"crypto markets are becoming highly interconnected with the traditional financial sector" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ? Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn on the go but need more depth than a podcast? Alpe is the app for you. It’s an audio education app that brings great in depth courses that are as fun as podcasts but as educational as well, a degree. Each lesson comes with summaries, additional resources, flash cards and more. You can even find Et ..read more

"In this article, I’ll talk about L2s on Ethereum, the state of the current scaling ecosystem, and why I believe running L2s on top of Ethereum is the most economically and technically sustainable scaling solution long term." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ? Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn on the go but need more depth than a podcast? Alpe is the app for you. It’s an audio education app that brings great in depth courses that are as fun as podcasts ..read more

"I'll take the opposed, in that I think there is decent precedent to find ETH to not be a security in a post-merge environment.  Let's breakdown some specifics:" In this readthrough I'm going to Twitter for the first time to read a 43 long tweet thread (yup - 43 tweets) by @adamscochran, aka Adam Cochran, Partner at CEHV and Adj. Professor of Info Sci/Biz Analysis. He analyzes whether Ethereum's shift to Proof of Stake makes it eligible to be names a security by the SEC and analyzes Ethereum vs the Howie test, previous rulings in the US court system and theories of what different staking ..read more

IT'S MERGE WEEK! To celebrate I'm going back to the OG episode for this podcast - Vitalik's article on Why Proof of Stake! On Nov 6th 2020 Vitalik Buterin wrote a short article on why the Ethereum ecosystem is migrating to Proof of Stake (PoS). Despite the shift being planned for years there's a lot of discussion in the ecosystem on why Ethereum is doing this, what are the benefits to PoS over Proof of Work (PoW) and whether this migration is fair to all the players in the ecosystem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ? Start learning with Alpe ..read more

The merge is coming - right next week! Here are some of my recent favorite pieces of content that cover the bull and the bear case. To read: The Complete Guide to Rollups: https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/the-complete-guide-to-rollups The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ethereum: https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-ethereum Bankless: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-arthur-hayes https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-ethereum-unsensored http://podcast.banklesshq.com/dissenting-from-chinas-censorship-with-jiajun-zeng-layer-zero Unchained: Given the sanctions ..read more

The Bitcoin whitepaper! This is a plain readthrough of the whitepaper. Here is the conclusion of the Bitcoin Whitepaper, if you can understand this section, you've understood the whitepaper: "We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust. We started with the usual framework of coins made from digital signatures, which provides strong control of ownership, but is incomplete without a way to prevent double-spending. To solve this, we proposed a peer-to-peer network using proof-of-work to record a public history of transactions that quickly becomes computationally ..read more

The Bitcoin whitepaper explained! This is a readthrough of the whitepaper interspersed with commentary that breaks down the important parts and offers explanations and meaning. Here is the conclusion of the Bitcoin Whitepaper, if you can understand this section, you've understood the whitepaper: "We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust. We started with the usual framework of coins made from digital signatures, which provides strong control of ownership, but is incomplete without a way to prevent double-spending. To solve this, we proposed a peer-to-peer n ..read more

"I continue to view the digitization of money as a key theme for the 2020s decade and beyond, both in bottom-up ways (e.g. bitcoins) and in top-down ways (e.g. central bank digital currencies), and am interested to see the directions that it goes in." Today we're reading part 3, the final part, of Lyn Alden's 1:30 hour long article on the state of network. This will be a 3 part series due to length. In the first part we'll cover why a medium of exchange first needs to be built on top of a store of value. Lyn uses the lessons learned from previous Bitcoin forks and imitators to bring this point ..read more

"All manner of individual hardware electronic devices became mostly-obsolete as they became applications on a smart phone. I view the Bitcoin/Lightning stack as being similar. The network is still tiny and has a lot of development work still to do, and nothing is for certain. But to me it looks like a powerful monetary network with a ton of upside potential over the next decade." Today we're reading part 2 of Lyn Alden's 1:30 hour long article on the state of network. This will be a 3 part series due to length. In the first part we'll cover why a medium of exchange first needs to be built on ..read more

"If the purpose of sanctions is not to punish, but to change behavior, then it makes no sense to add to the SDN List an immutable smart contract that cannot change its behavior because it has no agency. It is not a person nor is it under the control of any person. By conflating the Tornado Cash Entity and the Tornado Cash Application and adding both to the SDN List, the government has essentially accomplished a ban on Americans using a particular internet tool without any clear prospect that the restriction will ever be lifted." Today I'm departing from our analysis to read Coincenter's analys ..read more