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- DevCon3 is in Cancun in early Nov.
- Perfect location for a Texan like me who speaks Spanish
- Perfect location for a Texan like me who speaks Spanish
- Edcon happened last week. Here are all the slides I could find: Swarm, Status, SmartPool, William Mougayar, Melonport, iEx.ec, Ledger, ABDK on Secure Token Development, Christoph Jentzsch on Ethereum Governance Mechanism, Nick Dodson’s ARES Governance Protocol, and Vitalik’s Intro to cryptoeconomics
Stuff for Dapp developers
- Library Driven Development in Solidity
- Ethereum.rb – json-rpc Ruby library
- Inside an Ethereum transaction from Cointract
- Truffle Box – easy authentication via uPort or smart contract
- EthRaspbian and EthArmbian images update, with IPFS
- Mahesh Murthy: Full Stack Hello World Voting Ethereum Dapp Tutorial — Part 3
Client releases
- Geth now supports Hardware wallets, v1.5.9 release
- Keep the developer diaries alive?
Protocol
- Vitalik’s “So far in 2017” R&D roundup
- Vitalik: Intro to cryptoeconomics – slides from Edcon talk
- Reitwießner: zkSNARKs for Neural Network weights?
Ecosystem
- Long list of big companies involved in Enterprise Ethereum
- Enterprise Ethereum launch event on Feb 28 in “Brooklyn” (Bias alert: I’m not linking to the event because it is on TicketLeap’s competitor)
- Job listing for the Product Manager for Enterprise Ethereum
- Fred Ehrsam: VR is a Killer App for Blockchains
- SecondLife Founder Philip Rosedale: Metaverse Identity on the Blockchain
- SecondLife Founder Philip Rosedale: Metaverse Identity on the Blockchain
- MyEtherWallet v3.5.0: Swap ETH, BTC, and REP inside of MEW via Bity
- Phil Daian: How I learned to stop worrying and love ETC
- The Etherian: a weekly update of every Ethereum project
- Peter Vessenes forms a partnership to consult and invest in Ether projects. Interesting anecdotes in the post as well.
- The movement of early Bitcoin adopters to Ethereum has been slow but inexorable.
- The movement of early Bitcoin adopters to Ethereum has been slow but inexorable.
- Lots of folks on the Ethtrader subreddit discussing The Flippening – when Ether’s market cap overtakes Bitcoin
- Related: “The True Cost of Bitcoin Transactions” by Erik Voorhees
- Related: “The True Cost of Bitcoin Transactions” by Erik Voorhees
Project Updates
- Project Oaken won $100k for first prize at the UAE Gov Hackathon
- EthNews interview with Project Oaken
- Consensys and Vinay Gupta release vision paper for UAE government
- Maker moves undistributed MKR into a foundation
- Blockchannel podcast interview of Jaak’s CEO Vaughn McKenzie
- Sports Betting on Ethereum, v 0.2
- How Swarm City will do its token swap for the old Arcade City tokens.
- Legal and regulatory Q&A from Iconomi
- Consensys unveils its stablecoin project, made possible through a decentralized derivatives market.
- Bangor protocol: a bridge token to enable easy currency conversion.
Token Sales
- CoinFund’s Jake Brukhman: Toward more equitable token sale structures
- WeTrust does a CoinFund Q&A
- Cosmos roadmap and white paper bounty
- Jae Kwon talks to Epicenter about Cosmos
- Cosmos and Polkadot talks at Berlin Meetup
- Melonport sold out in 14 mins
- OmiseGo – an e-wallet for the unbanked – planning Q2 token sale
General
- I chatted with The Bitcoin Podcast about token sales, my motivations for doing this newsletter, TheDAO and why I’ve never been a Bitcoiner.
- I’m probably not the most interesting or entertaining podcast guest, but I’d still appreciate your tweets and upvotes.
- I’m probably not the most interesting or entertaining podcast guest, but I’d still appreciate your tweets and upvotes.
- Epicenter interviews Silvio Micali who has a PoS-type algorithm called AlgoRand
- 15 “Blockchain and Us” interviews of people in crypto done by Manuel Stagars, including Taylor Gerring and the mayor of Zug
- Simon de la Rouviere: Eustress, Complexity, Social Systems Design & Blockchain Tokenization
Dates of note
- Feb 27 – Etheroll token sale ends
- Feb 27 – Intellisys private equity “Mainstreet fund” sale begins (closed to US/EU citizens, KYC done by exchange for initial purchase and for dividends)
- Feb 28 – Contingency sale ends
- Feb 28 – Humaniq token sale begins
- Mar 1 – WeTrust token sale begins (1st day bonus, weekly price changes)
- Mar 1 – Qtum sale begins
- Mar 14 – Ethereum Name Service (ENS) released on public chain
- Mar 24 – Matchpool token sale begins
- Mar 26 – SuperDAO token sale begins
- “Feb/Mar” – iEx.ec token sale begins
- “Feb/Mar” – Gnosis token sale likely to begin
- “March” – Cosmos token sale begins
- April 24 – the Rice Blockchain for Business conference
- Q2 – Omise GO token sale
[I aim for a relatively comprehensive list of Ethereum sales, but make no warranty as to even whether they are legit; as such, I thus likewise warrant nothing about whether any will produce a satisfactory return. I have passed the CFA exams, but this is not investment advice. You can find my investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous newsletters.]
Housekeeping
Subscriber growth has definitely slowed as we get near 1500, presumably because Reddit is tapped out.
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