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THE STATE OF BITCOIN

"Long-Term Value Potential & Analysis"

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On bonding curves and charitable giving

"In other words, is there a way for charities to create viral donation mechanisms with inherent network effects, that maximise both the amount donated and the number of people donating?"

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On Governance: Coordination, Layers, and Structural Integrity

"Understanding a blockchain’s governance structure is as important as understanding how it operates."

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Second Layers are Not the Scalability Silver Bullet

"Second layers are a big part of Logos’ scalability plan. But our primary focus is scaling the first layer to the limits of hardware and beyond."

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Ricardian Contracts can become the next generation of Smart Contracts

"Some of the most popular Blockchain concepts seeing practical implementation now have been in theoretical existence since the 1990’s e.g Proof of Work, Ricardian contracts & Smart contracts."

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The Moloch DAO: Collapsing The Firm.

"In this article, I will detail thoughts around the Moloch DAO. It’s a new type of organisation (developed by Ameen Soleimani, Arjun Bhuptani, James Young, Layne Haber & Rahul Sethuram) that blurs and redefines the definition of a firm."

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WHAT P2P MARKETS ARE BETTER DECENTRALIZED?

"Over the last 20 years, a lot of companies have built large online marketplaces to connect buyers and sellers. Amazon, eBay, Uber, and AirBnb typically come to mind as the most obvious examples. But there are many more."

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Maker Dai: Stable, but not scalable

"A lesson in stablecoin arbitrage"

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A Crypto Thesis

"Blockchain tech and cryptocurrency are the underpinnings of a new financial infrastructure, just as the internet was the underpinning of a new information infrastructure. Neither was, nor will be, built overnight."

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Exploring Decentralized Networks Through Memetics (Part 1)

"Analyzing an open network’s virality potential"

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Validator Economics of Ethereum 2.0 — Part One

"Since the formal announcement of Serenity at DevCon4 in November we have seen a strong self organization of minds come together to debate and better define the specs of Ethereum 2.0. Topics such as network inflation, economic incentives, slashing, withdrawal period, attack vectors and worst case scenarios are all receiving a healthy debate, amongst many others."

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Fundamentals of Proof of Work

"In the anonymous, unregulated Internet, participants are free to act as economic agents, often with few consequences for deviant behavior. Instead of assuming that greater than 51% of all actors will be acting honestly, Bitcoin assumes that greater than 51% of all actors will be acting according to their best economic interest."

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Blockchain’s Occam problem

"Blockchain has yet to become the game-changer some expected. A key to finding the value is to apply the technology only when it is the simplest solution available."

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"On the internet, we trust the “good guys.” The companies who store our data, who host our domains, who serve our content. Companies like Google, Cloudflare, and GoDaddy have the power to shut down websites or block specific users, but they don’t flex that muscle. Until they do."

"It’s time to talk about layers."

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The use of knowledge in computers: introducing nanoeconomics

"In his 1945 essay “The Use of Knowledge in Society”, Friedrich Hayek first drew attention the knowledge problem. Information is distributed throughout an economy. No central planner can effectively bring it together."

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Crypto Valuations Canon

"Coming from a traditional finance background, one of the things I miss the most is a clear way to value certain assets."

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dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets

"The Internet is full of commercial activity and it should come at no surprise that even illegal commercial activity is widespread as well. In this article we would like to describe the current developments - from where we came, where we are now, and where it might be going - when it comes to technologies used for digital black market activity."

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Two sides of the coin: the bifurcated near-future of money

"As Bitcoin today officially heads into its second decade of existence, this is a ripe moment to familiarise yourself with some of the fundamental changes in modern money, including the ways people store and transmit value, that I think you can expect to see in the near future"

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