FinCEN could rule that henceforth, if anyone wants to access tether, USD coin, or any other official stablecoin (TrueUSD, Paxos standard, Gemini dollar, Binance USD, HUSD) they will need to apply for a verified stablecoin account.

It’s not evident how a stablecoin issuer can conduct KYC on a smart contract.

This hoard of stablecoins serves as collateral backing for dai, Maker’s decentralized stablecoin.

Compound, Curve and Uniswap might try to adapt by substituting FinCEN compliant stablecoins like USD coin with decentralized ones, say like Maker’s dai stablecoin.

If Maker, like Compound and Curve, can no longer hold USD coin, then dai itself would become less stable.

Crypto payments platform BitPay has settled with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on charges of over 2,000 apparent sanctions violations.

The company knew it was facilitating transactions for individuals in sanctioned regions because it had location information and IP addresses, OFAC claimed.

BitPay cooperated with OFAC as the agency investigated the charges.

The notice warned that cryptocurrency companies must abide by OFAC regulations and monitor for possible sanctions risks.

OFAC found the violations to be non-egregious.”The company has since improved its compliance program, the spokesperson said.

Nvidia is also launching Cryptocurrency Mining Processors (CMP) specifically for Ethereum miners.

Gates has previously criticized cryptocurrencies and said he'd short bitcoin "if there was an easy way to do it."

Announced Thursday, Radicle, a fully decentralized code repository, has raised $12 million in funding, integrated its peer-to-peer network with Ethereum and launched the RAD governance token.

Notably, it’s the first crypto investment from NFX since Libra co-creator Morgan Beller left Facebook and joined the VC firm in September 2020.

“We think about Radicle as infrastructure for decentralized communities,” Diakomichalis said in an interview.

“When it comes to value, these communities are very used to interacting with value flows; think about things like DeFi protocols on Ethereum.

A Radicle token streams mockup (Radicle)It should be said that GitHub introduced a system of code sponsoring ba…

The amount is greater than the market capitalization of Intercontinental Exchange Inc., owner of the New York Stock Exchange.

(For what it’s worth, Tesla used Coinbase for its $1.5 billion bitcoin purchase, according to The Block.)

Bitcoin WatchDecline in “whale” entities worth watching, CoinDesk’s Omkar Godbole writesThe number of bitcoin addresses with at least 1,000 bitcoin (roughly $50 million worth) has trailed off recently after rising over the past year.

Token WatchEther (ETH): Ethereum cryptocurrency looks overleveraged after rising to new all-time-high price over $1,900.

The U.S. will eventually adopt bitcoin as a reserve asset, argues Zabo co-founder Alex Treece in an op-ed for Co…

“Bond King” Jeffrey Gundlach has had a change of heart on bitcoin.

Gundlach – CEO of DoubleLine Capital, an investment firm with more than $130 billion in assets under management – now says bitcoin could be a better bet than gold.

Gundlach, who’s previously said “I don’t believe in bitcoin,” tweeted Thursday that “bitcoin may be the stimulus asset.

It doesn’t look like gold is.”Gundlach’s change of stance comes on the heels of bitcoin’s dizzying rise from $10,000 to $52,000 seen in the past 4.5-months.

Gundlach noted he had been neutral on gold for the last six months, while formerly a “gold bull.” He previously said bitcoin was in “bubble territory” when it rose past $23,000 in early Janua…

Getting crypto exchanges across the world to plug into each other and share sensitive customer data is proving to be a complex problem.

This is expected to create a so-called “sunrise problem,” as some parts of the crypto world become regulated ahead of others.

The TRISA testnet begins to address that looming challenge by including a dummy version of an “evil VASP” that will provide false authentication, attempt to steal data and so on.

There are two compliant VASPs as well as the non-compliant exchange on the testnet, explained John Jefferies, co-chairman of TRISA.

“The evil VASP isn’t part of TRISA and it will try and trick people into sharing information,” said Jefferies.

Prediction Markets How Crypto Transforms Prediction Markets Alyssa Hertig Betting can be used to predict the future.

That's the crazy idea behind prediction markets.

Here's how they work and where cryptocurrency fits into the picture.

Critics are quick to invoke the South Sea Bubble of 1720 or the tulips in 1637, but it’s not clear they know enough about our financial past to make those episodes relevant for today.

It’s easy to see why comparing Bitcoin to the South Sea Company’s meteoric rise in the spring and summer of 1720 is so tempting.

This all happened during South Sea mania.

This dampens the risk to the overall financial system rather than fueling the fire like the South Sea directors did in the spring and summer of 1720.

Bitcoin’s 2021 looks nothing like the South Sea Company in 1720.

Prediction Markets How Crypto Transforms Prediction Markets Alyssa Hertig Betting can be used to predict the future.

That's the crazy idea behind prediction markets.

Here's how they work and where cryptocurrency fits into the picture.

To test out this lofty hypothesis, a few prediction markets, including Augur and Omen, are now deployed on Ethereum.

Prediction markets FAQsHow do cryptocurrencies improve prediction markets?

Usually, prediction markets are restricted to use in the countries in which they were created.

Less restrictive : Many of today's most popular prediction markets pile on restrictions.

What are some popular crypto prediction markets?

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The Swiss canton of Zug has started accepting tax payments in cryptocurrency.

No partial payments in cryptocurrency will be accepted.

Zug has been dubbed “Crypto Valley” over the many industry companies drawn to the jurisdiction over its friendly blockchain and crypto regulation.

Zug-based crypto broker and custodian Bitcoin Suisse has partnered with the canton, converting cryptocurrency payments into Swiss francs for the tax office.

According to the Zug Canton website, residents can request to pay taxes in cryptocurrency and will be emailed a link taking them to the crypto payment option.

“With this current structure, I do not feel comfortable in running a lot of long exposure.”The funding rate is calculated every eight hours and represents the cost of holding long positions.

When perpetuals trade at a premium to spot price, the funding rate is positive (longs pay shorts).

Hence, a very high funding rate is considered a sign of leverage being excessively skewed to the bullish side (overbought conditions) and often injects volatility into the market.

Ether: Average funding rate Source: SkewIn such situations, holding longs at high costs is attractive only if the bullish momentum remains strong.

A pullback or consolidation can trigger an unwinding of longs, leading to a more p…

FastBitcoins, a platform that lets people invest in BTC online or in-person through prepaid vouchers, has announced that it will expand its platform to Australia and let customers there purchase bitcoin directly through their bank accounts.

An announcement shared with Bitcoin Magazine explained that the move was motivated by a growing interest in bitcoin among Australians and that it was enabled through a partnership with POLi, a local online debit payment platform.

In 2019, the platform became one of the first to integrate Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.

Then, last year, it integrated a dollar-cost averaging feature that could help users slowly and steadily accumulate BTC holdings.

Earlier th…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell conceded that inflation could be higher than expected, leaving no alternative to Bitcoin.

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There is nothing that could be said to escape the reality of the situation that the Federal Reserve (along with other global central banks) have found themselves in.

But the purpose of this Daily Dive is not to simply harp on the Fed’s actions or any actor in the system, by no means.

Previous sound money, gold specifically, was thought to be the greatest immutable commodity in the world.

The very fiat tomfoolery which enables non-productive academia to proliferate is responsible for such encouragement of processed food consumption.

Indeed, on a physical level, processed food itself is entirely unlike anything found in nature.

Bitcoin is recognizable, organically treasured, and verifiably sound money.

While a stretch, the connection between Bitcoin and carnivory, is, at least in part, due to a desire for food as verifiably un-altered as bitcoin.

Mental health is a serious issue that affects the Bitcoin community as much as any other — and should not be stigmatized.

Mental health is a complex and delicate balance made up of psychosocial, physiological, and environmental factors that interact constantly within our human experience.

Distinguished professor of psychology and author in the field of mental health stigma, Patrick Corrigan Psy.D., discusses the impact of stigma on help-seeking behaviors.

Interestingly, his published research has concluded that the best way to erase the stigma of having mental health challenges is self-disclosure.

Self-disclosure is defined as opening up and sharing about one’s own struggles with mental hea…

A new filing with the SEC indicates that another Morgan Stanley bitcoin fund will stem from the partnership of NYDIG and FS Investments.

A recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) indicates that a new institutional bitcoin fund will be jointly created by NYDIG, an institutional bitcoin solutions provider, and FS Investments, a fund management company.

The fund, called FS NYDIG Institutional Bitcoin Fund LP, is the second product born from the formal partnership between the two companies.

Similarly, the new institutional bitcoin fund is also set to be offered through Morgan Stanley.

Meanwhile, FS Investments is an asset manager that seeks to provide clients with a…

“I have passed on Bitcoin stories,” a woman identified in the video as Lee Meier, assistant news director at FOX 26, said.

This conversation was perpetuated on Twitter by Isaiah Jackson, a founder of Black Bitcoin Billionaire (BBB), an advocacy group focused on education and onboarding for Bitcoin in the black community.

“RT this post if you are Black and HODL #Bitcoin, these people don’t think we are out here,” Jackson wrote as he shared the clip.

This is just another drop in the proverbial ocean of blind arrogance.”The apparent media bias revealed in the video demonstrated a larger assumption about Bitcoin that Black Bitcoin Billionaire is attempting to dissolve — that Bitcoin culture is …

Bitcoin miner manufacturer Canaan announced that it has secured a purchase order for 10,000 of its A1246 and A1166Pro machines from industrial-scale bitcoin mining firm Genesis Digital Assets.

"We are excited to announce this additional purchase order from Genesis Digital Assets," commented Nangeng Zhang, chairman and CEO of Canaan, per the release.

According to the release, Genesis Digital Assets has been a bitcoin mining company since 2013, having built over 20 industrial-scale bitcoin mining farms and mined over $1 billion in bitcoin.

Meanwhile, Canaan, which has also been in operation since 2013, is a technology company focused on producing ASIC chips for bitcoin mining.

It is, in fact,…

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According to the latest research by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), cryptocurrency users in Great Britain are growing in numbers and appear to be more confident in crypto as an alternative investment vehicle.

The number of users that own crypto is also on the rise as 5.7% of respondents, compared to 5.4% last year, said that they hold or have held digital currencies.

Based on these numbers, the researchers estimate that as many as 2.3 million people in the UK currently own crypto, up from approximately 1.9 million in 2020.

One notable finding is the changing behavior of users when it comes to reasons for buying crypto in the first place.

For example, only 71% of respondents who had h…

In brief Wedbush joins Bank of America, Credit Suisse and others in testing blockchainBlockchain-based clearing and settlement promises faster and more reliable stock tradingThe giant investment firm Wedbush Securities announced on Thursday it will begin using blockchain technology to settle certain stock trades.

Currently, banks and investment firms rely on legacy software systems to record and clear the billions of stock trades they carry out every year.

Blockchain technology offers the opportunity to conduct such real time settlement, and is also considered highly reliable and secure.

The advent of blockchain clearing and settlement promises fewer trading halts for consumers.

“It's cryst…

In brief Graphics card manufacturer ASRock is seeing shrinking demand from China's crypto mining sector.

According to Digitimes Asia, ASRock reported that while it expects sales of its graphics cards to grow rapidly this year, it's seeing shrinking demand from China's crypto mining sector.

China's clampdown on crypto mining was one of a number of factors that influenced last month's crypto price crash, which saw the price of Bitcoin drop to as low as $32,000.

Instead, they're mostly used for mining Ethereum, which fell to a price of around $1,900 during May's crypto crash.

Like ASRock, graphics card chipmaker Nvidia has struggled to balance the competing demands of crypto miners and its cor…

When examining crypto, there’s a danger that regulators will underestimate the opportunities involved, while over-amplifying the risks, said Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam on Tuesday, during an appearance on Bloomberg Studio 1.0.

The co-founder of the popular U.S.-based crypto exchange was asked about the likely course regulators would take with cryptocurrencies.

“Crypto is a nuanced issue, and that it's possible the U.S. gets crypto wrong,” said Ehrsam.

It can, however, crackdown on the platforms if they are either based in the United States or offer services to U.S. citizens.

Quarles said that a joint framework for supervision is a "high priority" and said he expects to have some results…

But while it will now accept crypto, the committee will swiftly convert the funds received to fiat.

And Andrew Yang, a former Democratic presidential candidate, was one of the first individual politicians to accept crypto donations.

However, the Federal Election Commission has expressed its unease over crypto donations.

Primarily, it said it was concerned about the transparency of the donations and disclosure rules—since cryptocurrency donations can be designed to be anonymous.

To counter this threat and appease the Commission, the NRCC said it would first identify donors who make crypto donations.

The World Bank has refused a request from El Salvador to assist in the country’s implementation of Bitcoin as legal tender.

When it comes to Bitcoin, the World Bank has said it is concerned about transparency and the leading cryptocurrency’s impact on the environment.

Doubt over El Salvador’s Bitcoin projectThe World Bank is not the only major financial institution to cast doubt over El Salvador’s decision to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.

Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that El Salvador’s decision raises several “macroeconomic, financial, and legal issues that require very careful analysis.”JP Morgan also poured cold water on El Salvador’s decision.

Benoit Co…

In brief The SEC has again delayed the VanEck Bitcoin Trust filing, this time asking the public several key questions about the market.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed its decision on VanEck’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), called the VanEck Bitcoin Trust.

VanEck’s Bitcoin ETF journeyVanEck’s first filing came in June 2018 with its VanEck SolidX Bitcoin trust.

The New York-based investment manager refiled a new application in December 2020, called the VanEck Bitcoin Trust.

The VanEck Bitcoin Trust would trade shares that reflect the performance of the MVIS CryptoCompare Bitcoin Benchmark Rate.

In brief Decentralized exchanges let you trade tokens directly with other users.

That’s where decentralized exchanges, or DEXs, come in.

Decentralized exchanges are one of the key building blocks of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.

1inch stands out from the pack, as it’s a DEX exchange aggregator, rather than a dedicated DEX itself.

The first step is to choose which network you’d like to use, from a choice of Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, or Polygon.

Mark Cuban is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a big proponent of Ethereum and NFTs.

Image: ShutterstockThe bottom has fallen out of TITAN, part of a "multi-chain partial-collateralized algorithmic stablecoin ecosystem" from IRON Finance.

And billionaire DeFi investor Mark Cuban's wallet balance may have fallen with it.

Decrypt has reached out to Iron Finance for comment.

Responding to a suggestion that this was a rug pull—when founders abandon a project after cashing out—Cuban responded: "I got hit like everyone else.

In brief BitDAO has amassed a huge sum to support DeFi projects with grants, technical assistance, and liquidity.

BitDAO took in $230 million in a funding round led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Thiel-founded Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Dragonfly Capital—all early backers of the project, which "aims to promote and propel the mass adoption of open finance and decentralized tokenized economy."

Though in recent years they have been used for governance of DeFi protocols, they are becoming increasingly popular vehicles for venture capital.

NeptuneDAO launched with $20 million in April, with a plan to provide decentralized finance lending protocols with liquidity.

With $230 million in…

Taproot locked inTaproot has locked in with Bitcoin protocol upgrade now set to activate in November.

Taproot, the Bitcoin protocol upgrade that makes smart contracts more private and compact, has locked in.

As of just now, more than 90 percent of all blocks that will be mined in the current difficulty period have signaled support for the upgrade, which means that Bitcoin Core versions 0.21.1 and newer will start enforcing the new rules in November of this year, as will the alternative Taproot activation client.

Square allocates $5 mln in BTC to its Bitcoin Endowment programFinancial services company Square has allocated $5 million in BTC to its Bitcoin Endowment program and has selected educational program Black Bitcoin Billionaire as the first-ever recipient for a grant from the program.

Black Bitcoin Billionaire is receiving 1 BTC from the endowment, according to Square.

The allocation comes as part of a larger commitment to invest $100 million in minority and underserved communities, originally made in September 2020.

Square announced the allocation of $25 million of this total investment yesterday and released a memo outlining more details.

Ledger completes $380 million fundraiseLedger, a hardware wallet manufacturer for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, has announced the completion of a $380 million series C investment round led by cryptocurrency-focused investment fund 10T Holdings, whose CEO will now be joining the Ledger board.

With this fundraising round, Ledger has an implied $1.5 billion valuation, conferring it the status of a “unicorn” startup.

“This Series C announcement marks the transition of Ledger from the leading digital asset security company to becoming the secure gateway to the entire digital asset ecosystem,” said Ledger’s CEO Pascal Gauthier, per the announcement.

“This industry is fast becoming mainstrea…

El Salvador officially recognizes Bitcoin as a legal tenderIn an early Wednesday vote, a supermajority of the nation’s legislature voted in favor of President Nayib Bukele’s proposal for the Latin American nation to adopt bitcoin.

The president intends to sign later tonight or early in the morning.

Sixty-two members of the legislature voted in favor of the bill, with 19 opposed and three abstentions.

