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This is part of a series that retraces the growth narrative in the cryptocurrecy asset class in 2016-2018.
THE SMART CONTRACT NETWORK EFFECT FALLACY
BY: KYLE SAMANI, Multicoin.capital
Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree
By: Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark, Queue.acm.org
Mar 10, 2020
Pioneering Academic Work Leading to Bitcoin
Jan 23, 2020
Bitcoiners Can Build Better Products By Using This Process
Dec 20, 2019
Ethnography: Using Abduction to Reason About Technological Phenomena
Nov 12, 2019
How Secular Trends Are Conspiring to Threaten Large Organizations
Oct 19, 2019
Greetings from the Lightning Conference in Berlin
Oct 1, 2019
Congratulations, you have been blessed by the Crypto Rating Council
Sep 23, 2019
Update for the Decred Community on improving DCR Liquidity
Sep 23, 2019
Where are we in the mining cycle?
Sep 19, 2019
Hyper-normalizing the Black Swans
May 20, 2019
Looking forward to the Fall
May 9, 2019
Post-hack, Binance founder puts foot in mouth
May 7, 2019
WeChat cracks down on ICO merchants
May 2, 2019
How Bitcoin's narrative machine pulls you in
Apr 30, 2019
Bitcoin brand recognition is spreading, despite a sideways market
Apr 26, 2019
France gives crypto startups "the right to a bank account"
Apr 23, 2019
Coinbase struggles to find focus (and revenue) with gross new sales tactics
Apr 18, 2019
With CRISPR, dual-core processors can be made inside human cells
Apr 16, 2019
Small lenders may pose unexpected systemic risk as recession fears grow
Apr 11, 2019
Can Blockstack steal the token crown from Ethereum?
Apr 9, 2019
China flirts with a Bitcoin mining ban (again)
Apr 8, 2019
What Veriblock's architecture says about Bitcoin's long-term incentives
Apr 3, 2019
Utility tokens are still a tough sell, says SEC
Apr 1, 2019
Mastercard wants to hold your vital docs in a "data collage" to generate a "digital ID"
Mar 30, 2019
Bitmain's IPO is dead, but the company claims new products will save it
Mar 28, 2019
Malicious binary mining ring uncovered
Mar 25, 2019
Novel approaches to valuing Bitcoin
Mar 24, 2019
More evidence emerges that most bitcoin trading volume is not real
Mar 21, 2019
How can volunteer-built software compete with for-profit business?
Mar 18, 2019
Do we care about privacy yet?
Mar 18, 2019
Karpeles ruled incompetent, but not malicious
Mar 14, 2019
As institutional traders cast a critical eye on crypto, concerns over fake exchange volume re-emerge
Mar 11, 2019
Why are Bitcoin transaction volumes dropping?
Mar 10, 2019
Report on BTC hashrate centralization reveals a behavioral quirk common amongst miners
Mar 6, 2019
Is the NSA bogeyman dead or sleeping?
Mar 5, 2019
Mining margins are on the rebound
Mar 2, 2019
NYTimes says Bitcoin needs a corporate replacement
Feb 27, 2019
Ethereum hard forks are imminent, reducing block rewards for miners
Feb 26, 2019
Who’s afraid of the big bad debt?
Feb 22, 2019
Inside Samsung's new crypto-friendly phone
Feb 20, 2019
New Coinbase "security" feature is typically careless
Feb 18, 2019
Will governments be able to contain the mischief of technically-adept citizens?
