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…

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In brief A series of Wonder Woman crypto artwork NFTs sold for $1.85 million last week.

Today, crypto art marketplace MakersPlace announced that a sale of NFT artwork featuring DC Comics legend Wonder Woman has generated a total of $1.85 million in gross sales between limited and open edition variants.

The collector’s MakersPlace profile includes many other crypto art NFTs from other drops, as well.

Delbo has previously released crypto NFT artwork on MakerSpace based on the likes of Batman and Transformers, as well as previous Wonder Woman artwork.

The sizable Wonder Woman drop comes amidst a massive surge in the value of crypto artwork NFTs, with trading volume reaching $342 million in Feb…

Bitcoin is once again on the rebound, just as the Dow Jones hits a fresh all-time high.

Other investments, however, such as gold and tech stocks like the FAANG group—Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google—aren’t faring so well.

Most traditional markets reacted positively to expectations that a new stimulus package could provide support to prevent a market crash.

The S&P 500 registered a 0.88% rise to 3,873 points, whereas the Dow recorded a 1.93% spike to 32,104 points—a new all-time high.

The Nasdaq 100 is down almost 1%, almost exactly the opposite of the Dow, S&P, and Bitcoin moves today.

A third Bitcoin ETF has been approved by Canadian regulators and will launch tomorrow.

The CI Galaxy Bitcoin ETF will launch tomorrow, March 9, under the symbol BTCX on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The new ETF will join the Purpose Bitcoin ETF (BTCC) and Evolve Bitcoin ETF (EBIT), both of which launched just last month.

The Purpose Bitcoin ETF attracted more than $470 million one week after launching in February, and the Evolve Bitcoin ETF currently has more than $54 million in assets under management, a measure of total current investments.

Bitcoin ETF applications in the US have been repeatedly rejected by the SEC on the grounds that Bitcoin markets can be easily manipulated.

In brief President Biden passed a nearly $2 trillion stimulus package through the Senate last weekend.

Over the weekend, the US Senate passed President Joe Biden’s ambitious American Rescue Plan—a nearly $2 trillion stimulus package.

If you ask Ingo Fiedler, co-founder of the Blockchain Research Lab, the short term increase in Bitcoin may have been a small speculative reaction to the stimulus package.

Sui Chung, CEO of crypto price index CF Benchmarks, predicts more institutional investors will pivot to Bitcoin as a result of the Biden stimulus package.

Despite fears of currency inflation, the theory behind this stimulus package is that it will kickstart the American economy.

In brief Bitcoin mining company Argo Blockchain has purchased a 320-acre plot of land in West Texas.

Argo Blockchain has announced that it now owns 320 acres of land in West Texas, intended for a 200MW data center which it expects to build over the next 12 months.

In a press release, Peter Wall, CEO of Argo Blockchain, said that owning the Texas acreage will enable the firm to “meaningfully” expand its mining capacity on a large scale.

Texas attracts mining companiesIn the past few years, a growing number of Bitcoin mining companies have flocked to Texas, lured by cheap electricity from the state's abundance of natural gas and wind power.

The Lone Star State has more than 33 GW of wind powe…

In brief Planetarium has launched a grant fund to support community development of its blockchain-driven role-playing game, Nine Chronicles.

A total of $2.5 million in funds will be awarded to community developers who create tools and content for the game.

And to encourage just that, the Seoul-based studio has established a $2.5 million grant fund to reward top creators.

Developers may allow for modifications for traditional PC games, but they’re typically not considered a part of the core game experience.

However, DappRadar data suggests that the crypto games it tracks typically have monthly active user counts in the low thousands, which is a fraction of the kind of audience that top non-c…

Fast food chain Taco Bell has just sold its first batch of Taco-themed digital collectibles on NFT marketplace Rarible—and they were snapped up in a flash.

https://t.co/IC8b45lmd9 pic.twitter.com/FJUcuwCuyy — Taco Bell (@tacobell) March 8, 2021Taco Bell created five distinct NFTs, selling them in batches of five.

The digital tacos are called the “Ever-Crunching Tacos,” “Gimme That,” “‘Tato Dimensions,” “Transformative Taco” and “Swivel, Taco.” Some of them are images, some GIFs and some short video clips.

If you want to buy your own digital taco, your options are limited.

Image: Taco Bell.

In brief Valuables is a website that lets you turn your tweets into NFTs, which can be sold for cryptocurrency.

Image: Valuables.

Image: MetaMask.

Image: Valuables.

When a bid is high enough you can choose to accept it and you’ll receive that money in your MetaMask wallet.

StakeWise, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) designed to make Ethereum 2.0 staking easier for users, has completed a $2 million raise ahead of a public launch.

StakeWise aims to make staking easier for Ethereum users ahead of its Eth2 proof-of-stake upgrade, one that consists of users staking their ETH to run nodes instead of “miners” that utilize massive computing power to process blocks and validate transactions.

The protocol tokenizes users' deposits and staking rewards as sETH2 (a deposit token) and rETH2 (a reward token).

These ETH2 staking pool tokens were not created equal.

The first 25,000 ETH deposited into the StakeWise Pool will be eligible for a distribution of 2% of…

In brief PayPal's latest acquisition is Curv, which helps banks and others secure their crypto holdings.

He added that Malinger will stay on at PayPal, but that PayPal is not disclosing specific titles or roles.

Fernandez da Ponte emphasized that PayPal is not acquiring Curv with the goal of running a custody service, which involves charging third parties to safeguard their assets.

According to Fernandez da Ponte, though, the biggest opportunity for crypto to transform finance lies beyond peer-to-peer consumer transactions.

Perhaps most intriguing of all, Fernandez da Ponte said that PayPal's crypto ambitions are closely tied to the speed at which central banks embrace digital currencies.

Venture capital firms, including Dragonfly Capital and Coinbase Ventures, have today finalized a funding round into DeFi risk management platform Saffron, according to a press release.

DeFi refers to decentralized platforms built on blockchains like Ethereum, that provide financial tools—such as borrowing or lending cryptocurrency.

Saffron takes those lending platforms and allows investors to manage risk when using them.

For example, someone could lend Tether (USDT) on crypto lending platform Compound and then choose either high or low risk through Saffron.

If they choose high risk, they’ll be targeting a high rate of return (with greater risk) and vice versa.

The malicious backdoored version of Electrum Wallet for Mac was certified via official Apple notarization (now revoked).Attackers seems to have stolen at least 2.33 bitcoin.

Attacking wallet: https://blockstream.info/address/bc1q0f07xyha9wkgd66pednycl060hxjzgc9z3x8ce

MicroStrategy buys additional $10M worth of BitcoinMicroStrategy has purchased an additional ~205 bitcoin for ~$10.0 million in cash at an average price of ~$48,888 per bitcoin.

As of 3/5/2021, they hold ~91,064 bitcoin acquired for ~$2.196 billion at an average price of ~$24,119 per bitcoin.

Bitcoin miner Cipher to go public via $2B mergerCipher Mining Inc said on Friday it will go public through a merger with blank-check firm Good Works Acquisition Corp in a deal that values the combined company at $2 billion.

The deal will provide the merged entity with gross cash proceeds of $595 million, which includes $425 million from investors including Fidelity Management & Research Company and Morgan Stanley's Counterpoint Global.

The combined company, to be named Cipher Mining Inc, is expected to be listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "CIFR".

Thailand’s largest movie theater chain accepts BitcoinMajor Cineplex Group, the largest operator of movie theaters in Thailand, has reportedly enabled some of its customers to buy tickets with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC).

Major Cineplex has announced the launch of its cryptocurrency payment pilot project in a move to support innovation and new technologies.

New DEA report includes Bitcoin 'Trade-based money laundering' sectionDrug traffickers and money launderers are increasingly incorporating virtual currency into [trade-based money laundering (TBML)] activity as the use of these currencies becomes more widely adopted.

DEA reporting has revealed instances in which bulk currency contracts were fulfilled through the use of virtual currency instead of cash, with this money subsequently being integrated into the TBML cycle.

A startup that wants to expand access to Bitcoin mining raises $1.7M roundA mining firm looking to democratize exposure to the highly technical underbelly of the Bitcoin market has raised $1.7 million in venture funding to scale its operations.

Compass Mining operates a two-sided marketplace—one looks much like sites like Hotels.com or Expedia—that pools together bitcoin mining hardware suppliers on one side and buyers looking to buy that hardware on the other.

Exodus Wallet files with SEC to sell $75M in shares in exchange for BTC, USDCExodus aims to sell common stock through a Reg A+ offering—but only inside its wallet, and only in exchange for Bitcoin, Etherium or USDC stablecoin.

Exodus Movement, the firm behind the popular Exodus Wallet, wants to get its crypto customers to buy stocks through Exodus Wallet—its own stock.

And without accepting USD.

Exodus wants subscribers to its offering to pay in Bitcoin, or the USDC stablecoin.

Argo Blockchain CEO starts receiving salary in BitcoinLondon-listed Argo Blockchain, a Bitcoin mining company, announced that its chief executive officer, Peter Wall, will receive his salary in Bitcoin from March 1, 2021.

Any of its employees are also able to opt-in for receiving their salaries in Bitcoin.

Argo will use the Toronto-based Satstreet exchange’s Bitcoin Savings service to convert the salaries from fiat to Bitcoin at a daily market rate.

“I’m also pleased to be the first publicly-traded company that we know of to have their CEO paid in Bitcoin,” Wall said.

BitGo reveals $250M in Bitcoin holdingsDigital asset infrastructure company BitGo holds $250 million in bitcoin on its balance sheet, CEO Mike Belshe revealed in a recent interview.

The crypto custodian has had bitcoin on its own balance sheet since 2014.

Paypal reportedly buying Bitcoin custody firm CurvPayPal is said to be in the process of buying Curv, a technology firm that powers the secure storage of cryptocurrency.

Israeli news outlet Calcalist reported Tuesday that Curv was being sold for between $200 million and $300 million, without naming the buyer.

“PayPal is buying Curv for $500 million,” a source from within the digital asset custody space said.

I2P network support merged into Bitcoin Core for additional privacyI2P network support has been merged into Bitcoin Core for the upcoming v22 release.

Two new options have been added, including adding a second privacy network available to users in addition to existing Tor support.

Shark Tank co-host Kevin O'Leary invests 3% of his portfolio in BitcoinCanadian businessman Kevin O’Leary, known to fans of the investor reality show as “Mr.

Wonderful,” said today he will invest 3% of his portfolio in Bitcoin despite calling the crypto asset “garbage” less than two years ago.

“Changes in the regulatory environment have changed my mind about participating,” he tweeted, referring to the recent practice of companies such as Microstrategy, Square, and Tesla buying Bitcoin.

“I will also invest in sustainable miners to avoid ‘blood coins’.”

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Этот уровень имеет определяющее значение для дальнейшего роста, и взятие его открывает путь к $55–56 тыс.

Очередная неудачная попытка прорыва этого сопротивления может стать серьезным ударом для быков и поставить на повестку ретест важной поддержки у $46 тыс.

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биткойнов, которые стоят $4,3 млрд по текущему курсу.

Компания MicroStrategy добавила в инвестпортфель еще 205 биткойнов на $10 млн.

По его словам, MicroStrategy владеет 91,06 тыс.

По его мнению, первая криптовалюта начнет оказывать «стабилизирующее влияние» на мировую финансовую систему и превысит рыночную капитализацию золота.

Тогда компания приобрела 328 биткойнов на $15 млн по курсу $45,7 тыс.

По мере продвижения экспансии всё более и более высокий уровень долга и, как следствие, чрезмерные инвестиции бизнеса и чрезмерное потребление домохозяйств делают их всё более зависимыми от левериджа (заёмных средств) и хрупкими.

У первого было два пика – в 1930-х и 1940-х, и у второго пока тоже два – в 2008-14 гг.

И напротив, дефляцию вызывают технический прогресс и совершенствование производительности, чрезмерный долг, ограничивающий расходы, и обильное предложение товаров и услуг в сравнении со спросом и количеством денег в системе.

Наблюдается долгосрочная структурная тенденция к снижению инфляции или и вовсе дефляции, и в нормальных условиях это хорошо.

Это может принять вид повышения …

Коррекция цены BTC затрагивает не только отдельных ходлеров — она бьет и по интересам крупных игроков, не вкладывавшихся в биткойн напрямую.

По итогам 5 марта акции компании MicroStrategy, владеющей более чем 91 тысячей BTC, всего за три недели упали более чем вдвое.

Такая волатильность — следствие взлетов и коррекций биткойна в последнем бычьем ралли, характеризовавшемся сильными колебаниями в обоих направлениях.

Однако с момента начала закупки BTC на баланс компании в августе прошлого года влияние биткойна на стоимость ее акций остается поворотным фактором.

Чтобы противодействовать этому риску, инвесторы должны извлечь пользу как из беспрецедентного потенциала криптовалют, так и из будуще…

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Ripple подала официальный ответ на дополненный иск Комиссии по ценным бумагам и биржам США (SEC) в ходе продолжающегося разбирательства.

В 100-страничном документе Ripple также заявляет, что SEC игнорирует или подменяет факты, например утверждая, что проводимые ею продажи XRP составляли «важную часть» рынка XRP.

Компания пишет, что на такие транзакции приходилось менее 0,4% в общем объеме сделок почти на всех этапах существования этого рынка.

В завершении Ripple полностью отрицает свою вину:«Ripple не продавала и не распространяла XRP как инвестиционный контракт».

Компания также отмечает, что не располагает достаточной информацией о нарушениях своего генерального директора Брэда Гарлингхаус…

Владелец баскетбольной команды «Даллас Маверикс» Марк Кьюбан объяснил, что решение принято для пиара и в надежде на повышение вовлеченности болельщиков.

Клуб Национальной баскетбольной ассоциации (NBA) «Даллас Маверикс» начал продавать билеты на матчи за Dogecoin.

Компания добавила поддержку альткойна только 4 марта, а «Даллас Маверикс» стал первым клиентом, который воспользовался этой услугой, пишет The New York Times.

Миллиардер пояснил, что добавление возможности покупки билетов на баскетбольные матчи за Dogecoin — это весело, повышает вовлеченность и может создать большой пиар.

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Такая смена поддержки на сопротивление происходила на уровнях $55 тыс.

С этой точки зрения критически важной зоной поддержки для биткойна является область $48,3–48,8 тыс.

Также и в бычьих циклах биткойна 30–40% коррекции случаются часто, и это следует иметь в виду и при текущем снижении.

Доходность по облигациям растет, провоцируя слабость на рынкахОсновная причина нынешней слабости биткойна и золота показана на этом графике.

В случае прорыва $52 тыс., это поставит на повестку дня тест сопротивления $55 тыс.

Криптовалютная биржа Huobi через зарегистрированное в Гонконге подразделение Huobi Technology Holdings откроет три фонда для инвестиций в цифровые активы, сообщил журналист Колин Ву.

Для запуска инструментов Huobi Asset Management получила дополнительное регуляторное разрешение в Комиссии по ценным бумагам и фьючерсам Гонконга.

Один из фондов будет инвестировать в биткойн, другой — в эфир, третий — в многоактивные стратегии.

Инвестиции будут приниматься как в фиате, так и в криптовалютах.

Колин Ву пишет:«Аналогично Grayscale, этот шаг Huobi может поспособствовать распространению криптовалют среди азиатских инвесторов.

