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In the weekly roundup episode of Blockworks’ podcast “On the Margin,” Michael Ippolito, co-founder, sits down with Senior Editor Tyler Neville to talk about the news in macro, including: Elon announces that Tesla will stop allowing customers to pay in Bitcoin, the US Department of Justice and IRS look into Binance, and Stan Druckenmiller predicts the currency will lose reserve status in 15 years.

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