New Bits on the Block #13

..Aaand the summer is gone!
Hope you all have experienced beautiful summer vibes despite of the Altmageddon.

Worry not, however, the bulls are coming and according to most of the sources they should be here by the winter. Let’s hope it will be sooner than the next Game of Thrones season. Until then you can go through this extensive report on the state of the crypto world from AutnomousNext .
Bitcoin:
- Great stuff on the Lightning Network — really worth to read.
— This Bakkt thing caused some new hype waves — what is it actually?
Ethereum:
- Deep dive into differences of two major solutions tackling blockchain interoperability — Cosmos and Polkadot.
— Lots of exchanges tokenize their businesses. Is it a good deal for the investors?
— Brave browser will soon let you earn on your reddit posts and tweets.
— Now you can stake your Particl coins even from Ledger HW wallet.
— A guide showing you how you can store your Monero on Monerujo with the Ledger Nano S.
Altcoins:
- Deep dive into differences of two major solutions tackling blockchain interoperability — Cosmos and Polkadot.
- Lots of exchanges tokenize their businesses. Is it a good deal for the investors?
- Brave browser will soon let you earn on your reddit posts and tweets.
- Now you can stake your Particl coins even from Ledger HW wallet.
- A guide showing you how you can store your Monero on Monerujo with the Ledger Nano S.
Blockchain Tech & Trends:
- According to Coinbase, universities around the world are keeping up with crypto and teach plenty of blockchain-related courses for all kinds of majors.
— Luckily, today you don’t have to gamble just with coin prices, but also a bunch of different crypto games. You may win millions like this guy in Fomo3D.
— Liechtenstein’s Union Bank is launching a security token and a stable coin as the first bank in the world.
— Quick explanation of the way identity frameworks may work in decentralised systems.
— Toshi is now rebranded as Coinbase wallet.
Events:
I put together a short list of great events you should not miss this fall if you are really into crypto stuff, and happen to be around Europe:
- Baltic Honeybadger in Riga
- Hackers Congress Paralelni Polis in Prague
- Ethereum Devcon in Prague
- Crypto Summit in Zurich
- Blockwalks in Bratislava
- Web3 Summit in Berlin
- Zero Knowledge Summit in Berlin
BONUS:
- Hal Finney was the first person receiving BTC transaction from Satoshi. Here is his story.
I will be always happy to read your feedback, and suggestions on possible topics to include to the newsletter. If you would like to share some with me, please do so at stancel@blockchainslovakia.sk.
In case you want to show me some crypto love:
BTC: 3M5bzL8GDhDJoJ2RoRFcza917L1tEcPp3P
ETH: 0x62cE83a2C24686957d769bFd940B69ff568E760A
LTC: MVrjVKmQ5sGoMHJ1Np8Q2YEqWMCqkuu1yz
PIVX: DMJxf4ce3Le4qUyDVSA5TS2CRwFuatec75
DASH: XpQCnerF4wq1fQk9FVCjKE22juyYgqUMUo
Originally published at mailchi.mp.