Feb 15, 2019
JPMorgan picks up one of crypto's basest tricks
Feb 13, 2019
Ambitious Mimblewimble projects are starting to make Ethereum look bad
Feb 12, 2019
Bitcoin transactions have increased despite bear market
Feb 9, 2019
Nigeria competes with Venezuela as the ideal remittance case study for Bitcoin
Feb 6, 2019
Jack Dorsey on Bitcoin
Feb 4, 2019
A Central American government discovers Bitcoin mining can be a healthy part of its energy industry
Feb 1, 2019
Lessons in key-man risk from the QuadrigaCX disaster
Jan 30, 2019
Facebook's digital bootlegging might kick off a personal data boom
Jan 28, 2019
Nation states are natural customers for new currency systems, whether open or closed
Jan 25, 2019
Iterative tells Tales from the Crypt
Jan 23, 2019
Samsung leaks images of cryptocurrency-enabled phone
Jan 21, 2019
The best seller in Lightning commerce might be small data
Jan 14, 2019
The podcast version of the Iterative Capital thesis has arrived
Dec 26, 2018
Prominent Japanese mining manufacturer calls it quits
Dec 21, 2018
Will token legislation save the ICO, or just make room for Facebook in crypto?
Dec 19, 2018
Ambitious "blockchain" startups disintegrate, while practical services flourish
Dec 17, 2018
Cambridge University releases its second annual cryptocurrency study
Dec 14, 2018
Even as cryptocurrency prices drop, blockchain jobs seem to grow
Dec 12, 2018
Macro woes are worsening, as Venezuelan BTC volumes grow
Dec 10, 2018
Two insights into the effects of the Bitcoin crash on miner economics
Dec 7, 2018
Bitmain sued for remotely controlling customer ASICs
Dec 5, 2018
Death spirals everywhere; are they real?
Dec 3, 2018
Bitcoin miners, who use 77% renewable power, are turning off machines
Nov 30, 2018
Lightning is growing faster than anyone expected
Nov 28, 2018
Is Bitcoin still "digital gold," or something else entirely?
Nov 26, 2018
How do central banks make peace with cryptocurrencies?
Nov 24, 2018
Banks to pay $491M settlement over interest rate manipulation
Nov 22, 2018
Giga Watt goes bankrupt, showing the dangers of mis-timing the mining hardware cycle
Nov 20, 2018
Fake Trezors, fake signatures, fake... bottom?
Nov 17, 2018
Fringe economies are starting to talk about cryptocurrency
Nov 16, 2018
Roger Ver's impulsive hashpower moves show the hidden power of pool operators in the BCH Hash War
Nov 14, 2018
Is the Bitcoin Cash fork the cause of today's sell-off?
Nov 12, 2018
In a Bitcoin world, who gets to play the plutocrat?
Nov 9, 2018
Bitcoin and the coming "structural adjustment"
Nov 7, 2018
NYTimes notices the landscape of tech is changing
Oct 25, 2018
Our thesis: How to un-f*ck the Bitcoin narrative
Oct 4, 2018
No silver bullet for Bitcoin's engineering
Oct 2, 2018
Slaying a dragon, one fork at a time (Pt.2)
Sep 27, 2018
Bitmain's Hail Mary moment
Sep 26, 2018
Is Coinbase trying to become the new Binance?
Sep 25, 2018
The inherent flaws of Proof-of-Stake
Sep 22, 2018
Bitcoin Core issues quick upgrade to fix a critical bug
Sep 20, 2018
What is the NY AG report on crypto exchanges really saying?
Sep 17, 2018
Revisiting the arguments against Proof-of-Work
Sep 13, 2018
Vote, or your blockchain dies!
Sep 12, 2018
The bell tolls for Mr. ICO Advisor
Sep 11, 2018
How to get away with m̶u̶r̶d̶e̶r̶ an ICO
Sep 6, 2018
Cryptocurrency mining improves power utility across the globe
Sep 5, 2018
Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work is becoming more efficient
Sep 4, 2018
How to properly deal with ICO withdrawal symptoms
Aug 31, 2018
The warring states of cryptocurrency
Aug 30, 2018
The miner-trader disparity
Aug 27, 2018
Inside Grin's approach to resisting ASICs
Aug 27, 2018
Is Bitmain really bombing?
Aug 23, 2018
Why don't we just mine Bitcoin with perpetual motion machines?
