Crypto Weekender 4/5
Curated weekend reads, listens, views.
Reads
- Digesting the SEC’s most recent framework for digital assets + no-action letter by Katherine Wu
- Coin Center analysis of SEC cryptocurrency guidance by Peter Van Valkenburgh (Coin Center)
- Crypto Legal Frameworks and No Action Letters by Stephen Palley
- Delphi Digital Thematic Insights: Zero Knowledge Proofs
- Active Network Participation as an Investment Strategy by Devin Walsh
- On Fair Token Launches by Rocco
- The Next Wave of Unicorns by Mohamed Fouda (Token Daily Research)
- On Collusion by Vitalik Buterin
- Blockchain Voter Apathy by Roy Learner
- Blockchain Deal Data (2016–2018) from Digital Currency Group
- Amid Bitcoin Uncertainty, “the Smart Money Knows that Crypto is Not Ready” by Nathaniel Popper
- On Bitcoin’s Academic Lineage by ElSeidy
- Technological Teachings of Bitcoin by Gigi
- Argentina: A Case Study for Stablecoins by Nicolas Michnowicz
- Andreessen Horowitz is Blowing Up the Venture Capital Model (Again) by Alex Konrad
- Staking Goes Mainstream from the Chorus One
- Decred (DCR) Overview by Casey Caruso
- The WarLock: Building in Additional Rewards for Network Effects by Rocco (Alpine Intel)
Tweets
- Katherine Wu on the SEC’s digital asset framework and no action letter
- Nic Carter on ICOs and value accrual through the lens of Mastercoin
- Meltem Demirors on Andreessen Horowitz’s decision to renounce it’s status as a VC firm and register it’s entire firm
- Haseeb Qureshi on why low quality tokens will not be washed away
Listens
- Off the Chain: Dan Zuller, Partner at Vision Hill Advisors: How Fund of Funds Examine Crypto and Digital Assets
- What Bitcoin Did: Christian Decker — An Introduction to the Lightning Network
- What Grinds My Gears: This is Water
- Unchained: SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce: Come Talk to the SEC
- Chain Reaction Podcast: Cent’s Max Brody and Cameron Hejazi: The Social Income Network
- Epicenter: Cosmos — Launching the Internet of Blockchains
- Blockchain Insider: The great wealth transfer
- The Blockcrunch: Inside UMA’s Decentralized Derivatives — Hart Lumbar (UMA Project)
- Into the Ether: Connext: Building Ethereum Payment Solutions with Arjun Bhuptani
- Venture Coinist Podcast: Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of Delphi Digital on Bitcoin Holder Analysis and Token Valuations
Views
- AMA with Cosmos Network — Internet of Blockchains
- Power Blocks: Crypto-prophets Gaze Into the Future (Yan Liberman of Delphi Digital)
- Chainbreakers: A 1:1 with Nathaniel Whittemore
- Cryptonomics: Messari Aiming to Eradicate Fake Data with Zack Voell
- Unqualified Opinions: Ryan Selkis (Messari) with NEAR Protocol, Alex Adelman (Lolli), Muneeb Ali (CTO of Blockstack)
- Debate: Cryptocurrency’s biggest use case is speculation. That is a fact. w/ @MustStopMurad via @isTruStory
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