Week of August 6, 2017

This is part of a series that retraces the growth narrative in the cryptocurrecy asset class in 2016-2018.

The Value of Settlement Finality
By: ELAINE'S IDLE MIND

An Inquiry Into John Nash’s Proposal For Ideal Money
By: Juice, Medium

Will there be 21 million bitcoins eventually?
By: Stackexchange

Exploring Simpler Ethereum Multisig Contracts
By: Christian Lundkvist, Medium

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Jan 23, 2020

Ethnography: Using Abduction to Reason About Technological Phenomena

Dec 20, 2019

How Secular Trends Are Conspiring to Threaten Large Organizations

Nov 12, 2019

Greetings from the Lightning Conference in Berlin

Oct 19, 2019

Congratulations, you have been blessed by the Crypto Rating Council

Oct 1, 2019

Update for the Decred Community on improving DCR Liquidity

Sep 23, 2019

Where are we in the mining cycle?

Sep 23, 2019

Hyper-normalizing the Black Swans

Sep 19, 2019

Looking forward to the Fall

May 20, 2019

Post-hack, Binance founder puts foot in mouth

May 9, 2019

WeChat cracks down on ICO merchants

May 7, 2019

How Bitcoin's narrative machine pulls you in

May 2, 2019

Bitcoin brand recognition is spreading, despite a sideways market

Apr 30, 2019

France gives crypto startups "the right to a bank account"

Apr 26, 2019

Coinbase struggles to find focus (and revenue) with gross new sales tactics

Apr 23, 2019

With CRISPR, dual-core processors can be made inside human cells

Apr 18, 2019

Small lenders may pose unexpected systemic risk as recession fears grow

Apr 16, 2019

Can Blockstack steal the token crown from Ethereum?

Apr 11, 2019

China flirts with a Bitcoin mining ban (again)

Apr 9, 2019

What Veriblock's architecture says about Bitcoin's long-term incentives

Apr 8, 2019

Utility tokens are still a tough sell, says SEC

Apr 3, 2019

Mastercard wants to hold your vital docs in a "data collage" to generate a "digital ID"

Apr 1, 2019

Bitmain's IPO is dead, but the company claims new products will save it

Mar 30, 2019

Malicious binary mining ring uncovered

Mar 28, 2019

Novel approaches to valuing Bitcoin

Mar 25, 2019

More evidence emerges that most bitcoin trading volume is not real

Mar 24, 2019

How can volunteer-built software compete with for-profit business?

Mar 21, 2019

Do we care about privacy yet?

Mar 18, 2019

Karpeles ruled incompetent, but not malicious

Mar 18, 2019

As institutional traders cast a critical eye on crypto, concerns over fake exchange volume re-emerge

Mar 14, 2019

Why are Bitcoin transaction volumes dropping?

Mar 11, 2019

Report on BTC hashrate centralization reveals a behavioral quirk common amongst miners

Mar 10, 2019

Is the NSA bogeyman dead or sleeping?

Mar 6, 2019

Mining margins are on the rebound

Mar 5, 2019

NYTimes says Bitcoin needs a corporate replacement

Mar 2, 2019

Ethereum hard forks are imminent, reducing block rewards for miners

Feb 27, 2019

Who’s afraid of the big bad debt?

Feb 26, 2019

Inside Samsung's new crypto-friendly phone

Feb 22, 2019

New Coinbase "security" feature is typically careless

Feb 20, 2019

Will governments be able to contain the mischief of technically-adept citizens?

Feb 18, 2019

JPMorgan picks up one of crypto's basest tricks

Feb 15, 2019

Ambitious Mimblewimble projects are starting to make Ethereum look bad

Feb 13, 2019

Bitcoin transactions have increased despite bear market

Feb 12, 2019

Nigeria competes with Venezuela as the ideal remittance case study for Bitcoin

Feb 9, 2019

Jack Dorsey on Bitcoin

Feb 6, 2019

A Central American government discovers Bitcoin mining can be a healthy part of its energy industry

Feb 4, 2019

Lessons in key-man risk from the QuadrigaCX disaster

Feb 1, 2019

Facebook's digital bootlegging might kick off a personal data boom

Jan 30, 2019

Nation states are natural customers for new currency systems, whether open or closed

Jan 28, 2019

Iterative tells Tales from the Crypt

Jan 25, 2019

Samsung leaks images of cryptocurrency-enabled phone

Jan 23, 2019

The best seller in Lightning commerce might be small data

Jan 21, 2019

The podcast version of the Iterative Capital thesis has arrived

Jan 14, 2019

Prominent Japanese mining manufacturer calls it quits

Dec 26, 2018

Will token legislation save the ICO, or just make room for Facebook in crypto?