Aug 22, 2018
Bitcoin development is more robust than ever
Aug 20, 2018
The hashpower Darwinism
Aug 16, 2018
Ethereum founder talks about the history and the state of Casper
Aug 15, 2018
Slaying a dragon, one fork at a time
Aug 14, 2018
A closer look at Bitmain's massive IPO
Aug 13, 2018
The sugar crash of the Turkish Lira
Aug 10, 2018
Everything crumbles when the margin calls
Aug 9, 2018
Who wants to upgrade their home appliances to mine crypto?
Aug 8, 2018
The purveyors of smart contracts slowly bleed out
Aug 6, 2018
The glory and sin of Bitmain
Aug 2, 2018
Where do the crypto whales hang out?
Aug 2, 2018
Common scams in cryptocurrency
Aug 1, 2018
Why do we care about cryptocurrency?
Jul 30, 2018
Game theory and black-hat hacking in crypto
Jul 30, 2018
Has the "nuclear bomb" dropped on Ethereum?
Jul 28, 2018
Bitmain’s self-mining conflicts with their IPO narrative
Jul 25, 2018
Lightning is expanding fast, but it is not ready for merchants yet
Jul 25, 2018
Twitter and the cryptocurrency information wars
Jul 23, 2018
An Ethereum-based Ponzi scheme called Fomo3d is going viral
Jul 7, 2018
First step towards Schnorr Signature
Jul 5, 2018
Hands off our international money cartel, says the BIS
Jul 4, 2018
Binance trolls users after Syscoin hack
Jul 2, 2018
Tokenizing assets on Bitcoin sidechain
Jul 1, 2018
The growing case for Bitcoin, amidst its many competitors
Jun 28, 2018
The challenges of incentive design
Jun 27, 2018
Cryptocurrency in the eyes of politicians
Jun 26, 2018
What does the disruption of Intel tell us about cryptocurrency mining?
Jun 25, 2018
Will Lightning Network bring us hyperbitcoinization?
Jun 24, 2018
"Silence of the lambos" means better future for Bitcoin
Jun 22, 2018
Censorship in "decentralized" blockchain governance?
Jun 22, 2018
The war on anonymous cryptocurrency
Jun 21, 2018
The importance of experimenting on-chain governance
Jun 18, 2018
Interests in mining increase despite the bearish price sentiment in Bitcoin
Jun 16, 2018
The hyper-normalization of decentralization
Jun 14, 2018
SEC: Ether is OK, but ICOs are toast
Jun 14, 2018
Fed gets hawkish, perhaps for fear of inflation
Jun 12, 2018
Can this "ASIC launchpad" create a new generation of PoW networks?
Jun 11, 2018
A "modern miracle" full of bugs
Jun 11, 2018
The technology industry is building its own (automated) capital markets
Jun 8, 2018
What did we learn from the first quarter sell-off?
Jun 8, 2018
Is sharding really a solution to Ethereum's woes?
Jun 7, 2018
The crypto decacorns are going into mainstream finance
Jun 6, 2018
The ERC-20 token with the backdoor
Jun 4, 2018
Is this how "open source" goes mainstream?
Jun 4, 2018
The tide of hype goes out
Jun 1, 2018
How crypto exchanges became little empires
May 30, 2018
What's at the root of bitcoin's cultural divide?
May 29, 2018
Is Layer 2 the right solution to scalability?
May 24, 2018
For small networks, the attacks are just beginning
May 23, 2018
Bank of England describes how central banks will use digital currency
May 22, 2018
Will Bitcoin fail the way all 'New Money' has failed in the past?
May 21, 2018
Can these big miners actually pull off their IPOs?
May 18, 2018
One Engineer's Experience Building on Ethereum versus EOS
May 18, 2018
Is this new consensus protocol family better than PoW?
May 17, 2018
A discussion on Byzantine-Fault Tolerance safety of EOS
May 15, 2018
Blame engineering culture: a conversation with Decred about Bitcoin's biggest woes
May 13, 2018
Will Facebook try rip off cypherpunk, too?
