Crypto Weekender 3/8
Curated weekend reads, listens, views.
Reads
Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part I: How Private is Bitcoin?
Entering the Ethereum Report by Delphi Digital
Investing in Bitcoin by Su Zhu and Hasu
An Introduction to Blockchain Finality by Raul Jordan (TD Research)
Proof of Attendance at the MIT Bitcoin Expo
Bitcoin Has a Branding Problem — It’s Evolution, Not Revolution by Ryan Radloff
When Lightning Starks by StarkWare Industries
What Do Wyoming’s 13 New Blockchain Laws Mean? By Caitlin Long
Cryptocurrencies Need to Become as Socially Acceptable as Social Media by Darren Pollock
What’s inside a Grin Transaction File? By Brandon Arvanaghi
Open Finance: Loan Origination Snapshot for January and February 2019
Decentralized Finance is a Continuum by Sean Lippel
A Privacy Focused Vision for Social Networking by Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook’s Blockchain Move Could Checkmate the Internet
Crypto in 2019: Kleiner Perkins 5 Focus Areas by Monica Desai
Tweets
Spencer Bogart thread on Maker and Hasu’s thread building on Spencer’s
Ari Paul thread on earning interest on crypto
Spencer Noon thread on Lightning Network disadvantages
Gavin Baker thread on Facebook’s token
Listens
Off the Chain: Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle: Circle’s Place in Crypto
Tales from the Crypt: Jack Dorsey
The Third Web: Edgeware & Parity, Infrastructure on Top of Infrastructure
What Bitcoin Did: Andreas M. Antonopoulos on What Happens When Bitcoin Takes Over
What Grinds My Gears: Big Brother Loves Bitcoin
Unchained: How Melon Could Make Asset Management Easier
Unconfirmed: How to Earn Money on Collateral in DeFi — and Why That’s Risky
Epicenter: Amaury Séychet — Bitcoin Cash — Part 2
Blockchain Insider: Forked Off
Views
Peter McCormack and Anthony Pompliano
ARK Invest — Big Ideas 2019: Technological Breakthroughs Investors Shouldn’t Miss
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