The Control - Issue #45
Last week was the 10th anniversary of the Satoshi white paper. It's amazing how far the cryptocurrency industry has come since the day that Satoshi sent out that paper to the small cypherpunk community.
We've observed that many people new to the industry don't appreciate the founding story of Bitcoin and how important community was in the earliest days of its launch. Community doesn't mean good marketing, it means being inclusive and transparent, distributing token ownership broadly and clearly aligning incentives, and building a useful tool that becomes a standard.
Read more about our thoughts on community in our latest piece On Cryptocurrency Communities.
Required viewing this week
Devcon4 Keynote - Ethereum 2.0 — www.youtube.com
Vitalik's Devcon4 keynote from October 31, 2018 in Prague covers the roadmap for the Ethereum improvements that are coming to the protocol.
Enter the Crypto Idea Maze — jonchoi.com
Jon Choi argues that we should forget familiar crypto narratives and instead forge a mental model that helps us refocus on what's important: novel features of the technology, core users, who is failing to serve them now, and compelling solutions.
Introducing the "Minimal CBC Casper" Family of Consensus Protocols — github.com
The Ethereum Research team finally published a v1 draft of the Casper CBC whitepaper.
Bitcoin: Utopia vs Reality — yanpritzker.com
Yan Pritzker concludes that the utopian dreams for Bitcoin (be your own bank, death of fractional banking and credit card companies, banking the unbanked, etc.) may in fact take a lot longer than the bulls in all of us tend to believe.
Morgan Stanley Report Says Crypto Now An Institutional Asset Class — www.coindesk.com
Nikhilesh from Coindesk reviews Morgan Stanley's report on crypto as an institutional asset class.
Crypto borrowing and staking networks — blog.coinfund.io
Jake Brukhman shares his thoughts on opportunities for people to lend their tokens for a return and for stakers to borrow these tokens and stake them to the network for a return.
1confirmation portfolio reading this week
Veil weekly update — medium.com
Veil is making Augur prediction markets easy to use for the masses. The product is brand new and the team is iterating quickly. If interested in prediction markets its worth following this team closely.
Blockchain 101: Cryptoeconomic Primitives and Staking — www.zeroknowledge.fm
Zero Knowledge podcast sits down with Axel Ericsson of Vest (previously 1protocol) to talk about cryptoeconomic primitives, incentive models, designing smart equilibria, and staking.
The Road to Mainnet Release — medium.com
For those looking for an update on the Multi-Collateral Dai release, the MakerDAO team details the preparation and scope going into the release.
Harbor is teaming up with BitGo to unleash the tokenization revolution — www.theblockcrypto.com
Harbor partnered with BitGo to address the complexity, security, and compliance challenges of crypto asset investing and help bring institutional investors to the security token market.