Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• What are the prospects for dealing with OCP 2.0? • Creditors are considering relaunching FTX int’l • The boundary between being a visionary and a scammer • Nic’s feud against NPR • What’s the deal with the bug eating meme? • Are lobsters bugs? • What happened to the tungsten cube NFTs? • Singapore banks might be warming up to crypto • Hong Kong is red hot as a crypto zone • A new paper alleges the Fed has overstepped its discretionary authority • The Case for Banning Crypto • The US treasury report on DeFi protocols • Apple embeds the Bitcoin whitepaper on all laptops • Nic’s UFC picks and Matt’s golf picks

Content mentioned in the episode:

• Julie Hill, From Cannabis to Crypto: Federal Reserve Discretion in Payments • Politico, U.S. Diplomat to Washington: You’re Becoming Obsolete in One Big Area of Tech Policy • US Treasury, Illicit Finance Risk Assessment of Decentralized Finance • Kathleen Breitman in Fortune, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and why L2 solutions are such a mess