HRF donates $210,000 in Bitcoin ecosystem grantsThe Human Rights Foundation (HRF) Bitcoin Development Fund's latest round will award a total of $210,000 to three Bitcoin Core contributors, two Lightning Network wallet teams and an Arabic translator.

"This round of gifts will focus on: Bitcoin core development, making it easier to run nodes and making it harder to Sybil attack nodes, wallet optimization for emerging markets, privacy improvements for Lightning apps, [and] expanding arabic language Bitcoin education and translation," announced HRF Chief Strategy Officer Alex Gladstein.

HRF will award the largest sum to the Bitcoin Core developers Calvin Kim, Dhruv Mehta and Abubakar Nur Khalil…

Marathon will start signaling for TaprootMara Pool, the bitcoin mining pool operated by digital asset technology company Marathon Digital Holdings, will update its miners to the latest Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 software to signal for Taproot activation, and stop censoring transactions.

"Marathon is committed to the core tenets of the Bitcoin community, including decentralization, inclusion, and no censorship," said Marathon's CEO Fred Thiel.

"Over the coming week, we will be updating all our miners to the full standard Bitcoin core 0.21.1 node, including support for Taproot.

By adopting the full standard Bitcoin core node, we will be validating transactions on the blockchain in the exact same way…

SEC Chair Gensler: We 'should be ready' to enforce crypto casesNew Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler remarked today that the agency "should be ready to bring cases involving issues such as crypto."

Speaking at the 2021 Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Annual Conference, Gensler told the virtual conference attendees, "As we think about enforcement, to me, the idea is pretty simple: We need rules of the road and a cop on the beat to protect everyday investors and achieve our...mission."

Chinese Bitcoin miner BIT Mining to build mining data center in TexasBIT Mining will invest US$25.7 million in the Texas crypto mining facility, which it will construct and operate jointly with Dory Creek, a wholly-owned subsidiary of fellow Chinese cryptocurrency cloud mining platform Bitdeer.

The total hashrate capacity of the Texas mining center will be 57.2 MW, more than 85% of which will be sourced from low-carbon energy.

Wells Fargo becomes latest banking giant to make foray into cryptoSan Francisco-headquartered banking giant Wells Fargo is set to add its own cryptocurrency strategy for wealthy clients by mid-June.

Darrell Cronk, the president of Wells Fargo Investment Institute (WFII), claims that the bank now views crypto as a "viable investable asset":

MicroStrategy announces $10M Bitcoin purchaseAccording to its May 18 SEC filing, the company has purchased yet another $10 million worth of Bitcoin at an average price of $43,663 per coin.

The company currently holds 92,079 Bitcoins that are worth an estimated $2.251 billion.

Argo Blockchain purchases 2 facilities in QuebecU.K.-based Argo Blockchain continues to grow its footprint in North America.

Last week, the block reward miner announced it completed the purchase of two data centers in Quebec, Canada.

The purchase follows an earlier announcement this year that the firm purchased land in Texas to build a digital currency mining facility.

Argo CEO Peter Wall said, “Argo’s purchase of data centers in Canada represents another milestone for the company as we seek to take greater control over our mining production and mining cost base, while also laying solid foundations for long-term growth.”

Increasing popularity of Bitcoin pressures Samsung to add hardware wallet support to Its Galaxy smartphonesSouth Korean tech giant Samsung has added support for third-party cryptocurrency hardware wallets to its Galaxy smartphones.

These wallets including the Ledger Nano S and Nano X.

According to an announcement the company published, its smartphones supporting the Samsung Blockchain Wallet – which is available on the Samsung Galaxy store – can now be linked with cryptocurrency hardware wallets designed specifically to keep users’ cryptoassets secure.

Gas powered Bitcoin miner Greenidge commits to go carbon neutral to offset emissionsThe gas-powered Bitcoin mining plant will go fully carbon neutral next month.

Greenidge currently uses natural gas in its Bitcoin mining operation.

On Friday it announced it is committed to attaining 100% carbon neutrality.

It’s hoping to achieve this through carbon offsetting.

Argo Blockchain signs crypto climate accordArgo Blockchain confirmed on Friday that it has signed a crypto climate accord (CCA), alongside DMG Blockchain, in an effort to push forward decarbonisation of the crypto industry.

The bitcoin mining firm announced its plans to implement new technologies aimed at fostering transparency over the renewable energy sourcing of mining procedures.

The CCA, a private sector-led initiative with 40 signatories including 20 prominent cryptocurrency companies, has outlined its objectives as part of its effort to decarbonise the global cryptocurrency industry and transition the sector to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

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Действительно ли это возможно, и если да, что это означает для устойчивости и будущего Биткойна?

Всё это дорого обходилось как в плане денег, так и в плане экологии, но с тех пор ситуация значительно улучшилась.

Возобновляемая энергетика, как и Биткойн, упрочила свои позиции и будет расти быстрее, чем любой другой сектор.

В глобальных масштабах, таким образом, это будет скорее перераспределение энергетических ресурсов, а не повышение требований, и это можно считать преимуществом сети Биткойна.

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Глава регулятора Перри Варджийо объяснил, что цифровые активы не могут считаться платежным инструментом по нынешнему законодательству.

Глава Банка Индонезии Перри Варджийо объявил о введении запрета на использование криптовалюты в качестве платежного средства или других инструментов финансовых услуг, сообщает Tempo.

По словам главы регулятора, запрет соответствует действующему законодательству, по которому цифровые активы не относятся к законным средствам платежа.

«Криптовалюта не относится к законным платежным инструментам в соответствии с Конституцией, Законом о банках Индонезии и Законом о валюте», — отметил Варджийо.

Известный экономист Стив Ханке спрогнозировал, что принятие биткойна в…

Миллиардер Тим Дрейпер ранее неоднократно заявлял, что биткойн в долгосрочной перспективе нацелен на рост.

Однако подобная монетарная политика неминуемо спровоцирует инфляцию, поэтому инвесторы будут массово переходить на альтернативные инструменты и на биткойн, в частности.

Дрейпер сказал, что уже к концу будущего года или к началу 2023 года курс BTC достигнет $250 000.

Миллиардер известен тем, что он еще в 2018 году на фоне крушения крипторынка заявил, что биткойн возобновит экспансию и покажет нам новый максимум.

Дрейпер подчеркнул:«Дайте ему около полутора лет, и все ритейлеры перейдут на биткойн».

Суд удовлетворил просьбу Комиссии по ценным бумагам и биржам США (SEC) на 60-дневную отсрочку в деле против Ripple.

По мнению адвокатов Ripple, регулятор не предоставил никаких веских причин для переноса судебного заседания.

Впрочем, судья Сара Нетберн также пошла навстречу и Ripple и разрешила Брэду Гарлингхаусу и Крису Ларсену запросить документы, связанные с их счетами и транзакциями XRP у 16 иностранных криптобирж.

Биржевой регулятор подал в суд на Ripple в конце 2020 года.

В Ripple подчеркивают, что XRP — это криптовалюта, такая же как биткойн или ether.

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Также коротко обсудим очередную закупку BTC Майклом Сейлором и MicroStrategy, с акцентом на том, как в сложившейся ситуации отделить «сигнал от шума».

Биткойн: прорыв на недельном таймфрейме, дневной в режиме ожиданияBTC/USD демонстрирует признаки восходящего импульса на старшем таймфрейме в результате закрытия выше недельного сопротивления у $38,2 тыс.

Как и всегда, фитили ниже этого уровня вполне могут случаться.

Вообще говоря, если доверять недельному прорыву, то разумно ожидать, что сопротивление на меньшем таймфрейме будет сломлено, и скорее раньше, чем позже.

Ротация внимания и капитала в биткойн — не обязательно плохие новости для Ethereum-«быков», уж точно не в среднесрочной перспек…

В Сухуме правоохранители отключили 17 единиц оборудования, в Гудаутском районе — 128.

Крупную майнинг-ферму обнаружили в Галском районе со 184 майерами.

Правоохранители выписали штраф в размере 408 000 рублей и отключили ферму от электросети.

В Гагрском районе обнаружили 17 устройств для добычи криптовалют, общая мощность электропотребления которых составила более 28 кВт.

Они также утвердили штрафы и уголовную ответственность за незаконное потребление электроэнергии для добычи криптовалют.

Космические силы США (USSF) выпустят коллекцию невзаимозаменяемых токенов (NFT) в честь запуска навигационного спутника «Armstrong».

Космический аппарат назвали в честь американского астронавта Нила Армстронга.

NFT-токены из коллекции Космических сил США станут доступны на платформе Ethernity в день запуска спутника, который намечен на 17 июня.

В начале июня американская частная космическая компания Astrobotic Technology объявила об отправке на Луну аппаратного кошелька в виде физической монеты, содержащего один биткойн.

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Глава мегарегулятора Эльвира Набиуллина назвала цифровые активы денежным суррогатом и объяснила сложность их регулирования на национальном уровне.

Банк России продолжает выступать против использования криптовалют для расчетов внутри страны, отметила глава ЦБ Эльвира Набиуллина.

В ходе выступления в Госдуме с ежегодным отчетом она сообщила, что позиция финансового регулятора по отношению к криптовалютам не изменилась.

Это денежный суррогат, и мы против того, чтобы криптовалюты, как частные цифровые, даже деньгами их не хочется называть, использовались для расчетов внутри страны», — отметила Набиуллина.

Глава Банка России подчеркнула, что нельзя путать криптовалюты и цифровой рубль, поскольку…

Пользователи могут зарабатывать криптовалюту Basic Attention Token (BAT) , просматривая в Brave конфиденциальную рекламу.

В январе 2021 г. в Brave добавлена поддержка InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) – ключевого элемента децентрализованного веба.

Brave – это браузер с акцентом на конфиденциальности и с поддержкой криптовалют, который по умолчанию запрещает сайтам следить за вами.

И это не случайно: Brave разработан на базе браузера с открытым кодом Chromium, на котором также основан Chrome от Google.

Также стоит отметить, что если вы включите вознаграждения Brave, то это не значит, что вы будете купаться в деньгах.

Главное обновление биткойна за последние годы Taproot получило необходимую поддержку майнеров для активации в ноябре.

Taproot стал самым ожидаемым обновлением биткойна с момента активации Segregated Witness (SegWit) в 2017 году.

Во многом это уже возможно в биткойне, но с Taproot появятся дополнительные преимущества, например транзакции кошельков с мультиподписью на уровне блокчейна будут неотличимы от обычных.

На блоке 709 632, который, как ожидается, будет добавлен в сеть биткойна в ноябре, произойдет непосредственная активация обновления.

Тогда включенные в Taproot предложения по улучшению биткойна (BIP) автоматически начнут использоваться участниками сети, установившими необходимое обно…

Tesla снова начнет принимать биткойн, когда преимущественная часть майнинга будет вестись на возобновляемых источниках энергии, сообщил генеральный директор компании Илон Маск.

Tesla начала продавать электромобили за криптовалюту в марте, но уже в мае отказалась от нее, указав на опасения касаемо воздействия майнинга на окружающую среду.

По ее словам, Маск намеренно поднял цену биткойна заявлениями в Twitter, после чего ликвидировал значительную часть своей позиции на максимумах.

– Когда появится подтверждение приемлемого (~50%) использования чистой энергии майнерами с положительным будущим трендом, Tesla снова позволит осуществлять транзакции в биткойне».

Одновременно с майским сообщением …

Британский аналитический стартап CryptoCompare получил стратегические инвестиции от MV Index Solutions (MVIS), дочерней компании управляющего активами VanEck, сообщает The Block.

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За год число инвесторов в криптовалюты в Великобритании возросло с 1,9 млн до 2,3 млн. Такие оценки привело Управление по финансовому надзору (FCA). Исследователи зафиксировали увеличение медианного депозита с 260 до 300 фунтов ($420). Регулятор отметил рост до 78% доли тех, кому известно понятие «цифровых валют». За год показатель увеличился на 5%. Данные: FCA. Позитивный опыт инвестиций в криптовалюты отметили 53% опрошенных против 41% год назад. FCA отметило невысокий уровень финансовой грамотности среди криптоинвесторов ― лишь 71% смогли корректно ответить на базовые вопросы в тестировании знаний (в 2020 году ― 75%). Регулятор напомнил, что большинство криптовалютных проектов не регулир…

Основателю Tesla Илону Маску стоит лучше изучить майнинг первой криптовалюты, поскольку он намного более экологичен, чем думают люди. Об этом в интервью Bloomberg заявил CEO биржи Kraken Джесси Пауэлл. Он признал, что могут быть более "зеленые" альтернативы биткоину. Но, по его мнению, люди переоценивают вред криптовалюты для окружающей среды. Добыча цифрового золота позволяет утилизировать большое количество избыточной и теряемой энергии, а также способствует развитию сектора электроэнергетики на возобновляемых источниках, считает Пауэлл. "Я не знаю, как долго Илон изучал майнинг, но надеюсь, он еще немного исследует эту тему", — сказал Пауэлл. Ранее Маск назвал условием возобновления прод…

Разработчики обновили дорожную карту развития блокчейна Beam и запуска конфиденциальной DeFi-инфраструктуры BeamX. Информацию ForkLog предоставила команда проекта. Основой дальнейшего развития станет третий хардфорк в основной сети, который состоялся 14 июня 2021 года на блоке #1 280 000. Обновление сделало возможным использование смарт-контрактов (Shaders). Также упростился пользовательский интерфейс кошелька, за счет сокращения типов адресов, и через приложение стали доступны конфиденциальные активы. Данные: Beam. В третьем квартале разработчики планируют представить браузерный кошелек в стиле Metamask. В будущем предполагается: Beam Web Wallet будет напрямую подключен к Metamask, предост…

Тестовая сеть Finney микснета NYM приблизилась к Tor по количеству нод. На момент публикации в Finney работают 8080 нод, в Tor — 8191 нода. При поддержке некоммерческой организации Cosmos Interchain Foundation к Finney присоединились несколько крупных валидаторов Tendermint: Dokia Capital, P2P.org, Hashquark, HuobiPool и Figment. «Мы гордимся участием в проекте Nym. Защита пользовательских данных на уровне протокола с помощью технологий сохранения конфиденциальности — важный шаг на пути к свободному интернету, который принадлежит пользователям», — комментирует Андрес Соланот из Figment. По словам представителей Nym, сеть Tor работает за счет пожертвований и грантов. У операторов Tor нет эко…

Национальный комитет Республиканской партии США в Конгрессе (NRCC) начал принимать пожертвования на избирательные кампании в криптовалютах.

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Компания McLaren Racing объявила о новом многолетнем техническом партнерстве с блокчейн-проектом Tezos для создания платформы невзаимозаменяемых токенов (NFT).

We are excited to welcome @Tezos, the world’s most advanced blockchain, as our Official Technical Partner.

🤝McLaren will use the energy efficient and upgradeable Tezos network to create a series of non-fungible tokens (NFT) across F1, INDYCAR and esports.

Команда DeFi-протокола Goldfinch, предоставляющего криптозаймы без залога, закрыла раунд финансирования Серии А на сумму $11 млн.

Его возглавила Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

We have raised $11M led by @a16z crypto, 2.)

We’re announcing our Backer Program, and 3.)

We can now point to the whitepaper that serves as the basis for the protocol.

США заблуждаются в отношении регулирования отрасли цифровых активов, поскольку она может стать мощным драйвером роста для экономики страны. Об этом сооснователь биткоин-биржи Coinbase и CEO венчурной компании Paradigm Фред Эрсам заявил в интервью Bloomberg.

The post Фред Эрсам: Китай может обойти США на рынке цифровых активов first appeared on ForkLog.

Российский рэп-исполнитель Элджей (Алексей Узенюк) в сотрудничестве с проектом Mubert выпустит серию невзаимозаменяемых токенов (NFT) на маркетплейсе Binance NFT. Об этом ForkLog сообщили представители биржи. Запуск платформы состоится 24 июня 2021 года. Работы музыканта выставят на аукцион в первую неделю после старта в рамках кампании 100 creators. Коллекция NFT представляет собой пять ASMR-рингтонов в единственных экземплярах, которые сгенерированы искусственным интеллектом сервиса для алгоритмической генерации музыки Mubert на основе звуков из жизни Элджея. Также работы подкреплены абстрактными анимациями от цифрового художника Александра Шишковца. Поддержку в создании NFT оказали агент…

Нью-йоркская майнинговая фирма Wattum Inc. в партнерстве с компанией Enegix из Казахстана построит дата-центр мощностью 16 МВт и стоимостью $2 млн. Строительство запланировано на июль 2021 года. Стороны также ведут переговоры о финансировании и строительстве дополнительного объекта мощностью 50 МВт. Его ориентировочная стоимость составляет $8 млн. Партнерство компаний откроет для Enegix возможность выхода на рынок США. Напомним, в сентябре 2020 года Enegix открыла в Казахстане дата-центр мощностью 180 МВт. По словам представителей компании, на объекте размещены 50 тысяч биткоин-майнеров, на долю которых приходится более 2% мирового хешрейта. Подписывайтесь на новости ForkLog в Telegram: For…

Токен проекта IRON Finance обесценился.

