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  <title>Weekly Roundup 08/18/23 (Stablecoins offshoring, Better Markets oddity, more Prometheum) (EP.444)</title>
  <description>Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:&amp;amp;nbsp;  Geographic distribution for USDC v USDT Blockchains have become dollarized What’s the deal with Helium’s phone plan? SBF heads to jail We inaugurate a new member of the bad boys Dubai regulators fines OPNX What’s up with Argentina’s Libertarian presidential candidate? We need a new theme song for the SEC The Prometheum saga rumbles on What’s going on with Better Markets? Coinbase can now offer Bitcoin and ETH futures FTX and Genesis reach a settlement  Content mentioned in this episode:&amp;amp;nbsp;  Brooke Masters in the FT, When Tackling Crypto, the SEC Should Be Wary of Overreach Kristin Smith in Coindesk,&amp;amp;nbsp;The FIT Act Is the Most Comprehensive Crypto Regulation Ever Voted on by Congress  Sponsor notes:&amp;amp;nbsp;  Coin Metrics STATE OF THE NETWORK —  From East to West: the Global Pulse of Stablecoin Transactions In Coin Metrics State of the Network Issue 220, we leverage seasonality analysis to reveal geographical trends in Stablecoin usage and volumes  </description>
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