This is part of a series that retraces the growth narrative in the cryptocurrecy asset class from 2016-2018.
Online IOTA Seed Generator Starts Stealing Funds From Users
Link: JP Buntinx, Merkle
What are Sidechains?
Link: Shaan Ray, Hackernoon
More than 10 percent of $3.7 billion raised in ICOs has been stolen: Ernst & Young
Link: Anna Irrera, Reuters
Opening Remarks at the Securities Regulation Institute
Link: Jay Clayton, sec.gov
Bitcoin
Link: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Medium
Kasisto Is Monero’s Working Point-of-Sale Solution
Link: JP Buntinx, Merkle
Atomic swaps, decentralised exchange and community with Decred
Link: Colm Hebblethwaite, Blockchain technology
Extortion, Police Raids and Secrecy: Inside The Venezuelan Bitcoin Mining World
Link: Pirate Beachbum, Hackernoon
Gold Is Heading Towards a Four-Year High
Link: Ranjeetha Pakiam, Bloomberg
This unusual new IoT botnet is spreading rapidly via peer-to-peer communication
Link: Danny Palmer, zdnet.com
Blockchain company buys more than 60,000 acres in Northern Nevada
Link: Eli Segall, Las Vegas Review Journal
Ripple Wants XRP to Be Bitcoin for Banks. If Only the Banks Wanted It
Link: Matt Leiseing, Bloomberg
Introducing Strike, a stripe-like API for Lightning
Link: ACINQ, Medium
Announcing the Trading Technologies Partnership
Link: Adam White, Gdax
Telegram’s ICO is attracting the industry’s newer crypto investors while firms like Andreessen Horowitz sit this one out
Link: Theodore Schleifer, recode.net
Tether Confirms Its Relationship With Auditor Has 'Dissolved'
Link: Marc Hochstein, Coindesk
A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy
Link: Scott Alexander, lesserwrong.com
The Lightning Network
Link: Bitmex Research, Bitmex
Crypto Hedge Fund Polychain Says No IPO in the Works
Link: Stan Higgins, Coindesk
Status Invests $5M In Riot.im
Link: Status, blog.status
Cryptocurrency startup Prodeum pulls an exit scam, leaves a penis behind
Link: Mix, thenextweb.com
OMERS expands cryptocurrency presence with $50-million Ethereum public company offering
Link: Sean Silcoff, theglobeandmail.com
U.S. Regulators Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether
Link: Matt Leiseng, Bloomberg
Square Rolls Out Bitcoin Trading to Almost All Cash App Users
Link: Selina Wang, Bloomberg
UK’s Royal Mint Launches Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency
Link: Helen Partz, Cointelegraph
MakerDAO and Digix: DGX gold tokens to play a crucial role in DAI stablecoin
Link: Ian Allison, ibtimes
Winning the Cold Currency War
Link: JOACHIM FELS, blog.picmo
Crypto Purchases Are Boosting Mastercard Customer Spending, CFO Says
Link: Jenn Surane, Bloomberg
A giant botnet is forcing Windows servers to mine cryptocurrency
Link: Danny Palmer, zdnet.com
Data and Defense: The Case of Strava
Link: DFRLab, Medium
What the Coincheck hack means for the future of blockchain security
Link: Mike Orcutt, technologyreview.com
Montana is Home to New 53 Acre, $75 Million Bitcoin Mining Facility
Link: C. Edward Kelso, news.bitcoin
A Haven for Blockchain: The Case for Wyoming
Link: Tyler Lindholm, Coindesk
Mining Margins and Where to Make the Most Money
Link: Darryn Pollock, Cointelegraph