В числе пострадавших — Марк КьюбанКоманда DeFi-протокола IRON Finance рекомендовала пользователям вывести средства из пулов после обесценивания токена IRON Titanium Token (TITAN) из-за «банковской паники».

Залог состоит из двух активов: в сети Polygon это USD Coin (USDC) и TITAN, а в BSC — Binance USD (BUSD) и STEEL.

Механизм эмиссии IRON предполагает, что для выпуска стейблкоина пользователю необходимо заблокировать в смарт-контракте 25% обеспечения в TITAN и 75% в USDC.

Команда IRON Finance предложила пользователям погасить токены в USDC, однако для этого необходимо подождать 12 часов, пока не пройдет временная блокировка.

Украинские правоохранители сообщили о выявлении шестерых представителей хакерской группировки, которая стояла за шифровальщиком Clop, атаковавшего организации из Южной Кореи и США. По данным киберполиции Украины, в 2019 операторы Clop взломали четыре южнокорейские компании, скомпрометировав внутренние сервера и устройства сотрудников. Хакеры распространяли ПО через электронные письма с вредоносным файлом. В 2021 году группировка атаковала Медицинскую школу Стэнфордского университета, а также университеты Мэриленда и Калифорнии, получив доступ к персональным данным сотрудников и финансовым отчетам. За дешифровку злоумышленники требовали выкуп в криптовалюте, в случае неуплаты которого угрожа…

Находящийся в испанской тюрьме предприниматель Джон Макафи сообщил, что от его криптовалютного состояния ничего не осталось, а все другие активы конфискованы.

The US believes I have hidden crypto.

I wish I did but it has dissolved through the many hands of Team McAfee (your belief is not required), and my remaining assets are all seized.

My friends evaporated through fear of association.

Yet, I regret nothing.

О текущей ситуации на рынке рассказывает аналитик Nanny Ventures Владимир Кавецкий. Недельная свеча BTC/USDT закрылась позитивно с отличным откупом в воскресенье, хотя ранее были сигналы в пользу снижения. Поспособствовал Илон Маск. Цена пробила треугольник с плоским дном и смогла закрепиться выше $39 000. На текущей неделе котировки достигали $41 330. На рынке все еще правит бал неопределенность, поскольку на дневном графике биткоин пробивал EMA-200, но закрепиться над ней так и не смог. Данные: TradingView. Недельный таймфрейм по биткоину добавляет немного позитива, но не стоит забывать про гэп на Чикагской товарной бирже (CME) в районе $37 700, который могут закрыть уже на этой неделе. Д…

Материал подготовлен биткоинером Tony ₿.За 11 лет существования Биткоин громко заявил о себе. Кто-то называет его новой революционной технологией, кто-то — деньгами будущего. Но суть в том, что он уже кардинально изменил жизни тысяч людей. У Биткоина появилось огромное количество как приверженцев, так и противников. Сотни раз его не только обрекали на смерть, но и распространяли множество мифов с целью поставить под сомнение как способность Биткоина к процветанию, так и целесообразность продолжения работы над протоколом.Целью данного материала является краткий пошаговый ответ на каждое из данных заблуждений с предоставлением ссылок на более детальные исследования по актуальным на сегодняшни…

By default, all transactions made on Ethereum are public.

Tornado Cash is a decentralized privacy preserving solution built on Ethereum which adds privacy through obfuscation.

Users can place Ether and some stable coins in prescribed increments [1 Eth, 10 Eth, 100 Eth…] into the Tornado Pool.

In return, they are issued a private note, with which they can withdraw funds at a later time to a different address.

We were joined by Roman Semenov, co-founder of Tornado Cash, to talk about how the protocol works, how it was set up, community governance, and where he sees Tornado Cash’s position in the quickly growing privacy ecosystem on Ethereum.

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are tokens that we can use to represent ownership of unique items.

They let us tokenize things like art, collectibles, even real estate.

They can only have one official owner at a time and they’re secured by the Ethereum blockchain.

Showtime is a NFT social media network where creators & collectors showcase their digital art.

We were joined by Alex Masmej, Co-founder and CEO of Showtime, to chat about why he got into NFTs and in particular crypto art, how Showtime works and its purpose, and the future of the platform.

Ethereum will switch from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS) likely already later this year in a much anticipated upgrade to Ethereum 2.

The switch to PoS aims to make Ethereum both more secure and more sustainable by securing the network through Ether instead of mining.

A second Eth2 update will address scaling through sharding at a later time.

Danny Ryan, Researcher with Ethereum Foundation, has been a major driving force behind the Eth2 project.

He joined us for a progress update and we chatted about how the protocol will work in its steady state, what has launched so far, what happens in The Merge, and how PoS will affect centralization tendencies.

“I owe a debt of gratitude to you for teaching me so much about #blockchain and #crypto projects I’ve listened to every episode, some several times.

Keep up the great work.

It is under-appreciated because it is deep.

Don’t stop though that’s what the industry needs

Curve is an Automated Market Maker (AMM) that lets users and other decentralized protocols exchange stablecoins (DAI to USDC for example) with low fees and low slippage.

Unlike exchanges that match a buyer and a seller, users transact with the smart contract itself.

By providing a flatter curve targeted for relatively stable pairs, Curve has established the lead position for these markets.

Curve is also leveraging its own token CRV to incentivize long-term adoption of the protocol and decentralize control of governance.

We were joined by Curve Finance Founder, Michael Egorov, to chat about why he created the protocol and his long term vision for the project.

Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)-1559 is a proposal to make several tightly coupled additions to Ethereum’s transaction fee mechanism.

Central to the design is a base fee, which plays the role of a reserve price and is meant to match supply and demand.

Every transaction included in a block must pay that block’s base fee (per unit of gas), and this payment is burnt rather than transferred to the block’s miner.

The base fee is adjusted after every block, with larger-than-target blocks increasing it and smaller-than-target blocks decreasing it.

Tim Roughgarden is a Professor of Computer Science and member of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University.

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Trevor is the cofounder of Brud, a technology startup specializing in artificial intelligence and media.

At Brud, they create social media personas with the help of CGI technology, the most well-known being Lil Miquela.

Lil Miquela is a sentient robot navigating life in LA — and has millions of followers on Instagram.

Trevor also started Friends With Benefits, a gated online community on a private discord server with a community token.

We talked with Trevor about the increasingly immersive social media experience, the future for creators and the future of organizations.

This episode is brought to you by RSK, the Bitcoin-based smart contract platform leading the DeFi for Bitcoin revolution.

RSK is a secure smart-contract platform that enables decentralized applications secured by the Bitcoin Network to empower people and improve the quality of life of millions.

The platform incorporates a Turing Complete Virtual Machine to Bitcoin.

RSK believes that new use cases are necessary in order for Bitcoin to become the leading global cryptocurrency, and that adding smart-contract capabilities is key to secure that future.

Visit rsk.co/openfinance to find out how you can put your Bitcoin to work.

The ability to move Bitcoin on other chains isn’t a new idea, and many are trying to overcome the technical limitations which make this a technically challenging feat.

The latest representation of Bitcoin on Ethereum is tBTC, a fully-backed ERC-20 token representing bitcoin collateral.

tBTC is fully decentralized and relies on Keep Network, a decentralized multi-party computation which enables cross-chain bridging.

We were joined by Matt Luongo, CEO of Thesis (the team behind tBTC and Keep Network) to chat about the tBTC technology, his vision for the future of interoperability and value propositions of different chains.

1inch Exchange is a DEX aggregator routing cryptocurrency purchases through different DEXs to reduce slippage and get a better conversion rate for the user compared with just using a single DEX.

The platform launched its governance token, 1INCH, in December 2020.

We were joined by Co-founder of 1inch Sergej Kunz to chat about how 1inch works, how the 1INCH token provides liquidity to their liquidity platform, its integration with platforms such as Uniswap, and the roadmap from here.

Zubin Koticha, CEO & Co-founder of Opyn, joined us again on the show to give us an update on Opyn v2.

Opyn v1 was focused on insurance.

Its successor, Opyn v2, offers a more traditional options infrastructure.

We discuss the problems of building trustless options infrastructure: choice of collateral, partial collateralization and efficient trading mechanisms for options.

Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw interest-free loans against Ether used as collateral. In addition to the collateral, the loans are secured by a Stability Pool containing LUSD and by fellow borrowers collectively acting as guarantors of last resort. Liquity as a protocol is non-custodial, immutable, and governance-free.We were joined by Robert Lauko, CEO & Co-founder, and Kolten Bergeron, Head of Growth, of Liquity. We chatted about how the protocol is built and the mechanisms used, how to borrow, and the stability pool and liquidations.Topics covered in this episode:Robert and Kolten's backgrounds and how they got into cryptoWhat led Robert to create Li…

Most of my projects, in white, they don’t actually show anything and just go to simplicity.

It’s actually DeFi that will be controlled by a centralized entity pretending to run a DeFi solution or maybe getting involved in blockchain.

I think that’s a sneaky move from them because they will, they are very likely to succeed.

I want to force myself to remind myself when I’m actually getting into this article as if I’m from the future.

This is an example of most of the staking as a service, they don’t actually support the vision of decentralization.

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join me in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book.

This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends!

It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it - then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.

Links: The Little Bitcoin Book website: http://littlebitcoinbook.com/ The Little Bitcoin Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-…

Willy Woo, on-chain Bitcoin analyst and writer of the Bitcoin Forecast, a market intelligence newsletter, and Rafael Schultze-Kraft, co-founder and CTO of Glassnode, discuss Bitcoin and what the on-chain metrics[...]

The post Will Bitcoin’s Price Go Up Again? Yes, According to On-Chain Analytics appeared first on Unchained Podcast.

Nick Tomaino, general partner of 1confirmation, discusses his firm’s recently announced third fund of $125 million and gives his perspective on many hot crypto topics, such as NFTs, Layer 2 solutions, Polkadot, DAOs, and more.

Show highlights:why Nick became interested in crypto and his backgroundwhat drives 1confirmation’s investment thesiswhy he Nick believes NFTs have taken off in popularity this yearwhy NFTs are currently in a bubblewhat we might do with NFTs in the futurehow competition between different NFT marketplaces will shake outhow music NFTs could workthe feasibility of charging royalties in the secondary sale of NFTswhy environmental concerns over crypto mining to only be a sh…

Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix, and Kyle Samani, managing partner at Multicoin Capital, debate the merits of Ethereum, Solana, and Binance Smart Chain.

In this episode, they discuss:why Ethereum is losing market share to Solana and BSCwhether decentralization matters and at what point decentralization becomes redundantwhy they think Solana and Binance Smart Chain need to be taken seriously as competitors to EThereumwhether BSC or Solana is the bigger long-term threat to Ethereumthe biggest obstacle to Ethereum’s success (and it’s not gas fees)how Ethereum will navigate fragmented Layer 2 solutionsSolana and its lack of developerswhat differentiates DeFi from CeFiwhy Solana has an edge o…

Last week, Tesla announced they will no longer accept Bitcoin as payment for vehicles. In a timely episode, Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation, and James[...]

The post Bitcoin vs. the Petrodollar: Which Is More Environmentally Friendly? appeared first on Unchained Podcast.

In this discussion I moderated for Paxos, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev and Paxos CEO Charles Cascarilla discuss GameStop, the broken traditional financial infrastructure, and how blockchain technology may change the future of settlements.

Show highlights:why Robinhood stopped trading on GameStop and AMC stock earlier this yearwhat both Charles and Vlad think the feasibility of T+0 settlements versus Citadel’s and the DTCC’s aim of T+1 settlementshow the GameStop scenario would have been different in a T+0 environmentwhat it would look like if certain markets used T+0 settlements while others still settled on T+1why Robinhood decided to add crypto back in early 2018how Robinhood’s crypto operati…

Crypto’s Gender Disparity: What Can Be Done About It?

4 Women Weigh InCrypto sits at the intersection of two male-dominated industries: tech and finance.

I was asked to moderate a panel for the Amber Group with four leading women in crypto to discuss the role of gender in the crypto industry and what can be done to bring more women into the space.

Panelists include Mia Deng, partner at Dragonfly Capital; Amy Zhang, vice president of sales at Fireblocks; Alexis Gauba, cofounder at Opyn; and Annabelle Huang, partner at Amber Group.

Show highlights:how each panelist got into crypto, what it is they do, and which company they work forwhy women have been somewhat reluctant to speak on crypto gen…

Devin Finzer, co-founder and CEO of NFT marketplace OpenSea, talks all things non-fungible. Check out the whole show to hear Devin answer the following questions: First Half: Breaking Down NFTs[...]

The post How NFT Platform OpenSea Plans to Maintain Its Competitive Advantage – Ep.232 appeared first on Unchained Podcast.

In a fun change of pace, I was interviewed by the On Deck Podcaster Fellowship about the origins of Unchained pod, how my background as a journalist prepared me for podcasting, and tips for aspiring creators.

Episode highlights:why I believe the Unchained podcast has been successful and how my penchant for asking tough questions came about (1:48)how my background in journalism prepared me for hosting a podcast (6:35)how I choose guests for the show and how they feel about being asked difficult questions (9:10)why I feel my background in traditional media is so important (15:46)whether my podcast helped me land a book deal (20:35)the Unchained podcast origin story (26:37)how I’ve brought my …

In an interview I moderated at Real Vision’s “Crypto Gathering,” Peter L Brandt, veteran trader and publisher of the Factor Report, and Willy Woo, prominent on-chain Bitcoin analyst and author of the “The Bitcoin Forecast,” a market intelligence newsletter, discuss Bitcoin charts, trading, and how Bitcoin is evolving as an asset.

They cover:why Peter believes that, with Bitcoin, we are watching history in the making and what a “parabolic advance” has to do with that belief (2:02)the differences in trading Bitcoin, which trades 24/7/365, in comparison to a normal asset — like a stock or commodity (6:36 )Willy’s price target for the top of this bull run (8:37)why Willy thinks there is a Bitco…

Mark Cuban — billionaire investor, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and Shark Tank “shark” — shares his thoughts on the Ethereum vs. BTC debate, issues with DeFi, and how NFTs[...]

The post Mark Cuban on Why He Thinks ETH Is a Better Store of Value Than Bitcoin appeared first on Unchained Podcast.

Olta Andoni, fintech and IP Attorney at Zlatkin Wong and adjunct professor at Chicago Kent College of Law, Tonya Evans, visiting Full Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law School and host of the podcast Tech Intersect, and Stuart Levi, co-head of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice at Skadden Arps and coordinator of the firm’s Blockchain and Digital Asset practice, break down the legal issues surrounding NFTs.

In this episode, they discuss:how the law looks at non-fungible tokens (1:25)why owning an NFT is different from owning the rights to the underlying asset making up the NFT (3:12)problems that blockchain solves for creators (5:09)how corporations (aka content inte…

Ric Edelman, founder of Edelman Financial Engines, and Matthew Kolesky, president at Arbor Capital, discuss the state of Bitcoin adoption amongst financial advisors, who control $5 trillion in investor wealth.

Not only did I realize that, I realized something else: the vast majority of financial advisors don’t understand this.

And so we’re launching our certificate in blockchain and digital assets, a 10 module online self study course for financial advisors.

So there’s no unbiased, purely educational resource designed by financial advisors for financial advisors.

I did want to say this, and I feel really, really passionate about it: this is not a zero-sum game.

PLUS: More takes on “WTF is an NFT?” There is something fitting about Bitcoin crossing $60k for the first time on March 13, 2021, a year and one day after[...]

The post 3 Publicly Traded Crypto Exchanges? appeared first on Unchained Podcast.

Jamie Burke, CEO of Outlier Ventures, and Mason Nystrom, a research analyst at Messari, discuss the NFT craze that has enveloped the crypto world over the past few weeks.

In this episode, they talk about:their backgrounds, and how they became involved in crypto (1:19)the major catalysts — specifically Beeple and NBA Top Shot — that have brought NFTs into the mainstream (5:29)why NFTs are a “megatrend” and not just another ICO-like bubble (13:35)how to explain non-fungible tokens to normies (18:06)what someone is actually purchasing when they buy an NFT (24:46)the reasons behind NBA Top Shot’s success and why it is so difficult to withdraw money from its platform (36:27)the best way to scale…

About this EpisodeThis week Anna chats with Adrian Brink, co-founder of the Anoma Network and long-time crypto builder.

Adrian explains all there is to know about the new privacy-centric network, diving into concepts like fractal scaling, the validity predicate-based account model, the solution against front-running in Ferveo & much more.

