Cryptocurrency

Coindesk (www.coindesk.com)

CoinDesk brings news and analysis on cryptocurrency.

• Losing the Lambos: It's Time to Get Serious About Crypto's Big Questions
• Police Arrest Hackers Suspected of Stealing $87 Million in Crypto
• What It's Like to Be a Woman In China's Get-Rich-Quick Crypto Culture
• UPS Eyes Blockchain in Bid to Track Global Shipping Data
• Crypto Trading 101: An Introduction to Support and Resistance
• As No-Deal Brexit Looms, UK Blockchain Startups Are Weighing Options
• Can Security Tokens Save Crypto From the Bear Market Blues?
• Non-Believable Tokens: The 7 Strangest Crypto Collectibles Explained

Crypto Currency Reddit (www.reddit.com)

Over 400,000 redditors discuss all things crytpocurrency here.

• Top 8 Important Crypto Launches of 2018
• My bitcoin interview on CSpan
• Kin (still in beta) surpasses daily active users of all Ethereum Dapps combined, then adds that amount over again in new users over 24 hours. Most users have no idea what cryptocurrency is and they are actually spending it.
• Blockport is integrating with Bitfinex. Which coins would you like to see added to Blockport?
• Some whale on Bitfinex just tried to break the price lower with a big margin short, and failed!
• Cringe-worthy stat of the day: Over 70% of executives already believe they are "blockchain experts" LOL
• Crypto related vids are the most popular/ viewed on CNBC Television's Youtube channel
• Just another reason they should dump credit cards and adopt the damn crypto already!

Bitcoin Magazine (bitcoinmagazine.com)

Founded in 2011, Bitcoin Magazine is one of the oldest bitcoin news sites.

• Coinbase Seeks Patent for Security-Enhanced Bitcoin Payment System
• Dutch Trader Loses Reclamation Suit Against Banks That Froze His Accounts
• [promoted] Equity Trust Forges a New Path for Crypto-Based IRA Investments
• U.K.-Based Crypto Facilities Adds Bitcoin Cash Futures to Its Offerings
• U.S. Crypto Investment Firm Attracts $22M in Series A, Looks to Expand Services
• Pantera Capital’s Third Venture Fund Raises $71M, Eyes $175M
• South Korea Budgets Nearly $4.5B for Blockchain, Emerging Tech
• U.S. Investors Can Now Buy a Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Note

NewsBTC (www.newsbtc.com)

Leading site for bitcoin & cryptocurrency news and analysis

• Crypto is Taking Over Venezuela, Due to the Country’s Destroyed Fiat System
• Bitcoin Price Watch: BTC/USD at Risk of Upside Break above $6,540
• Cardano Price Analysis: ADA/USD Remains Supported Above $0.090
• Cryptocurrency Market Update: Tezos Jumps on Coinone Listing
• Ripple Price Analysis: XRP/USD Remains in Uptrend above $0.32
• Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH/USD Could Accelerate Higher
• Ripple (XRP) Price Watch: Setting Its Sights Higher
• Bitcoin (BTC) Price Watch: Waiting for a Triangle Breakout

Bitcoin.com (news.bitcoin.com)

Owned by Roger Ver the site focuses on Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin.

• Japan Roundup: Public Companies Unveil New Mining Plan, Exchange, Token Fund
• Second Hand Rigs Are Dumped as the Solo Mining Dream Dies
• Three Hackers Held in China Over $87 million Crypto Theft
• SHA-256 Mining Hashrate Climbs Significantly in One Year
• India Bitconnect Head Arrested
• 44% of American Executives Think “Blockchain Is Overhyped”, Deloitte Survey Finds
• South African Tax Authority Going After Crypto Traders
• Prolific Bitcoin Dealer ‘Blew a Giant Hole’ Through US Legal Framework

Coin Telegraph (cointelegraph.com)

Offers news on a variety of cryptocurrencies,

• Hodler’s Digest, August 13-19: Joseph Lubin Embraces Crypto Bubbles, While Playboy Gets Impatient for Blockchain
• Despite Market Gains on the Day, Bitcoin Remains Below $6,500, Ethereum Loses $300 Support
• ETN vs. ETF: Which Is the Investor’s Dream?
• Crypto Markets See Slight Slump, Ethereum Fails to Hold $300 Support
• Uber's Largest Shareholder SoftBank Denies Deal With Bitmain, Other Investments Uncertain
• Porn Website Tube8 to Launch Blockchain Platform, Reward Views With Crypto Tokens
• Playboy Lawsuit: How Blockchain Developer Failed The Vice Industry Token
• SIM Swapping: How Hackers Stole Millions Worth of Crypto Via Victim’s Telecoms Operator

Brave New Coin (bravenewcoin.com)

Brave New Coin offers a steady stream of news about cryptocurrency.

• Emerging market turmoil could be breeding ground for stable coins
• Turkish turmoil fuels Bitcoin adoption
• Word on the Street: Fidelity offers Bitcoin ETN to US investors
• Basic Attention Token Price Analysis - Disrupting the ad revenue models of both Google and Facebook
• QTUM Price Analysis: The road to all time lows
• Ethereum’s brutal week — 3 reasons why
• Are altcoins getting a jolt from Lightning Network marketing?
• Zcash Price Analysis - (Sometimes) private transactions

Bitcoin Reddit (www.reddit.com)

Over 600,000 redditors discuss all things Bitcoin here.

