Weekly Roundup 05/02/25 (OP_RETURN wars, Mastercard and Visa push stables, quantum revisited) (EP.618)

Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode: 

• Will stablecoins disrupt credit cards?
• The US Treasury Advisory Committee drops a report on stablecoins
• Mastercard and Visa launch stablecoin integrations
• Movement labs has more scandals
• Are quantum timelines accelerating?
• The real risk of quantum to Bitcoin
• Could a quantum break fix Bitcoin’s security budget?
• Are any Bitcoin purists left?
• Circle turns down Ripple’s acquisition offer
• Machinsky is facing a 20-year sentence
• Arizona passes an SBR bill 
• Cambridge releases a new report on bitcoin mining
• Bitcoiners are fighting about OP_RETURN again 
• What is Bittensor 

Content mentioned:

• US Treasury, Report on Digital Money
• Coindesk, Inside Movement’s Token-Dump Scandal: Secret Contracts, Shadow Advisers and Hidden Middlemen
• Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance, Cambridge Digital Mining Industry Report: Global Operations, Sentiment, and Energy Use