Sign up for the zkSessions here: https://hopin.com/events/zksessions-daos-nftsToday’s episode is sponsored by EY Blockchain.

EY is committed to building a better working world on the public Ethereum blockchain with robust privacy technologies, like zero-knowledge proofs.

EY believes blockchain technology will be the glue that knits together a productive gl…

About this EpisodeThis week Anna and Tarun chat with Martin Köppelmann, CEO of Gnosis.

The company was known for championing prediction markets, but Gnosis has now shifted to making key infrastructure products.

Martin chats about this transition and explains Gnosis’s current products, which include a unique DEX called CowSwap and a number of products for managing DAO treasuries and governance.

Here are some links for this episode:If you’re looking for a job in the world of blockchain and zero knowledge, don’t forget to check out our Jobs Board!

If you like what we do:Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefmJoin us on TelegramCatch us on YoutubeRead up on the r/ZKPodcast subredditGive us feed…

About this EpisodeThis week Anna and James chat with Elena Nadolinski, founder of Iron Fish, about the new privacy network and what led her to this point.

The deep dive into SNARKs and Sapling led to the creation of Beanstalk, later Iron Fish, which Elena hopes will become the shielded pool for all other blockchain assets.

Note: James is an investor in Iron FishHere are some links:Don’t forget to subscribe to the ZkMesh newsletter, aggregating all of the latest developments in ZK each month.

We also launched a newsletter for announcements related to what we do at ZK podcast.

-https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6ASupport our Gitcoin GrantSupport us on the ZKPatreonDonate through coinbase.comme…

Taking a break from his degen career, Andy is now developing Fractional, a protocol for fractionalizing NFTs.

Where Media & Music Meet NFT & Blockchain, Zero Knowledge Episode 167 featuring Andre Anjos (RAC) and Trevor McFedries (Brud).

The board is updated right after each Jobs Fair, the next one of which is today!

Register here for the Jobs Fair and here if you want to attend the zkSessions sister event.

Also, make sure to subscribe to our new Substack to be updated of any future zkSessions, Jobs Fair, StudyClub or another of our many initiatives.

About this EpisodeThis week, Anna and James chat with Antonio Juliano, founder of dYdX, a derivatives exchange on Ethereum that recently transitioned to a StarkEx-powered L2 infrastructure.

Antonio brings a product-centric perspective to using scalability tech.

He explains the choice of going for StarkWare’s products and how it compares to other layer ones or rollups.

And for all job listings, check out the ZK Jobs Board for open positions.

They provide security consulting services, develop open source products and contribute to the advancement of learning and research in the field.

About this EpisodeThis week, Anna and James host Ed Felten and Steven Goldfeder, co-founders of Arbitrum, an Optimistic Rollup project born before the term "Optimistic Rollup" was even coined.

Ed and Steven tell Arbitrum’s story, from its beginnings as a chain-agnostic university project in 2014 to become an Ethereum-based Optimistic L2 Rollup solution based on fraud proofs.

They cover Arbitrum’s interactive fraud proofs, how they differ from other solutions like Optimism, and how Arbitrum and the Optimistic Rollup helps Ethereum scale.

or they can also act as borrowers to borrow in an overcollateralized way or undercollateralized way (think: one-block liquidity Flash Loan).

Assets can be t…

About this EpisodeThis week, Anna chats with Alberto Garoffolo from Horizen Labs for their upcoming Zendoo protocol and Latus sidechain proposal.

The episode centers around the world of sidechains for UTXO-based blockchains such as Horizen or Zcash.

The Horizen team has developed Latus and Zendoo, a SNARK-powered mechanism for designing trustless sidechains.

Here are some links for this episode:Tomorrow we’re hosting the Privacy on Polkadot event as part of our ZK Validator work.

This is going to be the first of many privacy-centric meetups for Polkadot and other chains, hosting privacy projects from across the Web3 space.

About this EpisodeThis week, Anna and James chat with Ben Jones and Mark Tyneway from Optimism, the builders of the first Optimistic Rollup live on Ethereum.

The interview continues the series of L2-focused episodes we have been airing on the Zero Knowledge Podcast and comes just as Optimism gears up for launch.

Anna, James, Ben and Mark discuss the inner workings of their Optimistic Rollup, diving deep into concepts like data availability, the fraud proof, the role of the sequencer and the rollup’s complex relationship with layer-one.

Ben and Mark then lay out their vision for rollup-centric Ethereum and how rollup interoperability is the next major focus area for the ecosystem.

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About this EpisodeIn this week’s episode, Anna chats with Zac Williamson and Joe Andrews, respectively CTO and Head of Product at Aztec.

The episode is centered on Aztec’s latest release, zk.money, the “zk-zk-rollup” that targets privacy and scalability at the same time.

zk.money allows users to shield their Ethereum-based assets while achieving a higher transaction count, a result that took months of research and development of the TurboPLONK.

Zac and Joe explain how it works down to the nitty-gritty of elliptic curve arithmetic, logic gates, hashes and circuits.

or they can also act as borrowers to borrow in an overcollateralized way or undercollateralized way (think: one-block liquidity …

About this EpisodeIn today’s episode, Anna chats with Alex Gluchowski, CEO at Matter Labs and co-creator of zkSync, to catch up on Matter Labs’s latest developments in extending Ethereum’s capabilities with zk proofs.

Alex explains the recent progress in porting Solidity to a zkRollup and how that interacts with the Zinc language and zk proof circuits.

They then move on to discussing Ethereum scalability with a deep dive on rollup architecture and the upcoming zkPorter, a solution for sharded zkRollups that’s being developed by Matter Labs.

Then make sure to check out the ZK Jobs Fair on April 22!

Check out the ZK Jobs Fair application form if you are interested in participating to the even…

About this EpisodeIn today’s episode, Anna and James chat with three representatives of the Cosmos ecosystem — Zaki Manian, Tess Rinearson and Shahan Khatchadourian — to learn all about its recent milestone upgrade, Stargate.

First up is Zaki Manian, co-founder of Iqlusion and Sommelier Finance, who sets the stage for what Stargate achieved and why the upgrade was the most comprehensive and complex yet for Cosmos.

Next is Tess Rinearson, VP of Engineering at Interchain, who recounted her deep involvement in the Stargate upgrade with an almost hour-by-hour replay.

Finally comes Shahan Khatchadourian, Cosmos Hub lead, who talks about his recent transition from the Ethereum ecosystem and how S…

About this EpisodeThis week, Anna & Tarun take an in-depth look into AMMs with Guillermo Angeris, a PhD student in Stanford who co-authored a number of papers on fundamental AMM properties.

They chat about how his work on Optimization Theory and Inverse Design can be applied to a DeFi context, as well as his most recent paper deals with privacy in AMMs, effectively demonstrating how superficial attempts at making a private AMM are doomed.

During the conversation, Anna, Tarun and Guillermo chat about why AMMs today are so revolutionary and unique in the financial world, and why their success can be explained by optimization theory and convexity.

But AMMs also have a number of shortcomings li…

About this EpisodeIn this week’s episode, Anna has a one-on-one chat with Alex Ozdemir, a PhD student at Stanford researching formal methods, cryptography and distributed systems.

He is one of the main developers of CirC, an infrastructure framework for building zero knowledge languages.

In their conversation, Alex and Anna take a bird’s eye view of the current landscape of zk languages and libraries.

Here, the race is still on as a number of academic and business-oriented teams grapple with limitations to memory access & performance given by zero knowledge proving systems.

Gitcoin is the easiest and most effective way to support Zero Knowledge and help us produce great content every week.

About this EpisodeIn this week’s episode, Anna goes on a grand tour of the Polkadot ecosystem ahead of the launch of Parachains.

In this multi-interview episode, she explores the Polkadot ecosystem, how teams are interacting with the existing tech stacks, what they are looking forward to, and how these networks may evolve in the future once Parachains go live.

The first speaker is Fabian Gompf, VP at Parity, who explains what’s going on with parachain auctions, how Parity views its role in the Polkadot ecosystem, and how prospective builders can be rewarded.

Then comes Derek Yoo from Moonbeam, who talks about the project’s ambitions and challenges as an “Ethereum on Polkadot” parachain.

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Bitcoin Core version 0.21.1 is now available for download.

As described in detail in the release notes, miner block templates produced by this version of Bitcoin Core will signal readiness to enforce taproot during the roughly three month period specified by BIP341.

Note: due to a problem with the certificate authority that provides the code signing certificates for the Windows versions of Bitcoin Core, users on Windows will need to click through an extra prompt to install.

If you are planning to upgrade anyway, there’s no reason to delay using 0.21.1 because of this problem.

If have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom (IRC, web) and we’ll do our best to help you.

Bitcoin Core version 0.21.0 is now available for download.

For a complete list of changes in this new major version release, please see the release notes.

If have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom (IRC, web) and we’ll do our best to help you.

We’re proud to announce our collaborative effort with Square, Inc. to build an open-source, solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility at one of our Blockstream Mining sites in the United States.

Ultimately, we hope to demonstrate how bitcoin mining in conjunction with renewable energy can help drive the clean energy transition.

Our solar mining facilities are designed to be scalable, enabling us to add additional capacity and support more participants to significantly expand renewable mining operations.

Get MiningWe’re already working with Aker, and now Square, to pursue alternative and renewable energy Bitcoin mining, and have even more exciting news on this front to share soon.

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Adamant Capital will lay the foundation for our new division Blockstream Finance, which will deliver Bitcoin investment products on the Liquid Network.

Banking veteran Jesse Knutson, the current VP of Financial Products at Blockstream, will helm Blockstream Finance, overseeing our future product launches.

Blockstream Finance LaunchpadBlockstream Finance will serve as a launchpad for innovative Bitcoin investment products, such as our recently launched Blockstream Mining Note (BMN).

Follow Us For Future Product Releases and NewsTo stay updated on the latest news and product launches from Blockstream Finance, bookmark the Blockstream Blog or follow us on Twitter @Blockstream.

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As a Blockstream Mining partner, BlockFi has deployed miners at our mining facility in Georgia, USA, with access to over 300MW of power capacity.

By engaging in Bitcoin mining, BlockFi looks to expand its service offerings to the mining community and to diversify revenue streams by accumulating bitcoin on its balance sheet.

And most recently, we released the Blockstream Mining Note (BMN), a security token that expands investor exposure to Bitcoin mining and adds security and censorship resistance to the Bitcoin network.

Partner With UsIf you or your company are interested in learning more about mining colocation services with Blockstream Mining, you can reach out to our team through the for…

It’s now easier than ever to access the Bitcoin network from space with the Blockstream Satellite Base Station.

The Base Station works with our satellite network in most parts of the world.

Current Kit Line-UpThe Base Station will replace the Blockstream Satellite Basic Kits and flat-panel antennas as our go-to receiver choice.

The Blockstream Satellite Pro Kit is back in stock and will still be available for:Users in some areas of the Asia-Pacific region—the Base Station supports Ku-band transmissions only.

In-Store, Order NowThe Blockstream Satellite Base Station is now available for preorder at our store for $499.

Blockstream Mining eliminated many of these challenges by providing an end-to-end Bitcoin mining colocation service that has helped many institutions get their Bitcoin mines online as quickly and painlessly as possible.

And today, we’re taking this one step further with the launch of the Blockstream Mining Note, a security token that expands exposure to Bitcoin mining to even more investors.

Bitcoin Mining in a Tradable TokenThe BMN provides non-US qualified investors access to hashrate generated at Blockstream’s mining facilities.

By packaging mining in a tradable token, the BMN allows investors more flexibility than a traditional investment in physical mining infrastructure—investor…

Today, we're revealing the Blockstream Mining Note, a security token that expands exposure to Bitcoin mining to even more investors. By packaging mining in a tradable token, the BMN allows investors more flexibility than a traditional investment in physical mining infrastructure.

We have two exciting announcements today, a new BTCPay plugin and WooCommerce upgrades to provide new Liquid functionality for merchants!

Liquid+ BTCPay pluginWe’ve previously worked with the BTCPay team to bring Liquid Network support and P2EP-based privacy improvements to users of BTCPay.

We’re currently testing the experimental Liquid+ plugin on the Blockstream Store.

WooCommerce UpgradesWe sponsored web developer ndeet to work on upgrades for the BTCPay Server WooCommerce integration plugin that would leverage the power of the Liquid+ plugin.

Blockstream Store PromotionsSo to celebrate, we’re holding a giveaway for the Blockstream Store!

We have two exciting announcements today, a new BTCPay plugin and WooCommerce upgrades to provide new Liquid functionality for merchants!

Liquid+ BTCPay pluginWe’ve previously worked with the BTCPay team to bring Liquid Network support and P2EP-based privacy improvements to users of BTCPay.

We’re currently testing the experimental Liquid+ plugin on the Blockstream Store.

WooCommerce UpgradesWe sponsored web developer ndeet to work on upgrades for the BTCPay Server WooCommerce integration plugin that would leverage the power of the Liquid+ plugin.

Blockstream Store PromotionsSo to celebrate, we’re holding a giveaway for the Blockstream Store!

We have two exciting announcements today, a new BTCPay plugin and WooCommerce upgrades to provide new Liquid functionality for merchants!

Liquid+ BTCPay pluginWe’ve previously worked with the BTCPay team to bring Liquid Network support and P2EP-based privacy improvements to users of BTCPay.

We’re currently testing the experimental Liquid+ plugin on the Blockstream Store.

WooCommerce UpgradesWe sponsored web developer ndeet to work on upgrades for the BTCPay Server WooCommerce integration plugin that would leverage the power of the Liquid+ plugin.

Blockstream Store PromotionsSo to celebrate, we’re holding a giveaway for the Blockstream Store!

We have two exciting announcements today, a new BTCPay plugin and WooCommerce upgrades to provide new Liquid functionality for merchants!

Liquid+ BTCPay pluginWe’ve previously worked with the BTCPay team to bring Liquid Network support and P2EP-based privacy improvements to users of BTCPay.

We’re currently testing the experimental Liquid+ plugin on the Blockstream Store.

WooCommerce UpgradesWe sponsored web developer ndeet to work on upgrades for the BTCPay Server WooCommerce integration plugin that would leverage the power of the Liquid+ plugin.

Blockstream Store PromotionsSo to celebrate, we’re holding a giveaway for the Blockstream Store!

We have two exciting announcements today, a new BTCPay plugin and WooCommerce upgrades to provide new Liquid functionality for merchants!

Liquid+ BTCPay pluginWe’ve previously worked with the BTCPay team to bring Liquid Network support and P2EP-based privacy improvements to users of BTCPay.

We’re currently testing the experimental Liquid+ plugin on the Blockstream Store.

WooCommerce UpgradesWe sponsored web developer ndeet to work on upgrades for the BTCPay Server WooCommerce integration plugin that would leverage the power of the Liquid+ plugin.

Blockstream Store PromotionsSo to celebrate, we’re holding a giveaway for the Blockstream Store!

We have two exciting announcements today, a new BTCPay plugin and WooCommerce upgrades to provide new Liquid functionality for merchants!

Liquid+ BTCPay pluginWe’ve previously worked with the BTCPay team to bring Liquid Network support and P2EP-based privacy improvements to users of BTCPay.

Today we’re happy to share that Andrew Camilleri (Kukks)from the BTCPay team has developed a plugin called Liquid+ that allows merchants to enjoy extended Liquid support.

WooCommerce UpgradesWe sponsored web developer ndeet to work on upgrades for the BTCPay Server WooCommerce integration plugin that would leverage the power of the Liquid+ plugin.

Blockstream Store PromotionsSo to celebrate, we’re …

We have two exciting announcements today, a new BTCPay plugin and WooCommerce upgrades to provide new Liquid functionality for merchants!

Liquid+ BTCPay pluginWe’ve previously worked with the BTCPay team to bring Liquid Network support and P2EP-based privacy improvements to users of BTCPay.

We’re currently testing the experimental Liquid+ plugin on the Blockstream Store.

WooCommerce UpgradesWe sponsored web developer ndeet to work on upgrades for the BTCPay Server WooCommerce integration plugin that would leverage the power of the Liquid+ plugin.

Blockstream Store PromotionsSo to celebrate, we’re holding a giveaway for the Blockstream Store!

We have two exciting announcements today, a new BTCPay plugin and WooCommerce upgrades to provide new Liquid functionality for merchants!

Liquid+ BTCPay pluginWe’ve previously worked with the BTCPay team to bring Liquid Network support and P2EP-based privacy improvements to users of BTCPay.

We’re currently testing the experimental Liquid+ plugin on the Blockstream Store.

WooCommerce UpgradesWe sponsored web developer ndeet to work on upgrades for the BTCPay Server WooCommerce integration plugin that would leverage the power of the Liquid+ plugin.

Blockstream Store PromotionsSo to celebrate, we’re holding a giveaway for the Blockstream Store!

