The Control - Issue #10
It's been an interesting start to the year for blockchains. While most of the attention has been on the price of BTC and other blockchain assets, I believe the people behind the protocols are far more important and interesting.
With that in mind, I recently chatted with Dr. Adam Back, Blockstream co-founder/CEO and inventor of Hashcash, a predecessor to Bitcoin. We had an interesting discussion about Blockstream, Bitcoin protocol development and governance, open-source processes and scaling the Bitcoin blockchain, among other things. Check out that discussion here.
Required reading for the week
What are the Future Business Models of the Consumer Web? | The Control — thecontrol.co
With Medium's recent announcement to shift its revenue focus from ads to business models that are better for consumers, I painted a picture of the world I see in the future for online publishers.
Blockstack, formerly called Onename, just raised $4 million | TechCrunch — techcrunch.com
It will interesting to see how the Blockstack ecosystem progresses compared to Ethereum, which has a similar vision for decentralizing the infrastructure of the Internet and has the added boost of having a token to drive stronger network effects.
Julian Assange Just Read Out a Bitcoin Block Hash to Prove He Was Alive | CoinDesk
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange used the Bitcoin Blockchain as a "proof of life" during a recent Reddit AMA session. This is yet another interesting use case for a irrevocable, transparent ledger that no one controls.
The Company Which Consists Only of Computer Code | TEDxGraz — www.youtube.com
Christoph Jentz describes a decentralized future where a company only consists of code.
Bitcoin is Becoming the New Gold | Yahoo Finance — finance.yahoo.com
Dan Roberts did a solid write-up on Bitcoin's increased adoption as a store of value.