U.S. Government Hacked; Scaling Ethereum

with Joel de la Garza @smc90 @ali01 @zoranbasich This week, we cover (1) the news that broke very recently about how hackers spied on U.S. Treasury emails and other federal agencies; and (2) that the first of several planned upgrades to Ethereum 2.0 recently went live and why it matters for scaling, security, and applications like DeFi and more.

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