We have two exciting announcements today, a new BTCPay plugin and WooCommerce upgrades to provide new Liquid functionality for merchants!

Liquid+ BTCPay pluginWe’ve previously worked with the BTCPay team to bring Liquid Network support and P2EP-based privacy improvements to users of BTCPay.

We’re currently testing the experimental Liquid+ plugin on the Blockstream Store.

WooCommerce UpgradesWe sponsored web developer ndeet to work on upgrades for the BTCPay Server WooCommerce integration plugin that would leverage the power of the Liquid+ plugin.

Blockstream Store PromotionsSo to celebrate, we’re holding a giveaway for the Blockstream Store!

Gitcoin Grants Round 7 RetrospectiveRound 7 of Gitcoin Grants has successfully completed!

This is a significant milestone for the ecosystem because it shows that Gitcoin Grants is expanding beyond reliance on a very small number of funders, and is moving toward something more sustainable.

The concept of categories as it is currently implemented in Gitcoin Grants is a somewhat strange one.

ZK rollups for scalabilityFinally, Round 7 was the first round where Gitcoin Grants experimented with using the ZkSync ZK rollup to decrease fees for payments:The main thing to report here is simply that the ZK rollup successfully did decrease fees!

ConclusionsRound 7 has been a pivotal round for Gitcoin G…

“Additive batching” is a scheme in which additional outputs are added to unconfirmed transactions in the mempool.

Replace By Fee (RBF, BIP125) and batching are two important tools for any enterprises directly interacting with Bitcoin’s mempool.

However, when you combine RBF and “additive batching,” emergent edge cases and dangerous failure scenarios present themselves.

In additive RBF batching, the service provider introduces new outputs (and confirmed inputs) to a transaction in the mempool to incorporate new customer withdrawals into an unconfirmed transaction.

There are many strategies to this type of additive RBF batching.

Also included are our regular sections with announcements of new software releases and release candidates, plus notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

The alternative method would enhance the privacy and fungibility of transactions made by single-sig users, multisignature users, and users of certain contract protocols such as taproot-enabled LN or advanced coinswaps.

Replace By Fee (RBF, BIP125) and batching are two important tools for any enterprises directly interacting with Bitcoin’s mempool.

There are many strategies to this type of additive RBF batching.

Notable code and documentation changesNotable changes this week in Bitcoin Core, C-Lightning, Eclair, LND, Rust-…

● Receiving LN payments with a mostly offline private key: in 2019, developer ZmnSCPxj proposed an alternative way to encapsulate pending LN payments (HTLCs) that would reduce the amount of network bandwidth and latency required to accept a payment.

More recently, Lloyd Fournier suggested the idea could also be used to allow a node to accept multiple incoming LN payments without keeping its private keys online.

The idea does have some downsides:The node would still need its private keys to send a penalty transaction if necessary.

The receiving node would lose privacy—its immediate peer would be able to determine that it was the ultimate receiver of a payment and not just a routing hop.

Howe…

Also included are our regular sections describing software releases and release candidates, plus notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

Notable changes this week in Bitcoin Core, C-Lightning, Eclair, LND, Rust-Lightning, libsecp256k1, Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI), Rust Bitcoin, BTCPay Server, Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs), and Lightning BOLTs.

● Bitcoin Core #20833 is the first PR in an effort to implement mempool package acceptance in Bitcoin Core.

● Bitcoin Core #22017 updates the code signing certificate used for Windows releases after the previous certificate was revoked by its issuer without them providing an explicit reason.

Several recent releases of Bi…

This week’s newsletter announces a change of networks for several IRC channels and celebrates Optech’s 150th newsletter.

Celebrating Optech Newsletter #150by John Newbery, Founder, OptechThis is the 150th regular Optech weekly newsletter that we’ve written for the Bitcoin technical community.

Optech was started with some very simple goals: to help Bitcoin businesses adopt technologies that allow Bitcoin to scale, and to highlight the amazing technical work happening in the open source Bitcoin community.

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack ExchangeBitcoin Stack Exchange is one of the first places Optech contributors look for answers to their questions—or when we have a few spare moments to help …

This week’s newsletter provides updates on the previously proposed transaction relay reliability workshop and CVE-2021-31876.

Also included are our regular sections describing updates to services and client software, new releases and release candidates, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

Changes to services and client softwareIn this monthly feature, we highlight interesting updates to Bitcoin wallets and services.

New releases and release candidates for popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

Notable code and documentation changesNotable changes this week in Bitcoin Core, C-Lightning, Eclair, LND, Rust-Lightning, libsecp256k1, Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI), …

This week, Antoine Riard posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list the full disclosure of his previously privately reported finding that Bitcoin Core does not implement this behavior.

Riard analyzed how the inability to use inherited replaceability might affect various current and proposed protocols.

Only LN appears to be affected and only in the sense that an existing attack (see Newsletter #95) that uses pinning becomes cheaper.

The ongoing deployment of anchor outputs by various LN implementations will eliminate the ability to perform that pinning.

As of this writing, there has not been any substantial discussion of the issue on the mailing list.

● Miners encouraged to start signaling for taproot: miners who expect to be willing to enforce the new consensus rules for taproot are encouraged to begin signaling and to ensure they’ll be able to run Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 (described below) or other compatible taproot-enforcing software by the minimum activation block specified in BIP341.

Anyone wanting to trustlessly monitor signaling progress can upgrade to Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 and use the getblockchaininfo RPC.

For example, the following command line prints the number of blocks in the current retarget period, the number of those blocks which have signaled, and whether it’s possible for taproot to activate in this period (assuming there’s n…

● Draft specification for LN splicing: Rusty Russell opened a PR to the Lightning Specifications repository (“BOLTs”) proposing the protocol changes necessary to accommodate splicing.

For example, Alice’s wallet can automatically pay Bob offchain or onchain from the same payment channel—offchain using LN through that payment channel or onchain using a splice out (withdrawal) from that payment channel.

● Support for ECDSA signature adaptors added to libsecp256k1-zkp: signature adaptors were originally described for Bitcoin by Andrew Poelstra using schnorr-based multisignatures.

Beyond that, this technique makes signature adaptors entirely usable on Bitcoin today, and it’s what various DLC pr…

● Using LN offers to partly address stuck payments: in some cases, an attempt to pay an LN invoice can result in the payment becoming stuck for an extended period of time.

Until the failure is resolved, requesting a second invoice to make a second payment attempt can result in paying twice.

When paying a receiver with an established reputation, such as a popular business, that may be enough to eliminate stuck payments as a major problem.

The update to the offers specification also allows the receiver to indicate that they received the payment and the problem is with a downstream node.

This ability to communicate interactively is a clear advantage of offers over plain invoices.

● Taproot activation discussion: since our last update on discussion about activation methods for the taproot soft fork in Newsletter #139, the Speedy Trial proposal became the focus of attention among those interested in activation.

To also use MTP for the time when nodes stop counting block signaling for a soft fork that hasn’t locked in yet.

However, in a difference from BIP9, the MTP stop time is only checked at the end of retarget periods where counting was performed.

Even though height may differ on those networks, they can all use a minimum activation height of 0 to activate within the window defined by MTP.

We hope this momentum to activate taproot continues and we’ll be able to rep…

This week’s newsletter contains our regular sections with announcements of new releases and release candidates, plus notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

New releases and release candidates for popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

Please consider upgrading to new releases or helping to test release candidates.

● BTCPay 1.0.7.2 fixes minor issues discovered after last week’s security release.

Notable code and documentation changesNotable changes this week in Bitcoin Core, C-Lightning, Eclair, LND, Rust-Lightning, libsecp256k1, Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI), Rust Bitcoin, BTCPay Server, Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs), and Lightning BOLTs.

● Paper on probabilistic path selection: René Pickhardt posted to the Lightning-Dev mailing list a paper he co-authored with Sergei Tikhomirov, Alex Biryukov, and Mariusz Nowostawski.

The paper models a network of channels having a uniform distribution of balances within their respective channel capacity.

The paper uses its conclusions to provide a routing algorithm that it claims can reduce payment retry attempts by 20% compared to their simplification of existing routing algorithms.

The new algorithm prefers routes with a higher computed probability of success, whereas existing algorithms use a heuristic approach.

The algorithm was tested against several example networks, including one dr…

This doesn’t prevent payment batching from being useful, although it does reduce its effectiveness.

In the second step, the service spends from one of its consolidated inputs using payment batching and achieves the best-case efficiency described above.

In addition to payment batching directly providing a fee savings, batching also uses the limited block space more efficiently by reducing the number of vbytes per payment.

ConcernsThe fee-reduction benefits of payment batching do create tradeoffs and concerns that you will need to address when using the technique.

ImplementationPayment batching is extremely easy using certain existing wallet implementations, such as using Bitcoin Core’s sendm…

Last week, Jeremy Rubin posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a description of a technique to accomplish delegation using Bitcoin today.

The Bitcoin software used this by default when the public key material could be handled entirely by software.

Public keys in the original Bitcoin implementation were 65 bytes, but address hashes were only 20 bytes.

Additionally, discussion participants pointed out that anyone who shares their individual public keys or BIP32 extended public keys (xpubs) with third parties would also be at risk from a powerful QC if their public keys leaked.

However, a user who prepares ahead when creating their taproot address can also spend bitcoins received to that addre…

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The firm also said Monday that "starting this week, we’ll invite select customers off the waitlist" for its card product.

Team growth, learnings from the first eth2 mainnet incident, r&d updates, sharding news and more in this update from PryLabs.

This new tool from Flipside Crypto allows users to input a bunch of different parameters to calculate different v3 LP outcomes.

After 3 months of beta testing and improvements on Kovan and Mumbai, the Pods demo has been released on Polygon.

The round was led by IDEO CoLab ventures with participation from A Capital, Scalar Capital, and DeFi Alliance.

Lastly, users can stake LQTY to earn protocol revenue, which recently crossed >$12M since Liquity’s launch in April.

The government of China's Inner Mongolia region has proposed eight new measures to phase out crypto mining activities.

The Inner Mongolia Development and Reformation Commission (DRC) issued a proposal on Tuesday that outlined eight areas that could be deemed as illegal that relate to crypto mining activities.

The proposed measures target not only crypto mining facilities in the region that mostly use fossil fuels but also power stations that supply energy to such operations.

This fresh round of capital comes from investors Blockchain Capital, Fintech Collective, LongHash Vent…

Standardizing POKT to the ERC20 token format as wPOKT enables Pocket Network to leverage the programmable composability of Ethereum smart contracts.

Within the wPOKT micro-economy, Ethereum users will be able to stake wPOKT for blockchain infrastructure access on behalf of their favorite DApps while earning rewards.

Sign up here to be alerted for when the wPOKT LBP and Data Farming program launches!

"In pursuit of these core functions we have been carefully monitoring and adapting to the technological innovations now transforming the world of payments, finance, and banking," he said.

The beautiful NFT viewing experience you’ve come to know & love inside the Rainbow app has been unleashed ac…

On a more positive note, the ETHGlobal Scaling Ethereum hackathon finalists were announced and you can view them here.

It shows that Tether held nearly 76% of its reserves in cash and cash equivalents and other short-term deposits and commercial paper.

Commercial paper, in fact, formed the majority of its cash and cash equivalents category, with a 65% share.

With Alpha Oracle Aggregator, Alpha Finance Lab will enhance scalability, flexibility, and security for the suite of Alpha products in a number of ways.

Zapper, the decentralized finance (DeFi) dashboard, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Framework Ventures.

I jumped onto Nugget’s News this week to discuss all things Ethereum - feel free to check that out here.

- AnthonyNews of the WeekExchange-traded fund (ETF) startup VanEck has filed for an ether-based ETF, public records show.

The same exchange is providing support for VanEck’s proposed bitcoin ETF.

The SEC has postponed any decision on VanEck’s bitcoin ETF proposal to next month.

Sotheby’s announced they will accept bitcoin and ethereum for Banksy’s Love is in the Air image at their Contemporary Art Evening Auction.

A16z is looking to raise between $800 million and $1 billion for the fund, which will be its third and largest crypto-focused fund.

A16z established a second crypto fund last year.

If a16z raises the $1 billion, this would make it one of the highest-funded investment pools dedicated to crypto.

In the past 6 months, MetaMask has grown 5x, and is now used by more than 5 million users every month.

The $150 million fund which will be focused on making DeFi more accessible and cost-effective to bring the next million users to DeFi.

What’s more, the Recipe Creator even allows users to simply tell the interface what they want and let the app prepare their recipe steps through use of natural language processing.

Get started with the Recipe Creator here.

The move follows shortly after the regulator approved the world's first bitcoin ETFs by the three firms earlier this year.

The price was still well above the reference price of $250 set Tuesday night, though no shares changed hands at that price.

However, kCompound loans are constantly monitored and protected by the KeeperDAO Just-In-Time Underwriter (JITU), which helps protect borrowers from liquidation.

Citing unnamed sources involved in the process, Russian news outlet Vedomosti broke the news on April 11.

Resistant to the sale of user data and ad space, Telegram has long suffered from a lack of clear revenue flow.

The price was still well above the reference price of $250 set Tuesday night, though no shares changed hands at that price.

Maple will be distributing its governance token MPL through a Balancer Labs Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool on April 28, 2021.

Convex Finance is a new platform, built by DeFi Natives, to simplify your Curve-boosting experience to maximize your yields.

Curated by Anthony Sassano (@sassal0x) and Eric Conner (@econoar)🇩🇪 Berlin is ComingAre you ready for Ethereum’s next network upgrade?

- AnthonyNews of the Weekgroup of major companies, including Fidelity, Coinbase, and Square, have formed a crypto council to lobby policy makers.

Coinbase reported an estimated $1.8 billion in total revenue for the first quarter of 2021.

dYdX’s layer 2 cross-margined perpetuals are available to the public on mainnet Ethereum, powered by StarkWare and settled in USDC.

TCAP is the world’s first total crypto market cap token which gives users exposure to the entire cryptocurrency market cap.

- AnthonyNews of the WeekPayPal has started allowing U.S. users to spend their cryptocurrency holdings at millions of online merchants globally.

The development means PayPal users who hold bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), bitcoin cash (BCH), and litecoin (LTC) in PayPal digital wallets can now convert their crypto holdings into fiat to make purchases.

Greenwood is a DeFi lending protocol that raises $2 million in a round led by Polychain Capital.

The project was also launched onto the Ethereum mainnet and users can now start interacting with the protocol.

The round was led by Galaxy Digital and Framework Ventures, with participation from Variant, Northzone, Nascent, a_capital and 3AC.

- AnthonyNews of the WeekVisa announced Monday that it now settles payments in the USDC stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain.

The development means Visa has become the first major payments network to use stablecoin as a settlement currency.

For its new USDC settlement capability, Visa is initially working with Crypto.com, letting the crypto firm manage its card business now entirely in digital assets.

Previously, Visa's standard settlement process required Crypto.com to settle in a fiat currency, which added cost and complexity for the firm.

It supports NFT artists and collectors, in addition to providing Uniswap V3 NFT LP token holders a seamless selling solution.

Morgan Stanley alerted its wealth management advisors Wednesday that the Wall Street giant will begin offering access to at least one bitcoin-related fund to accredited wealth management clients.

It's the latest sign of bitcoin adoption on Wall Street and a big development for the cryptocurrency in the wealth management channel.

Morgan Stanley's wealth management unit boasts 16,000 advisors, managing some $4 triillion in client assets.

On Wednesday, Morgan Stanley published a note through its wealth management unit that outlined the case for cryptocurrency as an emerging investable asset class.

SMART Yield allows users to tranche out the yield from the debt pools of other projects, such as …

Curated by Anthony Sassano (@sassal0x) and Eric Conner (@econoar)🤑 Gitcoin SeasonGitcoin Grants Matching Round 9 is now live and it’s time for you to go donate to all of your favorite open source projects.

Of course, given that it’s a matching round, your donations will be matched quadratically which means your dollar goes much further than usual!

As always, you can donate to support EthHub here - we appreciate all donations - no matter how big or small!

The raise was led by a16z, Framework Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and Naval Ravikant with participation from others.

The round had participation from Dragonfly Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Tally Capital and others.

Oh and today’s edition of the EthHub Weekly marks the 3 year anniversary of this newsletter!

This new API allows developers to recommend a variety of chains to their users, including Layer 2 networks.

Kline is a new decentralized derivatives protocol that was announced last week that raised $7 million from a number of investors.

SIREN is a new options protocol and this round was co-led by 1kx and Spartan Group with participation from various other invstors.

You can now move your tokens from DeversiFi’s layer 2 exchange back to Ethereum layer 1 in a much faster way.

The rich get richer, since they have the capital to risk to earn the governance tokens.

Then, as governance token plutocrats, they can use their power to direct the protocol in ways which only further enrich themselves.

