Paratii Review #6 - Cryptoevent in 🇧🇷, green coins, programming tomorrow
🔥 last weeks: bitcoin through the roof, fear surrounding the Tether, new taxonomies for the decentralised tech stack, and fork after fork, bringing decentralised governance back to the spotlights. Subscribe to this newsletter here.
5 Handpicked thoughts
📰 Blockchain Governance: Programming our Future. Fred Ehrsam, co-founder @ Coinbase, outlines some current approaches to network upgradeability, arguing governance is at the heart of the most important research problem in the space.
🌱 The creator of BitTorrent is launching a cryptocurrency. It’s more environment-friendly than Bitcoin, and Vitalik is interested in learning more about how it works.
📹 A comprehensive but gentle introduction to digital video. A “mini workshop for newcomers to video technology”, this jewel has simple vocabulary, lots of visual elements and hands-on examples.
🎵 How big is music on Youtube? Rasty Turek shows that 65% of music in Youtube never gets audio rights claimed or generate revenue. Even in the case of famously monetised songs, the rate of “non-detection” reaches up to 20% (e.g. Gangnam Style).
🙏 Bitcoin as a religion? Fred Eshram (again) does a rundown on the framework for comparison between bitcoin and religious faiths: the holy text, the prophet, the sects…
Original content & Community
🎉 Paratii is hosting an event on Friday the 8th of December, in São Paulo, Brazil. It’s called (in Portuguese) “Welcome to the Decentralised Future”, and will gather some of the brightest minds on crypto and decentralised media in the country. Communication begins this week, so subscribe here and make sure you get your FREE entrance before the list is full!
💰 5 objective reasons why bitcoin is still cheap (in Portuguese). We don’t normally talk finances — but 10K marks a special occasion.
📡 Team Interviews: Yahya, Paratii’s P2P Lead Engineer. On the marvels of peer-to-peer, watching online videos in Egypt, libp2p X ÐΞVp2p and taking our networks to the outer space.
Development status & Team updates
🐣 The Paratii Early Uploaders Program is slowly opening its doors to creators. If you’re interested, drop a line here.
🔩 Paratii player v.0.0.1, our demo, is upcoming. Track progress on the github release issue as we cover the final milestones.
📑 Check out our updated documentation for embedding the player and dealing with the Paratii contract library.
💌 Stay tuned for updates! Also, please call friends who you think would be interested to subscribe to this newsletter or be a beta tester of the player :)
Feel free to send us any free event invitations, greener coins, crazy stats on Youtube data or crypto religious artefacts by writing to we@paratii.video.
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