8 марта децентрализованный облачный хостинг Akash Network запустил новую версию сети Akash Mainnet 2. Об этом ForkLog сообщили представители проекта. Пользователи Akash Network сдают и берут в аренду серверные мощности для развертывания приложений и сайтов. Хостинг работает на блокчейне Cosmos. В прошлом году Akash Network запустил Mainnet 1 с базовыми операциями: проведением транзакций, стейкингом и голосованиями участников сети. С момента запуска Mainnet 1 цена utility-токенах Akash Network (AKT) выросла в 18 раз — с $0,35 до $6,45 на пике. В Mainnet 2 разработчики реализовали DeCloud — децентрализованное облако и аукцион серверных мощностей. В новой версии сети пользователи могут запуска…

Проект Tendermint открыл регистрацию на хакатон HackAtom RU 2021 с призовым фондом $31 000. Хакатон продлится с 15 по 31 марта. Цель хакатона — создать DeFi-проекты на Cosmos и задействовать в них протокол IBC. Также в рамках Pre HackAtom Translation Challenge участники переведут документацию Cosmos на русский язык. Среди организаторов мероприятия: Tendermint, Citizen Cosmos и Cyber Academy. Расписание HackAtom RU 2021 (МСК): регистрация — до 26 марта, 19:00;

подача заявок — с 15 по 26 марта в 19:00;

воркшопы — с 16 по 25 марта;

голосование сообщества за лучший проект — с 27 по 30 марта;

объявление победителей — 31 марта в 15:00. Правила HackAtom RU 2021 Размер команды не ограничен. Вы може…

Котирующийся на Нью-Йоркской фондовой бирже поставщик услуг онлайн-лотереи в Китае 500.com Limited объявил о решении изменить название и тикер.

https://t.co/dvleuvSofC https://t.co/W2DEWTapcv Limited Announces Board Approval of Changes to Company Names and Ticker Symbol, as well as Calling of Extraordinary General Meeting— 500.com (@500lottery) March 8, 2021

Ориентированная на крупных игроков платформа New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) закрыла раунд финансирования размере $200 млн.

Его возглавила материнская компания Stone Ridge Holdings Group.

We’re excited to announce a new funding round from a group of strategic partners with whom we’ll be working on a variety of Bitcoin-focused initiatives.

This is a testament to the increasing conviction behind #Bitcoin and builds on our exciting momentum.

https://t.co/x4UizKEOmj— NYDIG (@NYDIG_BTC) March 8, 2021

9 марта базирующаяся в Лондоне ETC Group проведет листинг привязанного к Ethereum биржевого продукта (ETP) под тикером ZETH на платформе электронных торгов Xetra торговой площадки Deutsche Börse. Об этом сообщает Decrypt. ZETH дополнит запущенный ETC Group в июне биткоин-ETP. По утверждению компании, инструмент на базе первой криптовалюты стал наиболее торгуемым активом в этом классе на Xetra во втором полугодии 2020 года.

Представители ETC Group заявили, что объем активов под управлением (AUM) к текущему моменту вырос до $1 млрд.

Xetra удовлетворила аналогичную заявку на листинг Ethereum-ETP (21XE) от конкурирующего провайдера криптовалютных биржевых продуктов из Швейцарии компании 21 Shar…

Коммерческий немецкий банк Donner & Reuschel со штаб-квартирой в Гамбурге планирует предложить клиентам услуги по покупке и хранению цифровых активов. Об этом сообщает CoinDesk. По данным издания, решение вызвано высоким рыночным спросом. В банке также рассматривают возможность токенизации активов.

«Мы наблюдаем за рынком криптовалют и убеждены в потенциале блокчейна, в том числе в отношении традиционных операций с ценными бумагами», — заявил пресс-секретарь правления банка Маркус Витт.

Основанный в 1798 году Donner & Reuschel управляет активами на сумму около $10,7 млрд, по данным CoinDesk. Недавний опрос крупного инвестиционного банка США Goldman Sachs показал, что 40% их клиентов владеют…

Платежный гигант PayPal подтвердил планы по приобретению поставщика инфраструктуры для хранения криптовалют Curv. Об этом говорится в пресс-релизе компании. PayPal рассчитывает завершить сделку в первой половине 2021 года. Ее условия не разглашаются.

«Покупка Curv является частью усилий компании по инвестированию в таланты и технологии, чтобы реализовать наше видение более инклюзивной финансовой системы», — заявил вице-президент платежного гиганта Хосе Фернандес да Понте.

В июле 2020 года Curv привлек $23 млн в ходе раунда финансирования Серии A от Commerzbank Group, Coinbase Ventures и Digital Currency Group. В октябре состоялся дополнительный раунд финансирования Curv, возглавляемый инвес…

Платежная система ePayments разрешила части пользователей вывести средства с платформы.

Выплаты стартовали в начале марта.

First steps on a phased reopening of the business!

https://t.co/8qRyvTFKho— ePayments (@myepayments) March 2, 2021

Котирующаяся на Лондонской фондовой бирже майнинговая компания Argo Blockchain купила 320 акров (129,5 Га) земли в штате Техас для строительства нового дата-центра по добыче биткоинов.

Argo has now completed the acquisition of DPN LLC and as a result, has acquired the land.

This acquisition gives Argo access to up to 800-megawatts of electrical power, where Argo intends to build a new 200mw mining facility over the next 12 months.#ARB $ARBKF2/— Argo (@ArgoBlockchain) March 8, 2021

Американские власти планируют провести серию кибератак на российские системы в ответ на прошлогодний взлом множества правительственных ведомств в США, в котором подозревают хакеров из РФ. Об этом сообщило The New York Times со ссылкой на знакомые с ситуацией источники.

По данным СМИ, атаки будут незаметными для других, но очевидными для российских спецслужб и разведки. Ожидается, что первые шаги США предпримет в течение ближайших трех недель.

Контрмеры США решили принять после взлома множества американских правительственных организаций и частных компаний, о котором стало известно в прошлом году. В нем сразу заподозрили российских хакеров.

Злоумышленникам удалось осуществить атаку через ском…

Сенат США одобрил пакет мер поддержки экономики в размере $1,9 трлн, направленный на борьбу с последствиями пандемии COVID-19. Об этом сообщает CBS News. В состав верхней палаты Конгресса 117-го созыва вошли 50 представителей Республиканской партии и 48 — Демократической. Два сенатора избирались как независимые, хотя вошли в коалицию с демократами. Последние единогласно поддержали план. Против выступили 49 республиканцев, один во время голосования отсутствовал. Финальное рассмотрение законопроекта в Палате представителей пройдет во вторник, 9 марта. Предложенные президентом США Джо Байденом меры предусматривают выплату по $1400 гражданам с зарплатой менее $75 000 в год. Другое положение про…

Правительство Китая представило пятилетний план по ускорению развития передовых технологий, в том числе искусственного интеллекта и квантовых вычислений. Об этом сообщает The Wall Street Journal. В проекте экономического плана, представленного на ежегодном собрании законодателей страны, официальные лица заявили, что будут увеличивать расходы на исследования и разработки более чем на 7% ежегодно до конца 2025 года. В пятилетнем плане перечислены семь стратегических направлений, которые считаются важными для «национальной безопасности и общего развития». К ним относятся искусственный интеллект, квантовые вычисления, интегральные схемы, генетические и биотехнологические исследования, нейробиол…

Налоговая служба США (IRS) запустила операцию «Скрытое сокровище» для поиска резидентов, скрывающих свой доход от операций с криптовалютами. Об этом сообщает Forbes. Директор Управления по борьбе с мошенничеством IRS Деймон Роу заявил, что цель операции — искоренение практики уклонения от уплаты налогов со стороны владельцев цифровых активов. По словам национального юрисконсульта по мошенничеству IRS Кэролин Шэнк, ведомство сотрудничает с частными подрядчиками для определения явных признаков нарушений.

«Мы тебя видим», — добавила Шэнк.

Напомним, в марте налоговая США объяснила, в каких случаях не нужно сообщать о биткоине в декларации. Ранее IRS разослала держателям криптовалют письма с тре…

В ближайшие месяцы корпорация AMD может выпустить линейку специализированных видеокарт для майнинга криптовалют. Об этом пишут профильные СМИ со ссылкой на инсайдера, который изучил новую версию драйверов для устройств компании под Linux. В драйвере появилось новое устройство под названием NV12 (Navi 12), у которого будет отсутствовать поддержка аппаратного ядра для кодирования и декодирования видеопотока Video […]

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Норвежская холдинговая компания Aker открыла подразделение Seetee для инвестиций в криптовалюты и блокчейн.

Первым партнером стала компания Blockstream.

Стартовый капитал Seetee составил 500 млн крон ($58 млн).

Полученные инвестиции Seetee направила в биткоин, купив 1170 BTC.

We are a new company in the Aker group, and will invest in ex­cit­ing projects and com­pa­nies through­out the #Bitcoin ecosys­tem.

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…

Перевод материала Coldcard 101 подготовлен биткоинером Tony ₿Coldcard — это аппаратный кошелек, разработанный командой Coinkite. Аппаратный кошелек — это устройство, основной целью которого является защита приватных ключей пользователя.Любой, у кого есть доступ к вашим приватным ключам, может потратить все биткоины, хранящиеся в этом кошельке, поэтому переоценить значимость безопасного хранения приватных ключей невозможно. Coldcard использует ряд механизмов и уникальных функций с целью обеспечения безопасности ваших биткоинов на высшем уровне. Coldcard не поставляется с собственным приложением или дополнительным программным обеспечением. Выбор ПО для работы с кошельком является исключительн…

Перевод статьи Bitcoin Wallets подготовлен биткоинером Tony ₿Итак, вы приобрели немного биткоинов, и теперь столкнулись со следующим вопросом: как их лучше всего хранить? Мы поможем вам подобрать тот кошелек, который подойдет именно вам.Хотя ничего сложного, на первый взгляд, в этом нет, выбор кошелька сопряжен с немалым количеством нюансов. Сколько у вас биткоинов? Как часто вы планируете их тратить? Вы уверены, что ваши ключи в большей безопасности, чем в холодном кастодиальном хранилище? Ответы на эти вопросы помогут найти правильное решение именно для вас.Биткоин является активом на предъявителя, а это значит, что вы можете хранить ключи от своих биткоинов самостоятельно. Когда вы храни…

Хэл Финни — история жизниПеревод эссе о Хэле Финни, подготовленного компанией криоконсервации Alcor, подготовлен биткоинером Tony ₿Это — новый взгляд на его личную жизнь, идеалы и вечный оптимизм даже перед лицом необратимой смерти.Хотя Хэл широко известен своими новаторскими профессиональными достижениями в киберпространстве и технических кругах, его повседневная жизнь рисует гораздо более детальную картину о его яркой личности. Он был преданным мужем, отцом и неравнодушным человеком с большим жизненным опытом, достигнувшим многого.Южная Калифорния, корниГарольд Томас Финни родился весной 1956 г. в маленьком городке Коалинга, штат Калифорния. Отец Хэла долгое время был сотрудником Union Oi…

Перевод статьи What is Multisig подготовлен биткоинером Tony ₿Самостоятельное хранение или доверие третьей стороне?Благодаря Биткоину у частных лиц и бизнесов теперь появилась возможность взять на себя важную ответственность: возможность в одностороннем порядке контролировать свои собственные средства. Истинное владение биткоинами подразумевает управление своими приватными ключами. Именно приватные ключи являются инструментами, необходимыми для авторизации перевода средств. Ничего, кроме хранения приватных ключей, нельзя считать контролем над собственными средствами. В противном случае деньги контролируются третьей стороной, что, как правило, делает сам факт обладания биткоинами бессмысленн…

Это — очередная статья в рамках серии “Макро”, запущенной совместно с проектом Incrypted, где мы делимся наблюдениями за экономическими реалиями и предлагаем собственный вариант ответа на вопрос “Почему Биткоин?”Улицы немного оживились, бизнесы и производства постепенно готовятся к возобновлению былых темпов. На горизонте появилась надежда. Может, правительства и центральные банки и правда знают, что делают? А все эти горе-экономисты, самоучки со своими устрашающими прогнозами просто злятся, что им не нашлось места в кабинете министров? Может и так, но прежде, чем строить “Наполеоновские планы”, удели 10 минут прочтению этой статьи. Обещаю, что если ты не найдешь ее полезной, я больше не бу…

Модификация фото Пауло КарролоСегодня предлагаю заглянуть в будущее и обратить внимание на то, насколько редким является биткоин. С каждой эпохой производство биткоинов будет замедляться все сильнее, а борьба за монеты лишь ужесточится. Статья, подготовленная @mtc, предлагает взглянуть на динамику появления биткоинов самым что ни на есть глобальным образом.— Tony ₿Взгляд на динамику появления биткоиновЛишь несколько дней назад на майнинг одного биткоина уходило около 48 секунд. Эти вычисления основаны на времени, затрачиваемом на производство полного блока, равного приблизительно 10-и минутам при вознаграждении за блок в 12,5 BTC. 11 мая 2020 года вознаграждение за блок уменьшилось вдвое до…

Я подготовил квиз “Краткая история денег от пещерных людей до сети лайтнинг”. Квиз, как вы уже поняли, посвящен истории эволюции денег и роли Биткоина в современной экономической похлебке.Пройди этот квиз чтобы оценить собственные знания монетарной истории и Биткоина. Поделись им с друзьями, и, надеюсь, что он поможет вам узнать что-то новое и интересное о деньгах, Биктоине и том, как все это работает. Подробные ответы на все вопросы квиза можно найти на сайте BITCOIN TRANSLATED , и нашем телеграм каналеУчись вместе с нами, чтобы стать на шаг ближе к собственному финансовому суверенитету.Квиз “Краткая история денег от пещерных людей до сети лайтнинг” was originally published in BITCOIN TRAN…

Namebase is a top-level domain (TLD) name registrar that operates on the Handshake blockchain.

It creates an ecosystem of TLDs that may be bought and sold using an on-chain auction mechanism.

It takes a different approach to other decentralized domain name systems as Namebase is compatible with the ICANN namespace, the organization governs domain names globally.

Users may register TLDs that don’t yet exist in the ICANN namespace, like .epicenter or .ethereum, for example, creating the opportunity for new niche domain registrars to emerge.

Tieshun Roquerre, CEO of Namebase, joins us to discuss his vision for Namebase and his ambitious goal to decentralize ICANN.

Radicle is a decentralized platform for code collaboration. It's built on Git and is an open-source decentralized alternative to platforms like GitHub. Tools like Radicle are an essential component of the decentralized technology stack and will enable DAOs to commit code through governance. Co-founders Alexis Sellier & Eleftherios Diakomichalis joined us to chat about why they felt it was important to create Radicle and how it fits into the DAO ecosystem with a more accessible governance system of code.Topics covered in this episode:- What Radicle is and the vision they are pursuing- After both working on Soundcloud, the lessons that were carried over to this project- The Cathedral vs Bazaa…

Aaron Wright is a professor at Cardozo Law School and Co-founder of OpenLaw. Before this he was a successful entrepreneur, having sold his first company to Wikia - the for-profit version of Wikipedia. Today Aaron is a renowned thought-leader in the blockchain space at the forefront of DAOs. Last year OpenLaw launched The LAO, a DAO on Ethereum for investors looking to earn returns on Ethereum-based projects.Aaron joins us to share his expert legal knowledge on all things DAO, and discuss his latest projects the LAO and Flamingo DAO.Topics covered in this episode:Aaron's background and how he got into blockchain and the DAO spaceThe early vision for DAOsStakeholder participation in DAOsWrapp…

During the DeFi Summer of 2020, YAM Finance launched with a bang, and had its share of ups and downs within its first couple of days. It started out as an experiment to bring together some of the more innovative ideas in the space. It sparked a movement which brought massive attention to yield farming, and started the food token craze. After a bug was discovered in the v1 contract, many thought the project was dead. But no, the team and community have been working diligently to bring the protocol back to life and it's now a community-run DAO innovating at the intersection of decentralized governance and programmable finance.Trent Elmore is one of the creators of YAM. He joins us to talk abo…

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Eric Wall is the Chief Investment Officer at Arcane Assets, but you may already know him from his writing and his presence on Twitter where he offers valuable insights on crypto markets.

