Crypto Weekender 3/8

Ria Bhutoria
Circle Research
Published in
3 min readMar 10, 2019

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)

Electric Capital Dev Report

The Constitution Protects Software Developers and Users from Surveillance Overreach by Peter Van Valkenburgh

Proof of Attendance at the MIT Bitcoin Expo

Bitcoin Has a Branding Problem — It’s Evolution, Not Revolution by Ryan Radloff

Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information by Steven Melendez and Alex Pasternack

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

Ian Lee thread on the ability for different implementations of blockchain tech to coexist on a spectrum

Gavin Baker thread on Facebook’s token

Katherine Wu thread on FCA’s research reports that provide analysis on the average UK consumer and their understanding of crypto

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

The Blockcrunch — How the World’s Top Crypto Hedge Fund Invests — Niraj Pant (Partner, Polychain Capital)

Views

MIT Bitcoin Expo Livestream

Peter McCormack and Anthony Pompliano

ARK Invest — Big Ideas 2019: Technological Breakthroughs Investors Shouldn’t Miss

Jake Brukhman on Generalized Mining

Preethi Kasireddy and Haseeb Qureshi Debate: Bitcoin will not be more than a store of value (starts at 5:40)

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