• Monday Art - Jan Kasparec
• Andreas Antonopoulos bursts Bitcoin ETF bubble calling it a “terrible idea”
• Bitcoin-Friendly Square Cash is Now More Popular Than Venmo
• My bitcoin interview on CSpan
• Bitcoin seems to be scaling better than that one other coin..
• Max Keiser interviews Austrian economist Saifedean Ammous about bitcoin
• Why We Are Here
• From FIAT to BITCOIN and NOT from BITCOIN to fiat.

CCN (www.ccn.com)

CCN brings together cryptocurrency news from all over the world, as well as analyses on cryptocurrencies and scam watches.

• Chinese Police Arrest Hackers Behind $87 Million Cryptocurrency Theft
• Bitcoin-Friendly Square Cash is Now More Popular Than Venmo
• Will the First Bitcoin ETF Make the Crypto Market Even More Volatile?
• Op-ed: The Real Story — How Cryptocurrency Exchanges Extract Profit from Everyone
• Valuation of Crypto Market Slightly Declines But Bitcoin Price Shows Stability
• Pornhub Subsidiary Tube8 Wants to Pay You Cryptocurrency to Watch Porn
• Ethereum Co-Founder Joseph Lubin: Crypto Market Slump Won’t Curtail Growth
• IP Asset Trading Platform INKubator Launches with Epic 10,000,000 INK Tokens Giveaway

CoinSpectator Blog (blog.coinspectator.com)

CoinSpectator creates an easy-to-follow feed of crypto-news that falls through the cracks of bigger publications.

• The Ledger Blue Hardware Wallet Review: Securing Your Crypto Portfolio in 2018
• GOeureka: Next-Gen Solution Shaping the Future of Online Hotel Booking
• Prepaid bitcoin cards: a different way to spend your bitcoins
• Blockchain Powered Content Sharing Marketplace Rally Launches Airdrop Offering 2 Billion Rally Tokens
• St. Petersburg is ready to host the second international forum – Blockchain Life 2018 -on November 7-8
• Blockchain Rendering Startup Out Paces Its Competitors in Early Benchmark Tests
• Stick Sports mobile games company looks to make it big on the blockchain
• You can now send Crypto via SMS

Reddit Cryptocurrency (www.reddit.com)

Reddit Cryptocurrency brings together over 300,000 people to share news about and discuss cryptocurrency. t

• Top 8 Important Crypto Launches of 2018
• My bitcoin interview on CSpan
• Kin (still in beta) surpasses daily active users of all Ethereum Dapps combined, then adds that amount over again in new users over 24 hours. Most users have no idea what cryptocurrency is and they are actually spending it.
• Blockport is integrating with Bitfinex. Which coins would you like to see added to Blockport?
• Some whale on Bitfinex just tried to break the price lower with a big margin short, and failed!
• Cringe-worthy stat of the day: Over 70% of executives already believe they are "blockchain experts" LOL
• Crypto related vids are the most popular/ viewed on CNBC Television's Youtube channel
• Just another reason they should dump credit cards and adopt the damn crypto already!

Coin Journal (coinjournal.net)

Coin Journal focuses on the legal, economic, and technological aspects of cryptocurrency.

• Indonesia Welcomes Blockchain Hub
• Japan’s Biggest Chat App Line Expands Cryptocurrency Offering
• Huobi Invests in U.S. Security Token Exchange
• Jamaica Stock Exchange to Offer Cryptocurrency Trading
• Can BX.bet’s Community Policing Negate the Toxic Side of Decentralization?
• Blockchain Provider Axoni Raises US$32M From Goldman Sachs, Nacy Partners
• Cypriot Blockchain Startup Raises US$1.4M Seed to Fix Online Reviews
• Schnorr Signatures: What, When & Why?

Bitcoin Price (www.bitcoinprice.com)

Daily newsletter analyzing cryptocurrencies over the last day along with the top 3 cryptocurrency stories.

• Volkswagen confirms crypto use in cars – August 10
• CNBC’s Brian Kelly: Selling after ETF news is “Doing Crypto Wrong” – August 9
• NVO exit scam is confirmed – August 8
• Congress member holds $80,000+ in crypto – August 7
• Bitcoin search interest rises on Google – August 3
• Bitfi “unhackable” wallet hacked – August 2
• Northern Trust opens up to crypto – August 1
• Biggest Thai cinema chain takes crypto – July 31

@TuurDemeester (twitter.com)

Economist and Investor with great trading analysis of bitcoin.

