypto join the show. In this episode we discuss…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-07-01

Weekly Roundup 07/01/22 (GBTC ETF denied, Bitcoin rationalism, CoinFLEX) (EP.331)

Matt and Nic return for the news and deals in another tumultuous week.  Matt is snubbed by Coin Met…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-06-27

Blake King on How Grids can Accommodate Bitcoin Mining (EP.330)

Blake King, power markets engineer at Galaxy, formerly of Oak Ridge national lab and ERCOT, joins us…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-06-24

Zac Prince (BlockFi) on Navigating Through the Storm (EP.329)

Matt Walsh sits down with BlockFi CEO Zac Prince to cover turmoil in the crypto lending markets and …
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-06-24

Weekly Roundup 06/24/22 (FTX steps in, 3AC postmortem, fraying DeFi governance) (EP.328)

Matt and Nic return for a fiery episode of deals and news. In this episode:  Is miner selling backe…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-06-20

Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny (Starkware) on Scalability with STARKs (EP.327)

In this episode, host Ria sits down with the co-founders of Starkware, Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolod…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-06-17

Weekly Roundup 06/17/22 (Celsius chaos, Market contagion, the Fed's Quandary) (EP.326)

Nic and Matt are back for a truly chaotic week in the markets. In this episode:  Is DeFi's transpar…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-06-17

Weekly Roundup 06/17/22 (Celsius chaos, Market contagion, the Fed's Quandary) (EP.326)

Nic and Matt are back for a truly chaotic week in the markets. In this episode:  Is DeFi's transpar…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-06-10

Weekly Roundup 06/10/22 (What's in the Lummis bill, NY State mining ban, Custodia sues the Fed) (EP.…

Nic and Matt are back for news and deals of the week. In this episode:  Greetings from a very hot C…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-06-10

Weekly Roundup 06/10/22 (What's in the Lummis bill, NY State mining ban, Custodia sues the Fed) …

Nic and Matt are back for news and deals of the week. In this episode:  Greetings from a very hot C…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-06-03

Weekly Roundup 06/03/22 (Insider trading in NFTs, takeaways from Oslo, Biden wants to lower BTC emis…

The original roundup cast return for a covid-stricken episode. In this roundup:  The boys are laid …
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-05-31

Andrew Cahill and Saurabh Deshpande (The Block) on Ethereum L2 Scaling (EP.323)

Andrew Cahill and Saurabh Deshpande of The Block join the show. In this episode we discuss: The Eth…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-05-27

Weekly Roundup 05/27/22 feat. Dan Matuszewski (VC dry powder, FTX' CFTC proposal, more Tether co…

Matt returns with CMS Holdings' Dan Matuszewski, filling in for Nic, covering deals and news of the …
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-05-27

Weekly Roundup 05/27/22 feat. Dan Matuszewski (VC dry powder, FTX' CFTC proposal, more Tether concer…

Matt returns with CMS Holdings' Dan Matuszewski, filling in for Nic, covering deals and news of the …