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Following a court ruling, the SEC must review its denial of Grayscale Investments' attempt to convert GBTC into an ETF, possibly opening the door to the first U.S. spot bitcoin ETF.
In today's episode of "Money Reimagined," Sheila Warren takes the stage solo, delving into the day's updates on the court ruling. She seamlessly transitions into an insightful conversation about the FX market alongside Alex McDougall, CEO of Stablecorp. Stabecorp is a Canadian-based company that has created the Canadian dollar-backed stablecoin QCAD.
Disclaimer: Grayscale and CoinDesk share the same parent company, Digital Currency Group (DCG).Links mentioned in the show.
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Court Rules SEC Must Review Rejection of Grayscale's Bitcoin ETF Bid, Bitcoin Jumps 5%
Bitcoin Jumps 5% on Grayscale Ruling, While Crypto-Related Stocks Soar More Than 10%
The Seven Defining Opportunities in “On-Chain” FX
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Hurricane Idalia hits Florida. Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced for seditious conspiracy in the January 6th attack. Mutiny in Gabon. The FBI takes down a notorious hacking network. Correspondent Steve Kathan has these stories and more on Wednesday's World News Roundup:
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Tesla has spurred the EV revolution around the world, most notably in China. So why is the US so far behind on EV adoption, when it's the birthplace of Tesla? What went wrong here?
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Hello from three far-flung cities!
This week, we’re joined by our pal Vinson Cunningham, staff writer and theatre critic for The New Yorker.
After briefly interrogating Jay’s recent pivot to dad-hiker fashion (pic for subscribers only), we hear Vinson’s take on the Trump mugshot. [4:05] The image gets us talking about aesthetic self-perception, the celebrity accused in popular culture, and the lack of a good analysis of Trump’s true appeal. [41:45] Next, we discuss last week’s G.O.P. primary debate, which causes Jay to confront what fascinates him about Vivek Ramaswamy, Tammy to question her EMILYs List impulses, and Vinson to call b******t on right-wing claims of populism.
In this episode, we ask:
How does the Trump mugshot, a visual anomaly in the history of presidential imagery, reflect on our political system? What’s the value of similar pix in countries where former leaders are regularly imprisoned?
Is there any ceiling on this Trump thing?
Why didn’t the G.O.P. primary debate feature more culture-war talk?
For more, see:
* Vinson’s recent piece about the Trump mugshot, plus older ruminations on presidential imagery:
* From 2017: Pete Souza and the Politics of Looking at Barack Obama
* From 2018: The Politics of Race and the Photo That Might Have Derailed Obama
* Jay’s recent articles about integration in Shaker Heights, Ohio and Vivek Ramaswamy’s debate performance
* A Q&A by Isaac Chotiner (apols for the New Yorker plugs) about the constitutional case for barring Trump from the presidency
* Previous TTSG episodes featuring Vinson:
* “Tár,” a film for the chattering class (February 2023)
* "Mare of Easttown" special impromptu episode! (May 2021)
* Vinson Cunningham on the NBA, Yang, and IRL theatre (May 2021)
And pre-order Vinson’s forthcoming novel!
* Out of respect for our many repeat guests, we note that this episode marks Vinson’s fourth TTSG appearance, which ties him with Hua Hsu and Jenny Wang Medina.
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Three months into the counteroffensive, the military is reaping the fruits of several months of drone development. But as the war continues, will it be able to scale up its capacity and outpace Russia? New international laws cracking down on Caribbean tax havens seem to be working (10:03). And politicians reignite an old debate on official language use in Spain (17:21).
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Dor Laor lives North of Tel Aviv, Israel, but travels 4 times out of the year to the states. He loves tech, which drives 200% of his day. Outside of tech, he is married with two teenage kids, and enjoys extreme sports. At the time, he does snowboarding and mountain biking, mentioning that the best place to mountain bike was a ski resort in France. He would love to do surfing, but hasn't found the time to hit the waves around Israel.
Dor and his co-founder met long ago at another startup. Post acquisition, they listed ideas of what to start building next. They decided to build an operating system like to Linux, and noticed that databases still didn't run faster within their system. They decided to tackle distributed NoSQL databases instead.
This is the creation story of ScyllaDB.
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