Dec 21, 2018

Ambitious "blockchain" startups disintegrate, while practical services flourish

Dec 19, 2018

Cambridge University releases its second annual cryptocurrency study

Dec 17, 2018

Even as cryptocurrency prices drop, blockchain jobs seem to grow

Dec 14, 2018

Macro woes are worsening, as Venezuelan BTC volumes grow

Dec 12, 2018

Two insights into the effects of the Bitcoin crash on miner economics

Dec 10, 2018

Bitmain sued for remotely controlling customer ASICs

Dec 7, 2018

Death spirals everywhere; are they real?

Dec 5, 2018

Bitcoin miners, who use 77% renewable power, are turning off machines

Dec 3, 2018

Lightning is growing faster than anyone expected

Nov 30, 2018

Is Bitcoin still "digital gold," or something else entirely?

Nov 28, 2018

How do central banks make peace with cryptocurrencies?

Nov 26, 2018

Banks to pay $491M settlement over interest rate manipulation

Nov 24, 2018

Giga Watt goes bankrupt, showing the dangers of mis-timing the mining hardware cycle

Nov 22, 2018

Fake Trezors, fake signatures, fake... bottom?

Nov 20, 2018

Fringe economies are starting to talk about cryptocurrency

Nov 17, 2018

Roger Ver's impulsive hashpower moves show the hidden power of pool operators in the BCH Hash War

Nov 16, 2018

Is the Bitcoin Cash fork the cause of today's sell-off?

Nov 14, 2018

In a Bitcoin world, who gets to play the plutocrat?

Nov 12, 2018

Bitcoin and the coming "structural adjustment"

Nov 9, 2018

NYTimes notices the landscape of tech is changing

Nov 7, 2018

Our thesis: How to un-f*ck the Bitcoin narrative

Oct 25, 2018

No silver bullet for Bitcoin's engineering

Oct 4, 2018

Slaying a dragon, one fork at a time (Pt.2)

Oct 2, 2018

Bitmain's Hail Mary moment

Sep 27, 2018

Is Coinbase trying to become the new Binance?

Sep 26, 2018

The inherent flaws of Proof-of-Stake

Sep 25, 2018

Bitcoin Core issues quick upgrade to fix a critical bug

Sep 22, 2018

What is the NY AG report on crypto exchanges really saying?

Sep 20, 2018

Revisiting the arguments against Proof-of-Work

Sep 17, 2018

Vote, or your blockchain dies!

Sep 13, 2018

The bell tolls for Mr. ICO Advisor

Sep 12, 2018

How to get away with m̶u̶r̶d̶e̶r̶ an ICO

Sep 11, 2018

Cryptocurrency mining improves power utility across the globe

Sep 6, 2018

Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work is becoming more efficient

Sep 5, 2018

How to properly deal with ICO withdrawal symptoms

Sep 4, 2018

The warring states of cryptocurrency

Aug 31, 2018

The miner-trader disparity

Aug 30, 2018

Inside Grin's approach to resisting ASICs

Aug 27, 2018

Is Bitmain really bombing?

Aug 27, 2018

Why don't we just mine Bitcoin with perpetual motion machines?

Aug 23, 2018

Bitcoin development is more robust than ever

Aug 22, 2018

The hashpower Darwinism

Aug 20, 2018

Ethereum founder talks about the history and the state of Casper

Aug 16, 2018

Slaying a dragon, one fork at a time

Aug 15, 2018

A closer look at Bitmain's massive IPO

Aug 14, 2018

The sugar crash of the Turkish Lira

Aug 13, 2018

Everything crumbles when the margin calls

Aug 10, 2018

Who wants to upgrade their home appliances to mine crypto?

