What can I say, things haven't slowed down this week. Its been a steam-roller of news, narratives, and tech developments. Fun to dig into but very time-consuming. This week, I'm adding a new category - Pick of the Week. If you only have time for one piece of crypto 'insight' I recommend you check out the weekly pick.
Pick of the Week
If you do nothing else checkout this week's podcast. A Human Right's Perspective on Bitcoin - With 52% of the world's population living under authoritarian regimes Bitcoin and blockchain are of immense importance to our future freedoms.
Let's start light:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/asgj4m/everything_i_know_about_trading_part_1_of_2/
BTC as a hedge against a cashless future:https://uncommoncore.co/bitcoin-is-a-hedge-against-the-cashless-society/
KuCoin has been a bad actor it would (clearly) seem:https://twitter.com/ArtPlaie/status/1098317825549258752
Neutrino recently acquired by Coinbase has a worrying history it would seem:https://twitter.com/davidzmorris/status/1100483999795949570
General thoughts from some-one who always has some insight to offer:https://twitter.com/Kpaxs/status/1099339747653238790
Articles
In-depth analysis of blockchain's impact on global systems (recommended):https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/how-blockchain-is-reshaping-our-economic-environmental-and-social-orders-part-1
For a look into the numbers for 2018 by Investment firm Grayscale (highly recommended):https://grayscale.co/q4-2018-digital-asset-investment-report/
The flaws of crypto market capitalisation:https://news.bitcoin.com/market-cap-a-flawed-ranking-system-for-valuing-crypto/
Unpacking Asset-backed tokens (recommended):https://medium.com/ico-launch-malta/what-is-an-asset-backed-token-a-complete-guide-to-security-token-assets-f7a0f111d443
An example of AI training (non-crypto):https://hackernoon.com/how-i-trained-an-ai-to-play-atari-space-invaders-b3e8756ef026
Podcast
A Human Rights perspective on Bitcoin (highly recommended):
YouTube
A brief technical examination of the Bitcoin transaction process:
https://youtu.be/zdhuEytjYH4
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Should EOS holders be excited?:
https://youtu.be/3c0vufZt6Gg
A double hitter for EOS this week - Mega Update 19 (recommended):
https://youtu.be/Q-oTalbYuyY
Website / Utility
A great site to connect with expert-grade, actionable information on markets in general including crypto:
https://mentormarket.io/
Hope you enjoyed your rummage around the cryptoverse. As always, looking forward to your comments and suggestions.
Note on Sources:
Twitter & Reddit (cryptos current meta-brains) / Medium / Trybe / Hackernoon / Whaleshares / TIMM and so on/ YouTube / various podcasts and whatever else I stumble upon. The aim is a useful weekly aggregator of ideas rather than news. Though I try to keep the sources current – I’ll reference these articles and podcasts etc. as I encounter them – they may have been published just a couple of days ago or in some cases quite a bit earlier.
Has it already been a week? Man...I’ve got to catch up! Thanks cryptos-decrypted.