“Tippin is a Chrome and Firefox browser extension that enables tipping on Twitter by adding a tip button on every single tweet. All tips are made using Bitcoin through the Lightning Network” | learn more
“Ethereum mining pool Sparkpool received a payout of over 2,000 ETH (worth $300,000) just for mining one block on the ethereum blockchain Tuesday – a figure that’s about 600 times the network’s standard block reward.” | learn more
This news of the bank’s new digital currency for cross-border payments has been reported in many places. I’m choosing this American Banker article partly because it’s finance-industry appropriate, but mostly because it quotes our very own subscriber Nelson Rosario a […]
Coinbase’s blog breaks down the layers of the new stack for the web in enough detail to be technical and yet understandable to us commoners. It gets pretty nerdy, so only click through if you’re really into this. | learn more
From Vision Hill Research (I’m not familiar with this group, but the product looks good): “We summarized our results in this info-graphic as the State of the Digital Asset Industry — 2019.” |learn more
Fundraising in the space isn’t the interesting part here. Instead, that caught my eye is that Layer1 uses the approach of capital PLUS other support. This reminds me of Multicoin Capital’s writing on the topic. |learn more
Now, it’s the in-game digital currency of Fortnite called V-Bucks. | learn more
Last year a strange person called TwoBitIdiot released his 95 Crypto These for 2018, landing him on my radar. Ryan Selkis is his real name, and he’s established himself as a thought leader in the crypto space. | learn more
Check this link out for cool dashboards that summarize activity on blockchains, dApps, and exchanges – and of course cryptokitties. | learn more
The news is interesting, and what’s maybe even more interesting is that the price of the cryptocurrency hasn’t collapsed since. “The heist was the result of carrying out what’s known as a rollback attack, which allowed the attackers to reorganize […]