Aug 9, 2018

The purveyors of smart contracts slowly bleed out

Aug 8, 2018

The glory and sin of Bitmain

Aug 6, 2018

Where do the crypto whales hang out?

Aug 2, 2018

Common scams in cryptocurrency

Aug 2, 2018

Why do we care about cryptocurrency?

Aug 1, 2018

Game theory and black-hat hacking in crypto

Jul 30, 2018

Has the "nuclear bomb" dropped on Ethereum?

Jul 30, 2018

Bitmain’s self-mining conflicts with their IPO narrative

Jul 28, 2018

Lightning is expanding fast, but it is not ready for merchants yet

Jul 25, 2018

Twitter and the cryptocurrency information wars

Jul 25, 2018

An Ethereum-based Ponzi scheme called Fomo3d is going viral

Jul 23, 2018

First step towards Schnorr Signature

Jul 7, 2018

Hands off our international money cartel, says the BIS

Jul 5, 2018

Binance trolls users after Syscoin hack

Jul 4, 2018

Tokenizing assets on Bitcoin sidechain

Jul 2, 2018

The growing case for Bitcoin, amidst its many competitors

Jul 1, 2018

The challenges of incentive design

Jun 28, 2018

Cryptocurrency in the eyes of politicians

Jun 27, 2018

What does the disruption of Intel tell us about cryptocurrency mining?

Jun 26, 2018

Will Lightning Network bring us hyperbitcoinization?

Jun 25, 2018

"Silence of the lambos" means better future for Bitcoin

Jun 24, 2018

Censorship in "decentralized" blockchain governance?

Jun 22, 2018

The war on anonymous cryptocurrency

Jun 22, 2018

The importance of experimenting on-chain governance

Jun 21, 2018

Interests in mining increase despite the bearish price sentiment in Bitcoin

Jun 18, 2018

The hyper-normalization of decentralization

Jun 16, 2018

SEC: Ether is OK, but ICOs are toast

Jun 14, 2018

Fed gets hawkish, perhaps for fear of inflation

Jun 14, 2018

Can this "ASIC launchpad" create a new generation of PoW networks?

Jun 12, 2018

A "modern miracle" full of bugs

Jun 11, 2018

The technology industry is building its own (automated) capital markets

Jun 11, 2018

What did we learn from the first quarter sell-off?

Jun 8, 2018

Is sharding really a solution to Ethereum's woes?

Jun 8, 2018

The crypto decacorns are going into mainstream finance

Jun 7, 2018

The ERC-20 token with the backdoor

Jun 6, 2018

Is this how "open source" goes mainstream?

Jun 4, 2018

The tide of hype goes out

Jun 4, 2018

How crypto exchanges became little empires

Jun 1, 2018

What's at the root of bitcoin's cultural divide?

May 30, 2018

Is Layer 2 the right solution to scalability?

May 29, 2018

For small networks, the attacks are just beginning

May 24, 2018

Bank of England describes how central banks will use digital currency

May 23, 2018

Will Bitcoin fail the way all 'New Money' has failed in the past?

May 22, 2018

Can these big miners actually pull off their IPOs?

May 21, 2018

One Engineer's Experience Building on Ethereum versus EOS

May 18, 2018

Is this new consensus protocol family better than PoW?

May 18, 2018

A discussion on Byzantine-Fault Tolerance safety of EOS

May 17, 2018

Blame engineering culture: a conversation with Decred about Bitcoin's biggest woes

May 15, 2018

Will Facebook try rip off cypherpunk, too?

May 13, 2018

In an unintentional nod to open source, News Corp CEO suggests "Algorithmic Review Board" for Facebook and Google

May 11, 2018

As market oscillates, mainstream investors begin eyeing Bitcoin

May 11, 2018

Shrinking the "anonymity set" in Zcash

May 10, 2018

Get a first glimpse at Ethereum's new consensus upgrade

May 9, 2018

The "big lie" behind altcoins

May 8, 2018

Bitmain will own a copy of every PoW network

May 7, 2018

Bitmain announces Zcash ASIC

May 6, 2018

Visualizing the future of Lightning Network

May 2, 2018

AWS threatens to suspend Signal Messenger for resisting state censors, advancing the case for Dapps

May 1, 2018

Privacy coins versus watchdogs

Apr 30, 2018

How the competition for EOS supernodes could create the new ICO frenzy

Apr 30, 2018

Will EIP-999 reveal the true nature of Ethereum?

