Crypto Weekender 12/14

Ria Bhutoria
Circle Research
Published in
3 min readDec 15, 2018

Curated weekend reads, listens, and views

Read

Bye Bye Basis — Katherine Wu

Who Controls Bitcoin Core? — Jameson Lopp

Reason only sometimes leads to rationality — Tony Sheng

The authoritative guide to Blockchain Sharding — Alexander Skidanov

The Price Crash & The Impact on Miners — BitMEX Research

ERC-1400: Evolution of a Security Token Standard — Adam Dossa (Polymath)

State of Bitcoin Report — Delphi Digital

2nd Global Cryptoasset Benchmarking Study — Cambridge

4 eras of blockchain computing: degrees of composability — Jesse Walden

Decentralized Governance Today: A Case Study on AGP-1 — Devin Walsh

Bitcoin and Ethereum: Prices Are Down More Than Fundamentals — Chris Burniske

Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism (Mycelium) — Brandon Quittem

Listen

Messari Podcast: Circle Research’s Ria Bhutoria on the crypto research process, with a primer on prediction markets

Unchained: Coinbase’s Listing Process: Why It’s Adding Many More Coins

What Bitcoin Did: Vijay Boyapati’s Bullish Case for Bitcoin

Off the Chain: Ali Hamed, founder of CoVenture: A VC’s Take on Crypto

Firewall: Crypto Simplified with Mike Dudas

Epicenter: Cloudflare — The Internet’s (De)centralized Security Blanket

Zero Knowledge: ETH Singapore in Review

Tales from the Crypt: Matthew Mezinskis

Blockchain Insider: Vitalik Buterin

View

Bitcoin Q&A: Smart contracts, sidechains, and the Lightning Network — Andreas Antonopoulos

Cheddar’s This Week in Crypto: Bitcoin Peak Price Anniversary, Facebook’s Blockchain Plans — Tanaya Macheel, Brad Smith with guests Nic Carter, Michael Casey

Building the New Financial System from the Ground Up — Elizabeth Stark from Lightning Labs

Devon4 video recordings and corresponding slides

Eth2.0 Implementers Call #8

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