Hacking Through the Weeds to Find the Crypto Gems
Last December, Soona Amhaz, founder of Volt Capital, compiled a great list of predictions by some of the crypto industry’s most prominent personalities about what would go down in 2021. Similar to last month’s review of Messari’s Crypto Theses for the year. We’ll be using the Red, Amber, Green framework […]
I look forward to reading Ryan Selkis‘s, founder of Messari, Crypto Theses report every year. Now that we are a few months into 2021. I thought I’d take a look back at his predictions to see how they are playing out using the Red, Amber, Green framework. Green – On […]
Bitcoin: A Novel Economic Institution By Yassine Elmandjra P. 5 financial systems founded on a trust-based model fail to provide predictable economic assurances. If one transaction can be censored and controlled, can’t all transactions be censored and controlled? Can’t the powers-that-be deprive participants of the ability to exchange value globally […]
The Powerful Hold The Chain Definition Has On The Bitcoin Community Original notes these lessons come from. In Electronic Coins Craig Warmke outlines his dissatisfaction with the chain definition of bitcoin. Defining what he thinks a bitcoin is by addressing some of the ambiguities in the original bitcoin whitepaper. In the […]
By Craig Warmke Download the Paper here P.7 An analogy may help. Suppose you deposit $1 from your friend and $1 from your sibling in your previously empty savings account. Asking which bitcoin in A4 came from A1 and which came from A2 is like asking which of the two […]
Question Is, Does Anyone Actually Need This? Summary Interesting project with challenges identifying protocol market fit and opaqueness on were company ends and project begins. Resulting in a token score of 28 out of 50. Check out the Audit Full Report in PDF Overview of the Crypto Jungle methodology used to conduct […]
Understanding Bitcoin’s Potential Impact on the World’s Monetary Systems The premise of the Bitcoin Standard is bitcoin will replace central banks as the foundation of the World’s monetary system because of its limited supply, portability, and security. Even if you don’t agree with this premise. Many lessons are there to […]
By Saifedean Ammous Yellow highlight | Location: 416 Bitcoin can be best understood as distributed software that allows for transfer of value using a currency protected from unexpected inflation without relying on trusted third parties. In other words, Bitcoin automates the functions of a modern central bank and makes them […]
Crypto’s HULU Well thought out project with a sound cryptoeconomic foundation. Appears scalable, secure, and has an engaged community backing it. Concerns include background of the Nebulous team and potential over reliance on Bitcoin. Resulting in a token score of 36.5 out of 50. Get the Audit Full Report in […]
Author’s: Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar Bitcoin, with a capital B, is a platform that carries upon it programmable money, known as bitcoin with a lowercase b. Chapter 3 – Blockchain, Not bitcoin? 5 stages of Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies • Innovation Trigger • Peak of Inflated Expectations • Trough of […]