Paratii Review #7: Kate Perry’s crypto nails; our Foundation; Ehthillionaires on Tesla’s neighbourhood
New year, new heights: ether permanently tops U$1k and BTC’s dominance nears historic lows at close to 30%. Last weeks saw the fuzz about the Telegram ICO; more games akin to CryptoKitties (Etheremon is live!); a long-awaited take by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Bitcoin; a massive NYTimes profile on blockchains beyond bitcoin; and a mysterious ether company who bought more than 60 000 acres of land in Nevada.
7 Handpicked Thoughts
- 🏆 The Coindesk Most Influential 2017 List has spun out interesting individual profiles. The one about Joseph Lubin where he tells Consensys’ story by himself is our favourite. CryptoWeekly’s top 100 list is also worth a look.
- 📜 95 Crypto Theses for 2018. Ryan Selkis compiles a witty and humorous outlook for this year, from trading notes to speculation about product adoption and technical breakthroughs. A must read.
- 🎤 On the crypto headlines: Vitalik Buterin was interviewed by Laura Shin for the Unchained Podcast. An enjoyable talk to follow, as expected. On the pop headlines: Kate Perry posted a picture of her nails painted in Monero, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Litecoin and Stellar shapes & colours. On the business headlines: the owners of ETHNews (reportedly) bought a huge piece of land next to Tesla’s Gigafactory.
- 💥 Diversification (AKA How to Survive a Crash). Fred Wilson’s not-too-old solid advice on keeping the eggs in different baskets, and memories of losing “everything” in the dot-com bubble. Worth a reread.
- 📙 Kick-off some “intellectual compounding” (as they call it) by absorbing this combo of Chris Burniske, Brett Winton and John Pfeffer’s token valuation frameworks.
- ⚡ Lightning Network Mega Thread on Reddit. A collection of links to understand the relevance and inner mechanisms of the so-awaited second-layer scalability solution for the Bitcoin network.
- 🎥 So, Kodak is doing an ICO. Here’s some irony behind the scenes. For a more sober look, our portuguese text on it.
Original Content & Community
- 🌐 The Paratii Foundation is Born. It exists to foster R&D and practical adoption of P2P base-layer technologies for video distribution, has research tracks laid down, and is seeking contributors. The post gives a sneak peak of the new brand we’re adopting :)
- 🇧🇷 Join our Telegram group. It’s already >150 members strong and growing daily (free Portuguese lessons available!). For the English-speaking only, join [ENG] Paratii.
- 📡 The Institute of Human Obsolescence, in the Netherlands, is mining cryptocurrencies with body heat. The text is in portuguese.
Development Status & Team Updates
- 📺 A refactored and reclothed player is upcoming. Following with the Paratii rebranding, a new 0.0.2 version of the player is set to be released soon. We’ve incorporated Clappr’s modular architecture and turned UI into a set of plugins. Behind it, the modular paratii-library can also be called by widgets and other web interfaces, such as the portal part of the team is building, whose first version will be available for browsing when it’s mature.
- 👪 On the human side of things, we’re happy to welcome Leandro, Paratii’s new devops engineer; and Daniel, our community manager (whom you can easily find on Telegram, too).
- 🎬 The Paratii Early Uploaders Whitelist has reached close to 250 applicants and closed for now. Creators have been contacted. If you know of someone who was left out and deserves a chance, drop us a line. “Content porting” comes soon.
- 💌 Stay tuned for updates! Also, please call friends who you think would be interested to subscribe to this newsletter :)
Feel free to send us any valuation methodologies, selfies of your crypto nails or technical feedback by writing to we@paratii.video.