He joined us on the show to share with us his deep and timely insights into the current bull run and how this compared to 2017, where it is headed from here, and also he opens up on his normally guarded thoughts on the future of Bitcoin and Ethereum.

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In today’s world, life and business is moving more into to a virtual space and this has of course been accelerated as a result of the Covid pandemic.

Now more than ever it is important to rethink the very basis of how we organise, make decisions, and structure the world’s governance.

Web3 infrastructure can provide the foundations of a digital jurisdiction.

In the Web3 world rules are enforced by decentralized governance and DAOs allow for a group of stakeholders to participate in governance of an organisation that has no affiliation to a nation state.

How do we treat that in the judicial system and how does it sit within existing national jurisdictions?

Torus is an open-source and universal key management system for the Web3 ecosystem.

Torus runs a Distributed Key Generation protocol built on Shamir’s Secret Sharing.

The Torus Wallet is the second layer to the system and allows one-click login and authentication on partners including Gmail, Facebook, or passwordless logins on Web3 applications.

Notably, clever cryptography makes it possible for users to send crypto to social accounts that don’t yet have crypto wallet.

For example, one could send crypto to a Twitter username, which could be claimed once the recipient creates an account.

Crypto is largely reliant on incentive mechanisms, and liquidity mining is one of the more recent cryptoeconomic incentive models to emerge.

When decentralized exchanges need liquidity, they can leverage liquidity mining to incentivize users to provide it.

In turn, the “miners” generate revenue, generally in the form of a native tokens, proportional to their share of liquidity in a pool.

Kain Warwick is the founder of Synthetix, a company creating synthetic assets for DeFi, enabling exposure to fiat currencies, commodities, and cryptocurrencies.

They joined us to explain the key concepts behind liquidity mining, how and why it was created, and its increasingly important role in DeFi.

Matic Network is a Layer-2 scaling solution that provides instant, low cost, and secure transactions on Ethereum.

Built on an adapted implementation of Plasma and a decentralized network of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) validators, its goal is to solve the scalability and usability issues for developers building Dapps, whilst not compromising on decentralization and user experience.

Sandeep Nailwal, COO & Co-founder of Matic, joins us to chat about how Matic works and the problems it’s solving, and we also get a fascinating look into the crypto and startup community in India.

Filecoin is a peer-to-peer network data storage network, with built-in economic incentives for storage providers.

Users can pay the network to access storage space, which can be encrypted, replicated, and highly available.

After years of development and iteration, Filecoin recently launched its mainnet.

The long term vision of the protocol is a fully decentralized future for the web.

Juan Benet, Founder & CEO of Protocol Labs, returns for the second part of this 2-part episode.

IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is a fully decentralized distributed system for storing and accessing files, websites, applications, and data.

Released just over 5 years ago by Protocol Labs, it has had a tremendous impact in the Web3 space as the standard for how blockchain projects store data.

Filecoin is a complementary protocol to IPFS and was recently launched on the mainnet.

Filecoin is the economic layer which powers IPFS’s decentralized file storage network.

Juan Benet is the Founder & CEO of Protocol Labs, which has had a huge impact in the blockchain ecosystem, as organisation behind IPFS and Filecoin.

There’s a one direction value flow in terms of those who are providing the value (the data) and those extracting it.

Ocean Protocol is a platform which creates data marketplaces, providing an alternative to the current model.

Data providers can sell their data to the platform to whoever wants to buy it and that data set is represented as a token.

Trent McConaghy, Founder of Ocean Protocol, joins us to chat about the platform.

They have just released V3 which has seen the introduction of the data token, the Ocean Market, and a new home on the Ethereum Mainchain.

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On this episode we discuss the significance of a recent, seemingly innocuous letter released by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency...

Shownotes:Caitlin's twitter thread https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1286226852244160512Preston's twitter thread https://twitter.com/prestonjby…

Click to download audio versionIn the aftermath of a major Twitter compromise that impacted a broad swathe of the largest, most influential accounts, join Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine for a dive into the crazy series of events, what impact it has on bitcoin, decentralization and more.

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There's nothing more political than money because money affects everything else, and yet Bitcoin works.

What’s the value in the US and western Europe compared to the value in less developed parts of the world?

Does being part of the bitcoin community make you politically affiliated, or represent a distinct political viewpoint?

What I like about Bitcoin is it's a way to be a part of neither game.

So it's a failure on two sides at the same time..." - Jonathan MohanCreditsThis episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin features Stephanie Murphy, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Adam B. Levine and Jonathan Mohan.

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According to Richard, Bitcoin’s Lightning is a what’s needed to make mobile mesh networks catch on by bootstrapping on top of the payment routing infrastructure.

“…the Lightning network currently sends payments from A to B to C and then all those intermediate nodes can connect a small fee if the payment is delivered at the end.

All we’re doing is saying ‘Not only [can you send] a payment, but [you can send] a small message.

Lot49 is custom communication protocol that’s optimized for mesh.

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That luxury is pretty concentrated in just a few places in the world and at some point you can't afford that luxury of apathy.

- Andreas M. Antonopoulos, LTB!

#437CreditsThis episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin features Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Adam B. Levine.

Music provided by Jared Rubens, FromEther and Adam B. Levine, with editing by Jonas.

Inspired by a recent article in the Atlantic, in today's wide-ranging discussion the hosts of Let's Talk Bitcoin!

If Let’s Talk Bitcoin!

Government surveillance vs. private surveillance provided to the governmentWhat we learned from Edward SnowdenDoes China commercialize surveillance?

Censorship as controlling access to the publishing of information vs. controlling what is amplified vs. how much reach it has.

CreditsThis episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin features Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Adam B. Levine.

UN SCRYPTEDEpisode 25: Unprecedented: Rules Without RulersAndreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and highly sought after expert in Bitcoin and open blockchain technologies.

He has published “The Internet of Money” series of books, which focus on the social, political, and economic importance and implications of these technologies.

Follow on Twitter: @aantonopWebsite: https://aantonop.com/In this talk, Andreas discusses the word of the season, unprecedented.

Unprecedented pandemic, unprecedented job losses, unprecedented incompetence.

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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-…

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-…

I know that kind of shocks everybody, but you don’t really know who owns what when.

I think you’re going to see a lot more exciting things from them in pretty short order.

You have a too-big-to-fail intermediary in the middle, and suddenly, like, things really just become…the plumbing just gums it all up.

You know, you’re really not then.

So, you know, you’re going to have to keep building on a regulatory stack.

Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave, comes onto the show to discuss the lending protocol and second-biggest DeFi project by total value locked.

Laura Shin:Today’s guest is Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave.

Stani Kulechov:Yeah, so Version 2 is like by itself the protocol we made a lot of savings in the gas cost.

The example where we thought that there was $30 million will be in Aave protocol and then there’s billions, it just shows how high the stakes are.

To learn more about Stani and Aave, check out the show notes for this episode.

Lyn Alden, CEO and founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategies, and Raoul Pal, CEO & cofounder of Real Vision Group & Global Macro Investor, explain their thinking about Ethereum and[...]

The post Lyn Alden and Raoul Pal: Is Ethereum a Good Investment? appeared first on Unchained Podcast.

In this episode, Shehan Chandrasekara, head of strategy at CoinTracker, and Dan Hannum COO at Zen Ledger, take a deep dive into the world of crypto taxes.

Over an hour and fifteen minutes they tackle a bevy of topics ranging from why the IRS is asking about your crypto history to explaining the proper way of reporting yield farming income.

Shehan and Dan give up their hard-earned tax secrets and tips learned through building their respective cutting-edge crypto tax software.

Crypto.com: http://crypto.comEpisode links:GuestsSoftwareAccountingRegulatory research:2014 IRS Tax Guidance: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdfIRS Virtual Currency page: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-b…

Michael Saylor, CEO and founder of Microstrategy, explains how he decided the publicly traded business data firm needed to put its excess cash in bitcoin and what happened afterward.

In this episode, we discuss:why Microstrategy decided to buy Bitcoin, and how the pandemic spurred thatwhether his previous experience with Microstrategy stock imploding after accounting irregularities were revealed had any bearing on the company’s decision to buy bitcointhe reactions of the officers and board members to his suggestion to invest in bitcoinwhy they put all the excess cash into bitcoin as opposed to some percentagewhat parts of the bitcoin industry could be improved to better serve corporate inte…

Stephen Palley, partner at Anderson Kill.

and Gabriel Shapiro, partner at BSV Law, discuss the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple and two executives, Chris Larsen and Bard Garlinghouse.

In this episode, they explain:what was so “egregious” that the SEC went after two executives, Chris Larsen and Brad Garlinghouse, were chargedwhy their sales showed an information asymmetry, and why that matterswhy the complaint comes close to being a fraud case, but why the SEC didn’t charge them with fraudwhy the idea that XRP is a currency and therefore cannot be a security will likely not flywhy it’s unlikely the case will go to the Supreme Courtthe SEC’s case for why XRP is a security, and Ripple’s role in it…

Willy Woo, a prominent on-chain Bitcoin analyst and author of the “The Bitcoin Forecast,” a market intelligence newsletter, explains the parabolic activity of Bitcoin in the past month.

We cover:why he thinks Bitcoin has more than doubled in the last monthwhat the “double pump” market is and why Bitcoin may see two rallies this cyclewhat stage of the Bitcoin bull market we are currently inwho is buying, and how they’ve differed from previous investorswho still is yet to buy this cyclewhy Bitcoin hitting new all-time highs mean that we’re in “uncharted price discovery”how his “top cap model” shows Bitcoin could be around $95k by end of yearand how if certain trends accelerate, it could reach…

This panel, from a panel for the fifth anniversary of Hyperledger, features Rob Palatnick, managing director of global head of technology research and innovation at the DTCC and chairman of the Hyperledger board, Matthieu Saint Olive, Codefi payments product manager and CBDC advisor at ConsenSys, and Robert Bench, assistant vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

In this discussion on the current outlook on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), they cover:what main problems CBDCs can solvewhether CBDCs should be open sourcedwhy building a new technology for CBDCs is preferred over using existing techhow concerns over CBDCs and their privacy implications differ across countr…

Host Laura Shin recaps the biggest stories of the year in crypto, with clips from shows throughout the year.

In this episode, we cover how the pandemic drove Bitcoin to new all-time highs, how regulation began to come for the crypto space in a big way, plus new trends in DeFi, corporate structures, and how ETH will change as an asset.

Thank you to our sponsors!

Crypto.com: http://crypto.com1inch: https://1inch.exchangeEpisode links:Meltem Demirors on Bitcoin’s behavior during the recession https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-bitcoin-now-meltem-demirors-and-lyn-alden-on-the-perfect-conditions-for-bitcoin/Mike Novogratz and Raoul Pal on Bitcoin’s relation to fiat https://unchainedpodcast.com/why…

Jeremy Allaire of Circle Pay and Kristin Smith of the Blockchain Association explain the impact of and motivation behind Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s proposed FinCEN rule that targets “unhosted” wallets.

In this episode, they cover:what the new FinCEN rule says, and how it would impact unhosted or self-hosted wallets, as well as crypto businesseswhy they believe this is really politically motivated and unilateral midnight rule making by Secretary Mnuchinwhat other bureaucrats and policymakers think should be done insteadwhether the rule only affects businesses rather than individualswhat information will be recorded according to the ruleways to circumvent compliancehow the rule affect…

Marguerite deCourcelle is co-founder and CEO of Blockade Games, which is releasing the role-playing game game Neon District the day this episode comes out.

She discusses her background in art, how her love of video games led her to discover Bitcoin in the early days of the cryptocurrency, and how she helps create the next phase of web 3.0 content creation and distribution.

Topics include:how Marguerite became involved in crypto and what led her to co-found Blockade Gamesher work on Pineapple Arcade and Plasma Bearsthe problems she sees with gaming and how blockchain technology can solve themhow Blockade Games is utilizing blockchain techNeon District, a blockchain-based RPG game with active…

Gavin Wood, founder of Polkadot, Kusama, and Parity, discusses what he calls the “meta-protocol,” Polkadot.

In this episode, he talks about:his vision for Polkadot and the problems he set out to solve when conceiving itwhy he considers Polkadot a meta-protocolthe implementation of parachains and parathreads, how they are defined and how they differparachain auctions and candle auctionshow DDoS attacks can be prevented on parachainsinitial parachain offerings and how they differ from initial coin offerings and avoid the regulatory problems that were so common with ICOson-chain governance on Polkadot and how it workshow immediate implementation of proposals that pass consensus will prevent fo…

Ryan Watkins and Wilson Withiam, senior research analysts at Messari, explain the nuts and bolts of Ethereum 2.0, including how it will transform ETH as an asset and why they[...]

The post Ethereum 2.0: What You Need to Know appeared first on Unchained Podcast.

Christine Sandler, head of sales and marketing at Fidelity Digital Assets, talks about how 30 years in traditional finance and an early retirement led her to Coinbase, and, eventually, Fidelity Digital Assets.

Today’s guest is Christine Sandler, head of Sales and Marketing at Fidelity Digital Assets.

What does Fidelity Digital Assets do and what do you do within it?

Laura Shin:So, currently, as you mentioned before, Fidelity Digital Assets focuses on custody and execution.

To learn more about Christine and Fidelity Digital Assets, check out the show notes for this episode.

About this EpisodeIn this week’s episode, Anna and [Robert Habermeier]https://twitter.com/rphmeier) chat with Pratyush Mishra, co-author of the Arkworks toolkit.

Arkworks is a collection of Rust libraries designed to simplify development with SNARKs, both for developing high-level application circuits and building custom SNARK implementations.

Pratyush lays out what possibilities and trade-offs Arkworks offers, diving into the details of the Rust implementation and why it is the best language for developing cryptographic primitives.

Anna, Rob and Pratyush then branch out into the philosophical and practical questions of open-sourcetq and blockchain development.

Bellman and Libsnark, some of…

About this EpisodeIn this week’s episode, Anna and James Prestwich chat with Phil Daian and Stephane Gosselin from the Flashbots project.

Flashbots is a research and development organization formed to mitigate the negative externalities and existential risks posed by miner-extractable value (MEV) to smart-contract blockchainsThey talk about the Flashbots organization and mission as well as the evolving opportunities and dangers lurking in the mempool.

Grab your free spot here -> https://hopin.com/events/zksessions-defi-and-privacyThank you to this week’s sponsor Optimism PBC.

Optimism PBC is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) building the Optimistic Ethereum Network and the Optimistic Virtu…

They discuss their respective works, and explore the new ways in which creators & influencers can engage with Blockchain tech and NFTs.

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

Aave is decentralised and community-governed and has an ecosystem grants program for anyone building anything that contributes to Aave!

DeFi-staked NFT collectibles game Aavegotchi originated as an Aave ecosystem grant.

To learn more about the grant program visit aave.com and find the link to apply for the Aave grants program here!

About this EpisodeIn this week’s episode, Anna & Josh Cincinnati chat with Peter Van Valkenburgh, Director of Research at Coin Center.

