The Control - Issue #42
We recently visited South Korea and Japan to spend some time with the crypto communities there. Asia is an important region for the space, with South Korea and Japan being two of the most active consumer markets in the world in addition to China. Here are some notes from the trip.
Required reading this week
A Distributed Systems Primer for Non-Experts — sekniqi.com
Kevin Sekniqi wrote a basic primer of distributed systems, leading all the way to Bitcoin.
Use regulated stablecoins, get censorship — www.tonysheng.com
Tony Sheng explains how regulatory-compliant fiat-collateralized stablecoins remove the most important feature of cryptocurrencies: censorship-resistance.
Twelve reasons I’m bullish about Ethereum today — medium.com
Ethereum core developer Lane Rettig describes why Ethereum remains a thriving ecosystem despite the price of ETH in recent months.
What’s a Sparse Merkle Tree? — medium.com
Kevin Fitcher comprehensively breaks down what a sparse Merkle tree is, and why Ethereum researchers are looking into sparse Merkle trees as a replacement for the Merkle Patricia trees currently used to store Ethereum state.
Randomness in Blockchains — www.tokendaily.co
Humans have a hard time translating the randomness around us into something that computers can use. Aparna Krishnan talks about different ways of implementing pseudo-randomness in blockchains.
The untold history of Bitcoin: Enter the Cypherpunks — medium.com
A brief overview on how the cypherpunk movement started and what the precursors to Bitcoin were.
1confirmation portfolio reading this week
Introducing expo — medium.com Expo is the first completely trustless way to margin trade. Expo is built on the dYdX Protocol, and will be the easiest way to buy and sell short and leveraged tokens.
How to bid on crypto collectibles using OpenSea — medium.com
OpenSea published an in-depth tutorial on how to bid on any crypto collectible including CryptoKitties, Etheremon, ETH.TOWN, and others.
The Code is Ready — medium.com
The code for Multi-Collateral Dai has been formally verified and is ready for release.
Nervos Development Roadmap — medium.com
Nervos released their project timeline and path forward for developing a scalable dApp platform.
He’s building a free, open-source solution to make blockchain scalable
bloXroute CEO Uri Klarman sits down for an interview with Tech in Asia about how bloXroute is tackling the scalability problem.