The Control - Issue #46
Greed and excessive optimism drove the total market value of cryptocurrencies to over $800B this past January, and fear and excessive pessimism is largely what has driven the total market value below $155B this month.
We’ve been focused on backing teams bringing useful products to market this year despite all the noise about cryptocurrency prices. A number of those products are starting to see real usage beyond price speculation. Learn more in the 1confirmation Q4 2018 portfolio product update.
Required reading this week
Let’s take a crack at understanding distributed “consensus” — medium.com
Preethi Kasireddy explains for beginners the history of research on distributed consensus.
MimbleWimble: The Good and The Bad — www.tokendaily.co
Mohamed Fouda discusses privacy guarantees of MimbleWimble and compares it to the other privacy approaches used in Zcash and Monero.
When the Fork Forks: What You Need to Know as Bitcoin Cash Goes to War — bitcoinmagazine.com
Aaron van Wirdum recaps the contention surrounding a new upgrade to Bitcoin Cash that has left the ecosystem divided.
Prediction Markets Sector Report — www.circle.com
The Circle research team wrote an in-depth report on prediction markets, including an overarching top-down analysis of the sector plus deep dives into Augur, Gnosis, and Stox.
Casper CBC, Simplified! — medium.com
Ethereum researcher Aditya Asgaonkar provides a simplified overview of the Casper CBC consensus mechanism.
1confirmation portfolio reading this week
Why Net Neutrality is the Key to Scaling Blockchains — medium.com
bloXroute Co-Founder and Chief Architect Aleksandar Kuzmanovic explains why net neutrality so important to blockchains and by extension to bloXroute.
Buy and sell crypto collectibles with Dai — medium.com
Ether might move up and down in price, but you no longer need to worry about its volatility when trading crypto collectibles. OpenSea is introducing support for the stablecoin Dai.
MakerDAO partners with Ripio to bring Dai to South America via fiat on/off ramp — medium.com
Ripio will provide the infrastructure for a fiat on/off ramp to Dai in Argentine Pesos, Brazilian Reales, and Mexican Pesos. This partnership is significant in the region for giving millions access to a stable currency unaffected by inflation.
Blockchain and Common Knowledge — medium.com
Given that we have new technology for automated global consensus, mutual verification, and reliable state transfer and storage, the Nervos team explains the possibility to industrialize the production of common knowledge.