May 11, 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 10, 2018
Shrinking the "anonymity set" in Zcash
May 9, 2018
Get a first glimpse at Ethereum's new consensus upgrade
May 8, 2018
The "big lie" behind altcoins
May 7, 2018
Bitmain will own a copy of every PoW network
May 6, 2018
Bitmain announces Zcash ASIC
May 2, 2018
Visualizing the future of Lightning Network
May 1, 2018
AWS threatens to suspend Signal Messenger for resisting state censors, advancing the case for Dapps
Apr 30, 2018
Privacy coins versus watchdogs
Apr 30, 2018
How the competition for EOS supernodes could create the new ICO frenzy
Apr 28, 2018
Will EIP-999 reveal the true nature of Ethereum?
Apr 26, 2018
The future is here, but who is going to protect you from it?
Apr 25, 2018
Cathedral or bazaar: what’s the right approach to blockchain governance?
Apr 24, 2018
Internet infrastructure is not as secure as you think
Apr 23, 2018
Can blockchain fix the worst thing about the internet?
Apr 22, 2018
Exchanges are verticalizing
Apr 20, 2018
Even the most obvious scammers can't curb the ICO craze
Apr 20, 2018
Will regulators make an example of Ethereum?
Apr 19, 2018
NY Attorney General launches inquiry into cryptocurrency exchanges
Apr 16, 2018
Earn.com acquisition signals more Bitcoin-industry consolidation, like the early days of the oil business
Apr 15, 2018
Debating public blockchain governance is back in style
Apr 13, 2018
What's the correlation between price and hashpower?
Apr 12, 2018
The first zero-knowledge protocol breaks, again
Apr 11, 2018
Delegated PoS systems like EOS have a collusion problem
Apr 10, 2018
Is the Bitcoin bubble a reflection of global macro froth?
Apr 8, 2018
To ASIC or not ASIC, that is the question
Apr 6, 2018
Monero did the thing with the thing!
Apr 5, 2018
How not to deal with a 51 percent attack
Apr 4, 2018
Ripple tried to bribe its way onto Coinbase, reports Bloomberg
Apr 4, 2018
Is The War Against ASICs Worth Fighting?
Apr 3, 2018
Ethereum ASICs are here: is a hard fork next?
Apr 1, 2018
As coin prices grind downwards, miners push for consolidation
Mar 29, 2018
The "regulator's new clothes" are unpleasant to regard
Mar 28, 2018
How the mining “arms race” is starting to look like private equity in the 80s
Mar 27, 2018
Privacy coin founder gets defensive about criminal use
Mar 26, 2018
Does anyone care about Bitcoin improvements anymore?
Mar 24, 2018
Silicon Valley's test crash dummy is you
Mar 23, 2018
Where is the world's largest crypto exchange now?
Mar 22, 2018
This Nobel-winning economist thinks "stablecoins" can reduce volatility
Mar 21, 2018
Taking stock of the lies bankers tell about Bitcoin
Mar 20, 2018
What's wrong with hardware wallets?
