Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
I’d like to see more sidechains come to market.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
You buy a gold bar but it has a GPS tag on it. The broker you bought it from can track it at all times.

Four people approach you and tell you that if you melt down your bar with theirs, and pour five new gold bars, all five bars will share the same tags.

Do you do it?

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PODCASTS

Leigh Cuen

• Leigh's journey to covering this beat
• Competing narratives in the cryptocurrency world
• Bitcoin v. Ethereum
• How people are using each
• How each project is approaching adoption
• The state of media
• VC funded media incentives
• Independent content creation

Wringing Of The Rag

• Monday - Issue #675: Elaborating on a chain analysis take
• Tuesday - Issue #676: The bubble blowing is speeding up
• Wednesday - Issue #677: Bitcoin as super-collateral
• Thursday - Issue #678: The fee market + Jevons Paradox
• Friday - Issue #679: US Election Prediction Market + Bitcoin