From the blog of OpenFinance: “A digitally formatted security is a digital representation of a private and non-listed security.” | learn more
Grayscale to move billions to Coinbase for custody
“Grayscale, which claims to be the world’s largest bitcoin and digital currency asset manager, is today announcing Coinbase Custody will serve as custodian of the underlying assets for its products, and is expected to transfer nearly $3 billion of assets in fewer than 12 hours to Coinbase.” | learn more
From Russia with pump
“Meet the ICO pumper who makes his living manipulating crypto markets.” Special thanks to subscriber A.F. for the link and excellent headline. | learn more
9 things you didn’t know about Ethereum 2.0
This post presupposes that you know what Ethereum 2.0 is (a big upcoming software release, which includes a switch to proof of stake). | learn more
Elk: the dev board for the decentralized world
This is Kickstarter project for a device that’s essentially an Arduino + Blockchain. It’s neat! “Build decentralized IoT that protects your privacy, accepts payments, interacts with smart contracts, and much more.” | learn more
The first SEC-qualified crypto token offering
The founder of Blockstack announced their token offering on Hacker News and answered a bunch of hostile questions. | learn more
The Spanish Prisoner
Ben Hunt of Epsilon Theory uses an interesting analogy to share his view on Libra in the context of Bitcoin. “Mark Zuckerberg is not The Spanish Prisoner. He’s the guy running the con.” | learn more
Buterin proposes Bitcoin Cash integration to scale Ethereum
How interesting! “Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes that Bitcoin Cash has the best network to become a temporary scalability solution for Ethereum” | learn more
The United States of crypto
From the Coinbase blog… “[W]e outline findings on the growing interest in cryptocurrencies on the part of Americans, on a state-by-state level.” One key finding: “Currently, 58 percent of Americans say they’ve heard of Bitcoin.” | learn more
Ben Thompson’s Stratechery covers Libra
I’m thrilled that Thompson shared his analysis of Libra outside of his usual paywall in this article titled “Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game.” | learn more