Weekly Roundup 04/24/26 (Finding Satoshi, KelpDAO retrospective, Insider weather betting, Coinbase's Quantum report) (EP.716)

About this episode

Matt and Nic discuss recent news and developments in the crypto space, including the Finding Satoshi documentary and Coinbase's quantum risk report.

Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals: The Finding Satoshi documentary has a new guess Was it Hal or Len? Could Satoshi have been a team? Why Stylometry might not reveal Satoshi Why the cypherpunks were interested in resurrection What happened with KelpDAO? Is DeFi cooked? Is Arbitrum decentralized? The Paris temperature market was manipulated Coinbase releases their highly-anticipated quantum risk report Performance tradeoffs for post-quantum signature schemes SBF was a good investor The Justin Sun WLFI saga continues Did an Indian tanker fall victim to a crypto scam in the Strait of Hormuz? Content mentioned in this episode: Finding Satoshi Documentary Fidelity Digital Assets, Getting Off Zero: Evaluating Bitcoin in 2026 Coinbase, Quantum report

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt, Nic

Topics covered

• Satoshi Nakamoto
• DeFi
• quantum risk
• KelpDAO
• crypto scams
• temperature market manipulation

Keywords

• Finding Satoshi
• KelpDAO
• DeFi
• quantum risk report
• crypto scams
• temperature market manipulation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: KelpDAO, Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, Arbitrum, SBF, Justin Sun

Books & works: Finding Satoshi Documentary, Quantum report

Places: Strait of Hormuz

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