Crypto Weekender 3/1
Curated weekend reads, listens, views.
Reads
There’s been a mysterious surge in $100 bills in circulation
Distributed Computing Update #3 by Dani Grant
First direct, then emergent by Tony Sheng
Crypto Governance: The Startup vs. Nation-State Approach by Jack Purdy
Why it’s important to point out that JPM Coin is not a cryptocurrency by Jerry Brito
Aragon Agent and the future of DAOs by Stefano Bernardi
Emergence of Stable Value Coins and a Trust Framework For Fiat-Backed Versions
2019: State of Stablecoins by Blockchain
8 Nobel-Prize Winning Rules for Governance Design
Maker Network Overview by Alex Evans (Placeholder Ventures)
Tweets
Vijay Boyapati thread on the Bitcoin Foundation
Tom Shaughnessy thread on CoinFund event with Lane Rettig and Preston Van Loon
Meltem Demirors thread on governance
Listens
What Grinds My Gears: Initial Country Offering
Unchained: How Blockchains Can Help Create Little Democracies Everywhere
What Bitcoin Did: Reflecting on Mt. Gox with Andy Pag (And the rest of the Mt. Gox Interviews)
Epicenter: Amaury Séychet — Bitcoin Cash
Blockchain Insider: Too legit to quit
Zero Knowledge: ETH2.0 Update with Danny Ryan (Ethereum Foundation)
The Blockcrunch: How to Think about Liquidity in Crypto Markets — Michael Feng (Hummingbot)
Tales from the Crypt: Misir Mahmudov
Lay of the Land: Where’s the PROOF you climbed that mountain? In FOAM’s protocol
Views
Inaugural DeFi NYC meetup live stream with Staked, UMA, Balance, and MakerDAO
Anthony Pompliano live with Ric Burton, co-founder of Balance
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