Mar 19, 2018
Trump bans U.S. investors from trading Venezuelan ICO token
Mar 17, 2018
Bitmain is totally busted on its Monero miner scheme
Mar 16, 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 15, 2018
Lightning network is live on Bitcoin mainnet
Mar 15, 2018
Bitmain releases Monero ASIC miners, but they may not work
Mar 14, 2018
How Monero Diverges from Bitcoin to Achieve Fungibility: Part II of Our Review of Technical Approaches to Anonymity in Cryptocurrency
Mar 13, 2018
Winklevii propose a self-regulatory organization for cryptocurrency
Mar 12, 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 10, 2018
How a few hackers and a Tokyo whale crashed the crypto-markets
Mar 9, 2018
The strange ways Bitcoin miners change rural counties
Mar 8, 2018
How hackers compromised Binance, last year's breakout exchange
Mar 7, 2018
SEC says online crypto-trading platforms must register as exchanges
Mar 6, 2018
FinCEN says ICOs are "generally" money transmission businesses
Mar 5, 2018
As it generates shocking revenues, Coinbase hit with insider trading lawsuit
Mar 2, 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 1, 2018
SEC pressure on ICOs puts perceptions of T-zero in jeopardy
Feb 28, 2018
JP Morgan joins Bank-of-America and Goldman in admitting cryptocurrency is a 'risk' to its business
Feb 27, 2018
Digital Currency Group acquires a stake in Silvergate Bank
Feb 26, 2018
Circle acquires cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex
Feb 24, 2018
Ethereum developers poised to pay a price for its fast-moving technical culture
Feb 23, 2018
Almost half of last year's ICOs are already dead
Feb 22, 2018
Researchers discover 34,200 buggy ETH contracts; over $6 million USD up for grabs
Feb 21, 2018
SEC flies into action over 6,000 BTC theft, charges exchange with securities fraud
Feb 20, 2018
Bitfinex and Coinbase announce SegWit support
Feb 19, 2018
Why technology entrepreneurs are fascinated with decentralization right now
Feb 16, 2018
The industry-leading crypto exchange that drains your checking account
Feb 16, 2018
SEC suspends the trading of three public "blockchain" companies
Feb 15, 2018
Traditional VCs will be bagholders in Telegram's mega ICO
Feb 14, 2018
Chrome browser will start blocking ads
Feb 13, 2018
Coinbase demonstrates Lightning Network "ramp" in alpha
Feb 12, 2018
Canadian oil & gas companies welcome miners from China
Feb 9, 2018
Sia vs. Bitmain controversy begs the question: Do ASIC miners destroy networks?
Feb 9, 2018
Visions of crypto-utopia look increasingly distant
Feb 8, 2018
City of Berkeley, CA is considering an ICO
Feb 7, 2018
Legacy fintech starting to make Bitcoin look good
Feb 6, 2018
Ledger wallet vulnerability instigates wider discussion about computer security
Feb 5, 2018
After a year-long bull market in digital coins, SEC and CFTC seem ready to regulate
Feb 4, 2018
Week of February 4, 2018
Feb 3, 2018
Markets tumble and regulatory pressure increases
Feb 2, 2018
As stocks dip, crypto market cap loses a cool $157 billion
Feb 1, 2018
Up to 20 percent of bitcoin buying might be on credit
Jan 31, 2018
Italian central bank considers issuing cryptocurrency to (somehow) avoid bubbles
Jan 30, 2018
Tightening up post-election, Facebook bans some ads... starting with those promoting ICOs
Jan 29, 2018
Tether breaks up with auditor, inviting another "Mt. Gox moment"
Jan 28, 2018
Week of January 28, 2018
Jan 26, 2018
Coincheck hack surpasses Mt. Gox incident
Jan 25, 2018
Robinhood brokerage to offer cryptocurrencies next month; world leaders at Davos blubber about criminal usage
Jan 24, 2018
Goldman Sachs denies plan to start Bitcoin market-making business
Jan 23, 2018
The global economic growth is too reliant on easy monetary policy, says IMF
Jan 22, 2018
Over $400M has been stolen during the ICO boom, says EY
Jan 19, 2018
South Korean regulators admit closing crypto exchanges may be 'impossible'
Jan 18, 2018
ICE Readies Bitcoin Price Data Feed from 15 Exchanges
Jan 17, 2018
Sharp bitcoin sell-off, despite recent breakthroughs in sidechains; traders flee to gold
Jan 16, 2018
Blockstream releases "Lightning Charge" instant BTC payments library for blogs
Jan 15, 2018
Blockstream-backers AXA take pessimistic long-term view, warning of 'propogation channels for future shocks' to global economy
Jan 14, 2018
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Jan 12, 2018
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says FSOC will assess cryptocurrencies
Jan 11, 2018
Korea walks back plans to ban crypto exchanges
Jan 10, 2018
What exactly is North Korea doing with Monero?
Jan 9, 2018
Mitigating the x86 Spectre and Meltdown Chip Vulernabilities Could Kill Your Processor's Performance
Jan 8, 2018
Busted: BitPay obscures public keys in bid to popularize proprietary payment URLS; users revolt
Jan 7, 2018
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