Coin Center is a non-profit research and advocacy group focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency and decentralized computing technologies.

Stargate is the largest Cosmos upgrade yet, enabling blockchains to connect with each other using the first standardized protocol for inter-blockchain communication (IBC).

If you want to apply to the Interchain Foundation Grants program, here is the link: apply.interchain.ioDeadline for this round is February 14th.

*If you like what we do: *Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefmJoin us on TelegramCatch u…

About this EpisodeThis week, Anna and Tarun chat with Stani Kulechov, co-founder of Aave, about the origin and evolution of the project, the changing DeFi landscape, collateralized debt in crypto, Flashloans, Flashminting, Credit Delegation and the future of DeFi.

We have discussed Flashloans on the show before see this previous episode:https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/118Thank you to this week’s sponsor Hermez Protocol!

Designed for high-frequency tokens, Hermez is a zk rollup which leverages zk-SNARKs for validity proofs and with on-chain data availability.

After passing two security audits, Hermez is running a bug bounty program, offering up to 100 ETH to whoever discovers any critical vulne…

About this EpisodeThis week, Anna and guest co-host James Prestwich chat with David Vorick from Skynet Labs about the scope and goals of the Skynet project.

They discuss the journey from earlier work on Sia & distributed data to Skynet, SkyDB, and their idea for Recursive Content Monetization - a new model to pay online creators and content owners.

They also chat about the SkyFeed project - a decentralised Twitter like project.

Aave Protocol is an open source and non-custodial protocol where users can earn interest on deposits and borrow assetsAave Protocol also features access to innovative DeFi building blocks like Flash Loans.

-https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6ASupport our Gitcoin Grant…

About this EpisodeThis week, Anna chats with guests Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet & Robot Ventures), James Prestwich (cLabs) and Josh Cincinnati (previously Zcash Foundation).

Throughout this conversation, they touch on topics like the state of zero knowledge applications, blockchain technology, privacy and DeFi.

They also explore what we can expect in the near future.

Here are a few of the papers and links we mention in the show:If you like what we do:

About this EpisodeThis week, Anna and Fredrik do a look back at 2020 and chat about some of their favourite ZKPodcast episodes and themes from this past year.

Some of the 2020 episodes discussed:Some of the projects that had previously been on the zkPodcast that launched or were announced this year:Zk-projects:L1s:Thanks to our sponsor Least Authority.

Least Authority is a security consulting company known for their dedication to pushing the limits on how to build privacy-respecting solutions.

They are a team of security researchers, open source developers, privacy advocates, cryptographers who specialize in security audits, design specification reviews, and security-by-design.

Join their m…

About this EpisodeThis week, Anna chats with Matthew Finestone and Brecht Devos from Loopring about their zkrollup protocol, DEX and wallet.

We explored the evolution of Loopring, how their zkrollup works, how they are bringing AMMs to L2 and what’s next for the project.

Catch Brecht’s previous episode hereThanks to this week’s sponsor Parity TechnologiesParity is a company building the core infrastructure to power Web 3.0.

They strive to write the fastest, lightest, and safest core technology in blockchain and write lots of open-source code.

Parity is currently looking to fill a number of job positions• Berlin office: experienced, creative and enthusiastic Content Marketing Manager.

About this EpisodeThis week, Anna chats with Eduardo Antuñia Díez - co-founder / project lead of DAppNode - about the importance of running your own node, the roll out of ETH2 and the role DAppNode aims to play in the future.

Here are some useful links:[STABLE Act](Stablecoin Tethering and Bank Licensing Enforcement (STABLE) Act)Jordi episodeDAppNode DiscordDAppNode Gaurdians of Ethereum DAO proposalZero Knowledge Gitcoin grant is eligible for Gitcoin's CLR matching - on now!

Thanks to this week’s sponsor O(1) Labs, the team incubating [Mina](minaprotocol.com) protocol.

And over the past 18 months, the community - alongside the core team at O(1) Labs - have been working on a rigorous testne…

About this EpisodeThis week, Anna chats with Koh Wei Jei from the Ethereum Foundation about the MACI or Minimum Anti-Collusion Infrastructure.

They chat about the challenges in voting digitally and in decentralised networks, how MACI uses zkps to solve this, and how it could be used in the context of quadratic voting.

Parity has the following job openings:• Berlin office: looking for a passionate social media manager to maintain and grow the company’s social networks, and to activate customers and contributors.

• Remote work: looking for a CI/CD Engineer to help automate an ever-growing set of open source repos in GitHub.

-https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6ASupport our Gitcoin Grant -https:…

About this EpisodeIn this week’s episode, we chat with Omer Shlomovits from Zengo Wallet about MPC, threshold cryptography and how the research around this topic can be used in a blockchain context.

We reference the Zero Knowledge Podcast Episode 90 with Nigel Smart.

Here are some additional links to check out:Thanks to this week’s sponsor Least Authority.

If you are skilled in the area of zero-knowledge protocols and other advanced cryptography for scalability and privacy enhancing tech, you should get in contact with them.

-https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6ASupport our Gitcoin GrantSupport us on the ZKPatreonOr directly here:ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1aBTC: 1cafekGa3po…

About this EpisodeThis week, Anna catches up with Illia Polosukhin, CTO and co-founder of NEAR, to talk about what's new in the network since last year.

Thank you to this week’s sponsor Trail of Bits.

Trail of Bits has published this guide for building secure contracts with their Crytic offering.

Crytic is a SaaS-based GitHub application created by Trail of Bits that continuously assures your Ethereum smart contracts are safe and functional.

It reports build status on every commit and runs a suite of security analyses so you get immediate security feedback.

About this EpisodeIn this week’s episode, Anna and Fredrik chat with Alin Tomescu, a post-doc researcher at VMWare Research Group, about the concept of stateless systems.

Specifically, they explore his work on stateless validation, why this would be desirable and what is the state of the research around this topic.

This free online event is the Polkadot community conference and the first Polkadot gathering since the multi-chain network’s launch and decentralization.

Check out the full program for Polkadot Decoded and register for free at decoded.polkadot.networkThanks again Parity Technologies!

-https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6ASupport our Gitcoin Grant -https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero…

...и вообще везде, где вы слушаете что-то еще!

...и вообще везде, где вы слушаете что-то еще!

00:09:12 Глава 1: Десять главных трендов на 2021 00:32:33 Глава 2: Десять людей, за которыми нужно сделить в 2021 00:41:43 Глава 3: Десять инвестиционных идей на 2021 00:50:52 Глава 4: Десять трендов для Биткоина и crypto monies 01:12:44 Глава 5: Десять трендов для Ethereum 01:33:26 Продолжение следует!

Ссылки:Спасибо нашим спонсорам:Подкаст выходит при поддержке Solana – быстрого блокчейна без шардинга.

Подкаст выходит при поддержке Zerion – понятного интерфейса к DeFi-протоколам.

Lend at Hodl Hodl это некастодиальная P2P платформа биткоин займов, где вы можете занимать и одалживать у других пользователей на любой срок и сумму под залог Биткоина.

На Lend at Hodl Hodl вы зарабатываете проце…

...и вообще везде, где вы слушаете что-то еще!

...и вообще везде, где вы слушаете что-то еще!

Вадим Нестеренко — продакт-менеджер в компании Atomica.

Вадим рассказал нам, кто такой продакт-менеджер, каковы особенности его работы в блокчейн-стартапе и какие продукты лучшие на сегодняшнем крипторынке.

Подкаст выходит при поддержке HodlHodl – площадки для покупки и продажи биткоинов без верификации.

Подкаст выходит при поддержке Solana – быстрого блокчейна без шардинга.

Токены SOL доступны на Binance с 9 апреля, подробности на solana.com и в телеграме @solanarus.

...и вообще везде, где вы слушаете что-то еще!

и спонсоров: , , !

а также майнинг и proof-of-stakeСсылки:Спасибо нашим спонсорам:Подкаст выходит при поддержке Zerion – понятного интерфейса к DeFi-протоколам.

Подкаст выходит при поддержке HodlHodl – площадки для покупки и продажи биткоинов без верификации.

HodlHodl Подкаст выходит при поддержке Solana – быстрого блокчейна без шардинга.

Токены SOL доступны на Binance с 9 апреля, подробности на solana.com и в телеграме @solanarus.

...и вообще везде, где вы слушаете что-то еще!

Обсуждаем перспективы биткоина в Африке, вопросы верификации и KYC, а также удивительную экономику трансграничных переводов при помощи подарочных карт.

18:30 поддержка альтернативных криптовалют21:50 почему Paxful фокусируется на Африке?

30:20 благотворительные проекты Paxful в Африке35:10 экономика подарочных карт: как африканские мигранты в США переводят деньги на родину?

1:15:00 микрокредиты на Paxful?

1:30:20 приходите работать в Paxful!

Алексей – соавтор DeFi-протоколов Neutrino и Gravity, являющихся альтернативой широко известному проекту MakerDAO, но в экосистеме Waves.

На экосистеме различие не заканчивается: во-первых, сама суть того, за счёт чего обеспечивается стабильность токена, в Neutrino несколько иная; во-вторых, есть много позитивных моментов в том, что протокол разрабатывается на Тьюринг-неполном языке RIDE.

Об этих различиях, а также о планах проекта мы поговорили в выпуске.

Сегодня вместе с Алексом Романовым, CTO Beam, мы выясняем, как Beam «вылечили» уязвимость протокола MimbleWimble к сетевым атакам и начали строить децентрализованную финансовую систему без ончейн-вычислений.

Заодно обсуждаем новинки в протоколе Beam: платежные каналы и атомарные свопы.

Подкаст выходит при поддержке HodlHodl – площадки для покупки и продажи биткоинов без верификации.

Зарегистрируйтесь и получите скидку на комиссию!

Проект сейчас развивается в русскоязычном комьюнити, у них есть группа в Telegram (@solanarus), в Вконтакте у них есть даже группа.

Всем, кому интересно, можете просто пройти ниже по ссылке, посмотреть про Wasabi или про Samourai, что это такое и как это работает.

Всё, это не ваши деньги, и там они, соответственно, уже могут и помешать, и сделать всё что угодно.

Мы, наверное, сейчас как следующей темой поговорим, что мы будем делать дальше, что у нас будет privacy pool.

С точки зрения Tornado на сегодняшний день мы не имеем какой-либо коммерческой заинтересованности, с точки зрения мы не ранаем релееров и мы не имеем никакого профита вообще с Tornado Cash.

Например, торговлю фьючерсами, то есть то, что сейчас называют DeFi, но ещё оно было централизованное.

То есть они тогда занимались больше маркетингом, то есть они вообще боялись что-то трогать.

То есть, есть люди, которые более успешно получают финансирование.

Поэтому у нас есть два уровня, то есть еще есть провайдеры, которые реально известны, которые отвечают за свои действия, то есть чистые Proof of Stake.

Мы есть в YouTube, мы есть в Twitter, подкаст есть на всех доступных подкаст-платформах, мы везде называемся «Базовый Блок» или Basicblockradio.

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If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral.

Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/).

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

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If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral.

Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/).

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral.

Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/).

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral.

Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/).

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral.

Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/).

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral.

Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/).

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral.

Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/).

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral.

Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/).

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral.

Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/).

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral.

Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/).

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral.

Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/).

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral.

Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/).

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral.

Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/).

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.

Bitcoin Core version 0.20.1 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.

Bitcoin Core version 0.20.0 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.

By providing controllable energy demand, Bitcoin maximizes existing energy production.

Boosting Energy EfficiencyAnywhere in the world, power grid demand is highly variable, with demand rising and falling through the day.

By dynamically balancing energy demand through Bitcoin mining, Blockstream enables greater scale and significantly improves the economics of renewable energy projects.

Working with Energy GiantsSeetee and its parent Aker have extensive renewable energy assets around the world.

Get InvolvedIf you would like to explore ways of integrating Bitcoin mining with your business, get in touch with our team.

We’re excited to reveal that we’re now working with Galaxy Digital for the hosting of its Bitcoin mining operation in North America.

Galaxy Digital has deployed its Bitcoin mining hardware across Blockstream’s facilities in the USA and Canada.

Following the initial installation, Galaxy Digital plans to expand the mining operation throughout 2021 to keep up with the fast-growing demand for Bitcoin worldwide.

Galaxy put us through some rigorous due diligence before committing, but this helped validate our enterprise-first approach to Bitcoin mining services.

We’ve got a lot more exciting Bitcoin mining news coming over the next few months, so watch this space!

The Encrypted BlobUsing changes added in GDK 0.0.39, we’ve added support for end-to-end encrypted client data—the “encrypted blob.” Your transaction notes and account names are stored in the blob, securely encrypted and protected from external changes.

Since your data is encrypted with your recovery phrase, the Blockstream Green servers cannot know what’s inside it.

If you’ve activated your two-factor reset, your wallet will not start using the encrypted blob until after the waiting period expires.

Today’s Blockstream Green update is part of an ongoing effort to increase privacy and reduce trust requirements for our users.

We want to communicate these changes to you since not …

Unblind to Blockstream ExplorerWith the most recent updates to Blockstream Explorer and Blockstream Green, you can now “unblind” any transaction (reveal the asset type and amount) straight to Blockstream Explorer in a few taps.

This will take you to a special URL that includes the unblinding data required for a third party to verify a transaction’s details.

Blockstream Explorer automatically uses this data to reveal the relevant inputs and outputs.

Unblinded Securely In-BrowserAll processing of the unblinding data is securely handled client-side on your browser, so you can be sure it’s never shared with Blockstream.

Even better, you can run your own esplora-based block explorer and …

We’re proud to announce that we’re now broadcasting the Bitcoin Core source code worldwide over Blockstream Satellite.

With low-cost, widely-available hardware, users can set up Blockstream Satellite receivers and reliably receive access to Bitcoin blockchain data, Lightning Network data, and now the source code to a fully-validating Bitcoin node.

Providing Redundancy and AnonymityThe satellite broadcast ensures that the Bitcoin source code is always available, even in the event of internet outages, the removal of public code repositories, or other interruptions.

Download and VerifyBlockstream is specifically broadcasting the source code to vanilla Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 and our own Bitcoi…

Beaming data to space is now cheaper than everSince the price of Bitcoin is on an orbital trajectory, we’ve reduced the minimum bid per byte to transmit data over Blockstream Satellite via the Satellite API.

As part of the Blockstream Satellite updates, we’ve begun broadcasting our LNsync service which shares snapshots of the Lightning Network gossip data.

We’ve made the Blockstream Satellite Utility ( blocksat-cli ) more featureful and easy to use.

Get connectedThe Blockstream Satellite service is available completely for free and includes a wide coverage area.

To learn more about Blockstream Satellite and see if you’re in the coverage area (you most likely are), check out our cove…

Today we’re excited to announce our recent US$25 million purchase of WhatsMiner Bitcoin miners from Shenzhen-based MicroBT, the world’s leading manufacturer of Bitcoin mining equipment.

Enterprise-Class Hosting ServicesBlockstream currently offers enterprise-class Bitcoin mining colocation services to institutions looking for turnkey solutions.

Reliable FoundationWe’ve been extensively testing mining hardware since the launch of our mining hosting service in 2017, and right now, we’re confident saying there’s no better mining hardware on the market than MicroBT’s WhatsMiner miners.

Part of the order should also go toward a new, top-secret mining service we’ll be launching soon…

The main difference CSV introduces is in the garecovery process of your Bitcoin accounts, which is required if you cannot access Blockstream’s servers or lose your two-factor authentication (2FA) method.

Now you no longer need to provide an email address to receive timelock backup emails each time you send or receive a transaction.

