Nic and Matt are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  Wireless outage in the US Russia's space weapons and Rods from God  Will the market like the cubes once again?  Brink nation farcaster update  Our ETH ETF skepticism Circle leaves Tron Revolving door between SEC and biglaw Whip Emmer's letter to the OMB The ECB's very bad, no good Bitcoin blog Reddit hold Bitcoin and ETH  SBF's photoshoot Latest on the 3AC boys The SEC's mysterious ETF correlation analysis Content mentioned in this episode:  ECB, ETF approval for bitcoin – the naked emperor’s new clothes Rep. Emmer letter to OMB over Bitcoin mining data request NYMAG, 'They are very comfortable lying' 3AC update Sponsor notes:  The Coin Metrics Team will be hosting a Data Challenge at ETH Denver! Learn more about the event & register for it here. At the Crossroads: Bitcoin ETFs & Coinbase In Coin Metrics State of the Network Issue 247, we zoom into the latest developments with Bitcoin ETFs and Coinbase Q4 2023 earnings