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On The Brink with Castle Island. A podcast with interviews, news and perspectives about the blockchain industry. Hosted by Nic Carter and Matt Walsh. https://onthebrink-podcast.com/

OTB Sunday 5k
Not bad at 30 degrees (in NC, usually in LA) and after a week of debauchery in NYC

Agreed folks getting over their skis on BSR, states makes sense.
If BTC is going to catch gold, I imagine gold will appreciate as well so call is actually well over 1m BTC.

Merry Christmas!🎄🎁 🎅
OTB Friday 5k
Staying sub 8 = time to lift heavier

Crypto feeling stronger than ever coming up to the end of the year. Almost too many verticals to keep up with. I’m dialed in on hyper evm and Bitcoin programmability BUT taking a couple weeks to celebrate Xmas with the fam. Have a great holiday season everyone!
OTB Friday 5k

BTC > 100k and I’m < 8min, what a time to be alive. Gold will also keep going up so really need BTC 2-3m to flip

Fun fact, I’m gonna be on a call with CIV later today talking Bitcoin MEV infra!

Interested to see how mashinsky goes. I was at badgerDAO when Celsius was pumping user funds into DeFi protocols for yield just using the app front end. Wild times
SATURDAY OTB 5k
Happy belated Thanksgiving everyone.

Thankful for crypto and thankful for you guys too @mattwalshinbos @nic looking forward to another year of roundups and runs.
As political will (maybe) arcs towards truth and reconciliation for OCP 2.0 why don’t we just go after Warren?

I mean who cares about the rank and file paper pushers

”If you come at the king you better not miss” but IMO “missing” has been derisked

This should be her legacy
My new favorite part of the pod is when the theme song fades out and Matt EXPLODES in to the intro as Jeff Cox's "and out of this worry we have something called a Bitcoin ... Bitcoin" echoes in the background
Brink nation may have jinxed BTC adding a comma in 2024; but here, take this beta wave enhanceoooor in 4k to build to: https://youtu.be/-S7HekcFsmo?si=HH17NJSPmLWgCZCF
Friday OTB 5K
Strong draft. Didn’t know like half those people but good luck to them in their future coiner ventures. 🫡

Also going to be hilarious if we hang out at 99k for the next 3 months. Can we get a draft a week until we actually break 100?
About to start my commute home with brink nation as the copilot, I sure hope @nic mentions that @arkhamintel announced this week they will be launching an exchange as it will be interesting how the tech offers dynamic POR monitoring as it's our boys fav topic
Friday OTB 5k
Tracking close, next move is to get under 8min miles.

Need trump to come up with some new cabinet post like “department of cryptographic assets” or something, get @nic an official post.

No notes, probably just bull posting for the next 9 months. Happy Friday!
Maybe I’m misremembering but it does seem odd that as a tech centered show All In didn’t talk much about Chokepoint 2.0, crypto’s influence on certain races or the election in general, and IIRC at least Jason was pretty dismissive of @nic on OCP2.0
Kudos to Nic for posting such a personal piece with commentary on the election

https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1854573289475104867
OTB Friday 5k
Feeling lighter, maybe it’s the boot off the neck

Downside of republicans taking it all is now they have no excuses to not do what they promised. Guess we’ll see how it plays out.

Feels like week 1 of the real 24-25 bull.

LFG!!!!
OTB Friday 5k

Back under 8:30. Grinding back

Imo it would make sense for prediction market to track higher than polls. Let’s say the poll is 80/20. That essentially means 100%. So I would expect polls and prediction markets to be close at the middle but markets to move further as a market diverges from 50/50
Friday OTB 5k
Slow road back to 8m miles

BTCfi is going to be big in the next 6-12 months imo. Motoswap, TAP, and others launching soon, you guys doing much in that space?
Satoshi mystery is the best mystery

Only behind ultimate ones- why the universe exists and origin of life

Off the dome, other mysteries are Bronze Age collapse/Dark Age (the mysterious Sea People?), were Atlantis and Troy real?

More recent the fate of DB Cooper, the Zodiac Killer, and other unsolved crimes etc
Friday OTB 5k
Getting over 2 weeks of bronchitis, happy to finish without vomiting up a lung.

Satoshi has to be the biggest person focused mystery (not aliens, pyramids, ancient technologies, etc).

The fact it was pulled off in the modern age is astounding.

If I had to bet I’d say Hal Finney, just because it’s the cleanest. Lab leak #2
Does Nic have any comments on David Hoffman fighting Kain Warwick
@micsolana is reading me @nic Silvergate curb stomp article on /piratewires

i love 2024 :)
Bravo @nic on the Silvergate article today