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scottmsul.substack.com
A Bitcoiner's Guide to Proof of Stake
scottmsul.substack.com
~18 min read · Sep 14th · Normally Bitcoiners don’t care too much about what goes on in shitcoin-land, but with The Merge scheduled for less than a month from now, there’s been quite the buzz on Bitcoin Twitter. Of course the… · Shared by 12, including Peter Todd
Decrypt
Forget About DeFi Summer: NFT Autumn is Arriving
Decrypt
6 min read · Sep 3rd · Sudoswap, which has an AMM and just launched a governance token, is doing for NFTs what Uniswap did for altcoins. · Shared by 7
a16zcrypto.com
SNARK security and performance
a16zcrypto.com
~15 min read · Sep 15th · This post compares the security properties of different SNARKs, and also explores the tension between verification costs and security in practical post-quantum-secure SNARKs. · Shared by 6, including Matthew Green
a16zcrypto.com
Introducing LVR
a16zcrypto.com
9 min read · Sep 19th · Introducing LVR (loss versus rebalancing), a new measure of the risks and rewards in AMMs. · Shared by 11, including علي, cdixon.eth
Decrypt
NFTs Will Spawn the Next Marvel or Disney, Says Solana Founder
Decrypt
3 min read · Sep 23rd · Solana's Anatoly Yakovenko believes a juggernaut IP on the level of Disney or Marvel could emerge from the current crop of NFT projects. · Shared by 11, including LARRY ELKAN
Forbes
Crypto Darling Helium Promised A ‘People’s Network.’ Instead, Its Executives Got Rich.
Forbes
~13 min read · Sep 23rd · Helium was touted as the best real-world use case of Web3 technology. But a Forbes investigation found that executives and their friends quietly hoarded the majority of wealth at the project's… · Shared by 37, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA
The New Yorker
The Rise of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Authoritarian President
The New Yorker
6 min read · Sep 5th · The budding strongman has ridden Bitcoin schemes and a repressive crackdown on gangs to become Latin America’s most popular leader. · Shared by 74, including Sonja Peteranderl
Rest of World
For Myanmar’s revolutionaries, adopting digital currency can mean life or death
Rest of World
9 min read · Sep 19th · The anti-coup administration is now circulating $620,000 worth of its own digital currency. But security fears are mounting. · Shared by 40
Tomasz Tunguz
The State of Web3 in 2022 through Data by @ttunguz
Tomasz Tunguz
2 min read · Sep 19th · At the inaugural DuneCon, Dune’s first conference, I shared a presentation on the state of crypto in 2022. I aimed to characterize the health of the crypto ecosystem at the most basic level. For… · Shared by 16, including Ouriel @ZenGo
mirror.xyz
How to fund an undoxxed Ethereum wallet off-chain
mirror.xyz
7 min read · Sep 18th · I’m sure by now all Tornado Cash users are aware that the US government really doesn’t like privacy. · Shared by 5, including CyberCodeTwins.eth 👾// NINER FURY TANGO
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Interview: Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦
~18 min read · Sep 2nd · In which we talk about the big shifts in crypto. · Shared by 158, including zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, Mathew Ingram, vitalik.eth, David Andolfatto, AGI.Eth | AIKing.Eth
Decrypt
Argentine Province Allows Millions to Pay Taxes Using Stablecoins
Decrypt
2 min read · Aug 29th · Residents of Argentina's Mendoza province can now make tax payments in stablecoins like Tether's USDT or MakerDAO's DAI. · Shared by 133
Rest of World
They built a Minecraft crypto empire. Then it all came crashing down
Rest of World
~18 min read · Sep 6th · Kids in the Philippines were earning hundreds of dollars from a play-to-earn Minecraft game, until new rules sent the community into a tailspin. · Shared by 102, including Neeraj K. Agrawal, Joe Groff, Kevin Marks, Michael Donohoe, Loughlin O'Nolan, Cory Doctorow
The New Yorker
The Rise of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Authoritarian President
The New Yorker
6 min read · Sep 5th · The budding strongman has ridden Bitcoin schemes and a repressive crackdown on gangs to become Latin America’s most popular leader. · Shared by 74, including Sonja Peteranderl
Gartner
Metaverse, Web3 and Crypto: Separating Blockchain Hype from Reality
Gartner
2 min read · Aug 30th · How can CIOs separate the hype from reality with emerging #blockchain technologies like #metaverse, #Web3 and #cryptocurrency? Gartner analyst Avivah Litan weighs in. #CIO #GartnerSYM · Shared by 71, including Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation, Kirk Borne, Vala Afshar
The New York Times
The Crypto World Can’t Wait for ‘the Merge’
The New York Times
7 min read · Aug 26th · A long-awaited upgrade to Ethereum, the most popular crypto platform, may make the technology more environmentally sustainable. But it comes with risks. · Shared by 70, including ipfconline #CES2023, Tim Bray, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
Decrypt
How Ethereum Miners Plan to Pivot After the Merge
Decrypt
2 min read · Sep 7th · Hive Blockchain plans to direct its hardware to other mineable cryptocurrencies, while Hut 8 Mining pursues new ventures outside of crypto. · Shared by 64
Decrypt
How the Ethereum Merge Ends the Environmental Debate About NFTs
Decrypt
7 min read · Sep 13th · The merge is set to transition Ethereum to proof of stake, which means the biggest network for NFTs will become environmentally friendly. · Shared by 53, including Richard Bernabe