Bitcoin 2-of-3 accounts do not use timelocks (the third key is used for garecovery instead) and are also not affected.

Slightly More FeesThe CheckSequenceVerify timelocks take up a little more space on the blockchain than nLockTime timelocks.

As a result, transactions from Blockstream Green wallets will be 2% more expensive on average.

By providing Lightning apps with an efficient method to keep in sync with the rest of the network, LNsync should represent a major step in improving the usability of Lightning for all Bitcoin users.

This is done in a procedure called the server-assisted gossip sync, explained in more detail in our Engineering Blog.

A Complement to the Gossip ProtocolLNsync does not replace the existing gossip protocol.

And once your node has completed it’s sync through LNsync, the gossip protocol takes over again, keeping your node up to date while it is online.

Add LNsync to Your Lightning AppsWe hope that LNsync will help make Lightning payments more reliable, especially for mobile wallets.

Today, we’re launching Blockstream Jade as our own take on what a Bitcoin hardware wallet should be.

Fully open-source for both hardware and software, Blockstream Jade secures your keys offline in combination with Blockstream Green.

Advanced Liquid Asset SupportOut of the box, Blockstream Jade will support regular Bitcoin and all Liquid assets issued on the Liquid Network.

Multi-PlatformInitially on launch, Blockstream Jade will support Blockstream Green for Android only.

Open SourceAs Blockstream Jade is fully open source, advanced users can flash Blockstream Jade’s firmware onto their own hardware (we’d recommend the M5Stack Fire).

Today, the Liquid Securities platform is getting a new name: Blockstream AMP!

We’re deploying a feature-filled update to Blockstream AMP (Asset Management Platform), designed to support better any digital assets that require permissioning and tracking features.

Blockstream AMP provides the issuer with flexibility while ensuring they can reliably secure their rules at the protocol level through multisig.

Take Blockstream AMP for a Test DriveHead to the demo site to take Blockstream AMP for a spin.

To get a better understanding of what an issuance with Blockstream AMP might look like in practice, see our new case studies.

From the scrolling home screen, AQUA gives you access to all of your Bitcoin, Liquid Bitcoin, Tether USDt, L-CAD, and other Liquid assets.

Like Blockstream Green, AQUA is fully open-source.

Blockstream Green supports all major operating systems, while AQUA will be mobile-only—launched for iOS today, with android to follow.

Get AQUA NowYou can download AQUA from the App Store now.

For guides on how to obtain Liquid assets, such as Liquid Bitcoin and Liquid-based Tether, see our Help Center.

Bitcoin is increasingly under threat from a growing body of patents collected by companies inside and outside of the Bitcoin industry.

Back in 2016, we established our defensive patent strategy in the form of our Patent Pledge.

Taking our defensive patent strategy one step further, today we’re joining forces with Square Crypto in the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA), announced yesterday.

The Patent Pledge is legally binding, ensuring that the patents safely become free to use for all, even non-members.

Shared patent library: Members commit all of their cryptocurrency patents to a patent pool available for other members to also use defensively.

For anyone who wants to better understand Blockstream’s products, the Blockstream Help Center is now officially live!

The new Help Center is designed to resolve that, providing you with up-to-date, easy-to-digest user guides and explainers in one central location.

More Improvements On the WayIn addition to our ongoing work on expanding the Help Center, we’re also in the process of updating our technical documentation.

We also have some important updates to our user support systems on the way, which will improve the experience for anyone that is unable to resolve their issue through self-service on our Help Center.

Let Us Know What You NeedCheck out the new Help Center now.

Eight New Members Join the Liquid FederationThis week, the Liquid Network welcomed eight new members to the Liquid Federation: CoinShares, Condensat, INX, JST Capital, Paymium, Petrushev Capital, Sevenlabs, and Satoshis Games.

As the federation grows, the security of the Liquid Network also improves—decision making over the development of the network becomes more distributed.

Liquid Integration: Coinshares intends to use Liquid as transport rails for its digital asset trading between exchanges.

Liquid Integration: INX plans to integrate Liquid Securities as a key part of its security token trading services.

And if you’d like to become a member of the Liquid Federation, contact the feder…

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…

In the rest of this post, we'll use "collusion" to refer to "undesired coordination" generally.

From the point of view of someone determining the rules for the voting mechanism, they don't know ahead of time whether the Orange Party is good or bad.

If a group makes a bad decision, those who approved the decision must suffer more than those who attempted to dissent.

Different coordination structures, different outcomesSometimes, more coordination is good: it's better when people can work together to collectively solve their problems.

Of course, it is very difficult to prevent communication outright, and it is very difficult to make coordination perfect.

If we want to make practical moves toward trust minimization, we want to have the ability to compare different degrees of trust.

First, my simple one-sentence definition of trust: trust is the use of any assumptions about the behavior of other people.

Not growing your own food is another kind of trust: trust that enough people will realize that it's in their interests to grow food so they can sell it to you.

You can trust different sizes of groups of people, and there are different kinds of trust.

DPOS): N/2 of small-N trust for liveness, N/2 of big-N trust for safety(assuming semi-decentralized operator, eg.

See also:One of the most powerful properties of a blockchain is the fact that every single part of the blockchain's execution can be independently validated.

First, it maximizes the chance that the node can correctly determine and say on the canonical chain - the chain that the community accepts as legitimate.

The goal of validation is then to move away from default to victory to (ideally) default to failure or (less ideally) default to chaos.

Typically, a single block in a blockchain only touches a small portion of the blockchain "state" (account balances, smart contract code....).

For a blockchain community that values immutability, implementing revert limits of this kind are arguably the…

Round 6 of Gitcoin Grants has just finished, with $227,847 in contributions from 1,526 contributors and $175,000 in matched funds distributed across 695 projects.

Why should the quadratic funding mechanism significantly increase its complexity just to achieve a gain in stability that projects could simply provide for themselves?

The Ethereum community has long been struggling to find effective ways to determine what "the community" supports, especially in cases of controversy.

Since round 5, Gitcoin Grants has had three categories per round: tech, community (called "media" before), and some "guest" category that appears only during that specific round.

ConclusionThe best news is the unmenti…

The holder of the private key \(k\) provides, as part of the public key, a "relinearization key", which you can think of as "noisy" encryptions of \(k \otimes k\) under \(k\).

Notice that the decryption equation \(\) is just a big sum of terms of the form \((ct_{1_i} * ct_{2_j}) * k_p * k_q\).

Another technique: matricesAnother technique (see Gentry, Sahai, Waters (2013)) for fully homomorphic encryption involves matrices: instead of representing a ciphertext as \(ct\) where \( = 2e + m\), a ciphertext is a matrix, where \(k * CT = k * m + e\) (\(k\), the key, is still a vector).

The fact that addition works is easy: if \(k * CT_1 = m_1 * k + e_1\) and \(k * CT_2 = m_2 * k + e_2\), then \(k…

● Taproot activation discussion: Michael Folkson summarized a second meeting about activation parameters for taproot, concluding that “there wasn’t overwhelming consensus for either LOT=true or LOT=false”, the LockinOnTimeout (LOT) parameter from BIP8 that determines whether or not nodes will require mandatory signaling for activation of the fork.

However, there was nearly universal agreement on other activation parameters, most notably reducing the amount of hash rate that needs to signal for the fork to activate from 95% to 90%.

Discussion continued about the LOT parameter on the mailing list, mainly about the effect of encouraging users to choose the option themselves, either via a comma…

As business travel remains on hold in many parts of the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re temporarily pausing our membership model.

We’ll continue to provide high-quality online technical material for engineers working on Bitcoin.

We’ve undertaken projects in two broad areas:When the COVID-19 pandemic started making travel and in-person meetings more difficult in early 2020, we were forced to cancel plans for future events.

Once it became clear that in-person events wouldn’t be possible for the foreseeable future, we decided to stop asking our members for annual donations.

Consequently, we’ve decided to temporarily pause our membership program.

● Faster signature operations: Russell O’Connor and Andrew Poelstra published a blog post announcing the implementation of an algorithm that can speed up Bitcoin Core’s signature verification by 15%.

● Proposal to stop processing unsolicited transactions: normally nodes expect to receive the announcement of a new transaction in a P2P protocol inv message.

This week, Antoine Riard posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a proposal to stop processing such unsolicited tx messages.

Riard is proposing this change be made possibly as early as the next major version of Bitcoin Core, version 22.0.

Jager builds on a previous proposal (see Newsletter #122), extending its fixed fees with fees proportio…

● Taproot activation meeting summary and follow-up: Michael Folkson posted a summary of the scheduled meeting to discuss taproot activation methods (see Newsletter #133).

There appeared to be support among participants for using the BIP8 activation mechanism with the earliest allowed activation time about two months after the first release of Bitcoin Core containing the activation code and the latest allowed activation of that initial deployment about one year subsequently.

More controversial was whether the LockinOnTimeout (LOT) parameter should default to true (requiring miners to either eventually signal in favor of the new rules or risk a chainsplit) or false (allowing miners to signal …

● Replicating OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK with BIP340 and OP_CAT : Andrew Poelstra authored a blog post about implementing the functionality of the OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK ( OP_CSFS ) opcode from ElementsProject.org on Bitcoin using the proposed BIP340 specification of schnorr signatures and an OP_CAT opcode that was part of Bitcoin until mid-2010 (and which is often mentioned as a candidate for reintroduction).

Enabling CSFS-like behavior on Bitcoin would allow the creation of covenants and other advanced contracts without having to presign spending transactions, possibly reducing complexity and the amount of data that needs to be stored.

The post ends with a teaser for later posts in the series (li…

This week’s newsletter announces a meeting to discuss taproot activation mechanisms, includes a link to a Bitcoin Core usage survey, and includes our regular sections with top questions and answers from the Bitcoin StackExchange, a list of releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

Please see Folkson’s email for background information about taproot activation mechanisms and a proposed agenda for the meeting.

● Bitcoin Core Usage Survey: Bitcoin Core developer Andrew Chow created a survey for users of Bitcoin Core.

As explained in a blog post about the survey, answers will be used to help inform developers about what peopl…

This week’s newsletter summarizes posts to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about payjoin adoption and making hardware wallets compatible with more advanced Bitcoin features.

Also included are our regular sections with overviews of changes to services and client software, new releases and release candidates, and 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, lib…

This week’s newsletter describes a new proposed Bitcoin P2P protocol message, a BIP for the bech32 modified address format, and an idea for preventing UTXO probing in proposed dual-funded LN channels.

However, the BIP37 mechanism being used to suppress transaction relay allows the initiating node to request full transaction relay at any time.

Transaction relay consumes node resources such as memory and bandwidth, so nodes need to set their connection limits with the assumption that each BIP37-based low-bandwidth blocks-relay-only connection could suddenly become a full transaction relay connection.

If no problems are found with the proposal, it is expected that bech32m addresses will be use…

● Trampoline routing: Bastien Teinturier posted to the Lightning-Dev mailing list a new specification for trampoline routing that allows a spender to pay a receiver without calculating a route between their nodes.

Instead, the spender routes their money to a nearby trampoline node that calculates the next part of the route—getting the money either to the receiver or to the next trampoline node.

Teinturier notes that ACINQ has been running a single-bounce trampoline node for users of their Phoenix wallet.

ACINQ’s node), then possibly to other trampolines, and finally to the receiver node.

This prevents any individual trampoline from learning the node identifier for both the spender and recei…

This special edition of the Optech Newsletter summarizes notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2020.

The contract can be made indistinguishable from many other Bitcoin transactions or it can be executed within an LN channel.

In March, Bitcoin Core carefully changed its consensus code—without introducing a fork—to remove an inefficiency in the parsing of OP_IF and related flow control opcodes.

Within a month of BIP339 being added to the BIPs repository, wtxid announcements were merged into Bitcoin Core.

Also in October, Bitcoin Core became the first project to merge an implementation of the version 2 addr message.

LN has always provided some robustness against this type of problem: if your node is offline, your channel counterparty will eventually close the channel so that they can start spending their funds again.

This will send your funds to the onchain part of your LN wallet, which you hopefully backed up using a normal BIP32 seed.

The downside of the above approach is that you have to wait for your counterparty to decide that you’re not coming back.

the ID of your peer), reconnect to the peer after you lose data, and request that the peer immediately close the channel.

This week, Lloyd Fournier started two threads on the Lightning-Dev mailing list about possible improvements to the above mechanis…

Also included are our regular sections with summaries of a recent Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, new software releases and release candidates, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

Current native segwit addresses all start with bc1q .

P2SH-wrapped segwit addresses are also unaffected.

According to the survey results posted to the mailing list, the only known wallets affected are Bitcoin Core and BRD wallet.

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

Until the payment eventually times out, each channel used to route the payment is unable to use those funds to route other user’s payments.

Previously proposed solutions for this problem (and related problems) mostly involved upfront fees, see Newsletters #72, #86, #119, #120, and #122.

This week, Naumenko and Riard proposed that each payment include proof that its spender controlled some amount of bitcoin.

Each routing node could then publicly announce its policy on how much value it would route given proof of a certain stake value.

This would allow someone to route a payment through Alice’s node but limit how much of her capital they could tie up.

News● Website listing miner support for taproot activation: Bitcoin mining pool Poolin has created a website to help track miner support for activating taproot (including schnorr signatures and tapscript).

● New research and development organization announced: Brink, a new organization for “funding, education, and mentoring” of Bitcoin contributors was announced on Twitter this week.

The organization is seeking applicants for both its fellowship program for helping newer contributors break into full-time Bitcoin development and its grant program for funding established contributors.

(Note: Brink was founded by Optech contributors and received initial funding from John Pfeffer and Wences Cas…

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Curated by Anthony Sassano (@sassal0x) and Eric Conner (@econoar)🔥 EIP-1559 Community CallA community call between developers, researchers, community members, and miners was held last Friday to discuss EIP-1559 (watch that here).

In April 2019, the NYAG's office alleged that Bitfinex used Tether's funds to secretly cover $850 million lost to payment processor Crypto Capital.

The firm already operates a bitcoin fund named CI Galaxy Bitcoin Fund, which manages about $162 million worth of assets.

Lots of updates in this state of 1559 from Tim Beiko including client updates, mining updates and more.

A detailed roadmap update from the Brave team including updates on the Brave Wallet, the Brave D…

- AnthonyNews of the WeekBlockchain.com, the London-based crypto wallet and exchange operator, has raised $120 million from a group of macro investors.

That's an increase from the first average cleared price of $200 in January, according to data shared with The Block.

Nasdaq enables secondary offerings for Coinbase stock, a process that allows ex-employees and investors of the crypto exchange to sell their shares.

Alchemix is a DeFi protocol that allows for the creation of synthetic tokens that represent the future yield of a deposit.

Babylon.finance is a new DeFi protocol aiming to be a community-led asset management platform.

Finally, I announced that I have joined Polygon (formerly Matic Network) as an advisor - check out my thread on why here.

Scaling Ethereum is an online ETHGlobal hackathon dedicated to building the tooling and protocol to make scalability happen on Ethereum.

Fire Eyes DAO announced their collaboration with Balancer Labs this week and will be helping them with governance.

This post goes through how the TRIBE token of Fei Protocol will be distributed and how it will function in the protocol.

The Ethereum Foundation has given out more than $1 million worth of grants to various eth2 initiatives from the community.

- AnthonyNews of the WeekCME Group launched its long-awaited ether (ETH) futures product today.

CME's ETH futures were announced in mid-December to much fanfare.

