A 101 Guide To Ethereum’s ProgPoW Controversy
Last Friday on Ethereum’s core developer call, the devs agreed to push forward a controversial anti-ASICs consensus algorithm switch known as ProgPoW. The broader Ethereum community was not pleased,...
27 Feb 202025min
Is Bitcoin A Safe Haven or ‘Schmuck Insurance’?
Bitcoin is having a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day. Many are using the dump - which from a timing perspective aligns with a broader market selloff among Coronavirus fears - as a way to dimin...
26 Feb 202019min
6 Explanations for Crypto’s Coronavirus Focus
The spread of Coronavirus has dominated the news cycle across industries, but the discussion has been particularly fierce in both the finance and tech worlds, with crypto right in the lead. For a mo...
25 Feb 202022min
Caitlin Long on Coronavirus, Crypto Custody and Building a Bank
An incredible amount of work has gone into convincing institutional investors that bitcoin and crypto should be on their radar. Now that many are convinced, however, they face some significant limitat...
24 Feb 202019min
The Breakdown Weekly Recap | Feb 22 2020
The full week's episode run in one long-run, long-chill, long-sleep episode: Monday | Off Tuesday | Is It Exploitation Season for DeFi? Wednesday | Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov on What DeFi Can Le...
22 Feb 20201h 23min
Diagnosing the Dip: Why Today's Leading Exchanges Are Powerful, but Not Inevitable
After settling in to the $10,000 price level, BTC suddenly and rapidly dipped more than 5% in an hour on Wednesday. As the market discusses possible explanations, some floated the unexpected simultane...
21 Feb 202012min
Why We Should Stop Thinking of ‘Crypto’ as a Single Industry
The ‘crypto’ industry is having a hard time fitting everything that’s happening inside that one monolithic term. On this episode, @nlw looks at current news stories from across at least 5 different ca...
20 Feb 202015min
Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov on What DeFi Can Learn From Early Exchange Hacks
The DeFi world continues to dissect the recent attacks on bZx. To most, the amount lost in the attacks is far less relevant than what the attacks suggest about how DeFi applications need to be designe...
19 Feb 202034min