At the time of this writing, Uniswap liquidity has risen to nearly $2 billion, while SushiSwap liquidity has fallen to less than one fourth of that.

While I’ve said the Uniswap team did a lot right in this token launch, the question remains, why launch a token at all?

Is there more to UNI than that, or are these governance tokens little more than viral marketing schemes?

A Vampire Sushi ChefIn late August, a pseudonymous developer going by "Chef Nomi" announced "SushiSwap," a clone of Uniswap with "Sushi Tokenomics."

Before SushiSwap was even launched as an exchange, it was possible to earn Sushi tokens by providing liquidity to Uniswap.

Pump and Dump and PumpThe SushiSwap system directed 10% of all tokens to a wallet controlled by the pseudonymous "Chef Nomi."

The Sushi token price has recovered some of its losses.

Will users and liquidity migrate back to Uniswap once the rush to farm Sushi tokens dies down?

Understanding Open SourceThe term "Open Source Software" doesn't just mean the source code is available to view.

Instead, the term refers to projects that make their source code available with broad permission to modify and share that source code without restriction.

There are two broad classifications of licenses widely accepted in the open source world.The first family of open source licenses is so-called "copyleft" licenses, sometimes referred to as "viral" licenses.

Open source development is frequently thankless work, and while some exceptions certainly exist, there generally aren't great business models available for purely open source projects.

Brave's Browser WalletAs a general expl…

Paper Title: Modeling Coordinated vs. P2P Mining: An Analysis of Inefficiency and Inequality in Proof-of-Work Blockchains.

Paper Title: PoDT: A Secure Multi-chains Consensus Scheme Against Diverse Miners Behaviors Attacks in Blockchain Networks.

Paper Title: The non-fungible token (NFT) market and its relationship with Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Paper Title: Blockchain, Privacy, and Artwork Registries: Consensus between Constraints.

Research Talks:Upcoming Events:Jobs:Thanks to our sponsorThe Protocol Labs Research team is pretty enthusiastic about making knowledge free and accessible.

BROUGHT TO YOU BYIssue #111Paper of the Week:Paper Title: GoAT: File Geolocation via Anchor Timestamping.

This work defines what it means for a PoGeoRet scheme to be complete and sound, in the process making important extensions to prior formalism.

Paper Title: Topological Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Multilayer Blockchain Networks.

Authors: Dorcas Ofori-Boateng*, Ignacio Segovia Dominguez†, Murat Kantarcioglu†, Cuneyt G. Akcora‡, and Yulia R. Gel†,Affiliations: * Portland State University, † University of Texas at Dallas, and ‡ University of Manitoba.

Paper Title: SoK: Privacy-Preserving Computing in the Blockchain Era.

BROUGHT TO YOU BYIssue #110Paper of the Week:Paper Title: A Permissionless Proof-of-Stake Blockchain with Best-Possible Unpredictability (or, How to Mimic Bitcoin via Proof-of-Stake).

Among other features, the design achieves the “best possible” unpredictability for permissionless proof-of-stake protocols.

Authors: Lei Fan*, Jonathan Katz†, Phuc Thai‡, and Hong-Sheng Zhou‡,Affiliations: * Shanghai Jiaotong University, † University of Maryland, and ‡ Virginia Commonwealth University.

Summary: A robust, secure, and scalable consensus protocol for a permissionless blockchain suitable for deployment in an adversarial environment such as the Internet.

Paper Title: Should Central Banks Use Distri…

BROUGHT TO YOU BYIssue #109Paper of the Week:Paper Title: Internet Computer Consensus.

The ICC protocols are leader-based protocols that assume partial synchrony, and that are fully integrated with a blockchain.

Paper Title: Mining in Logarithmic Space.

Authors: Felix Engelmann*, Lukas Müller†, Andreas Peter‡, Frank Kargl†, and Christoph Bösch†,Affiliations: * Aarhus University, † Ulm University, and ‡ University of Twente.

Paper Title: The Availability-Accountability Dilemma and its Resolution via Accountability Gadgets.

BROUGHT TO YOU BYIssue #108Paper of the Week:Paper Title: Securing Parallel-chain Protocols under Variable Mining Power.

TLDR: Several emerging proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain protocols rely on a “parallel-chain” architecture for scaling, where instead of a single chain, multiple chains are run in parallel and aggregated.

This paper considers the design of provably secure parallel-chain protocols which can adapt to such mining power variations.

Paper Title: Making Synchronous BFT Protocols Secure in the Presence of Mobile Sluggish Faults.

Paper Title: An economic theory of blockchain foundations.

BROUGHT TO YOU BYIssue #107Paper of the Week:Paper Title: Targeting the Weakest Link: Social Engineering Attacks in Ethereum Smart Contracts.

TLDR: This work explores the possibility and existence of new social engineering attacks beyond smart contract honeypots.

It presents two novel classes of Ethereum social engineering attacks — Address Manipulation and Homograph — and develops six zero-day social engineering attacks.

Paper Title: Forward-secure Multi-user Aggregate Signatures with Constant Complexities using Recursive zk-SNARKs.

Paper Title: Accountable Fine-grained Blockchain Rewriting in the Permissionless Setting.

The techniques are inspired from the inner pairing product argument introduced by Bünz et al.

The key tool for the proposed construction is a new commitment scheme that allows to instantiate the inner product pairing argument of Bünz et al.

The work also describes a scheme that merges together a multi-exponentiation argument and an inner pairing product argument for some common randomness vector with minimal overhead.

Authors: Nicolas Gailly*, Mary Maller†, and Anca Nitulescu*Affiliations: * Protocol Labs and † Ethereum Fondation.

Paper Title: MatRiCT+: More Efficient Post-Quantum Private Blockchain Payments.

TLDR: During early 2021 reports emerged of newfound excitement in the art world as a landmark sale of digital art for $ 69 million takes place.

What then are nonfungible tokens, how is this related to the blockchain and what do we know about this ancient market for digital art?

It now appears that digital art can be added to the growing list of uses for blockchain technology now becoming a part of modern life.

This article first discusses the new and explosive market for digital art and it explores the evolution of the digital world and virtual property.

This dramatic extention of blockchain and other digital technology to the world of art and music represents a new and exciting platform fo…

BROUGHT TO YOU BYIssue #104Paper of the Week:Paper Title: Tokenized: The Law of Non-Fungible Tokens and Unique Digital Property.

At root is the next iteration of blockchain technology, unique digital assets called non-fungible tokens.

NFTs have grown from a few early breakout successes to a rapidly developing market for unique digital treasures.

Yet law has not kept pace with demand for unique digital property.

Paper Title: RandChain: Practical Scalable Decentralized Randomness Attested by Blockchain.

BROUGHT TO YOU BYIssue #103Paper of the Week:Paper Title: Pooling is not Favorable: Decentralize Mining Power of PoW Blockchain Using Age-of-Work.

Unlike in the native PoW protocol, in PoA protocol, miners benefit from its effective mining period even if they have not successfully mined a block.

The mining process in the PoA blockchain is simulated to demonstrate the consistency of the analytical results.

Paper Title: Blockchain Initiatives for Tax Administration.

Paper Title: Rent Seeking in BlockchainGovernance: The Awkward Transition From Market Decision Making to Non-market Decision Making.

They focus on anonymizing the messages of the blockchain protocol, but suggest that potential identity leaks from the network-layer can be removed as well by employing anonymous broadcast channels.

This work shows that this intuition is flawed.

The paper shows that the attacks are practical, by describing how they can be carried out over the Zcash blockchain network (even when Tor is used).

Paper Title: History Binding Signature.

Paper Title: Cryptocurrencies with Security Policies and Two-Factor Authentication.

Paper Title: ESCORT: Ethereum Smart COntRacTs Vulnerability Detection using Deep Neural Network and Transfer Learning.

Paper Title: A Novel Framework for the Analysis of Unknown Transactions in Bitcoin: Theory, Model, and Experimental Results.

Authors: Abhiram Kothapalli*†, Srinath Setty*, Ioanna Tzialla‡Affiliations: * Microsoft Research, † Carnegie Mellon University, and ‡ New York University.

Paper Title: Bolt-Dumbo Transformer: Asynchronous Consensus As Fast As Pipelined BFT.

Authors: Chen Jin*, Bowen Lou†, and Jiding Zhang‡,Affiliations: * National University of Singapore, † University of Connecticut, and ‡ New York University.

Authors: Chaya Ganesh*, Anca Nitulescu†, and Eduardo Soria-Vazquez‡,Affiliations: * Indian Institute of Science, † Protocol Labs, ‡ Cryptography Research Centre, Technology Innovation Institute.

Authors: Yoko Shibuya*, Go Yamamoto*, Fuhito Kojima*, Elaine Shi†, Shin’ichiro Matsuo*‡, and Aron Laszka§,Affiliations: * NTT Research, † Cornell University, ‡ Georgetown University, and § University of Houston.

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Authors: Paolo Modestia*, Siamak F. Shahandashtib†, Patrick McCorry‡, Feng Haod§,Affiliations: * Teesside University, † University of York, ‡ PISA Research, and § University of Warwick.

Paper Title: Security and Privacy of Lightning Network Payments with Uncertain Channel Bal…

BROUGHT TO YOU BYIssue #99Paper of the Week:Paper Title: SciviK: A Versatile Framework for Specifying and Verifying Smart Contracts.

Paper Title: HashSplit: Exploiting Bitcoin Asynchrony to Violate Common Prefix and Chain Quality.

Paper Title: Post-Quantum Verifiable Random Function from Symmetric Primitives in PoS Blockchain.

Paper Title: BLOCKEYE: Hunting For DeFi Attacks on Blockchain.

Paper Title: (In)Stability for the Blockchain: Deleveraging Spirals and Stablecoin Attacks.

Total HNS Burned to date is 21.7M HNS, equal to more than 1% of total supply burned in just sixteen months since network launch.

With the combined network hashrate reaching 11 petahashes, we’ve seen roughly 50% growth since our last update.

This was partly because the network was at capacity and rising gas costs meant individuals engaged with DeFi applications in fewer frequency.

Users transitioning towards Polygon's network are trying to escape the cost of transactions on Ethereum's network while seeking similar user experiences.

Covalent③ Livepeer📈 Livepeer passes 1M minutes of unique video streamed per weekThe number of minutes of input video streamed through the Livepeer network has gro…

Total HNS Burned to date is 21.7M HNS, equal to more than 1% of total supply burned in just sixteen months since network launch.

With the combined network hashrate reaching 11 petahashes, we’ve seen roughly 50% growth since our last update.

This was partly because the network was at capacity and rising gas costs meant individuals engaged with DeFi applications in fewer frequency.

Users transitioning towards Polygon's network are trying to escape the cost of transactions on Ethereum's network while seeking similar user experiences.

Covalent③ Livepeer📈 Livepeer passes 1M minutes of unique video streamed per weekThe number of minutes of input video streamed through the Livepeer network has gro…

This week our contributor analysts cover Uniswap, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Polkadot.

① Uniswap📈 Uniswap v3 Flips v2 In Volume After Just 3 WeeksJust three weeks after its launch, Uniswap v3, the latest iteration of the Uniswap protocol, has officially flipped v2 on volume.

A testament to v3’s trade execution quality, the Uniswap protocols now receive 40% of weekly aggregator flows, up from 20% pre-launch.

Flipside CryptoThe Uniswap protocols continue to dominate Ethereum activity, with the v2 and v3 routers attracting ~25% of all network transactions.

Glassnode③ Bitcoin📈 Bitcoin Security Still Strong Despite The CrashOver the last two weeks, reports have surfaced that the Chinese go…

It has been one year since Polkadot’s genesis block was produced on May 26th, 2020.

Since then, there have been 5.25m finalized blocks with 3.75m transactions and 344,198 active accounts.

On Kusama, Polkadot’s canary network, 7.66m blocks have been produced with over 1m transactions and 102,938 active accounts.

The network has been secured by a sufficient amount of validators and has transitioned to a Nominated Proof of Stake (NPoS) network from a Proof of Authority (PoA).

DAI supply has been growing consistently in 2021 (almost 400% YTD).

Supply brushed up against $5b this week, just before the ETH price crash that sent numerous DeFi protocols into liquidations.

Maker was one of these protocols, with over $46M liquidated on May 19th.

However, the DAI supply dipped by a full 400-450M; As such, a large portion of positions were rebalanced or repaid prior to liquidation.

This is in contrast to the sudden and severe “zero-bid” liquidations of Black Thursday 2020.

This week our contributor analysts cover L1 Networks: Near, Avalanche, Terra, Solana and Binance Smart Chain.

NEAR Indexer② Avalanche📈 Avalanche DeFi activity spiking after upgradeAvalanche (AVAX) is an open-source platform for launching decentralized applications and enterprise blockchain deployments in one interoperable, highly scalable ecosystem.

Despite a 50% reduction in fees in a March network upgrade, Avalanche is the 4th Highest Layer-1 in fees (note: fees in on Avalanche are burned, benefitting all network participants).

Fees for Avalanche users got significantly cheaper, but the burn rate increased as more users, applications, and assets joined the network.

This rise in UST fees h…

With only 21 slots available for ‘active stakers’ the BSC protocol re-evaluates voting (staking) power every four hours, making sure the biggest stakers are active.

Currently to qualify as an active staker individuals have to stake at least 328,731 BNB, ~30% greater than last weeks active staker threshold.

This week our contributor analysts cover DEXs: Balancer, 1inch Network, 0x, Uniswap, and Thorchain.

① Balancer📈 Balancer V2 cuts gas cost by 33%Since Balancer V2’s smart contracts were quietly deployed to Ethereum mainnet two weeks ago, preliminary activity has shown notable improvements in gas efficiency for swaps.

Balancer Labs② 1inch Network📈 1inch launches new wallet for iOSThe 1inch Lab has released the fastest and most advanced DEX aggregation protocol in the market.

Dune Analytics③ 0x📈 0x API now reaches ~85k MAUOn March 18th, 0x API launched on BSC and so far has relayed over 155k trades, accounting for $478M in trade volume.

Dune Analytics④ Uniswap📈 Uniswap V3 tops $200M volume on …

Thorchain reached nearly 670 million TVL on May 7th, 11th below DEXes such as Nerve and Raydium and above 1inch and dYdX.

Across all DeFi protocols it is 35th in TVL.

While not the highest ranking by TVL, Thorchain managed to double their TVL in just over one month, an indicator of strong growth.

① Polygon📈 Polygon daily transaction count now matches EthereumPolygon’s Proof of Stake sidechain has seen a meteoric rise in transaction volume, exceeding Ethereum’s transaction count by 18% on Tuesday.

Its native DEX, Quickswap, accounted for 41,000 transactions that day, hitting over 20% of Uniswap’s transaction volume.

Curiously, Polygon’s top 3 addresses sent 573,000 transactions this week, a large majority of which appear to be arbitrage trades.

FlashbotsTo date, miners have earned $24m in ETH by including transactions sent via Flashbots.

This is additional income (taking into account opportunity costs), with miners earning an additional 5% on average in revenue per block with Flashbo…

This is issue #68 of the on-chain analytics newsletter that reaches nearly 10k crypto investors every week 📈About the editor: Spencer Noon is an investor at Variant, a first-check crypto VC fund.

Governance Extractable Value (GEV)This week, in addition to our regular network coverage, we are running a new research-driven blog post as part of our Deep Dive series.

This week our contributor analysts cover NFTs: SuperRare, Foundation, and Flow.

The average artwork price on SuperRare reached a high of 7.28 ETH.

Dune AnalyticsThe number of artworks sold on Foundation recently surpassed 10k and continues to grow rapidly alongside the network.

Protocol governance is divided along two axes: what can be controlled and who has control.

DigixDAO voted to return the ICO treasury to token holders as it was worth more than the governance tokens.

In contrast, governance token holders may want growth at any cost.

Generally, this involves having token holders lock up capital or prove that they are long-term orientated.

This can be blocked by preventing smart contracts from locking governance tokens, but also prevents multisig wallets from being used.

This is issue #67 of the on-chain analytics newsletter that reaches nearly 10k crypto investors every week 📈About the editor: Spencer Noon is an investor at Variant, a first-check crypto VC fund.

This week our contributor analysts cover DeFi: Compound, Mirror, CREAM, Instadapp, and Aave.

① Compound📈 Compound breaks 10B in TVL👉 Join the Compound communityThe Compound protocol is a set of globally accessible, open-source interest rate markets for Ethereum assets.

On Ethereum C.R.E.A.M.

In the past few months, Instadapp has made integrations with Gelato Protocol, Uniswap, and more recently with the Polygon Network, formerly Matic.

The Aave Polygon Market launched on 3/31/2020.

An initial two weeks of organic growth bootstrapped the liquidity to $10m.

On 4/13/2020, Polygon announced some generous liquidity mining incentives which grew liquidity x54 to $540m in less than 3 days.