The firms providing liquidity for ETH futures include BlockFi, Galaxy, Genesis, CoinShares and NYDIG.

Some 344 million visitors flocked to crypto exchanges, per SimilarWeb data, surpassing December's total of 196 million.

The round was led by Pantera Capital with participation from Jump Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Blockchain.com Ventures, Nima Capital, IOSG, the DeFi Alliance.

In case you missed it - I joined Alex Saunders from Nuggets News to discuss all things Ethereum and you can watch that here.

Kelly said Visa plans to work with wallets and exchanges to enable Visa users to purchase crypto-assets, and to allow users to cash out and make fiat purchases with their crypto.

Those that represent new assets, like bitcoin, Visa views as "digital gold," and those that are fiat-backed, including stablecoins and central bank digital currencies.

Kelly also teased the possibility of Visa enabling crypto as a payment itself, rather than converting crypto to fiat for payments.

Project UpdatesReddit has teamed up with the Ethereum Foundation to establish Reddit’s first-eve…

Josh Stark and Evan Van Ness posted a great 2020 roundup of all things Ethereum which you can read here.

Lastly, I joined the Bankless guys last week to talk about the DeFi Pulse Index which you can watch here.

- AnthonyNews of the WeekCoinbase — the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. — alerted shareholders that the firm would launch a secondary market for its private stock on Nasdaq Private Market.

Coinbase, which filed a confidential S-1 in mid-December, said that it would provide further details to shareholders on Monday about the secondary market launch.

Nasdaq Private Market offers services for companies ahead of an IPO, including "controlled liquidity programs for pre-IPO com…

Though, I do really enjoy the memes that the community has been putting together in my absence - keep them coming!

Lastly, I joined the guys at ‘Show Me the Crypto’ to discuss all things Ethereum and you can watch that here.

Gemini would join a growing list of crypto firms with ambitions to tap into the public markets.

Synthetix is poised to have a big 2021 with a lot of updates coming to the protocol - read the above post to get the full breakdown.

The next option markets have already been deployed, and V2 development has started.

On a more positive note, Eric and I will be back doing the weekly EthHub recap podcast from today so be sure to subscribe so that you don’t miss it - there’s obviously a lot to talk about!

The letter indicates that banks and savings associations can now run crypto nodes and utilize associated stablecoins for "permissible payment activities."

This means banks can use public blockchains to validate, store, record and settle payment transactions as long as they're compliant with existing laws.

The round was backed by SevenX Ventures, Defiance Capital, 1kx, Multicoin Capital, and Aave founder Stani Kulechov, among others.

V2 of Futureswap provides features that serious traders expect, including…

ETH blasted through $800, then $900 then $1000, then $1100 before finally topping out and settling back in the $900’s.

Eric and I put out our 2021 predictions for Ethereum last week which you can find here and here.

In this post, the ETHGlobal team provides a comprehensive report of the data that they gathered from Ethereum devs.

The first version of the Cairo Toolchain from StarkWare has been released and is now ready for developers to use.

In this post, the Connext team outlines their mainnet rollout and full decentralization timeline for Vector.

Opium details its new governance token, OPIUM, that will be used to power the Opium Protocol.

The 1INCH token is a governance and utility token for the 1inch Network.

The 1INCH token will be used to govern all 1inch Network protocols.

Dexible is a decentralized exchange tool that enables private, non-custodial flexible DeFi automation and the first Stop-Loss orders for retail DeFi.

Top jobs listed on Cryptocurrency Jobs this week:Support EthHub:

- AnthonyNews of the WeekCME Group will list an Ethereum (ETH) futures product next year, the firm said Wednesday.

Hugh Karp, the founder of DeFi insurance protocol Nexus Mutual, experienced an attack that resulted in a loss of more than $8 million.

You can now trade ETH and BTC perpetual contracts with up to 12x leverage on-chain at perp.exchange.

You can now trade ETH and BTC perpetual contracts with up to 12x leverage on-chain at perp.exchange.

Lots of big changes in this update for solidity developers which means it is a breaking release for Solidity.

- AnthonyNews of the WeekCryptocurrency asset manager Bitwise has listed the shares of its index fund on over-the-counter (OTC) markets, making them tradeable via traditional brokerage accounts.

Now the fund's listing on OTCQX, a market offered by OTC Markets Group, will make its shares publicly traded.

Rival Grayscale's funds have since long been available on OTC markets.

As for the repo transaction, the bank said the use of blockchain translated into an "atomic trade settlement."

It enables traders to provide liquidity to maximize returns on Gnosis Protocol DEX directly from the Gnosis Safe Multisig.

Of course, any donations to the EthHub Grant would be greatly appreciated and you can check that out here.

I’d also encourage you to donate to the Cryptocurrency Jobs grant here - they do a very good job of getting people jobs in crypto and have been a long-time friend of EthHub!

Market index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices is diving into the crypto market with the help of crypto startup Lukka.

S&P DJI expects to soon launch customizable crypto index capabilities, which will allow asset-management firms to build their own investment vehicles, such as exchange-traded products.

In 2021, S&P DJI plans to launch its own branded index — essentially, an S&P 500-like index but for the crypto market.

ZKSwap has been live on the Ethereum Ropsten testnet since Nov 16th, 2020 and will launch on Ethereum mainnet in 1-2 weeks.

The protocol witnessed $88.4 million worth of liquidations, according to on-chain data analyzed by The Block.

Market conditions also led to liquidations at DeFi protocol dYdX, worth about $8 million, according to both on-chain data and LoanScan.

Together, both the protocols liquidated more than $96 million worth of collateral.

Loopring Wallet is the first Ethereum smart wallet with zkRollup scaling baked in.

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…

On Tuesday, August 4th, the Medalla ETH 2.0 testnet was launched.

If all goes well, this will be the final testnet before the launch of the “Phase 0” mainnet.

It’s expected the testnet will run for a minimum of 2 months before a schedule for mainnet is proposed.

Live and LaunchedTo kickoff the Medalla launch, the Ethereum Foundation hosted a livestream that nearly 2,000 people attended.

The ETH 2.0 launchpad tool made it simple to configure and run your own validators, and there were over 20,000 signed up to do so on day one.

The team behind Augur has launched the next version of their decentralized betting market protocol.

Let's review the basic premise of Augur before discussing these improvements, and what we might expect to see from Augur v2 in the coming months.

It quickly rocketed up to over $1 million at stake in its betting markets, but later slowed.

It offers a service to users— namely, betting markets— that one would assume there would be interest in.

Is it possible not that many people care to participate in betting markets?

To understand this, we need to add the next layer of the system: governance.

The governance token, called COMP, would be distributed to users in a way similar to those weighted polls of the past.

Users began intentionally lending or borrowing on Compound with the explicit goal of earning, or “farming,” COMP.

What's made it possible so far is high demand for the base governance tokens of protocols like Compound.

Even in the best case scenario, demand for these governance tokens must eventually level off as they reach a fair market valuation.

Kanye West, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett were among dozens of accounts that tweeted the scam.

The first is obvious: a Bitcoin giveaway scam was used to monetize this attack.

This changed when the same scam tweets began to be shared from the personal accounts of high profile people, starting with Elon Musk.

Link As the afternoon wore on, many more high profile accounts began tweeting the scam, and it became apparent the hacker had hit more than a third-party tool.

Several hours later, presumably after Twitter addressed the issue, the accounts of these high profile users became accessible again to the user.

Left out of that discussion, though, was the grandaddy of layer 2 scaling techniques: state channels.

In this edition of the newsletter, we'll learn the basics of how state channels work, and why they're complex to implement.

We'll close by looking at why state channels haven't seen much adoption to date, but why that could be poised to change.

How State Channels WorkThe core premise of state channels is surprisingly simple to understand.

Link The most common examples for envisioning the kinds of apps which are possible with such state channels tend to be games.

In recent months, the quirky crypto world-building game called "Cryptovoxels" has garnered increasing attention.

I sent the first issue of Build Blockchain out to fifty subscribers on June 3rd, 2018.

( Issue 23 , November 4th, 2018)This week was a good microcosm of where we are in the crypto world.

In such a world, Bitcoin could exist as an asset on the Ethereum network, and both would benefit for it.

These applications increase the usefulness of Bitcoin, and thus the demand for it, all without the Bitcoin network itself having to make any tradeoffs in terms of complexity or security.

A decentralized network, and the smart contract code that runs on it, is all that is needed.

Earlier this month, the team at StarkWare announced they were pushing their novel layer 2 scaling solution to the Ethereum mainnet.

On June 2nd, 2020, a livestream was held to mark the end of the month-long HackMoney virtual hackathon.

The term antifragile was coined by Nassim Taleb, an author whose books have done much to shape my view of the world.

Money PrintingI wrote extensively about about central bank money printing in issue 90 of this newsletter, so I won't dwell on here.

While the standard narrative amongst most crypto folks is that money printing by the Fed will lead to massive inflation of the US Dollar, I'm not convinced that's a given.

Sure, the government is printing money, but the credit market has contracted and demand for dollars globally has skyrocketed.

If nations in the developing world try to print their way out of economic trouble, there may be inflation of those local currencies.

As news broke that these early coins had moved, Bitcoin's price dropped sharply.

Lerner named this the "Patoshi" pattern, and the block where the recently moved coins were mined did not adhere to it.

Maybe, maybe not, but the truth is, if people find Bitcoin's distribution unfair, they'll be less likely to adopt it.

More precisely, the existence of these 1.1 million BTC, and the risk that they'll be recovered someday, probably depresses Bitcoin's price even today.

While I do see Satoshi's coins as a liability, any attempts to "fix" this problem would probably prove more perilous than the coins' continued existence.

In this edition of Build Blockchain, we'll explore these two token projects, how they work, and what they might mean for Ethereum and all of crypto.

Users can buy and sell the tokens freely, and it's even possible to own fractional amounts.

To receive the physical tape, users must "pay" with exactly one token.

Community Points are subreddit specific ERC20 tokens that are issued to users based on their contributions.

RAC's $TAPE token is "just a stunt."

Issue #97Paper of the Week:Paper Title: Verification Dilemmas, Law, and the Promise of Zero-Knowledge Proofs.

Paper Title: SigVM: Toward Fully Autonomous Smart Contracts.

Summary: A novel blockchain virtual machine that supports an event-driven execution model, enabling developers to build fully autonomous smart contracts.

Paper Title: An Overview of Forks and Coordination in Blockchain Development.

Paper Title: Communication-Efficient BFT Protocols Using Small Trusted Hardware to Tolerate Minority Corruption.

Issue #96Paper of the Week:Paper Title: IPDL: A Simple Framework for Formally Verifying Distributed Cryptographic Protocols.

A primary design goal of IPDL is for formal cryptographic proofs to resemble their on-paper counterparts.

Authors: Greg Morrisett*, Elaine Shi†, Kristina Sojakova‡, Xiong Fan§, and Joshua Gancher✜,Affiliations: * Cornell Tech, † Carnegie Mellon University, ‡ INRIA, § University of Maryland, ✜ Cornell University.

Paper Title: A Security Framework for Distributed Ledgers.

Authors: Ittai Abraham*, Kartik Nayak†, Ling Ren, Zhuolun XiangAffiliations: * VMware Research, † Duke University, and ‡ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

This paper provides the first formal cryptographic analysis of Bitcoin Cash’s target recalculation functions against all possible adversaries.

Paper Title: Low-cost attacks on Ethereum 2.0 by sub-1/3 stakeholders.

Paper Title: BooLigero: Improved Sublinear Zero Knowledge Proofs for Boolean Circuits.

Paper Title: Cuproof: A Novel Range Proof with Constant Size.

Paper Title: How Elon Musk’s Twitter activity moves cryptocurrency markets.

Issue #94Paper of the Week:Paper Title: The Longest-Chain Protocol Under Random Delays.

Recent literature establishes that the longest-chain blockchain protocol is secure under the synchronous model.

This work analyzes the performance of the longest-chain protocol under the assumption that the communication delays are random, independent, and identically distributed.

Authors: Chao Li*, Balaji Palanisamy†, Runhua Xu‡, Jinlai Xu†, Jingzhe Wang†,Affiliations: * Beijing Jiaotong University, † University of Pittsburgh, and ‡ IBM Almaden Research Center.

Authors: Erdinc Akyildirim*†, Shaen Corbetc§, Douglas J. Cumming✜, Brian Lucey+^#, Ahmet Sensoy$Affiliations: * University of Zurich, † ETH, Zur…

Paper Title: SPURT: Scalable Distributed Randomness Beacon with Transparent Setup.

Paper Title: A blockchain-based pattern for confidential and pseudo-anonymous contract enforcement.

Paper Title: QuickSilver: Efficient and Affordable Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Circuits and Polynomials over Any Field.

Paper Title: Ethereum ECCPoW.

Paper Title: Understand Volatility of Algorithmic Stablecoin: Modeling, Verification and Empirical Analysis.

One particular exciting use case is decentralized finance (DeFi), which aims to revolutionize traditional financial services by founding them on a decentralized infrastructure.

Paper Title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Pitfalls and Best Practices in Automated Sound Static Analysis of Ethereum Smart Contracts.

Paper Title: Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?

Paper Title: Selective Deletion in a Blockchain.

Paper Title: Decentralized Financial Market Infrastructures.

Paper Title: Blockchain for steganography: advantages, new algorithms and open challenges.

Paper Title: Eth2Vec: Learning Contract-Wide Code Representations for Vulnerability Detection on Ethereum Smart Contracts.

Paper Title: Demand-aware Channel Topologies for Off-chain Blockchain Payments.

Authors: Jonathan Lee*, Srinath Setty†, Justin Thaler‡, and Riad Wahby§,Affiliations: * Nanotronics Imaging, † Microsoft Research, ‡ Georgetown University, § Stanford University.

Paper Title: Fiat Money, Cryptocurrencies, and the Pure Theory of Money.

Along the way, this work constructs a split accumulation scheme for a simple polynomial commitment scheme based on Pedersen commitments.

Paper Title: Blockchain Privacy Through Merge Avoidance and Mixing Services: a Hardness and an Impossibility Result.

Summary: A secure and highly efficient PBFT consensus algorithm for Internet of Vehicles, which is based on a distributed blockchain structure.

Authors: Guangquan Xu*†, Yihua Liu†, Jun Xing*, Tao Luo†, Yonghao Gu‡, Shaoying Liu§, Xi Zheng✜, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos+,Affiliations: * Qingdao Huanghai University, † Tianjin University, ‡ Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, § Hiroshima University, ✜ Macquarie University, and + …

Issue #89Paper of the Week:Paper Title: Adaptive layer-two dispute periods in blockchains.

This work describes how to set adaptive dispute periods that accommodate the congestion and capacity of the underlying blockchain.

Adaptive dispute periods ensure that users retain the opportunity to dispute fraudulent behaviours during blockchain congestion, while increasing second-layer protocol efficiency by reducing dispute period lengths when the number of disputes is low.

The work describes a non-interactive argument system for setting adaptive dispute periods under the current Ethereum Virtual Machine, and discusses how to efficiently integrate built-in support for adaptive dispute periods in a…

Paper Title: Privacy Analysis and Evaluation Policy of Blockchain-based Anonymous Cryptocurrencies.

Authors: Pouriya Alikhani*, Nicolas Brunner†, Claude Crépeau*, Sébastien Designolle†, Raphaël Houlmann†, Weixu Shi†‡, and Hugo Zbinden†,Affiliations: * McGill University, † University of Geneva, and ‡ National University of Defense Technology.

Paper Title: Commitment Voting: A Mechanism for Intensity of Preference Revelation and Long-Term Commitment in Blockchain Governance.

