Weekly Roundup 01/28/22 (Putin warms to Bitcoin mining, Wonderland’s Quadriga connection, Libra/Diem shutters) (EP.279)

Matt and Nic return for deals and news of the week. In this episode: 

• Fidelity's Wise Origin spot Bitcoin ETF is denied
• Putin walks back the central bank ban on mining
• NY isn’t processing BitLicense applications
• Facebook is selling their IP being Diem/Libra to Silvergate
• Ripple buys out their Series C Investors
• Google’s cloud division makes a blockchain push
• A DeFi protocol founder is revealed to be a former Quadriga executive
• Are anonymous developers the future?
• Ark comes out with their Big Ideas for 2022

Content mentioned: 

• Ark's Big Ideas 2022
• Bloomberg, Putin Backs Crypto Mining Despite Bank of Russia’s Hard Line

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