Crypto Chaos: Hacks, Memes, and Market Meltdown | News
In this episode all four co-hosts, Alexander, Michael, Jonas and Manuel discuss the most relevant news of February: The negative crypto market sentiment, market cap and ETF AuM contractions and the reasons for that – among others the Bybit Hack Presidential Meme-Coins.
On Feb 21, one of the largest Crypto-Exchanges was hacked and a north-korean hacking group stole 1,4 bln USD worth of cryptocurrencies. The co-authors explain what happened and discuss how the attack and the biggest hack in history could have been prevented.
The Episode goes on to analyze and discuss the players and the mechanisms behind the issuance and price collapse of the Libra token that was supported by the Argentinian president Javier Milei and the interlinkage to the Melania Token.
After the bearish news, the record 2024 earnings of Tether and Coinbase are analyzed which reflect the positive crypto sentiment and market activity of last year – in particular in Q4.
The last section is devoted to European developments with an update on European MiCAR licenses for Stablecoins and crypto asset service providers as well as recent developments in the European projects on central bank digital currencies (CBDC). The ECB sees threats from USD denominated Stablecoins and wants to accelerate the digital Euro project as a respondes and on the other side wants to provide a solution in 2025 to connect Target services – existing settlement infrastructure – to newly emerging blockchain networks.
If you find these topics interesting, make sure you listen to this months news-episode of BFRR!
Nuggets of the months of each co-host: • Manuel: Bindseil, Ulrich and Malekan, Omid, 2025, Public crypto networks as financial market infrastructures • Alexander: Post from Ivica Aracic on Blockchain/Ledger catogarization • Jonas: ECB Working Paper: Digital money and finance: a critical review of terminology • Michael: Video from Google: Majorana 1 Explained: The Path to a Million Qubits
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