• Q: "What does this mean exactly, to own a Bitcoin?" - This write-up from 2014 answers that: https://gendal.me/2014/03/29/welcome-to-bitcoin-island/ …
• BCashers are now dreading the likelihood of a consensus incompatible schism in their community. Unsurprising given their blithe dismissal of the risk of such changes. You live by the sword, you die by the sword. https://twitter.com/PeterRizun/status/1031296213126078464 …
• Many don't know this: at the protocol level $ETH has no checksums (though most 3rd party service providers did implement their own to protect customers). https://twitter.com/provoost/status/1031080921896812544 …
• Complete this list: 1. "Funding secured" (Musk) 2. "Truth isn't truth" (Giuliani) 3.
• The Cantillon effect: "the first ones to receive the newly created money see their incomes rise, whereas the last ones to receive the newly created money see their purchasing power decline as consumer price inflation comes about." https://mises.org/library/how-central-banking-increased-inequality … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon …
• Interesting summary. (Trigger warning: strong sarcasm.) https://twitter.com/KevinPhamCash/status/1031046228354760704 …
• The Court denied Plaintiff's remand motion in Coffey v. Ripple, which means the case will be litigated in federal court. Just read the Order and I am pretty sure the judge is a bitcoin maximalist.pic.twitter.com/bKa2494Ume
• https://twitter.com/HoffProf/status/1019281330331439105 …

@AriDavidPaul (twitter.com)

CIO of BlockTower Capital

• It is worth asking, what are the odds the first form of a major new technological and game theory system would be the best possible ever invented. Is PoW optimal? Are blockchains the best form of distributed ledger humans will ever discover for Satoshi’s goals? https://twitter.com/scott_lew_is/status/1030943859193335808 …
• Want to be better than 90% of ICO investors? If you just look at the list of team members and advisors associated with a project and reach out to each to chat for 10 minutes, you’re doing more diligence than the vast majority of investors. https://twitter.com/AriDavidPaul/status/1030515557324468225 …
• This was a really fun conversation that included pornography, drug legalization, ASIC backdoors, poker, and...some crypto.
• Excited to chat with @DougPolkPoker right now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK3AHsBCUKw&feature=youtu.be …
• 5/ Sometimes the end of bear markets are marked by "capitulation" in which you get increasingly aggressive selling. Then you often get a violent reversal as buyers step in, and the panic fades and suddenly everyone is worried about missing the next rally.
• 4/ And price drops to a level that entices new marginal buyers. This is clearest in low volume moves. We may see an asset grind lower day after day on low volume. At some point the sellers are overwhelmed by the buyers, often a function of both time and price.
• 3/ Rather, bull and bear trends tend to continue until, as simple as it sounds, you run out of marginal new buyers or sellers. In a bull trend, at some point you run out of potential new buyers to buy the top (at that point in time). In a bear trend, the weak hand sellers finish,
• 2/ Long trends rarely reverse because of catalysts. There's always some piece of news you can point to as a catalyst, but the news itself is usually not the cause, it's just a thing available to point to when the trend reverses for other reasons.

@aantonop (twitter.com)

Bitcoin evangelist and author of Mastering Bitcoin & The Internet of Money

• The #Bitcoin Podcast #219 with best-selling author & educator @aantonop! We chat about his book-writing process, the current landscape of crypto + more. https://thebitcoinpodcast.com/episode-219/ 
• Bitcoin Q&A: Are we the early adopters? https://youtu.be/D7-hYWcsve8 
• Bitcoin Q&A: Are we the early adopters? https://youtu.be/D7-hYWcsve8 
• Security by Bravado (is not actual security) https://twitter.com/Carlos1138/status/1029840162589761540 …
• Bitcoin Q&A: Why I'm against ETFs https://youtu.be/KSv0J4bfBCc 
• Bitcoin Q&A: Why I'm against ETFs https://youtu.be/KSv0J4bfBCc 
• Michael Terpin has no reason to sue, cuz he never had anything to begin with. #NotYourKeys #NotYourBitcoin, etc
• hi i just want to encourage you to tell someone that they matter, even if you think they know it already. it might sound dumb but someone did this for me and it saved my night.

@lopp (twitter.com)

BitGo engineer, Creator of Statoshi.info

• Found a 9-year-old gem while searching through my archives. Haven't had any censorship problems with @openbazaar https://twitter.com/lopp/statuses/5736954636 …
• Narrator: And then he did. https://twitter.com/NicolasDorier/status/898378514256207872?s=19 …
• A lot of us dreamt that someday nation states would adopt cryptocurrencies. We also figured nation state cryptocurrencies would probably be less appealing than public permissionless projects. I don't think anyone predicted the first to be such a shitcoin. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-19/venezuela-chaos-after-maduro-announces-massive-95-devaluation-new-fx-rate-tied …
• Everyone would agree with me if it weren't for ________!
• A fun hobby to take up during bear markets is to archive long-term predictions from folks who claim Bitcoin will be dead / surpassed in X years. Just create a calendar event with a link to the archived post and give your future self a gift.
• Yesterday 1 bitcoin was worth 44 billion bolivars, now it's at 59 billion. $1 = 6.7 million bolivars yesterday, now it's at 9.2 million in less than 24 hours.
• Announcing the release of my latest tool, the Bitcoin Extended Public Key Converter. This will come in handy for developers who need to convert between xpub/ypub/zpub/tpub/upub/vpub formats. May also be useful for users when setting up watch-only wallets. https://jlopp.github.io/xpub-converter/ 
• You can donate BTC to support @nic__carter's father's fight to end cervical cancer. Donated funds will be HODLed until June 2019 when he finishes his 3,500 mile walk around the UK coast. https://www.3500toendit.com/ pic.twitter.com/43yTpWoQmD

@NeerajKA (twitter.com)

