Weekly Roundup 02/04/22 (Wormhole hack, PoR is back, Boston Fed pilots a CBDC, TX miners shut down) (EP.282)

• 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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