CoinDesk
Binance, Issuer of 3rd Biggest Stablecoin, to Stop Supporting Larger Rival USDC
CoinDesk
1 min read · Sep 5th · The action effectively removes the world's second biggest stablecoin USDC as a tradeable asset on Binance's platform. · Shared by 53, including Matthew Howells-Barby Ξ mhb.eth
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moxie.org
My first impressions of web3
moxie.org
~14 min read · Jan 7th · Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click… · Shared by 1437, including BrendanEich, Vala Afshar, Ryan Selkis 🥷, zeldman, Michael A. Stelzner, Casey Newton, Martin Fowler, дэн, Robert Scoble, Laura Shin, Ezra Klein, SwiftOnSecurity, Brian Armstrong, Ryan Hoover, Jeff Jarvis, Benedict Evans, Charles Hoskinson, hardmaru, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️, Steven Sinofsky
tante
The Third Web
tante
20+ min read · 2021-12-17 · I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to write this thing, that blockchains and NFTs and all that would just go away and become a chapter in a book about weird economic scams. But if 2021 taught us anything it’s that we can’t have nice things so here we are. · Shared by 1395, including Mathew Ingram, Mark Kaigwa, Clemens M. Schuster, Tactical Tech, Pablo Felip, Thomas Knüwer, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷, Nils Hitze, Michael Seemann, Dion Almaer, Kevin Marks, Katja Evertz, Richard MacManus, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, rufuspollock, Fabio Chiusi, Luca Hammer, Nicolas Kayser-Bril, Jakob Adler
Vox
What is the point of crypto?
Vox
~17 min read · May 16th · Crypto is a solution in search of a problem — or problems. · Shared by 1256, including yeon, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Mathew Ingram, Stef Walter, David Papandrew, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
TNW
The ultimate, 3500-word, plain English guide to blockchain
TNW
~13 min read · From 2017 · Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, I’m sure you’ve heard of Bitcoin and blockchain. After all, they are one of the most trending topics these days — the ultimate buzzwords of the year. Even… · Shared by 821, including Jon Thompson, k, Katja Evertz, Howard Getson, Eric L. Barnes, Thomas Power, Klaus Eck, Nicolas Berg, Charlie Oliver, Sara Usinger, René Clausen Nielsen, Bjorn Larsen, Mark Kaigwa, Dominik Grolimund, Andrew Cunning, Helmi, Roger Friedensen, Marco Unternaehrer, Lorenz König, Oleg Baskov
The New York Times
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
The New York Times
From 2018 · Yes, it’s driven by greed — but the mania for digital cash could wind up building something much more important than wealth. · Shared by 732, including Dan Ariely, tjalve, Martin Rajcan, FinTech Connector, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Anthony Hamelle, Nicolas Berg, Nir Eyal, Howard Getson, Matthias Lampe, Ha Duong, Patrick Scheuerer, Hans van Gent, Ricky Yean, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , Vinny Lingham, Ste Davies, Thomas Power, cdixon.eth
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
~18 min read · From 2017 · Everyone says the blockchain, the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, is going to change EVERYTHING. And yet, after… · Shared by 703, including Thomas Power, David Smooke, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , Alex Barrera, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺, Alf Rehn, Azeem Azhar, Michael Seemann, Martin Stabe, Nicolas Berg, Weiting Chen, ErmanTaylan.eth, Balthasar Glättli🌻 🕊, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖, Martin Steiger, Stefan T, Howard Getson, Andreas Kubli, Nouriel Roubini
medium.com
You Don’t Understand Bitcoin Because You Think Money Is Real
medium.com
7 min read · From 2017 · Bitcoin is an illusion, a mass hallucination, so one hears. It’s just numbers in cyberspace, a mirage, insubstantial as a soap bubble… · Shared by 642, including Klaus Eck, Helmi, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖, tjalve, Vinny Lingham, Ha Duong, Jonathan Kogan, Thomas Power, Nicolas Berg, Matthias Lampe, Ines Bieler, Mathew Ingram, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Scott Williams, Charlie Oliver, Marc Steffen, Tris Hussey, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, von Moerenburgh
VICE
One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week
VICE
10 min read · From 2017 · Bitcoin’s surge in price has sent its electricity consumption soaring. · Shared by 624, including Nils Hitze, Alex Barrera, tjalve, Dominik Grolimund, Thomas Power, John Battelle, Ryan Boren, Richard Joerges, Dan Gillmor, MariadPDC, Dez S. Papp, Nicolas Berg, Philipp.Herkelmann, Paulmears, Massimiliano Aroffo, Azeem Azhar, Taylor Pearson, Balthasar Glättli🌻 🕊, Ward Plunet, Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊
a16zcrypto.com
Introducing the 2022 State of Crypto Report
a16zcrypto.com
7 min read · May 17th · The 2022 State of Crypto report is a16z crypto's first-ever data-driven overview and analysis of web3 and crypto. · Shared by 608, including yeon, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, cdixon.eth, Dan Gillmor, Howard Getson, Chris Messina, Dion Hinchcliffe, Thomas Euler, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Gerd Leonhard, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Bill Johnston, Florian Graillot, Jonathan Kogan, Dave McClure
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