Paper Title: Evolution of the Digital Economy: A Research Program for Evolutionary Economics.

Paper Title: Freedom to (Smart) Contract: The Myth of Code and Blockchain Governance Law.

This work defines an additive PCS to capture a “homomorphic” property of commitments over a computational group G of bounded size.

The second technical result is that every additive succinct PCS supports efficient proof aggregation.

This work shows that Halo can be instantiated with any PCS that supports efficient PCS aggregation, private or public.

Paper Title: SoK: Diving into DAG-based Blockchain Systems.

Paper Title: When Services Computing Meets Blockchain: Challenges and Opportunities.

Issue #86Paper of the Week:Paper Title: Zero-Knowledge Succinct Arguments with a Linear-Time Prover.

Authors: Xiaoqi Li*, Ting Chen†, Xiapu Luo*, and Chenxu Wang‡,Affiliations: * The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, † University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and ‡ Xi’an Jiaotong University.

Paper Title: VM Matters: A Comparison of WASM VMs and EVMs in the Performance of Blockchain Smart Contracts.

Summary: The notion of zero-knowledge secure against quantum polynomial-time verifiers (referred to as quantum zero-knowledge) in the concurrent composition setting.

Despite being extensively studied in the classical setting, concurrent composition in the quantum setting has hard…

Issue #85Paper of the Week:Paper Title: On the (Ir)Replaceability of Global Setups, or How (Not) to Use a Global Ledger.

The ledger implemented by blockchain protocols such as Bitcoin is a representative example of such global setup, since the Bitcoin ledger is known to be useful in various scenarios.

Therefore, it has become increasingly popular to capture such ledgers as a global setup.

Paper Title: On the Serverless Nature of Blockchains and Smart Contracts.

Paper Title: Blockchain mechanism and distributional characteristics of cryptos.

Issue #84Paper of the Week:Paper Title: More Efficient Amortization of Exact Zero-Knowledge Proofs for LWE.

Paper Title: SoK: Cyber-Attack Taxonomy of Distributed Ledger- and Legacy Systems-based Financial Infrastructures.

Paper Title: Enhancing Code Based Zero-knowledge Proofs using Rank Metric.

Summary: Quantum resistant interactive zero-knowledge proofs, with the property of public-coin, i.e.

Paper Title: A Comprehensive Review of the Global Development of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and Their Regulation.

① Chainlink📈 LINK rewards +257% YTDChainlink’s holder community moved from 183k to 400k wallets all along the last 6 months, representing a 118,5% growth over the period.

The overall on-chain volume has also reached a new ATH recently, with our indicators being at $3.8B representing the value of weekly on-chain flows.

Finally, LINK rewards have skyrocketed the last quarter, moving from 700k LINK in early January to +2.5M in late February, representing a 257% growth (source).

It’s been 2 months since mainnet and there are 160+ indexers and 5,000+ delegators contributing to The Graph network.

At least six notable projects now use Arweave to back up their code bases: Polkadot, Solana, Skale, M…

Handshake qualitatively and quantitatively has made many strides since our last update.

The number of opened TLDs (or NFTLDs) on the network have increased immensely, now with over 638,000+ names open for auction to date; the $HNS price has seen a ~150% rise, driven to over $0.30+ in the last month as it enters price discovery.

To put this into real-world perspective, there are only about 1,514 in the ICANN DNS namespace active today.

Handshake is economically, and now extendably, a more robust namespace, with embedded incentives over the legacy system.

Time is now the only factor standing between Handshake and long-term success.

This week our contributor analysts cover NFTs projects: NFTX, SuperRare, Foundation, and Rarible.

② SuperRareContributor: Richard Chen, Partner at 1confirmationThe crypto art industry has exploded in the last few months, with the total crypto art market cap surpassing $100M just a few days ago.

Monthly crypto art volume is on pace to surpass $20M in February.

As a result of new NFT demand, average artwork prices have gone exponential and not just because ETH price is increasing.

The data also implies that crypto art is decent at storing value denominated in ETH.

Rarible has grown to more than 5K monthly protocol users as of the end of January 2021, an increase of approximately 5x compared to mid summer 2020.

Between late January and early February 2021, daily active users on Rarible protocol increased to more than 1K per day.

The number of transactions per day has also increased to more than 2K per day by February 15th.

Minting events have seen significant growth in 2021, with 747 NFTs being minted on February 16th alone.

Website traffic has grown over the past month from 4K unique daily visitors to over 20K daily.

As a result, total UST accounts and UST transaction velocity have grown concurrently since the launch of Mirror.

Total UST accounts increased by 460% since December 2nd and transaction velocity increased by 297% (source: Flipside Crypto, Terra Community Console).

Last week set a new record for Aave Flash Loans with $1.9B of volume, bringing the total Flash Loan volume to $3.7B.

Last week’s spike in V2 Flash Loans pushed the ETH weekly depositor APY to 7%.

They can then stake their aBPT in the Aave Protocol Safety Module to earn Safety Incentives.

On January 13th, the Compound community voted to update the distribution of COMP across various markets.

Rather than issuing COMP to suppliers and borrowers based on borrowing demand, governance determines a set amount of COMP to distribute to each market.

The community decided to decrease the distribution to the DAI market by 31% in order to reduce the risks introduced by yield farming, and more evenly spread COMP across the smaller markets.

This week our contributor analysts cover DeFi: Index Coop, Hegic, PoolTogether, and Nexus Mutual.

① Index CoopWe last updated you two months ago in Issue #49.

Since then, the Index Coop’s flagship product, the DeFi Pulse Index (DPI), has continued to gain traction.

One thing that hasn’t changed since Issue #49 is that liquidity remains a strength of DPI.

On this metric, the protocol continues to be one of the most popular in decentralized finance.

Hegic’s founder and developer, Molly Wintermute, recently released Hegic’s first quarterly report detailing the achievements of Hegic’s first 3 months.

Below, I’ll build on the report to include data and exciting developments since January!

Hegic options traders have now amassed $204.3m of volume spread across >3,500 options in just 4 months.

This has been evenly spread across WBTC and ETH options, $103m and $97m respectively.

Through this period, Hegicians have been overwhelmingly bullish with calls accounting for 76% of total volume.

These large BTC holders are gobbling up more and more of the total supply.

Addresses with at least 1K BTC now hold close to 30% of total supply.

This is most likely good for the long-term stability of BTC supply - large institutions are typically long-term investors who will hold their position for many years.

Addresses holding between 0 and 1 BTC now hold close to 5.1% of total supply.

The amount held by addresses holding 1-10 BTC has also increased, to about 9.4% of total supply.

Similar to On-Chain Balance, we can track the volume-weighted average purchase price of Decred tickets over a period of time.

During bullish markets, where demand for tickets is strong, these moving averages will 'keep pace' with price as larger volumes of DCR are pushed into staking.

This manifests as values of TVWAP ratio close to 1.0 which generally support bullish sentiment.

The 14-day and 28-day TVWAPs are following price extremely closely whilst the 142-day TVWAP is reversing from the lowest value since June 2017.

This indicates a strong increase in recent demand for staking DCR, turning around the slower long period TVWAP Ratio.

KeeperDAO is a DAO that aims to flip the keeper and arbitrageur landscape in DeFi from a competitive to a co-operative dynamic.

The system centers around a (i) pool where LPs deposit assets for keepers to take flashloans out from, and (ii) a Treasury where keepers deposit part of their profits for the DAO to utilize, via ROOK enabled governance.

So far, approximately 19 keepers on average have been active per month with 2,598 unique addresses contributing to the pool.

Flash loan volumes — a proxy for keeper activity — have been growing at a rapid pace year-to-date (~85% week-on-week).

The total lifetime volume of flash loans from the KeeperDAO pool stands at a whopping 900M+ USD (in v2).

Uniswap governance now supports an official grants program, led by Ken Ng from the Ethereum Foundation and assisted by a handful of decentralized finance industry leaders.

Over 5,000 unique addresses have registered as governance delegates, with notable recent additions including the Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, and Harvard-associated student blockchain groups.

The Uniswap community currently has access to ~55m UNI (~$410m today) out of the 430m UNI (~$3.2b today) that will ultimately vest to the governance treasury: these UNI can be allocated through on-chain governance proposals.

Uniswap counts over 200 integrations across protocols, data analytics services, advanced interfaces, wallets, and…

When TWAP is below $1, the protocol issues ‘coupons’ as incentive to temporarily remove supply from circulation by burning ESD.

Key protocol metrics have been growing steadily, with SushiSwap’s volume and liquidity reaching new highs in January.

Over the last three months, SushiSwap’s liquidity and volume have grown by 480% and 1600%, respectively.

After forking Uniswap, SushiSwap launched on its first day with 40% of the volume share between the two top AMMs.

After accounting for swap fees, a Uniswap LP would have suffered -40% loss vs. +30% gains without IL.

Revenue growth per pool coincided with increased co-investment limits.

Co-investment limits are governed by the BancorDAO and determine the maximum number of BNT that can be emitted by the protocol to match single-sided non-BNT deposits.

This BNT has no price impact on the external market; rather, it is emitted directly into the liquidity pools where it remains earning fees for the protocol until the BNT and its accrued fees are burned.

This is akin to the protocol investing money on marketing to drive usage, then allowing the investment to pay itself off over time.

Currently, 54.95% of total BNT supply is staked within the protocol.

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Crypto protocols are meant to be governed by a decentralized community of stakeholders.

For crypto startups, transitions towards community governance are complicated, and raise difficult questions around ongoing development, voter participation, and incentive alignment between stakeholders.

As committed stakeholders in many of these networks, we wanted to briefly expand on how we at a16z think about crypto governance, and how we see our role in it going forward.

Delegated VotingOver the last year or so we’ve seen significant innovation in token-based governance models among leading crypto applications.

They include industry experts (like Gauntlet) who specialize in protocol governance and b…

Creators and businesses that rely on internet platforms are subject to sudden rule changes that take away their audiences and profits.

From the 1980s through the early 2000s, the dominant internet services were built on open protocols that the internet community controlled.

Much of the software running on an Apple device is open source, as is almost all modern cloud data centers including Amazon’s.

This has allowed these companies to outpace the growth of open source software and maintain control of critical internet infrastructure.

It took twenty years for open source software to supplant proprietary software, and it could take just as long for open services to supplant proprietary service…

These are software applications for storing crypto that allow people to transact on the blockchain directly, rather than going through financial institutions.

(Full disclosure: a16z has publicly opposed this plan, and has said it plans to join others in the industry in challenging the rule in court.

a16z General Partner Katie Haun and Operating Partner Anthony Albanese explain the rule and what impact it could have on crypto innovation.

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Instead, the Treasury Department’s FinCEN proposed a rushed, non-vetted rule under the cloak of the holidays that violates the government’s own established rulemaking procedures.

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We’ve compiled fourteen videos from this year’s Crypto Startup School — along with summaries, show notes, and key quotes — to help in that effort.

The collection offers not only a company-building playbook for entrepreneurs, but an overview for anyone interested in learning more about crypto.

(And check out our bonus video — a documentary following the progress of several participants in Crypto Startup School — at the end of the course videos.)

Show Notes:The advantages of a crypto startup: “[There] are actually three really big problems in traditional startups.

… Embed all dependencies to ensure you’re always in control of what you’re doing.”“Rolling your own crypto” — building your own ch…

Here are five charts that capture some of the key developments and help tell the story of an eventful year.

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#2 The first of several planned Eth2 upgrades to Ethereum recently went live: the Beacon Chain.

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Our first guest is one of the biggest names in crypto art, and one of the most mysterious.

For crypto art it’s currently closer to the second one, the freelancer model, however, there is an important detail.

What advice would you give creators who are interested in exploring crypto as a new model for selling their work?

And I think that’s kind of also a cool way for people to support the artist.

And I think that’s, again, a cool way to get people into the world of crypto and supporting the arts.

Coinbase loved Anthony, Anthony loved Coinbase, but as often happens in executive hires, the timing just wasn’t right.

Like us, he became excited at the idea of working with multiple different crypto portfolio companies, focusing on areas as diverse as gaming, digital storage, payment systems, social media, creative marketplaces, and more.

And what better place to do that than at the a16z crypto funds, where we’ve been fortunate to invest in what we believe are the very best crypto entrepreneurs.

At NYSE, Anthony oversaw regulation, including working with regulators at the state, federal, and international levels.

Very few people can successfully transition from the government to an institu…

New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could already do but can now do better because they are faster, cheaper, easier, higher quality, etc.

2) doing brand new things that you simply couldn’t do before.

Doing old things better tends to get more attention early on because it’s easier to imagine what to build.

The most common mistake people make when evaluating new technologies is to focus too much on the “doing old things better” category.

Early products like Salesforce were easier to access and cheaper to maintain than their on-premise counterparts.

In parallel, WebRTC is really allowing for really interesting concurrent sessions around video.

And then in parallel, WebGL and WebRTC really seem to be enabling really interesting social experiments right now in terms of new social products.

And so, I think right now, in order to experience VR, you need a headset.

So, I think that’s another thing that we’ll see if it happens or doesn’t happen over the next decade.

And so, the fact that the applications have taken off so much, and it’s made this scaling problem like a really, really urgent issue.

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…

DescriptionTushar Jain is co-founder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, a crypto-focused, thesis-driven investment firm which co-led Helium's $15M Series C round along with Union Square Ventures.

The result is the Helium network is an order of magnitude less expensive to build, deploy and manage."

What are some of the biggest challenges that you think Helium faces in making this vision a reality?

That stuff is really, really hard.

I just don't think that's the most efficient version of the world to live in.

As a result, it’s more important than ever for DeFi projects considering liquidity mining to think carefully about their incentives, and to design their liquidity mining programs to retain capital after get-rich-quick wash traders disappear.

In this essay, we explore the design space of liquidity mining and outline a framework by which DeFi teams can construct a useful liquidity mining program that incentivizes long-term capital retention.

Objectives for Liquidity MiningThe most important step when designing a liquidity mining program is to determine the exact objectives of the program.

WHEN DO THEY GET PAIDMost of the liquidity mining campaigns announced so far do not include lockup or tim…

You don’t need to go to SoundCloud to experience all of this audio.

If the audio exists on SoundCloud, it can exist anywhere on the web and mobile devices.”Nine years later, it’s clear that SoundCloud had the right vision: open audio available anywhere on the Internet.

Over the last few years, we’ve seen an explosion in decentralized services to power all forms of media across the internet.

Audius is a decentralized, censorship-resistant audio streaming platform.

By virtue of being decentralized, Audius is open.

We track the exchange token market closely (as noted in our Binance reports here and here; we also still hold a large long BNB position), and through our ongoing analysis of the space we noticed that there is a divergence between the fundamentals of Huobi and the current valuation of Huobi Token ($HT).

Huobi has expanded their product offerings significantly in the past two years, most notably into derivatives trading (for details see the section below).

$HT currently has the highest buyback ratio of any exchange token on the market at 17.8%.

In fact, $HT’s buyback ratio is 4.4x higher than the exchange token industry average.

Download the report (PDF) now to read our analysis of Huobi and …

While there are certain instances in which DeFi protocols offer lower rates today, these protocols are structurally handicapped.

Moreover, because DeFi protocols cannot underwrite trust relationships, they require higher collateralization ratios, further increasing the (opportunity) cost of capital.

And this is despite the fact that DeFi trading volumes are ~1% of CeFi trading.

To put that in perspective, crypto CeFi trading is .1 - 1% of trading across traditional asset classes (excluding FX).

