I was aware of Jeffrey Epstein funding the MIT digital cur…

I was aware of Jeffrey Epstein funding the MIT digital currency labs/initiative to some degree.
And I was somehow aware, that Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan have worked for MIT.
I was NOT aware, that the MIT digital currency initiative was researching a CBDC for the Federal Reserve bank of Boston.
Mentioned in this video, timestamp should be right:
https://youtu.be/aJulp--KgW8?t=2984
At least Cory Fields is mentioned as author in the whitepaper:
https://www.dci.mit.edu/projects/project-hamilton-open-cbdc
Bu all three of them are somehow connected to MIT:
https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/mltalks-2015-11-17/