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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
2023-01-17

Luuk Strijers (Deribit) on a New Model for Proof of Reserves (EP.387)

Deribit Chief Commercial Officer Luuk Strijers joins the show to talk about their new Proof of Reser…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2023-01-13

Weekly Roundup 01/13/23 (Nexo raided, crypto charity boxing, DCG vs Gemini II) (EP.386)

Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  What’s happening with Pro…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2023-01-06

Weekly Roundup 01/06/23 (DCG vs Gemini, SBF's plea, India's crypto framework) (EP.385)

Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  A call for on-chain arche…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-12-30

Weekly Roundup 12/30/22 (Avi Eisenberg arrest, weather affects the hashrate, our predictions for 202…

Nic and Matt return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  Galaxy acquires the Helio…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-12-23

Weekly Roundup 12/23/22 (Caroline pleads, SBF is extradited, Visa’s autopayments) (EP.383)

Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  Are stablecoins still a p…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-12-20

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) on FTX, the SEC, and the House Crypto Agenda for 2023 (EP.382)

Minnesota Representative and newly elected House Whip Tom Emmer joins the show for a discussion of t…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-12-16

Weekly Roundup 12/16/22 (SBF Arrest, Binance’s ‘Bank run’, Gensler, FTX, and IEX) (EP.381)

Matt and Nic are back for another wild week of news and deals. In this episode:  Is SBF currently i…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-12-09

Weekly Roundup 12/08/22 (FTX’s Venture Portfolio, SBF’s mining investment, BlockFi retrospective) (E…

Matt and Nic return for another episode of news and deals. In this episode:  Brink Nation’s surpris…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-12-07

John Palmer (CBOE Digital) on Regulated Digital Asset Derivatives (EP.379)

John Palmer, the CEO of CBOE Digital joins the show. In this episode we discuss: John’s career and …
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-12-05

Robert Miller (Flashbots) on Decentralizing Block Building with SUAVE (EP.378)

In this episode, Ria is joined by Robert Miller, Steward at Flashbots, which is a research and devel…
 
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On The Brink with Castle Island
2022-12-01

Weekly Roundup 12/01/22 (Is SBF playing the media, more Bad Boys, Binance’s Proof of Reserve) (EP.37…

Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  Tether collapse scenari…
 
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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 …