Week of November 12, 2017

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

The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked
Link: Motherboard Staff, Motherboard

Is Buying Tokens the new Venture Capital?
Link: Jamie Goldstein, Medium

What’s the story with Smart Contracts and Ethereum?
Link: Space Bounty Hunter, Medium

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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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