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Predictability Is Power“I very frequently get the question: 'What's going to change in the next 10 years?'

However, there is not a single person or organization in the world that can answer this question today.

The Social Scalability Costs of FragmentationBeyond the lack of certainty outlined above, fragmenting applications across shards and roll ups creates explicit new social coordination costs that are not present in single-shard systems.

This will increase the amount of social coordination required in each protocol’s community, and slow down the rate of development.

Multicoin Capital abides by a “No Trade Policy” for the assets listed in this report for 3 days (“No Trade Period”) follow…

Building on the success of our first venture fund, we’re proud to announce that Multicoin Capital has raised a new $100M venture fund to back entrepreneurs building companies (equity), and protocols (tokens) in and around the crypto space.

Our single largest investment in our first venture fund was Helium, which represented almost 12% of the fund.

We helped seed or fund many of these projects early—The Graph, Solana, Torus, StarkWare, and others—out of our first venture fund.

We expect to deploy a significant amount into these areas out of Venture Fund II over the next few years.

We made several investments in some of the most strategic layers of the stack out of our first venture fund.

Today, I’m excited to announce our investment in REALY, a platform that trades the legitimacy of streetwear and other real world collectibles.

While each of these applications is hyper-tailored for their respective communities, they are all powered by the REALY platform.

The REALY network captures 10% of all sales from across the REALY ecosystem.

This makes it possible for fans and collectible investors to get exposure to the growth of the entire REALY ecosystem.

The REALY teamGeorge Yang, the CEO of REALY, is a serial entrepreneur in the fashion and collectible industry.

Multicoin Capital co-led the Series C round in Helium Inc in 2019 along with USV.

The growth of the Helium Network is driven by a positive feedback loop or flywheel.

This higher price will mean better ROI for Helium hotspot owners, which will further drive network growth.

Over the next year, the Helium network will roll out across the rest of the world.

Powered by the economic flywheel, the Helium network will grow to dominate global telecommunications.

Multicoin Capital has accumulated a large position in RUNE, the native token of THORChain, a decentralized cross-chain automated market maker (AMM).

There is a tremendous opportunity to build products that enable trust-minimized, cross-chain trading.

In a world where many chains and tokens exist, traders naturally want to be able to trade assets across chains in a trust-minimized way.

The first of such cross-chain trading examples was the Tier Nolan atomic swap.

The diversity of chains creates the need for a trust-minimized, decentralized way to trade spot tokens across chains.

Back in August 2020 we led a $1.8M investment in a new automated market maker (AMM) protocol focused on perpetual contracts: Perpetual Protocol, aka Perp.fi!

Once collateral is deposited, traders trade perpetual contracts just as they would on centralized exchanges, but with one key difference.

First, PERP holders govern the protocol, including managing parameters such as trading fees, asset listings, insurance fund management, and more.

Perhaps the best thing about The Perpetual Protocol is that it can be used to trade any asset with a public price feed.

That means it can trade perpetual contracts for cryptos, commodities and or any asset in any asset class.

DeFi lending is 11% of CeFi lending, and DeFi trading is 15% that of CeFi trading.

Swivel TradingLet’s walk through a trade on the Swivel exchange, which is an orderbook-based exchange built on top of the Swivel protocol.

While Swivel offers more leverage for interest rate speculators than ZCB protocols, Swivel does not offer fixed-rate borrowing, and so we are interested in the ZCB model as well because Swivel and ZCB protocols will serve different segments: Swivel for interest-rate speculation and fixed-rate lending, and ZCB protocols for fixed-rate borrowing.

While the Swivel protocol is starting with fixed-floating swaps (the contract example used in the section titled Swivel Lending), …

As DeFi protocols gain traction, they become part of an increasingly complex DeFi system.

Level 3: Price OraclesBuilding on the transaction layer, price oracles are the next foundational piece of infrastructure.

Secure and verifiable inputs of market data are critical to the functioning of DeFi protocols.

These products often provide smart contract constructions that enable users to interact with other Ethereum DeFi protocols.

DeFi Risk ManagementQuantifying Compounding Risk in DeFiThere is growing risk in DeFi today.

In the long run, OXIO aims to financialize the largest, most ubiquitous commodity in the world that is not yet financialized: mobile connectivity.

Let’s touch on some unique ideas and use-cases that OXIO enables:Nike could offer their customers mobile connectivity.

Using OXIO, brands can not only engage with their customers in new ways, but learn valuable insights.

Given the LTV of their customers, brands can subsidize their customer’s connectivity, either in full or in part using OXIO, or simply create engagement-driven loyalty programs.

In doing so, OXIO will introduce capital markets to mobile connectivity.

The chats highlighted below include conversations with key team members at Solana, Helium, and Ribbit Capital.

Fireside Chat with SolanaRaj Gokal, the COO of Solana, joined Kyle and Tushar, the managing partners of Multicoin Capital, for the first fireside chat of the summit.

Ribbit Capital is widely regarded as one of, if not the best, fintech investors in the world.

Ribbit Capital invested with Multicoin Capital late last year and most recently raised $350 million for a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).

At the time of publication, Multicoin Capital holds Helium ($HNT) and Solana ($SOL) tokens.

With all the money printing around the globe, I thought it would be a good time to talk Bitcoin and Crypto.

I invited Kyle Samani on the podcast because he has a great understanding of the technology and products.

The guest I’m referring to in this case is Kyle Samani.

Kyle is the founder and managing partner at Multicoin Capital, a firm that invests in all things crypto (including companies and tokens).

The Takeaway:While crypto is super volatile, it isn’t going away anytime soon (Kyle does explain why Bitcoin could struggle).

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Listen nowVisit this link to listen to the episode in full:DescriptionKyle Samani, cofounder and managing partner at Multicoin, joins the show to talk his current views on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and to give an update on web3 and how Multicoin is approaching the opportunity.

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Cons: not capital efficient, limited leverage available, requires external oracle, unable to maintain peg because of lack of arbitrage loop.

Pros: simple to understand, capital efficient, offers lots of leverage, guarantees liquidity, concentrates liquidity, doesn’t require makers, easy to bootstrap liquidity.

simple to understand, capital efficient, offers lots of leverage, guarantees liquidity, concentrates liquidity, doesn’t require makers, easy to bootstrap liquidity.

MAXIMUM ORACLE MOVEMENTSome protocols limit how much the oracle price can move in a certain period of time.

Multicoin has been looking at early-stage Decentralized BitMEX opportunities for the last 12 months, and we have b…

[4]Thought leadership and recommendations from reputable individuals or organizations are a key source of normative guidance on DAO governance.

In addition to technical specialization in network operation, software development, and cybersecurity, other areas of DAO governance are also increasingly professionalized (e.g.

Professionalization of DAO governance encourages homogenization.

And given that DAOs are often set up to run radically new experiments, growing isomorphism in DAO governance is not a foregone conclusion, even though that is what the anecdotal evidence discussed above seems to support.

Varying degrees of isomorphism in DAO governance are simply a reflection of how different o…

This piece is about one thing: what is the initial distribution of the capital that underpins a cryptonetwork?

In a recent conversation between the Placeholder and USV teams, Fred Wilson commented that with organizations he’s experienced going south over time it can often be traced back to an original sin at inception (team, approach, economics or any other pivotal decision).

For crypto, an original sin we regularly observe is insiders owning too much of systems that are marketed as public, egalitarian networks.

At Placeholder we have targeted 1-5% network ownership on a fully-diluted basis, with Placeholder’s most concentrated position coming in at 7% ownership fully-diluted.

If you want t…

We present a method for constructing Constant Function Market Makers (CFMMs) whose portfolio value functions matches a desired payoff.

More specifically, we show that the space of concave, nonnegative, nondecreasing, 1-homogeneous payoff functions and the space of convex CFMMs are equivalent; in other words, every CFMM has a concave, nonnegative, nondecreasing, 1-homogeneous payoff function, and every payoff function with these properties has a corresponding convex CFMM.

We demonstrate a simple method for recovering a CFMM trading function that produces this desired payoff.

This method uses only basic tools from convex analysis and is intimately related to Fenchel conjugacy.

We demonstrate …

Economic conditions, technology, and human practice are all subject to change, and thus approaches to systemic risk mitigation must also evolve over time.

Before considering strategies for systemic risk mitigation, it is important to identify individual types of risk with systemic implications.

Similarly, systemic risk mitigation in DeFi relies heavily on how risk and emergency situations are managed at the level of individual users, businesses, and networks.

In comparison to traditional finance, the key technological advantages of DeFi as it relates to systemic risk mitigation are higher levels of digitization, transparency, and automation.

It may therefore seem premature to think about sy…

Constant function market makers (CFMMs) such as Uniswap, Balancer, Curve, and mStable, among many others, make up some of the largest decentralized exchanges on Ethereum and other blockchains.

Because all transactions are public in current implementations, a natural next question is if there exist similar decentralized exchanges which are privacy-preserving; i.e., if a transaction’s quantities are hidden from the public view, then an adversary cannot correctly reconstruct the traded quantities from other public information.

In this note, we show that privacy is impossible with the usual implementations of CFMMs under most reasonable models of an adversary and provide some mitigating strateg…

This value proposition hit a chord: in its first 8 weeks of life, over 1,000 open source projects published their code to the Radicle network – and growing day by day.

In February 2021, Radicle launched an Ethereum blockchain integration along with the creation of the RAD governance token.

Third, it enables decentralized funding of open source projects.

This alone is a big innovation, prone to catalyze a new era of open source funding.

We have been working with the Radicle development team for over three years, but this launch is just the beginning of the network’s journey.

Constant Function Market Makers (CFMMs) are a family of automated market makers that enable censorship-resistant decentralized exchange on public blockchains.

Trading fees have been proposed as a mechanism for compensating LPs for arbitrage losses.

CFMM designers are therefore faced with the problem of how to optimally select fees to attract liquidity.

We develop a framework for determining the value to LPs of supplying liquidity to a CFMM with fees when the underlying process follows a general diffusion.

Our approach also allows one to select optimal fees for maximizing LP value.

Liquidity and trading activity on constant function market makers (CFMMs) such as Uniswap, Curve, and Balancer has grown significantly in the second half of 2020.

Much of the growth of these protocols has been driven by incentivized pools or 'yield farming', which reward participants in crypto assets for providing liquidity to CFMMs.

But what does it mean for a CFMM to be the most liquid market?

We show that this definition is tightly related to the curvature of a CFMM's trading function and can be used to explain a number of heuristic results.

Additionally, the results can also be used to model interacting markets and explain the rise of incentivized liquidity provision, also known as 'yie…

The entire work process, up to the finished product, is performed by automatic machinery and with repetitious mechanical uniformity; the entire factory becomes one single automaton.

[…] And just as the work processes which result in the end product are performed by an automaton, so the end product itself is very often an automaton designed for repetitious mechanical work processes.

There are some important caveats to this emphasis on the role of digital automation in driving human action.

If governed responsibly for the well-being of all, the Great Automaton in the making has a lot of potential for good.

The title of the interview contains a rather thought-provoking phrase for thinking abou…

If a CFMM has zero curvature, the price reported by the CFMM doesn’t change, no matter how much is traded.

One of the main connections between analysis and algebra comes from the notion of intrinsic curvature.

For instance, the intrinsic curvature of a beach ball doesn’t change when you rotate it by any amount in any direction.

How does this relate to the intuitive notion of CFMM curvature?

But how does this curvature related to the interaction between a CFMM, as a primary market, and other, secondary markets?

In decentralized networks, this includes everyone involved in investing, building, operating, using, or otherwise participating in the network.

But the interplay between ideology, reality, and financial incentives will remain a key influence on how systems of network governance are designed and evolve.

Good decentralized network governance is one that steers the network through its various stages of development towards more innovative and socially useful functions, while adequately resolving conflicts between different stakeholders participating in or affected by the network.

More democratic forms of network governance are currently underexplored and raise a number of difficult questions.

T…

In most “buyback-and-burn” token models, a network generates income in one currency token and uses the proceeds to buy-back and “burn” its own native token.

The intent is to grow token value by reducing its supply as income grows.

Unlike outstanding shares, treasury shares can’t vote or participate in the economics of the organization.

By reducing the number of outstanding shares, buybacks improve certain valuation ratios (e.g.

The buyback alone does all the work because what affects the price is how many shares participate, not how many exist – and treasury shares don’t participate.

Zooko Wilcox, a core contributing member of the Zcash community, voiced the confusion as follows:“You have to *store* your crypto in a private cryptosystem if you want privacy.

Efforts like the Zcash Developer Alliance are working to make the vision of interoperable-and-private-value stemming from Zcash a widespread reality.

Why Zcash is the Community to Bring Us PrivacyThe crypto-community most capable of bringing privacy to the masses is Zcash.

When it launched in October 2016, Zcash was the first practical implementation of Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge (zkSNARKs).

Join a Zcash community call or hop into the forum today.

AUSTIN, TEXAS – June 4, 2021 – Unchained Capital, Inc. announced today the initial closing of a $25 million Series A capital raise led by institutional bitcoin technology and financial services firm NYDIG and parent company Stone Ridge Holdings Group.

In February, NYDIG made an initial investment in Unchained Capital through a minority equity stake and agreed to provide $50 million of lending capital.

The partnership between Unchained and NYDIG creates synergies beyond simply capital.

“The partnership between NYDIG and Unchained makes sense on so many levels.

About NYDIGNYDIG provides Bitcoin investment and technology solutions to insurers, banks, corporations, institutions, and HNW individ…

With Bitcoin 2021 just around the corner, we are very excited to announce that Ted Rogers and Jimmy Song have joined the team at Unchained Capital as senior Advisors.

Ted helped lead and scale Xapo through critical years from 2014 to 2019, culminating in the sale of Xapo’s institutional business to Coinbase.

Like Ted, Jimmy Song is a long-time veteran in the bitcoin community.

In addition to Programming Blockchain, Jimmy is the author of Programming Bitcoin, published by O’Reilly Media in 2019.

We could not be more excited to have Jimmy advising our engineering team and contributing to our engineering strategy in a more formal capacity.

Bitcoin transaction fees, how they’re calculated, and how to pay lessBitcoin is by far the most valuable and therefore most heavily demanded cryptocurrency, but there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

One of the more challenging aspects of understanding bitcoin is the paradigm shift in how transaction processing works, which often causes quite a shock for users who encounter high fees for the first time.

In this post, we will attempt to shed some light on the often misunderstood world of bitcoin transaction fees, while sharing some best practices on how users can learn to save on fees when transacting directly on the bitcoin network.

Fiat vs. Bitcoin: A new way to think about paying for …

The concept of personal sovereignty has always been important to me.

For someone like myself, trying to tackle the technical aspects of bitcoin was quite daunting.

I quickly realized that to achieve the personal sovereignty I was after, I would need to learn an entirely new skill set and get comfortable with the technology.

For many people, this can be daunting and often prevents them from ever experiencing the financial freedom that Bitcoin natively delivers.

For me, self-sovereignty was what motivated me to take control of private keys and understand the technical aspects of bitcoin.

In Part I, we defined the First Law of Bitcoin Astronomy and described how it leads to new blockchains as humanity expands through the solar system.

Though we did discuss interstellar colonies and blockchains, we focused our attention in Parts I & II on our solar system and species.

Our galaxy may be full of technological, communicating, proof-of-work hashing alien civilizations.

NASA’s maxim for finding life in our solar system — Follow the water — assumes life elsewhere requires liquid water because all life on Earth does.

Similarly, our speculations about alien civilizations are biased by our own culture, technology and history.

To learn more about Unchained Capital and bitcoin native financial services with multisignature, sign-up on our website.

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AUSTIN, TEXAS – March 2, 2021 – Unchained Capital, Inc. announced today the closing of a $5.5 million equity seed round led by institutional Bitcoin technology and financial services firm NYDIG.

“The teams at NYDIG and Unchained Capital share a mission built on the foundation of a bitcoin standard.

We believe there are significant opportunities to create synergies across our respective custodial and non-custodial platforms,” said Joseph Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Unchained Capital.

Unchained Capital and NYDIG offer complementary platforms to the large and growing market of long-term bitcoin holders.

About Unchained CapitalUnchained Capital is building a full-suite financial services platf…

Why Bitcoin is a Great Retirement AssetWhile most individuals on the periphery observe bitcoin’s volatility and perceive it to be a highly speculative asset, bitcoin is actually the ultimate breakthrough in savings technology.

As more early adopters have increasingly focused on the superior fundamentals of bitcoin as a long-term savings vehicle, retirement assets have logically also begun to shift to bitcoin.

It is the pinnacle of retirement savings and it’s what we work to both enable and make easy at Unchained Capital.

In the age of bitcoin, many self-directed IRA owners are using these vehicles to hold bitcoin as well, and many bitcoin holders are now setting up self-directed IRAs for th…

It’s admittedly uncomfortable, but unfortunately this is a primary reason why so many people die without an estate plan.

