Amidst dropping prices, Core development marches on with infrastructure improvements.
Roadmap to Bitcoin developments
(Medium, by Ian Edwards)
"These developments were big steps towards improving Bitcoin by increasing transaction throughput and lowering fees, among other advantages. In addition to those, there are many more proposed improvements to the Bitcoin protocol under development. This article will take a look at what’s in the development pipeline and review what could be coming to Bitcoin in the years ahead."
A thread that provides brief explanations of the upcoming developments
Schnorr Signatures aggregate multiple transaction signatures into a single signature. This would in turn reduce the network bandwidth by ~25% and the chances of future spam attacks on the network. #bitcoin #BitcoinIsScaling pic.twitter.com/Sk3MGks9Vl
— Armin van Bitcoin ⚡ (@ArminVanBitcoin) March 26, 2018
Bitcoin Q&A: what is the roadmap?
Streamlined Nanopos LApp offers point-of-sale simplicity
(Blockstream)
Commentary on the significance of Lightning Network
Thread.
— Eric Lombrozo (@eric_lombrozo) March 26, 2018
1) The Lightning Network (and multilayered protocols more generally) are a more complex to design and implement than a flood network, like the Bitcoin base layer.
Thread on the major problems of Lightning Network, listed by Emin Gün Sirer
Slides like this are the most interesting at a conference. One way is to look at it as a problem, another way is to look at it as a problem to solve. https://t.co/ILmuWYx1Xp
— Patrick McCorry ☘️ (@paddyucl) March 25, 2018
Remittance transaction on Lightning Network from Nigeria to Zimbabwe
User broadcasted corrupted Lightning channel states, and lost his collateral as penalty
⚡ Hackers tried to steal funds from a Lightning channel, just to end up losing theirs as the penalty system worked as expected from r/Bitcoin
A hitchhiker's guide to distributed systems
(Storj, by JT Olio)
"To get to exabyte scale, we need to have a laser focus on the user experience. As we move towards mass adoption, we need greater decentralization, top-flight security, rock-solid reliability, yes, but we also need a dramatic increase in performance, functionality, and features."
Bridgeware: the air-gap malware
(Communications of ACM, by Mordechai Guri, Yuval Elovici)
"Air-gapped networks are also commonly used in critical infrastructure and control systems where breaching incidents can have catastrophic results, however such networks are not limited to military or critical infrastructures. Stock exchanges, insurance companies, biomedical manufacturers, and a wide range of industries use isolated networks in their IT environments."
Secure messaging? More like a secure mess
(EFF, by Nate Cardozo, Gennie Gebhart, and Erica Portnoy)
"In sum, that secure messaging is hard to get right—and it’s even harder to tell if someone else has gotten it right. Every day this week, we’ll dive into all the ways we see this playing out, from the complexity of making and interpreting personal recommendations to the lack of consensus on technical and policy standards."
I can't stop thinking about this graph the Guardian made -- not for the content (it's self-reported gender pay gap data from UK companies with 250+ employees), but for the way it's basically a whole statistics lesson in and of itself
— Katy (@krfabian) March 24, 2018
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Adding ERC20 support to Coinbase
(Coinbase)
"Additionally, like GDAX, support for ERC20 will also give us a path to enabling the safe recovery customer ERC20 assets inadvertently sent to Coinbase Ethereum addresses."
Kraken's the key to the next Coinbase listing
(diar)
"While the measures highlight the importance of a healthy global cryptocurrency market, the data is no more than a 'yes or no' metric that filters down the possibilities as of date. The potential listings have many more requirements to fill, and not all fit the bill for a potential add on the exchange."
Goldman-backed cryptocurrency startup says it's profitable
(Bloomberg, by Selina Wang)
"Circle Internet Finance Ltd., a Goldman Sachs Group Inc.-backed startup focused on mobile payments and cryptocurrencies, said it has reached profitability and hired a former Boxed Wholesale executive to lead finance and risk."
Over half the assets on Onchainfx are down at least 80% from ATH
Over half the assets we cover are down at least 80% from their All-Time-Highs right now: pic.twitter.com/cBY3gfEN9K
— OnChainFX (@onchainfx) March 26, 2018
Cboe urges U.S. regulators to move forward with Bitcoin ETFs
(Reuters, by John McCrank)
"Cboe believes ETFs would give investors a more transparent and accessible way to get exposure to cryptocurrencies than the spot market."
"This Viewpoint suggests the data-centric focus ignores an equally important issue: the nature of the relationship between smartphones and their users. I begin with a brief review of the erosion in the belief in a mind-body separation and a growing recognition that the boundaries between the individual and the 'outside' world are far more tenuous than once thought."
"This example is not unique to YouTube or affiliate marketing. There are several marketing strategies that YouTubers, Instagrammers, and other content creators on social media (called influencers in marketing-speak) engage in to generate revenue: affiliate marketing, paid product placements, product giveaways, and social media contests."