Comms at CoinCenter and focuses on cryptocurrency policy

• No diss .. Please explain to me what’s Dril? https://twitter.com/portal_narlish/status/1031289640471285760 …
• When you opened a binance account in January 2018pic.twitter.com/OA14b3sOrU
• Consider this: a cryogenic startup that unfreezes you after you get a gf
• This is the medical instruction card that people who have signed up for cryopreservation after death carry with thempic.twitter.com/zMcCbt4Fk5
• Back in 2014 the official Gushers twitter account weighed in on Mt Gox’s collapse https://twitter.com/gushers/status/436335733184679936 …
• Mastodon has worse security/privacy guarantees than Twitter for most users (and a worse discovery model) The model of moving users from a large centralized service run by a known actor, to multiple smaller centralized services run by unknown actors is not going to end well.
• it’s someone’s job to goad twitter into getting mad at gushers https://twitter.com/gushers/status/1020036921911922688 …
• pic.twitter.com/r7o0iYAzEX

@Naval (twitter.com)

Cryptocurrency futurist with deep insight into cryptocurrency and life

• Politics and merit are opposite ends of a spectrum. More political organizations are less productive, have less inequality, and top performers opt out. More merit based organizations have higher productivity, more inequality, and higher odds of internal fracture.
• Nuclear weapons and cryptography have something in common. They both change the economics of conflict. Crypto makes it cheaper to defend than attack. Nuclear weapons make it economically viable to maintain a destructive arsenal during peacetime.
• I love bitcoin. And yet im sure im not pure enough. You know what, I don’t give a shit.
• Extremists are good for steelmanning arguments. Other than that they have such conviction that they are useless for any argumentation or truth seeking exercise. Sad part is that they rule all conversations in life,as not being part of the tribe is always more important than truth
• Bitcoin is the first money-like commodity that can’t default. Gold got close, but usability made minting a necessity and hence devaluation a feature of gold money.
• Quote thread from a fantastic book. https://twitter.com/gritcult/status/994917975739289601 …
• “The foundation of cooperation is not really trust, but the durability of the relationship.” – Robert Axelrod https://startupboy.com/2009/11/02/the-foundations-of-cooperation/ … via @naval
• "The brain loves to complete patterns. We do it for survival value all the time to predict the environment around us. But it also completes patterns for play. There is something aesthetic in completing a pattern in a casual, easy way." - @naval https://startupboy.com/2005/11/29/natural-beauty/ …

@VitalikButerin (twitter.com)

Founder of Ethereum

• There definitely exist ideas that are both true and dangerous; this sentence is one example.
• [Blog] Ethereum Foundation Grants Update - Wave 3 #ethereum #grants https://goo.gl/Ungme8 pic.twitter.com/hLNv6UMPbB
• I wonder if single-coin maximalists realize their arguments are, like, *exactly* the same as those dictators use against political opposition. Not saying the arguments always 100% false, but seeing decentralization proponents speak of "thrones" and "mantles" this way worries me. https://twitter.com/painted_frog/status/1027897977124397059 …
• Defeat aging, or you and everyone you know and love will die. A JRPG-worthy quest IMO! https://twitter.com/rivatez/status/1030092194537865216 …
• 75. What's left now? On the FFG side, formal proofs, refinements to the specification, and ongoing progress on implementation (already started by >=3 teams!), with an eye to safe and speedy deployment. On the CBC side, much of the same. Onward and upward!
• 74. The long-run goal of this research is to reduce reliance on the social layer as much as possible, and maximizing the cost of destabilizing the chain enough so that reverting to the social layer is necessary.
• 73. Basically, if a 51% coalition starts censoring blocks, other validators and clients can detect that this is happening, and use the 99% fault tolerant consensus to agree that this is happening, and coordinate a minority fork.
• 72. The network latency assumptions arguably make this unsuitable as a primary consensus algorithm. However, there is one use case where it works *really* well: as a substitute for suspicion scores for 51% censorship detection.

@NickSzabo4 (twitter.com)

Rumored to be Satoshi and originally proposed smart contracts

• A small correction on this story: The slogan in the Turpan reeducation camp isn't “Sense the party’s thought, obey the party’s words, follow the party’s lead.” I misread 恩 as 思, so it should read, "Sense the party's *kindness*, obey the party's words, follow the party's lead." https://twitter.com/joshchin/status/1030638333280411648 …
• Happy birthday, Howard Philips Lovecraft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFZrqYn5f_0 …pic.twitter.com/hSjFvGRg76
• Here is Trump Derangement Syndrome so acute that an American newspaper is taking the side of an Islamist regime holding an American hostage: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1031336823694524418 …
• "The labor theory of value is profoundly wrong. ...Nevertheless, using labor, or more generally cost, as a measure of value is a common strategy of our institutions and often a quite valuable thing to do." https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/06/of-wages-and-money-cost-as-proxy.html …
• This is really one of the worst things I have read in a long time. Its a terrible form of mental illness. https://priceonomics.com/why-did-san-francisco-schools-stop-teaching/ …
• San Francisco, the home of Twitter. https://twitter.com/noUpside/status/1031013187464785920 …
• Don't trust anyone, do your own researchpic.twitter.com/Nh862GA671
• Agreed. Anybody believing in censorship should be ready to be the next victim.