Dying without an estate plan can impose a serious cost to loved ones, both financial and psychological.

An estate plan is a set of written documents that functions like a detailed instructional manual to third parties.

It is important to understand that when you establish a living trust, you still should have a Will.

To coordinate the two documents, you name your living trust as the beneficiary of your Will.

Each understands the importance of private keys and that unavoidable risks are created when relying on permissioned systems.

As individuals, Blockyard’s executives recognized the benefits of holding private keys and extended that first principle thinking to their business.

If they wouldn’t trust their personal bitcoin with a third-party, the same principle would apply to the business.

Financial Services Integrated with Collaborative CustodyIn addition to collaborative custody and advanced permissions for business accounts, BlockYard leverages the full suite of financial services offered by Unchained.

BlockYard works with Unchained’s OTC desk to convert US dollars into bitcoin as their fast …

For clients that need tax-efficient access to liquidity, we offer dollar denominated loans, and we secure bitcoin as collateral through our custody platform while a loan is outstanding.

Expanding this service is a core focus for us over the next twelve months, as is a bitcoin lending pilot that we’re in the process of launching.

We want to help as many clients buy bitcoin direct to multisig cold-storage as possible and we also plan to deliver the most secure bitcoin lending product in the market.

In the future, we’ll continue to integrate additional services as bitcoin matures as a day-to-day transactional currency, from applications to support bitcoin payments to managing merchant services…

2020 is over and etched into the bitcoin blockchain forever.

The HODL Waves is a data visualization that displays colored bands representing the percentage of total bitcoin and the length of time that bitcoin has been sitting in a given address.

By comparing the age of bitcoin sitting in addresses to the current US dollar prices, we can make some interesting conjectures about the bitcoin economy and the sentiment of HODLers (what does HODL mean?).

The 2020 Price Crash and the Cycle’s Deep HODLLet’s take a look at some of the major events of 2020.

Outside of a savage 60% price crash and speedy recovery in March 2020, the HODL waves for the year looks like what you would expect from a fledgli…

Financialization has been so errantly normalized that the lines between saving (not taking risk) and investing (taking risk) have become blurred to the extent that most people think of the two activities as being one in the same.

The unending devaluation of monetary savings forces unwanted and unwarranted risk taking on to those that make up the economy.

Bitcoin and the Great DefinancializationThe primary incentive to save bitcoin is that it represents an immutable right to own a fixed percentage of all the world’s money indefinitely.

Definancialization will principally be observed through growing bitcoin adoption, the appreciation of bitcoin relative to every other asset and the deleveragi…

Unchained Capital clients love the simple trust-minimized external recovery from collaborative custody vaults using Caravan, and now Caravan becomes more functional with the addition of Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction (PSBT) support.

PSBT support means that Caravan can be used completely air-gapped to generate and sign multisignature addresses with a Coldcard, and it makes future hardware wallet integrations easier, assuming the hardware wallet manufacturer supports the PSBT standard.

The test suite is perfect for hardware wallet manufacturers interested in integrating their devices with Caravan and other web-based multisignature applications.

Below are the steps to create a Coldcard m…

Planetary blockchains such as bitcoin and Muskcoin have short block times of ~10 minutes and correspondingly small hash horizons.

If, like these planetary blockchains, belters choose a convenient time near 10 minutes, then their hash horizons will be similarly small.

Type I & II Blockchains Are DifferentThough they work on the same principles, the vast difference in scale between stellar Type II and planetary Type I blockchains doesn’t just make Solcoin bigger, it makes it different.

Type I & II Civilizations are DifferentType II civilizations are as different from Type I civilizations as Type II blockchains are from Type I blockchains.

Let’s explore some of the ways Type I & II civilizatio…

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Sometimes governments fuck with money more discreetly (like in ancient Rome, as they gradually reduced the metal content of the denarius).

But governments, whether democratic or authoritarian, always, by design or neglect or arrogance, fuck with money.

You might regard money minted in a democracy as being ‘the people’s money’, and wonder if Bitcoin is less democratic than fiat.

What it means to ‘print’ money is beyond the scope of this article, but basically refers to central banks creating money out of thin air by extending credit to other banks in the financial system.

Yet Bitcoin – unfuckwithable money – appears to be an idea whose time has come, one deserving of serious support from all…

January 2031The Blocksize War – Chapter 12 – Bitcoin UnlimitedWith Bitcoin Classic failing to gain traction, in the late summer of 2016 the large blockers converged on a new hardfork blocksize increase client, called Bitcoin Unlimited.

Keen to learn more about Bitcoin Unlimited, in early December 2016 I attended a Bitcoin Unlimited promotional event in Shenzhen (China).

Speaking at the event and on the promotional tour was Roger Ver, a keen promoter of Bitcoin Unlimited; Jake Smith; several employees of Bitcoin.com; members of the Bitcoin Unlimited organisation; some of the Bitcoin Unlimited developers; and Haipo Yang, the CEO of mining pool ViaBTC.

At the start of 2017, around 15 to 20 per…

The Blocksize War – Chapter 11 – Scaling III – MilanThe excitement in Ethereum had calmed things down a bit for Bitcoin.

The conference series had morphed, from one set up to resolve the blocksize crisis, to a technical Bitcoin conference.

Many of the large blockers wore a custom t-shirt they had recently produced, with the writing “Hard Fork Cafe” written on the front.

Prior to this, he had worked at Bitmain and therefore had good links with the Chinese miners.

By now, however, the so-called Chinese miners were becoming part of this war.

The Blocksize War – Chapter 10 – The DAOIn the summer of 2016, a project called “The DAO” (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) began to grab the attention of many inside the cryptocurrency community.

With Bitcoin Classic still looming as a possible contentious hardfork, Ethereum was planning on a contentious hardfork of its own.

Well, there was Bitcoin Classic, so why not call it Ethereum Classic?

The Ethereum split was a pivotal moment in the blocksize war, even more so than the embarrassing Craig Wright saga.

Prior to the Ethereum split, miners were keen to just try something; now the view seemed to have changed.

For an Out of Order Block Validation, we could simply provide the UTXO set needed to validate a block.

We then compare the hardcoded UTXO set at block 100,000 with the calculated UTXO set at block 100,000.

The need for Utreexo AccumulatorsThere are two reasons why Utreexo Accumulators are needed for this type of block validation.

Here’s an example of an actual hardcoded Utreexo Roots in json:We can then modify the Block validation function to use Utreexo Accumulators instead.

With more optimizations with Utreexo Accumulators left to be explored, I’m extremely excited for future research and the potential that Utreexo Accumulators can have on the Bitcoin ecosystem.

A separate post will shortly be published, that explains how we’re able to do Out of Order Block Validation with Utreexo Accumulators.

Future workSmaller Utreexo ProofsThe biggest downside of using Utreexo Accumulators is that the Utreexo Proofs are not small.

This both increases the size that an archival Utreexo node has to store and increases the bandwidth usage of Utreexo nodes.

C++ ImplementationThe ultimate goal of the Utreexo project is to have the functionality of the Utreexo Accumulators included in Bitcoin Core.

He’s also working on a fork of Bitcoin Core with libutreexo, exploring how the Utreexo Accumulators can fit into the codebase of Bitcoin Core.

The Blocksize War – Chapter 9 – FaketoshiMonday May 2, 2016 was one of those wild days in Bitcoin land.

After spending time with him I am convinced beyond a reasonable doubt: Craig Wright is Satoshi.

Some people, on the other hand, were more cautious, warning that the large blockers should not be underestimated.

This was to the delight of some in the large block community, while other large blockers saw the damage to their cause that he was doing.

We could go into more detail about Craig Wright here: his history of court cases, false claims and backdating messages in verifiable ways.

Transaction Fee OverviewWhen evaluating new transaction fee proposals such as EIP-1559, it is important to consider the purpose of transaction fees on a blockchain network such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.

EIP-1559 addresses this problem by defining an element of the fee, the base fee, using historic blockchain data, which makes it predictable.

Figure 4 – EIP-1559 transaction fee market incentivisation modelEIP-1559 is not as clean as the above model suggests.

Base Fee 100x the Tip Base Fee ≈ Tip User experience The fee is mostly predictable and users know how much they need to bid.

Miners Manipulating The Base Fee To ZeroAnother potential weakness of EIP-1559, often discussed, is the idea of mi…

The Blocksize War – Chapter 8 – Hong Kong RoundtableOn February 20, 2016, I was hiking in the hills around Hong Kong with a group of friends.

[1] Looking at one of the images, the location appeared to be the same as Scaling II, Hong Kong Cyberport.

Chatting with the developers, they told me they had come to Hong Kong to educate the miners about Bitcoin and have a friendly discussion.

“If Bitcoin Core wants to be part of Bitcoin, it needs to do this hardfork,” he said.

One of the developers then responded by saying that SegWit was “already 2 MB and Bitcoin Core was working on SegWit”.

However, if everyone behaved like the small blockers and stubbornly kept their original client, then the small blockers were correct.

Bitcoin Classic therefore kept the 75 percent miner activation threshold which Bitcoin XT has used.

If the hardfork activated and the network split, the larger block nodes would consider the smaller block chain as valid, while the smaller block nodes would consider the larger block chain as invalid.

However, the number of blocks actually flagging support for Bitcoin Classic was fairly low, and not many users appeared to be running Classic nodes.

After the conference, Brian wrote a blogpost criticising several Bitcoin Core developers and proclaiming his suppor…

The lightning network was first published in a paper from Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja in February 2015.

The lightning network represents an improvement in efficiency and uses a more logical payment-network structure.

The blocksize issue was a problem now, while the lightning network was highly complex, unproven and, in the best-case scenario, many years away from becoming usable.

At the time of writing, although the lightning network is gaining traction and the technology is rapidly improving, merchant adoption of the lightning network is limited.

However, I am still optimistic about the lightning network and, if one thinks decades ahead, success is still a possibility.

SegWit is a way of increasing the Bitcoin blocksize, without the new client being incompatible (i.e.

A Florida-based Bitcoin developer called Luke Dashjr had figured out a hack, which made SegWit possible as a compatible (softfork) Bitcoin upgrade.

With people arguing over the blocksize limit, the proposal removed the limit and replaced it with something else, thereby negating the argument.

Therefore, to many small blockers fixing this issue was a prerequisite to a blocksize limit increase.

Most large blockers believed that fixing these bugs should not be a priority; it was the blocksize limit that was key.

The Blocksize War – Chapter 4 – Scaling II – Hong KongA few months after Scaling I, phase two of the Scaling conference series took place in Hong Kong on December 6 and 7, 2015.

Hong Kong was chosen due to the close proximity to China, where many Bitcoin miners were based.

The atmosphere in Hong Kong felt much livelier and more intense than Montreal.

In Hong Kong now, we’re looking at here are all the issues, the validation costs, the various proposals et cetera.

I remember looking over the towering skyscrapers in central Hong Kong, the city that was soon to be my new home.

The Blocksize War – Chapter 3 – Scaling I – MontrealOn the weekend of September 12 and 13, 2015, there was a conference called “Scaling Bitcoin 2015 Phase 1” in Montreal, Canada.

A problem which, according to the large blockers, did not, or more precisely, should not, exist.

Some of the large blockers appeared to simply have cause and effect the wrong way around.

The scientific merit format was certainly how many small blockers wanted the space to evolve.

They cynically renamed the Scaling Bitcoin conference series as “Stalling Bitcoin”.

I went on the Unhashed Podcast to discuss the findings from our recent paper on Bitcoin’s security model.

If you are looking for a less formal entry point to the topic of Bitcoin’s security, or have already read the paper and want to hear more, this show is for you.

First, you no longer publish a fee-paying transaction to the public mempool.

Instead, you sign a transaction and submit it off-chain to the CowSwap relayer, which handles all the execution.

Second, and this gets us to real innovation, CowSwap looks for so-called “coincidents of wants” or CoWs before sending your order to the regular on-chain exchanges.

Because there’s no point in reordering trades that have the same price, this also eliminates MEV as well.

Please enjoy my conversation on CowSwap with Felix Leupold.

Su is sitting out today, and I instead welcome Charlie Noyes and Georgios Konstantopoulos of Paradigm, one of the largest investment funds in crypto.

So like, that’s a pretty that’s that’s a that’s a very interesting situation.

Charlie Noyes 36:54I think that’s true.

I think that’s probably more of a general comment about non application specific security layers.

And I don’t want you to, I don’t want you to comment on the price, because I know that’s not really possible.

Hasu: I don’t actually don’t think that’s it, but you’re very good at the self-deprecating humor, I must say.

But I just don’t think that’s an investment argument.

If I’m going to do the funny money, if I’m going to do the weird internet money, I need more than a three X.” And then they start looking down CoinMarketCap, or CoinGecko or whatever.

Cobie: Honestly, I don’t think it was a very high quality rambling as you’ve just witnessed in this follow-up ramble.

If I’m going to make some closing remarks, since I’ve got the opportunity to record my own closing of the podcast.

In this episode, Su and I discuss the rise of WallStreetBets and financial populism in general.

As one of the most experienced market participants I know, Su has a unique perspective on the story behind the GameStop short squeeze.

We explore why he thinks it is going to end in tears for small investors, which invisible rules of the traditional financial system have been laid bare for everyone to see, and how all of this massively validates crypto and Defi going forward.

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But I think that the right way to think about multi party computation is basically just an implementation of multi signature.

And they are trying to get into the DeFi right now.

Arthur 36:32I think right now, I think for Nexus Mutual is a, it’s a bit of a debate.

So I think that’s kind of the expansion of the scope.

Hasu 58:04Yeah, I think that’s, I think that’s spot on.

After our episode on the top 20 crypto coins (#15) by market cap, we got a lot of requests to do one for Defi as well.

For that discussion, we brought in one of the foremost experts on Defi.

Arthur0x went from being one of the earliest users and investors at Synthetix, Aave, and Kyber, to running the largest Defi-focused fund in all of Asia.

The conversation ran pretty long, so we are releasing it in two parts.

Listen to Part 1Listen to Part 2We don’t have a transcript yet, but if you feel like writing one, feel free to PM me on Twitter or email it to hasu@uncommoncore.co.

In this paper, we introduce our model of Bitcoin’s security, which depends on a surprisingly small number of factors.

We find that Bitcoin can tolerate a high incentive to attack today, but the declining block subsidy poses a substantial risk for the future.

That was a really really crazy time for me with all the farming going on.

One of the problems with defi tokens until that point was that they were pretty illiquid.

DS: Perhaps not many of the current community share this aspiration of mine, but I really really want to see synthetic stablecoins outside of the USD being used outside of trading purposes and as an alternative to “official” digital fiat currencies.

don’t really like buy-and-burn models because you need to assume going concern and a secondary market bid.

I almost didn’t even want to farm the YFI tokens because I was thinking, “What would they govern, and why would they govern?

Even inside the crypto market or equities market, there exist many different products, many different time zones etc.

I think BTC is the clear denomination for the biggest players in crypto, that’s your CZs and miners and exchanges.

So I think BTC has the network effect as the base money and that is very hard to overcome.

Therefore I think ETH is currently in a more precarious situation than people realise:The ETH 2.0 roadmap is very complex.

The roll-up roadmap is promising but I don’t think it will deliver the things people are hyping it to be.

Today, I’m sitting down with Su Zhu, my co-host and friend, to talk about the state of the crypto market and what he’s seeing on the horizon.

But in practice, what has happened is that the largest players in crypto itself just use it as a money market.

If you don’t need to make money on trades … so, people who LP in Uniswap don’t need to make money, right?

So, to say that because he’s short selling – it kind of just tells you the mood of the market, right?

But in Ethereum Defi, there’s this big meme around like, oh you never sell, oh you never do this or do that.

So I think you’re right, but I think there’s some nuance there where it doesn’t have to converge.

So, I mean, in general, it depends on how specific we want to be on what is perpetual swap, right?

You’re, you’re giving the market a market order.

Because if you’re letting your long expire, you’re basically if you’re market neutral, you’re presuming, you’re saying the market that you’re going to now bid spot to replicate your exposure back to get your long back.

Su Zhu (00:48:50):I think there’s, there’s a lot of there’s a lot of cool stuff that can be done.

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Why this bull run is fundamentally different from 2017Bitcoin is nearing its prior all-time high (ATH), set in December 2017. It’s entirely plausible that we could regain the heady $20,000 level within the next few weeks or months.This time, it’s happening without much fanfare, and without the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) phenomenon which intensified the price action (investors bought BTC in order to participate in ICOs, driving the price up).If you gauge metrics of retail investor interest in the asset, whether it’s tweets or google searches, Bitcoin is still languishing well below it’s highs. This is causing a fair amount of puzzlement.Many are wondering what the cause of Bitcoin’s renewed…

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