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The record $4.3 billion settlement reached between Binance and the U.S. government over charges of money laundering and sanctions violations calls for the world's largest crypto exchange to maintain an independent compliance monitor for the next five years. Michael Dawson, a partner at WilmerHale, and Dorothy DeWitt, founder and CEO of Tolt Strategies, a former director at the CFTC and former general counsel at Coinbase, discuss the developments.

18 dec 2023

On this episode of Unchained, the founder and CEO of Global Macro Investor, Raoul Pal, describes why a spot bitcoin ETF is such a significant development, likening it to a free trade agreement with the traditional financial world. He also discusses what effect a spot Ether ETF is likely to have on Ether prices, the relative merits of Ether vs. Solana, the usefulness of BRC-20 tokens and why 2024 is likely to be a very good year for crypto and the economy as a whole. 

18 dec 2023

On this episode of Unchained, Anatoly Yakovenko talks about the impact of FTX’s collapse, his early impressions of Sam Bankman-Fried, the SEC’s designation of SOL as a security, how entrepreneurs are leaving the U.S. because of the regulatory risk, SOL’s share of the stablecoin market, and why he thinks it’s inevitable that finance will eventually run on something like Solana.

18 dec 2023

With the 2024 U.S. presidential election less than a year away, candidates Vivek Ramaswamy, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson join the first bipartisan crypto presidential forum organized by the Stand with Crypto Alliance at St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH. The presidential hopefuls discuss their views on the cryptocurrency industry and state of digital asset regulation in the U.S.

11 dec 2023

The GOP presidential candidate also talks about how pegging the dollar to a basket of commodities that could eventually include Bitcoin would help the U.S. economy, and why he hates the idea of a CBDC.

6 dec 2023

Lawrence Zlatkin, VP of Tax at Coinbase, and Shehan Chandrasekera, Head of Tax Strategy at tax software firm CoinTracker, discuss the crypto industry’s specific objections to the proposed new rules, and what might be a better way forward. They also delve into how the regulations would apply to stablecoins and NFTs, potential blockchain-based solutions for the reporting requirements, and what the likely outlook and timeline for the proposals to come into effect are.

6 dec 2023

Algorand Impact Summit, hosted in New Delhi, brings together developers, business leaders, policymakers, NGOs, and investors who see blockchain as part of the solution to the world’s most intractable challenges.

1 dec 2023

On this episode of Unchained, Tiffany Fong shares why she thinks SBF opened up to her, whether she ever had a romantic relationship with him, her unpleasant encounter with Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother at the trial, why she doesn’t really consider herself a crypto influencer and what her plans are now that the trial is over.

30 nov 2023

On this episode of Unchained, Ric Edelman, founder of the Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals and author of “The Truth About Crypto,” explains how this should all lead to high demand once the first spot Bitcoin ETFs become available, although it will take some time for them to allocate.

30 nov 2023

Mohammad AlShamsi, Head of Firearms and Toolmarks Section of the Dubai Police, joins us in the studio to share how blockchain technology is helping combat organized crime. The use of shared, standardized and transparent data can allow the tracing of firearms across boarders to become more easy and accessible.

22 nov 2023