Apr 28, 2018

The future is here, but who is going to protect you from it?

Apr 26, 2018

Cathedral or bazaar: what’s the right approach to blockchain governance?

Apr 25, 2018

Internet infrastructure is not as secure as you think

Apr 24, 2018

Can blockchain fix the worst thing about the internet?

Apr 23, 2018

Exchanges are verticalizing

Apr 22, 2018

Even the most obvious scammers can't curb the ICO craze

Apr 20, 2018

Will regulators make an example of Ethereum?

Apr 20, 2018

NY Attorney General launches inquiry into cryptocurrency exchanges

Apr 19, 2018

Earn.com acquisition signals more Bitcoin-industry consolidation, like the early days of the oil business

Apr 16, 2018

Debating public blockchain governance is back in style

Apr 15, 2018

What's the correlation between price and hashpower?

Apr 13, 2018

The first zero-knowledge protocol breaks, again

Apr 12, 2018

Delegated PoS systems like EOS have a collusion problem

Apr 11, 2018

Is the Bitcoin bubble a reflection of global macro froth?

Apr 10, 2018

To ASIC or not ASIC, that is the question

Apr 8, 2018

Monero did the thing with the thing!

Apr 6, 2018

How not to deal with a 51 percent attack

Apr 5, 2018

Ripple tried to bribe its way onto Coinbase, reports Bloomberg

Apr 4, 2018

Is The War Against ASICs Worth Fighting?

Apr 4, 2018

Ethereum ASICs are here: is a hard fork next?

Apr 3, 2018

As coin prices grind downwards, miners push for consolidation

Apr 1, 2018

The "regulator's new clothes" are unpleasant to regard

Mar 29, 2018

How the mining “arms race” is starting to look like private equity in the 80s

Mar 28, 2018

Privacy coin founder gets defensive about criminal use

Mar 27, 2018

Does anyone care about Bitcoin improvements anymore?

Mar 26, 2018

Silicon Valley's test crash dummy is you

Mar 24, 2018

Where is the world's largest crypto exchange now?

Mar 23, 2018

This Nobel-winning economist thinks "stablecoins" can reduce volatility

Mar 22, 2018

Taking stock of the lies bankers tell about Bitcoin

Mar 21, 2018

What's wrong with hardware wallets?

Mar 20, 2018

Trump bans U.S. investors from trading Venezuelan ICO token

Mar 19, 2018

Bitmain is totally busted on its Monero miner scheme

Mar 17, 2018

Decred's project lead explains how to extend public blockchains (the right way)

Mar 16, 2018

Beginner's guide to trading cryptocurrency over the counter

Mar 16, 2018

The Magic Behind ZK-SNARKs: Part III of Our Review of Technical Approaches to Anonymity in Cryptocurrency

Mar 16, 2018

Lightning network is live on Bitcoin mainnet

Mar 15, 2018

Bitmain releases Monero ASIC miners, but they may not work

Mar 15, 2018

How Monero Diverges from Bitcoin to Achieve Fungibility: Part II of Our Review of Technical Approaches to Anonymity in Cryptocurrency

Mar 14, 2018

Winklevii propose a self-regulatory organization for cryptocurrency

Mar 13, 2018

What does it take to get listed on a crypto exchange? $1 million USD

Mar 12, 2018

First Annual Review of Technical Approaches to Anonymity in Cryptocurrency (Part I)

Mar 12, 2018

How a few hackers and a Tokyo whale crashed the crypto-markets

Mar 10, 2018

The strange ways Bitcoin miners change rural counties

Mar 9, 2018

How hackers compromised Binance, last year's breakout exchange

Mar 8, 2018

SEC says online crypto-trading platforms must register as exchanges

Mar 7, 2018

FinCEN says ICOs are "generally" money transmission businesses

Mar 6, 2018

As it generates shocking revenues, Coinbase hit with insider trading lawsuit

Mar 5, 2018

Big banks appear to disagree on cryptocurrency

Mar 2, 2018

This New York startup is planning a blockchain-based Google Maps killer

Mar 2, 2018

Ethereum takes more heat over perceived technical flaws

Mar 2, 2018

SEC pressure on ICOs puts perceptions of T-zero in jeopardy

Mar 1, 2018

JP Morgan joins Bank-of-America and Goldman in admitting cryptocurrency is a 'risk' to its business