@gavinandresen (twitter.com)

Former bitcoin core developer

• The world would be a better place if people let go of their egos and stopped worrying about who came up with an idea first. Academics, I’m looking at you....
• Software devs: make it easy for security researchers to report vulnerabilities! Ask them ‘where would you look first for info on how to report’ and then put it there (and in security.txt : https://scotthelme.co.uk/say-hello-to-security-txt/ … )
• Great food for thought about effective, voluntary cooperation. I also wonder: “...whether the process of creation of an institution may be instrumental in its eventual success.” https://twitter.com/profjasonpotts/status/1027304305953452032 …
• I’m an immigrant.
• Feels like we’re in another summer slump for cryptoassets (Mike Hearn wrote about the pattern three years ago: https://medium.com/@octskyward/bitcoin-s-seasonal-affective-disorder-35733bab760d … )
• If I were a teacher, I’d be upset with my union. I’d ask why there is ever higher spending per pupil but stagnating salaries. My uneducated guess: unions optimize for number of people in the union, not higher compensation. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1003819216280195077 …
• What Jeff said. And if you’re trusting somebody to verify voter eligibility, trust them to count the votes (but verify with good old fashioned paper). https://twitter.com/jgarzik/status/1002972111999307777 …
• If you believe in The Precautionary Principle, would you have banned bicycles in 1896 “until they’re proven safe?” https://twitter.com/pessimistsarc/status/1002896332040933377 …

@SatoshiLite (twitter.com)

Creator of Litecoin

• #TokenPay CEO @DerekCapo will be speaking about secure and anonymous $TPAY at the #Litecoin Summit 2018 on September 15 in San Francisco held by our FinTech partner @LTCFoundation & @SatoshiLite Event Info http://litecoinsummit.org pic.twitter.com/IqoAhIHL6k
• Don't miss out on cheap Litecoin Summit tix! Looking forward to see @starkness (Labs), @eric_winer (Gemini), @billbarhydt (Abra), @derekcapo (TokenPay), @dieguito (RSK), @CoolBitXCEO, @AdamDraper (BoostVC), @BigEtheword (Aliant), @TravelbyBit, @eiaine, @SkyCorridors & more! https://twitter.com/LTCFoundation/status/1030863402577608704 …
• We ready for the NYC event. #LTCEastCoastTeam #LTC30for30 #LTCSF18 #litecoinFam #litecoin #crypto #litecoinNation #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #blockchain #LTC #cryptotwitter #retweetpic.twitter.com/qkTK7DYuK4
• Our VP of Engineering, @eric_winer will be speaking at the @LTCFoundation Litecoin Summit on September 14th, 2018. Go to http://www.litecoinsummit.org  for tickets and more information!pic.twitter.com/w2XGCbqioJ
• Thrilled to announce @GeminiDotCom as a Platinum sponsor for the Litecoin Summit!! VP of engineering @eric_winer will be joining us as a speaker as well! Register today at http://www.litecoinsummit.org ! #LTCSF18 #cryptocurrencypic.twitter.com/lVKgdodN2P
• It's not often that you get the chance to hear from and mingle w/ the people who are shaping the future. But on September 14th-15th in San Francisco you can do just that! Register for Early Bird passes to the Litecoin Summit today! http://www.LitecoinSummit.org  #LTCSF18pic.twitter.com/3avlSLh7oy
• 1/ The most important news in the "cryptocurrency space" today is the gigantic IPO that @BITMAINtech intends to complete this year. But even more astonishing is one of the details buried in their IPO filing. Let's consider the implications:
• LN with atomic swap makes Litecoin effectively Bitcoin's sidechain, but with much better security via decentralized PoW mining compared to federated/merge mining of regular sidechains. Value can move across chains seamlessly to take advantage of LTC's faster/cheaper onchain txns.pic.twitter.com/7b2oZacukY

@brian_armstrong (twitter.com)

CEO of Coinbase

• Amazing to hear the conversation with @f_forough founder of @CodeToInspire, the first all-girls coding school in #Afghanistan at @coinbase. So inspiring how she supports the next generation of girls in tech #girlswhocode https://blog.coinbase.com/fereshteh-forough-interview-1e73a684788f …
• Wondering what I’ve been up to this summer? Check out some of the lessons I’ve learned from my summer design internship at ⁦@coinbase⁩!! https://medium.com/@kathleen.hsu/what-i-learned-as-a-design-intern-at-coinbase-656bf985cd7a?source=twitterShare-b7b09a498f82-1534448747 …
• Suspect they'll position this over time as a competitor to Amazon Prime. Smart. https://twitter.com/verge/status/1029954658847137792 …
• We acquired an awesome team to work on decentralized identity welcome to @coinbase https://twitter.com/nvs/status/1029780677951012864 …
• This is a BFD for the Ethereum ecosystem Coinbase is shepherding us all towards the open financial system https://blog.coinbase.com/goodbye-toshi-hello-coinbase-wallet-the-easiest-and-most-secure-crypto-wallet-and-browser-4ba6e52e4913 …
• Excited to be doubling down on a user controlled wallet and dapp browser to drive the utility case for crypto! Check it out -> https://wallet.coinbase.com https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1029792777675005952 …
• Toshi is now a part of the @coinbase product family, check out @CoinbaseWallet and http://wallet.coinbase.com ! We're so excited not just bc of a new name, but bc of the amazing team we're forming led by @Sid_Coelho and @petejkim and the many exciting features we have on our roadmap!https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1029792777675005952 …
• Toshi is now Coinbase Wallet! https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1029792777675005952 …

