Crypto really is eating the software that ate the world. This isn’t just seen in the amount of capital being deployed in BTC or DeFi, which might have gone elsewhere, but also in the human beings who choose to work in the industry. Over the last few months, there have been a few notable departures from traditional financial and software giants. Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund, lost its chief financial officer to NYDIG. Coinbase hired a top Goldman Sachs lobbyist. FTX hired an executive from Citadel Securities. Then there are the regulators who have made their home at crypto upstarts. Former acting ... (full story)