Feb 28, 2018

Digital Currency Group acquires a stake in Silvergate Bank

Feb 27, 2018

Circle acquires cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex

Feb 26, 2018

Ethereum developers poised to pay a price for its fast-moving technical culture

Feb 24, 2018

Almost half of last year's ICOs are already dead

Feb 23, 2018

Researchers discover 34,200 buggy ETH contracts; over $6 million USD up for grabs

Feb 22, 2018

SEC flies into action over 6,000 BTC theft, charges exchange with securities fraud

Feb 21, 2018

Bitfinex and Coinbase announce SegWit support

Feb 20, 2018

Why technology entrepreneurs are fascinated with decentralization right now

Feb 19, 2018

The industry-leading crypto exchange that drains your checking account

Feb 16, 2018

SEC suspends the trading of three public "blockchain" companies

Feb 16, 2018

Traditional VCs will be bagholders in Telegram's mega ICO

Feb 15, 2018

Chrome browser will start blocking ads

Feb 14, 2018

Coinbase demonstrates Lightning Network "ramp" in alpha

Feb 13, 2018

Canadian oil & gas companies welcome miners from China

Feb 12, 2018

Sia vs. Bitmain controversy begs the question: Do ASIC miners destroy networks?

Feb 9, 2018

Visions of crypto-utopia look increasingly distant

Feb 9, 2018

City of Berkeley, CA is considering an ICO

Feb 8, 2018

Legacy fintech starting to make Bitcoin look good

Feb 7, 2018

Ledger wallet vulnerability instigates wider discussion about computer security

Feb 6, 2018

After a year-long bull market in digital coins, SEC and CFTC seem ready to regulate

Feb 5, 2018

Week of February 4, 2018

Feb 4, 2018

Markets tumble and regulatory pressure increases

Feb 3, 2018

As stocks dip, crypto market cap loses a cool $157 billion

Feb 2, 2018

Up to 20 percent of bitcoin buying might be on credit

Feb 1, 2018

Italian central bank considers issuing cryptocurrency to (somehow) avoid bubbles

Jan 31, 2018

Tightening up post-election, Facebook bans some ads... starting with those promoting ICOs

Jan 30, 2018

Tether breaks up with auditor, inviting another "Mt. Gox moment"

Jan 29, 2018

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Jan 28, 2018

Coincheck hack surpasses Mt. Gox incident

Jan 26, 2018

Robinhood brokerage to offer cryptocurrencies next month; world leaders at Davos blubber about criminal usage

Jan 25, 2018

Goldman Sachs denies plan to start Bitcoin market-making business

Jan 24, 2018

The global economic growth is too reliant on easy monetary policy, says IMF

Jan 23, 2018

Over $400M has been stolen during the ICO boom, says EY

Jan 22, 2018

South Korean regulators admit closing crypto exchanges may be 'impossible'

Jan 19, 2018

ICE Readies Bitcoin Price Data Feed from 15 Exchanges

Jan 18, 2018

Sharp bitcoin sell-off, despite recent breakthroughs in sidechains; traders flee to gold

Jan 17, 2018

Blockstream releases "Lightning Charge" instant BTC payments library for blogs

Jan 16, 2018

Blockstream-backers AXA take pessimistic long-term view, warning of 'propogation channels for future shocks' to global economy

Jan 15, 2018

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Jan 14, 2018

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says FSOC will assess cryptocurrencies

Jan 12, 2018

Korea walks back plans to ban crypto exchanges

Jan 11, 2018

What exactly is North Korea doing with Monero?

Jan 10, 2018

Mitigating the x86 Spectre and Meltdown Chip Vulernabilities Could Kill Your Processor's Performance

Jan 9, 2018

Busted: BitPay obscures public keys in bid to popularize proprietary payment URLS; users revolt

Jan 8, 2018

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