@starkness (twitter.com)

Cofounded Lightning

• And here's my #Distributed2018 @lightning chat with Lightning Network CEO @starkness https://youtu.be/wjpMiW0pOAs 
• There are no shitcoin waterfalls in the @cryptosprings desert. It's pure cactus, crypto and palm trees for two days of kickass conversation from October 3-4. http://www.cryptosprings.org pic.twitter.com/jgTRNGY8x0
• Getting bored with true believer “experts” who’ve spent all of 10 minutes learning how elections work but are certain that blockchain fits in there somewhere. Protip: actually learn about a problem before offering pet technologies as solutions.
• oh holy shit that really is just like the worst possible way to combine a series of different words huhpic.twitter.com/kzkb2qgcgO
• SLP9 - Lightning UX and Routing, with @bvu VP, Product of @lightning We discuss: - Lightning User Experience - Lightning Routing - Benefits for users, merchants and exchanges - Autopilot, watchtowers, AMP, splicing listen, subscribe, share! http://livera.libsyn.com/slp9-lightning-ux-and-routing-with-bryan-vu …
• Are you a HODLer? Want to know what #LightningNetwork will do for bitcoin? Come to @CryptoSprings in Palm Springs this October 3-4 and get all your answers straight from @starkness! Learn more here: http://www.cryptosprings.org/ pic.twitter.com/ADYFeA1lgY
• ANNOUNCING... 2 days, 250 of your fave #crypto people, and no hype. talks by @starkness @ljxie @AmberBaldet @bitcoinlady @stacyherbert @_jillruth @jutta_steiner @_tessr @iam_preethi @AlyseKilleen and more. oct 2-4 inPalm Springs join us! tix <$1k http://www.cryptosprings.org/ pic.twitter.com/PtvkUIvkUp
• This is going to backfire. West Virginia are moving to mobile phone voting for this midterm elections - software is a ‘Blockchain voting system’ by “Votez”, a 2018 startup with $2m of funding https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/06/technology/mobile-voting-west-virginia-voatz/index.html …

@twobitidiot (twitter.com)

Founded CoinDesk and Currently at Messaricrypto

• Presented without comment: https://twitter.com/haydentiff/status/1031253902275108864 …
• Politics and merit are opposite ends of a spectrum. More political organizations are less productive, have less inequality, and top performers opt out. More merit based organizations have higher productivity, more inequality, and higher odds of internal fracture.
• If you want to help contribute to Messari and create the standard for cryptoasset disclosures be sure to sign up: https://goo.gl/forms/azojiBlC8k67wQhg1 … We are looking for smart people to help add projects to our early library and anyone with expertise to help us along the way.
• Still thinking about the Sunday with the @MessariCrypto community. The pure knowledge, drive, and passion are incredible. We aren't just crowdsourcing crypto fundamentals. Today we discussed an OS job guide for "breaking into crypto", TCRs, and ways to improve fund tracking.
• God this dude is smart. One of the crypto people I’m most glad to have met in the past twelve months. Thread: https://twitter.com/arjunblj/status/1031228538190540801 …
• I’m thrilled that folks like @twobitidiot are turning this planned $XRP clown show into an event that will hold @bgarlinghouse to account or expose him as the biggest shill in the history of crypto. https://twitter.com/Ripple/status/1030529853928468480 …
• Well, it's been a fun afternoon block party. For those who want to see my full, and heavily researched thoughts on XRP, you can check any of the following: Original post: https://medium.com/tbis-weekly-bits/i-see-you-xrp-fcf151feb96d … Follow up: https://medium.com/@twobitidiot/i-still-see-you-xrp-815369a539ea … @laurashin interview:http://unchainedpodcast.co/ripples-xrp-why-its-chances-of-success-are-low-ep58 …
• Hey @SHE_256 - get in touch / dm? Want to know if / how we can share our remaining @ETHBerlin pass with a mentee.

@AmberBaldet (twitter.com)

Blockchain Lead at JPMorgan

• 'Self-reflection, vulnerability, acknowledgment of the effects of work on one’s well-being—admirable qualities in a leader of any company. I tried to imagine what wd happen if a female CEO of a major company gave a similar interview' @marinakoren @elonmusk https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/elon-musk-new-york-times-interview-ceo/567835/ …
• Dear men of crypto, I would love to see many of you sign up to be She(256) mentors too! Many of you have been the most important mentors and influences in my career. It matters more than you know when you support your female colleagues. https://www.she256.io/mentorship 
• "Answering a call last week from The Boston Globe, The Times is joining hundreds of newspapers, from large metro-area dailies to small local weeklies, to remind readers of the value of America’s free press." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/15/opinion/editorials/free-press-local-journalism-news-donald-trump.html?smid=tw-share …
• The way this woman equates an a [fictional, codenamed] “upperclass British man born with a silver spoon in his mouth” with “white, because realism” is one of the ickiest forms of racism. If you sub “we” with “out of touch white people” it all makes sense though. https://twitter.com/kthopkins/status/1029085694000545793 …
• So let’s say @avsa and I were writing a kids’ book [in our spare time]... https://twitter.com/avsa/status/1029730079293825026 …
• “Terpin alleged that an impostor was able to get his phone number from an "insider cooperating with the hacker" without an AT&T store employee requiring him to show valid identification or provide a required password.” https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/15/cryptocurrency-investor-sues-att-for-224-million-over-loss-of-digita.html …
• BOLT software release would not be possible without support from the @ZcashFoundation, @matthew_d_green and @secparam. BOLT also builds on bn lib and bulletproofs. Thanks to @ebfull , @hdevalence, @isislovecruft and others for their work! This is just the beginning... https://twitter.com/minezcash/status/1029531839818620928 …
• Evergreen tweet (See: https://www.wired.com/story/foreshadow-intel-secure-enclave-vulnerability/amp …)https://twitter.com/amberbaldet/status/949275895809871877 …

