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January 26, 2023

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We slept in yesterday and forgot to send of yesterday's scroll. At the end of the day we are human but good news is we made up for it by having a Thursday edition!

  • Cardano had a node outage (CD)

  • US claims $700M of assets belonging to Sam Bankman-Fried (CD)

  • It's the birthday of Vitalik's proposal of ETH on Bitcoin Magazine (BitcoinTalk)

  • Signature Bank puts $100K minimum on crypto transactions (Pymnts)

  • Hedera crosses 3 Billion total mainnet transactions (@dragonglassme)

  • 68% of crypto funds are shorting BTC price this week (CS)

  • SPiCE VC plans to raise $250M Fund II after Fund I rewarded "Top VC Fund in Blockchain Ecosystem 2022" (PRN)

  • Blockstream bags $125M for Bitcoin mining operations (CT)

  • QuickNode raises $80M to become the 'Azure / AWS of blockchain' (TC)

  • Lending platform PeopleFund raises $20M in series C extension (TC)

  • Sharding startup Calimero raises $8.5M (TB)

  • Sandbar raises $4.8M seed round to build anti-money laundering software (AX)

  • Social Wallet Tribes launches $3.3M in funding (CD)

  • MakerDAO deploys $100M to defi protocol YearnFinance (CD)

  • "DeFi is the Future" according to billion dollar venture fund Pantera Capital (CD)

  • Japan's stringent crypto laws developed from the 2018 half billion dollar Coincheck theft, could be influencing the rest of the world (JT)

  • New York aims at regulating firms co-mingling of crypto (Reuters)

  • New York Department of Financial Services is sending warnings and reminders to crypto exchanges (DFS.NY)

  • Saudi Arabia central bank announces CBDC experiment (WG)

  • Cryptocurrency and digital assets may become tax-exempt in Arizona in 2024 (CT)

  • 12 companies are creating a Bitcoin treasure hunt to find 12 words of a seed phrase or brute force attack the wallet (BM)

  • Wormhole exploiter converts $150M of ETH to staked staked assets as leverage (TB)

  • North Korea linked hackers behind $100M exploit (CNBC)

  • 3 biggest cybersecurity venture opportunities in web3 (F)

  • 2023 must have emphasis on web3 security applications (FRKST)

  • Brazil & Argentina pressured by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong to use Bitcoin as legal tender (CT)

  • ETH stablecoins reach 3 month high (TE)

  • ETH devs deploy Shanghai shadow fork (TD)

  • Uniswap to deploy on BNB chain (TD)

  • Porsche drops NFT collection from their new 911 model (Porsche)

  • Bitzlano converted over $1B in crime linked assets (CD)

  • NFT collection Doodles acquires Emmy-nominated animation studio (CD)

  • Paxos proposes investing $1.5B into MakerDAO (TD)

  • America's first nuclear-powered Bitcoin miner (Yahoo)

  • Gemini lays off 10% of work force (CNBC)

  • How congress is gearing up to regulate crypto (CD)

  • What is Web3 vs Web1 and Web2 (CloudWards)

  • These 7 individuals/groups are suspected to potentially be Satoshi Nakamoto (CT)

  • International Webinar to discuss VC investment trends in Web3 (ZOOM)

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