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Back to EpisodesWeekly Roundup 02/04/22 (Wormhole hack, PoR is back, Boston Fed pilots a CBDC, TX miners shut down) (EP.282)
Episode 282
Published 3 years, 11 months ago
Description
- Tom Brady retires to focus on NFTs
- Was Satoshi interested in altcoins?
- Our thoughts on startups raising 69.420m
- The Solana-Ethereum bridge is hacked for over $300m– and then bailed out by Jump Capital
- Was Vitalik's warning about cross-chain interoperability prophetic?
- Is the cross-chain vision dead?
- Kraken revives their Proof of Reserve – after 7 years
- Why do exchanges avoid Proof of Reserves?
- Bitcoin developers at the MIT DCI are building the Boston Fed's CBDC pilot program
- How whaling was the predecessor to venture capital
- Gamestop launches an NFT marketplace
Content mentioned in this episode:
- MIT News, MIT experts test technical research for a hypothetical central bank digital currency
- Bloomberg, Biggest Texas Bitcoin Miner Shuts Down Ahead of Cold Blast
- Bloomberg Quicktake, This State is Becoming America's Crypto Capital
- Kraken, Proof of Reserves
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