@WhalePanda (twitter.com)

Anonymous cryptocurreny account

• I never understood the point of coworking spaces.
• On the plus side... @brian_armstrong has been wrong every single time so this is actually good news. Supported XT, Classic, Segwit2x,... Publicly stated he owns way more ETH. We good fam. https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1031190302449704960?s=19 …
• -95% is even worse than most ICOs. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-19/venezuela-chaos-after-maduro-announces-massive-95-devaluation-new-fx-rate-tied …
• He already has me blocked so may as well make it worth it. I don't understand how Emin has any credibility left at this point. His twitter: @el33th4xor ( https://twitter.com/el33th4xor )pic.twitter.com/gxVhDtsxRv
• The Court denied Plaintiff's remand motion in Coffey v. Ripple, which means the case will be litigated in federal court. Just read the Order and I am pretty sure the judge is a bitcoin maximalist.pic.twitter.com/bKa2494Ume
• What's interesting about the $BCH drama is that everyone picked a side... Except for Roger, seems like he's stuck between a rock and a hard place. He has said multiple times in private that he believes CSW is Satoshi, now he has to chose between CSW and Jihan.
• no joke - friend of mine with no crypto knowledge tried to buy $500 worth of #Bitcoin. unknowingly used the http://Bitcoin.com  app, and accidentally bought #Bcash instead. @rogerkver is a scammer and his crooked marketing tactics are impacting innocent peoplepic.twitter.com/x2JdIlhDVi
• Bitcoin is for free-market Austrians Ethereum is for communist Marxistspic.twitter.com/4TeJYM3Z9S

@Excellion (twitter.com)

Advocate of Bitcoin

• #XRPtheSecurity https://twitter.com/stephendpalley/status/1031185308224815104 …
• The best sticker marketing without marketing budget. @Blockstream at it again lol. https://twitter.com/Excellion/status/1031288271270076416 …
• Only the dumb money is investing in the #BitmainIPO. There is no SoftBank and no Tencent. Only investors with no crypto background & no experience investing in ASICs/mining are involved. Have fun being taken for a ride. https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1031290590883917830 …
• Selling fake bitcoin, the scammer screams censorship — Crocodile tears flow. #BitcoinHaiku @MattoshiN https://twitter.com/mattoshin/status/1030831840217759745 …
• .@brian_armstrong also warned that XT, Classic, Unlimited, Bcash, and 2x would takeover #Bitcoin (yes, every single one, lol). Then warned #ethereum would flippen bitcoin out of dominant position. https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1031190302449704960 …
• Hard money will bring real economic freedom. #Bitcoin https://twitter.com/jimmysong/status/1030900585581686784 …
• The Bitcoin Standard, written by @saifedean Ammous, cuts through the hype and examine crypto technology through a rigorous Austrian lens. The result is a phenomenal book. #MisesWeekends w/ @JeffDeist https://mises.org/library/saifedean-ammous-bitcoin-hype …
• Heading back to Canada for the weekend and then off to Asia. pic.twitter.com/N4WbkVZWth

@prestonjbyrne (twitter.com)

Blockchain Technologist and works at Fortune Magazine

• .@twobitidiot is one of very few people who never tried to sell me anything in crypto, of whom I have a very, very high opinion indeed. Shameless hit on a good man’s reputation, for what - to try to silence a critic of XRP? Do you realize what we say about XRP trolls privately? https://twitter.com/haydentiff/status/1031044121539035136 …
• Postscript: I've had a lot of Valley people chime in being like "no it's not like this at all!" ...but east coast people get it. https://twitter.com/twobitidiot/status/1031200718605176832 …
• While I would like to debate the niceties of the federal rules of civil procedure with an anonymous person with the name of a cryptotoken in their handle, I really need to finish cleaning my dryer vent this morning.
• Magnificent real life Bitcoin advert on the Tube. You would have to squint really hard (maybe even falling onto the tracks) to read the small print about the risks « Brenda » is taking.pic.twitter.com/OvVVO5JQUj
• 1/ decentralization is a myth. we use "decentralized" without any specificity as to what that *actually* means. let's untangle the idea of decentralization. i developed a basic grid that breaks it down at the protocol, network, and app layer (dated april 2018)pic.twitter.com/pbVd52Qgva
• In this essay @robustus and I start with 3 foundational properties of a good SoV: immunity to theft, credibly low inflation, and low cost of conversion. Then we reason up from there to discover higher-order properties such as the controversial "utility". https://medium.com/@QwQiao/the-store-of-value-thesis-42d3cfde50a9 …
• Psychologically prepare yourself for a long Bitcoin bear market into 2020, be pleasantly surprised if it’s any shorter.
• A stunning stat: Bitcoin produces as much CO2 a year as a million transatlantic flights (via @alexhern). https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/17/bitcoin-electricity-usage-huge-climate-cryptocurrency …

