While it remains to be seen if we are heading lower, it’s been another bountiful week in terms of crypto content. Despite a number of edits, this week’s recap is heaving with interesting/informative material – from discussions of the role of crypto journalism to a balanced analysis of the effect of leverage trading on BTC’s price.
Picks of the Week
This Tweetstorm delving into ‘news’ in a Chinese context. In addition, this in-depth examination of the next BTC halving and this defense of crypto-journalism are standouts. Finally, this lengthy interview with Anton Antonopoulos is an excellent investment of your time.
A defense of crypto journalism even in an imperfect world:
https://twitter.com/AriDavidPaul/status/1198375846240759808
Crypto tribalism serves no-one (highly recommended):
https://twitter.com/cburniske/status/1199465254511611904
Patience will serve crypto well (highly recommended):
https://twitter.com/KelvinK06741463/status/1200254971834335233
EOS REX an update by Investing with a difference (highly recommended for EOS investors):
https://twitter.com/crypto_iwad/status/1199202221453238274
A call to clean up EOS governance by removing some clear bad-actors:
https://twitter.com/eosnewyork/status/1199813240307568641
Context on news as it emerges from China (highly recommended):
https://twitter.com/truthurtm/status/1198623616377556992
A critique of Eth’s path to scaling/improvement (highly recommended for balance):
https://twitter.com/bramcohen/status/1198787471175106560
Are you prepared to wait for a crypto revival?
https://twitter.com/CryptoNekoZ/status/1197225252499030016
On discussion and reflecting on your positions:
https://twitter.com/MiguelCuneta/status/1196652694733127680
How Chainlink strives to tackle data feeds and validation:
https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1198446995246964736
On margin trading (recommended):
https://twitter.com/JacobCanfield/status/1199696686911807488
Articles
Bitcoin as a means to escape a developing Orwellian system (recommended):
https://rhythmofbitcoin.substack.com/p/a-cashless-future-is-a-dystopia-without
An analysis of unrealised BC profit and loss:
https://insights.glassnode.com/dissecting-bitcoins-unrealised-on-chain-profit-loss/
Investing in Bitcoin (recommended):
https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/investing-in-bitcoin-the-asset-allocators-perspective-70c4aa4f221c
Insights into the next Bitcoin halving (highly recommended):
https://medium.com/swlh/bitcoin-halving-everything-you-need-to-know-4573dc5b528e
It’s been a brutal retracement in recent months:
https://eng.ambcrypto.com/xrps-drawdown-nears-all-time-low-btc-drawdowns-by-65/
How many BTC are in fact, lost?
https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/coin-metrics-state-of-the-network-d2e
Another week another exchange hack yet institutional investors seem untroubled (article predates UpBit hack):
https://cointelegraph.com/news/not-your-keys-92-of-institutional-investors-keep-crypto-on-exchanges
Let’s not underestimate the importance of journalists to the cryptosphere:
https://fortune.com/2019/11/27/crypto-needs-journalists-more-than-it-wants-to-admit/
Mimblewimble may have a privacy issue (somewhat technical but recommended):
https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/breaking-mimblewimble-privacy-model-84bcd67bfe52
Addressing EOS CPU congestion by Dan Larimer:
https://medium.com/@bytemaster/eosio-resource-allocation-reimagined-f219e8d489c
Podcast
The founder of Messari talks crypto:
YouTube
Exploring a bearish scenario for BTC IN 2020:
An enlighting discussion of the pros and cons of BTC leverage trading and derivatives:
A wide-ranging interview with Anton Antonopoulos focusing on BTC (highly recommended):
Despite the odd choice of interview location – a surprisingly comprehensive Q&A with the CEO of crypto lending platform CRYPTO.COM (recommended):
Excellent discussion of recent economic data emerging from China (dates to Oct 1st – highly recommended):
Infographic
The Lighting Network showing signs of slowing growth/use:
https://twitter.com/spencernoon/status/1197555256818884608/photo/1
Website / Utility
A Bitcoin advocate beginning to build a fine body of work:
https://rhythmofbitcoin.substack.com/
A whale of a week (I almost certainly learned a thing or two). 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.
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