If you’re building any novel DeFi protocols, or the infrastructure to power DeFi, please reach out via email or DM me on Twitter.

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.

Instead of paying fees to portfolio managers, investors earn fees for contributing their assets to Balancer pools [2].

The larger a Balancer pool gets, the less slippage there is when someone is trying to source one of its assets.

With decreasing slippage for key assets, Balancer positions itself to attract more traders as it becomes a more competitive venue for many of their desired positions.

An LP can contribute to an existing Balancer pool or create their own.

This flexibility has allowed Balancer to be a fertile ground for experimentation, alongside the deep liquidity pools it’s accumulating ($200M and counting).

The principles of free and open source software (FOSS) are fundamental to the ethos of the communities building blockchain networks.

While it is not uncommon for a single organization or small group of core developers to coordinate and deliver most of the work, the source code is generally open for everyone to inspect and improve upon.

Control is maintained not by keeping software proprietary, but through social and institutional means, including ideological discourse, community management, and trademark license agreements.

Despite the unique governance challenges from issuing network-specific assets to operators, investors, users, or other stakeholders, there are important similarities bet…

As smart contract platforms autonomously manage billions of dollars of capital, quantifying the portfolio risk that investors engender in these systems is increasingly important.

Recent work illustrates that Proof of Stake (PoS) is vulnerable to financial attacks arising from on-chain lending and has worse capital efficiency than Proof of Work (PoW).

Numerous methods for improving capital efficiency have been proposed that allow stakers to create fungible derivative claims on their staked assets.

This model combines birth-death Pólya urn processes and risk models adapted from the credit derivatives literature to assess token inequality and return profiles.

This model also applies to Decentr…

Geometric mean market makers (G3Ms), such as Uniswap and Balancer, comprise a popular class of automated market makers (AMMs) defined by the following rule: the reserves of the AMM before and after each trade must have the same (weighted) geometric mean.

These results include the returns and no-arbitrage prices of liquidity pool (LP) shares that investors receive for supplying liquidity to G3Ms.

Using these expressions, we show how to create G3Ms whose LP shares replicate the payoffs of financial derivatives.

These strategies allow LP shares to replicate various trading strategies and financial contracts, including standard options.

G3Ms are thus shown to be capable of recreating a variety …

Financial capital outpaces the installation of new technologies, in part because financial capital is responsible for speculating new technologies into existence.

In the process of capitalizing itself into relevance, this boom of crypto capital has built a native financial system to account for its very own bootstrapping.

While the other revolutionary technologies no doubt led to evolution within the existing financial system, none of them built an entirely new financial system from scratch.

To delineate between this superior financial system and its predecessor, I’m going to use meatspace+digital to refer to the incumbents.

On the macro level, crypto’s financial system needs to be resilien…

Blockchain enthusiasts often criticize traditional institutions for their tendency to concentrate resources and decision-making authority.

But token-weighted governance without system design features that counteract centralization are clearly open to similar criticisms.

As a result, large token holders are faced with a dilemma: abstain from participation to stay true to the ethos of decentralization, or seek to govern in a way that doesn’t disproportionately benefit powerful actors at the expense of other stakeholders.

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…

There is nothing that can provide greater security in bitcoin than holding private keys, whether an individual or business.

After exploring numerous options, we decided to enlist the help of Unchained Capital to implement our multisig set up with collaborative custody.

What is the future for small businesses and bitcoin?

Any last thoughts about bitcoin for small businesses?

Due to their nimble nature, small businesses currently have a chance to get out in front of this trend and set themselves up to create enormous opportunities for their companies, employees and the customers they serve; potentially creating a shift in the competitive playing field between large corporations and the small …

There is nothing that can provide greater security in bitcoin than holding private keys, whether an individual or business.

After exploring numerous options, we decided to enlist the help of Unchained Capital to implement our multisig set up with collaborative custody.

What is the future for small businesses and bitcoin?

Any last thoughts about bitcoin for small businesses?

Due to their nimble nature, small businesses currently have a chance to get out in front of this trend and set themselves up to create enormous opportunities for their companies, employees and the customers they serve; potentially creating a shift in the competitive playing field between large corporations and the small …

Unchained Capital + Coldcard – PSBT Done RightThe first notable aspect of this integration is that Unchained Capital now speaks PSBT.

This standard for saving partially signed transactions is relevant to all Unchained Capital clients whether you’re signing on your own or collaborating with others.

Air-gapped OnlyBoth Unchained Capital and Coldcard clients are obsessed with security.

Your Coldcard will never need to touch a computer or the internet to transact with Unchained Capital.

We’ll be adding full Coldcard support (air-gapped only) to Caravan for trust minimized external recovery from vaults and loans.

Unchained Capital + Coldcard – PSBT Done RightThe first notable aspect of this integration is that Unchained Capital now speaks PSBT.

This standard for saving partially signed transactions is relevant to all Unchained Capital clients whether you’re signing on your own or collaborating with others.

Air-gapped OnlyBoth Unchained Capital and Coldcard clients are obsessed with security.

Your Coldcard will never need to touch a computer or the internet to transact with Unchained Capital.

We’ll be adding full Coldcard support (air-gapped only) to Caravan for trust minimized external recovery from vaults and loans.

Coldcard is a premium hardware wallet for sophisticated users.

Unchained Capital is pleased to support Coldcard’s air-gapped functionality, along with maintaining support for Trezor and Ledger.

What you need:Unchained Capital supports Coldcard for air-gapped data transfer only.

This means that additional supplies are required:Initialized Coldcard Mk 2 or Mk 3 with the most recent firmwareMicroSD cardMicroSD card reader for your computerCreate an Unchained Capital AccountLog in at my.unchained-capital.com and fill out required onboarding information depending on which products you want to use.

Export the Xpub from the Coldcard

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In dollar terms, CME’s BTC volumes increased by 108.6% to $50.1bn.

Top Tier Exchanges Continue to Gain Market Share Over Lower Tier ExchangesIn January, Top-Tier volumes increased 109.4% to $1.71tn while Lower-Tier volumes increased 67.6% to $596bn.

Exchange Benchmark AnalysisIn January, Top-Tier volumes increased 109.4% to $1.71tn while Lower-Tier volumes increased 67.6% to $596bn.

Binance was the largest derivatives exchange in January by monthly trading volume with $890bn (up 97% since December).

In terms of total USD trading volume, CME’s crypto derivatives volumes increased by 108.6% to $50.1bn in January.

Here is how current block validation works compared to Utreexo CSN block validation for extending the main chain:Current Block validation Utreexo CSN block validation 1.

We avoid having to soft fork by having transitional nodes called bridge nodes that bridge the new Utreexo nodes and current Bitcoin nodes.

However, when a Utreexo node connects to a bridge node, it will serve Utreexo proofs on top of the normal block it would serve a non-Utreexo node.

However, to have the UTXO set at block 500, we need the UTXO set at block 499.

Going forwardAs mentioned in “Current Progress on Claim 1”, we will be doing more performance optimizations on the Utreexo CSN.

We also benchmarked our results against the real Bitcoin network and we were able to beat the real Bitcoin miners by generating 0.15% more in hypothetical fee income.

The Bitcoin developers have designed the transaction selection algorithm to select transactions which should maximise fee revenue.

Figure 3 below shows the differences in fee income between our locally produced blocks and the real network blocks over time.

At the early stage transaction censorship is likely to be based on a blacklist, with only a few economically insignificant UTXOs listed.

ConclusionIt is the proposed transaction censorship pool which has prompted us to conduct this research.

Abstract: In this nostalgic look back into Bitcoin’s history, we go back over eight years, to the London Bitcoin Conference of 2012.

OverviewIn this piece we review the London 2012 Bitcoin Conference, held at Imperial (Russell Square) on the 15th and 16th of September 2012.

It was the first major Bitcoin conference this author attended and the second major conference ever, following the Prague conference in 2011, which many of the attendees had been to.

The tickets to the event cost £50, you could either pay cash on the door or in advance with bitcoin.

If you did not spend your bitcoin when going to a Bitcoin conference, when would you ever spend it?

Grayscale is the current clear leader, with over 550,000 bitcoin under management in its Bitcoin trust.

Grayscale TrustsGrayscale’s Bitcoin Trust [GBTC US] is by far the most popular Bitcoin investment vehicle which is traded on mainstream securities exchanges.

In our view the current situation is not sustainable and the premium will decline, either driven by reduced demand for Bitcoin or increased competition from other exchange traded bitcoin products.

Name Ticker Assets (US$m) Premium/(discount) to NAV Grayscale Bitcoin Trust GBTC US 10,569 23.0% Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETHE US 1,671 141.0% Grayscale Ethereum Classic Trust ETCG US 75.4 46.2% Grayscale Litecoin Trust LTCN US 74.4 3,197.4…

Stake Certificates) to solve the channel jamming problem.

They start the piece by overviewing issues with other solutions, and then present a naive, privacy-broken Stake Certificates.

Let’s first define the terms here one more time, and then proceed to the non-naive, private Stake Certificates.

ConclusionWe propose Stake Certificates, a new solution to channel jamming.

Since this might be useful in other contexts (Sybil-resistance of many kinds, proof-of-ownership), discussing Stake Certificates is even more useful.

Regular vs blind merge miningIt is also important to explain and identify two theoretical types of merge mining: regular merge mining and blind merge mining.

Regular merge mining is conducted by Bitcoin miners, while blind merge mining can normally be conducted by anyone, who then pays Bitcoin miners in fees.

Characteristics of regular vs blind merge miningRegular merge mining Blind merge mining Who conducts the mining?

Unfortunately, as far as we are aware, currently merged mining is primarily conducted the regular way, and blind merge mining is relatively rare.

Examples of blind merge mining systems include two competing proposals: an earlier proposal from Paul Sztorc’s (who identified ma…

Abstract: In this short piece, 100x Group grantee Calvin Kim provides a quick update on the development of the Utreexo implementation.

Calvin is now looking forward to focusing on performance, integration with existing Bitcoin implementations, and adding robust tests to the codebase.

Last year, when my first PR was merged, the Utreexo project was just past its proof of concept stage.

With the merge of https://github.com/mit-dci/utreexo/pull/192 which revamps the disk-storage for Utreexo bridgenodes, I believe we’re a step further in completing our implementation of the Utreexo project.

If anyone is interested in contributing to the project, do check out github issues (https://github.com/mit…

All the funds were swept away in a short amount of time and in one case, remarkably, the funds were taken in around 0.67 seconds.

Remarkably, three of the deposits were swept away before our transaction even got confirmed into the blockchain.

In one case, an independently run Bitcoin node witnessed the transaction sweeping away funds occur just 0.670 seconds after it saw the original transaction enter its memory pool.

This extremely fast sweep applied to the address with the passphrase “Call me Ishmael”, the opening line from the novel Moby-Dick.

Speed the brainwallet funds were swept away (Blocks)(Source: BitMEX Research)(Notes: The first four sweeps all occurred in the same transaction)Tr…

Lack of liquidity – Liquidity on the dex was low and there was little incentive to be a market maker.

For example if the pool contains 4,000 USDT and 10 ETH, the ETH price can be calculated as 4,000/10 = $400.

However, the lack of a native UniSwap token created an opportunity for copycat dexes, to use UniSwap’s methodology, while adding a native token.

The recent defi boomRecently defi has enjoyed phenomenal growth and dexes such as UniSwap have been key to the defi success.

Therefore, even if USDT and WBTC become the dominant tokens on the dexes, defi is still somewhat interesting, in our view.

Abstract: We have installed the Blockstream Bitcoin Satellite system, a way to download and verify Bitcoin’s blockchain via satellite, without the need for an internet connection.

OverviewFollowing on from our experimentation with Bitcoin miners a few weeks ago, in this piece we install and use the “Bitcoin Satellite”, a product supplied by Blockstream.

(The satellite antenna on the roof of the building)(The satellite antenna was connected to a laptop via the S400 Pro Satellite receiver)(The S400 Pro Satellite receiver web management console)UsageWe synced the Bitcoin node to the current tip using the internet and once the tip was reached, we disabled the internet connection by adding conne…

Key HighlightsCrypto Spot Volumes Soar, with Top Tier Exchanges DominatingIn August, Top-Tier volumes increased 58.3% to $529bn while Lower-Tier volumes increased 30.2% to $291bn.

Derivatives Volumes Surge by 54%Derivatives volumes increased 53.6% in August to $711.7bn.

Derivatives exchanges saw significant increases in trading volume in August.

Exchange Benchmark AnalysisIn August, Top-Tier volumes increased 58.3% to $529bn while Lower-Tier volumes increased 30.2% to $291bn.

Following the July update to CryptoCompare’s Exchange Benchmark Ranking, the data shows that higher risk exchanges have generally lost market share, as users begin shifting to lower risk (Top-Tier) exchanges.

Abstract: We provide a follow up to our previous piece, a comparison between the Antminer S19 Pro and the Whatsminer M30S+.

Image taken after 3 hours of miner use)Figure 4 – Thermal image of the Antminer S19 Pro(Notes: Lowest temerature: 23.4°C.

Image taken after 3 hours of miner use)The following thermal image shows the Antminer from above.

Figure 5 – Thermal image of the Antminer S19 Pro from above(Notes: Lowest temerature: 23.2°C.

Image taken after 3 hours of miner use)DisclaimerPlease note, this should be considered as a very amateur analysis.

Abstract: We compare and measure various performance metrics for two of the latest and most energy efficient Bitcoin mining products, MicroBT’s Whatsminer M30S+ and Bitmain’s Antminer S19 Pro.

MicroBT’s Whatsminer M30S+, available for US$1,580 and Bitmain’s Antminer S19 Pro, with a list price of US$2,407.

It should be noted that the Whatsminer M30S+ is not MicroBT’s most advanced product and a more efficient Whatsminer M30S++ has been released.

Miner Reported Hashrate (TH/s) Efficiency (J/TH) Antminer S19 95 34.5 Antminer S19 Pro 110 29.5 Whatsminer M30S+ 100 34.0 Whatsminer M30S++ 112 31.0HashrateBitmain’s S19 Pro has a reported hashrate of 110 TH/s, while the Whatsminer M30S+ can reported…

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.

I’m, I’m, I’m just personally not a fan of that design pattern.

Because I’m, I’m, I’m also a interesting it’s, it’s interesting how my, my feelings on this has changed over the last few months.

And, and so, so, so that’s, that’s, that’s originally where our discussion started.

So yeah, that’s, that’s, that’s hopefully a step in, in a, in a better direction.

Which, which, again, I’m, I’m, I’m happy to, to, to challenge and fight and to see where it goes.

And, and, and that’s, that’s still the purpose of the yearn system overall is to maximize APR for its LPs.

And that’s where I’d like to see it as well, because I’m, I’m, I’m a, I’m a big, I’m a big advocate for sustainable yields.

Like it’s, it’s, I’m, I’m, I’m really actually unhappy with it, but at the same time, it was very interesting to see, but, but I, I traced all of the sell events.

So, so I’m, I’m, I’m tempted to say that that’s already, I’m already observing that.

But again, that’s, that’s, that’s one of those, those fascinating side effects that like, like so much has already happened, that I could not predict them in any kind of design ideas.

Someone on Twitter asked me about the thesis that an intolerant minority can defend Bitcoin.

I think the concept of the intolerant minority is frequently misapplied in Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is less defended by an intolerant minority than it defends against an intolerant minority.

When a sufficient number of people from the otherwise-tolerant majority disagree with a special interest group, they can branch into their own special interest group.

The more intolerant it is, the larger special interest groups need to be.

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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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