@ErikVoorhees (twitter.com)

CEO of Shapeshift

• There's now an exchange-traded Bitcoin note that American investors can buy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-15/lovelorn-u-s-bitcoin-etf-fans-may-find-satisfaction-in-sweden … via @markets
• Regardless of the merits of the article, I really hope "BEEStMoD" catches on :) "The Case For Selling FAANG And Buying BEEStMoD" | Zero Hedge https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-13/case-selling-faang-and-buying-beestmod …
• The founder of Silk Road is dictating tweets from the prison where he's serving life — and he's c... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/founder-silk-road-dictating-tweets-073100686.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=tw … via @YahooFinance
• We've entered a time now where some fiats are far less stable than Bitcoin. Turkish lira plummeting ~20% in one day. https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=TRY&to=USD&view=1D … #BackedByGovernment #TRY #forex
• ShapeShift has acquired Bitfract https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-exchange-shapeshift-acquires-new-blockchain-startup/ …
• Tokenization is happening... https://tnw.to/Hmbo3  via @thenextweb
• Goldman Sachs is considering a plan to offer custody for crypto funds (also great short video from Blankfein) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-06/goldman-is-said-to-consider-custody-offering-for-crypto-funds … via @business #bitcoin
• Coinbase Resumes Bitcoin Buying and Selling in Wyoming after Wyoming's regulatory relief http://bit.ly/2MjjEE9  via @CoinDesk

@Melt_Dem (twitter.com)

Director at DCGco

• someone who lives w me (ahem...) is watching a @netflix movie - “the package.” plot: a guy’s dick gets cut off on a camping trip (?) they put his dick in a cooler, medivac him. realize wrong cooler. 12 hours to get him the right cooler w dick or GAME OVER. crypto seems normal.
• according to this article "bitcoin uses as much CO2 a year as 1m transatlantic flights." well, ICO ppl flying to blockchain conferences is probably 2m transatlantic flights per year. should we cancel all ICOs as a threat to the environment? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/17/bitcoin-electricity-usage-huge-climate-cryptocurrency …
• 9/ to me, this is a better goal than pursuing "decentralization" as our rallying cry. specificity in defining the problem set and the desired end state solution will help us design better experiments. "much decentralized" is not a measurable outcome.
• 8/ this paper on computational biology is an excellent primer on the topic. the question then becomes - how do we create networks and systems that are efficient, scalable, and regular while avoiding hierarchical organization? http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004829&type=printable …
• 7/ the challenge is that natural systems inherently evolve towards hierarchies. we see this emergent property in cryptocurrencies and blockchain protocols as well. hierarchy is an emergent property of networks. hierarchy evolves as a result of the cost of network connections.
• 6/ a "decentralized" system, as many users of the word envision, would provide for: a. participation (anyone can join or leave) b. diversity (doesn't allow for discrimination) c. efficiency (resource consumption) d. conflict resolution (ensuring consensus)
• 5/ decentralization is a word that is often used as a substitute for desired end properties of systems design decentralization =/ privacy decentralization =/ security decentralization =/ self-sovereignty decentralization =/ "fairness" (another difficult term)
• 4/ on a recent episode of unchained with @laurashin, my friend and fellow absurdist @_jillruth spoke at length about the need for more specificity and analytical rigor in the crypto "narrative." decentralization exists on a spectrum, not as an absolute. http://unchained.forbes.libsynpro.com/episode-74 

@rogerkver (twitter.com)

Owner of Bitcoin.com and supporter of Bitcoin Cash

• Those who buy BTC while thinking that it is Bitcoin are making a mistake. The real Bitcoin is BCH, Bitcoin Cash. https://youtube.com/watch?v=vufeM92bfJw …
• Is this the new http://Bitcoin.com  office? Nope, it’s the awesome office of our #BitcoinCash supporting friends at @hashhouse86. The grand opening is August 25th and they are expecting over 3,000 people to attend! http://hashhouse.cash pic.twitter.com/yNzdMO1IYR
• Believers in government mistakenly think that when evil becomes "law," it ceases to be evil and becomes good.
• .@Excellion, Bitmain earns more money in a single month than @Blockstream has in all the years it’s been "operating". The truth is undeniable: The smart money is backing Bitcoin Cash.pic.twitter.com/uhtFcrFO7d
• A govt that wants to do bad things to its citizens will do them by controlling the flow of information in order to make the bad things look like good things. (Just like /r/Bitcoin)
• If you follow the herd, you're loading up on Bitcoin (BTC). If you think for yourself, you're loading up on Bitcoin (BCH).
• The long term price of a crypto currency is a function of its usefulness as a currency.pic.twitter.com/0LjX3fBrQb
• BTC 18 months ago and still Today: "LN is closer than you think" BCH Today: Bitcoin Cash transactions are lightning fast, tokens and smart contracts are ready with hundreds already in circulation thanks to @WormholeCash Start building today at http://developer.bitcoin.com https://twitter.com/BTCNewsUpdates/status/1004759809227481088 …