Kinda having the feeling that @bvanmaarseveen was right about what could be the next step: companies needing a banking license before they can buy and sell bitcoin… 😓
— ❥ Maddie (@Misssbitcoin) December 12, 2019
DeFi on bitcoin?
JUST IN: The bitcoin community may soon have its own version of ethereum’s flagship decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, @MakerDAO.
— CoinDesk (@coindesk) December 12, 2019
Via @La__Cuen https://t.co/KtNgkbiJzu
Matic crashes after rally
$MATIC seems to be forming a cup and handle on this 73% pullback
— Josh Rager 📈 (@Josh_Rager) December 10, 2019
We know what comes next, MATIC shorters in disbelief after not taking profit pic.twitter.com/yiPmoL73GT
https://www.coindesk.com/implosion-matic-erases-four-week-rally-in-just-two-days
Ethereum hard fork Istanbul is live
https://www.coindesk.com/ethereums-istanbul-hard-fork-is-now-live
Ethereum Istanbul Hard fork Successful !✅
— wolfofethereum.eth (@LUKACACIC) December 8, 2019
🍾 🙌😎 pic.twitter.com/cMMzYsgwfz
#Ethereum #Istanbul successfully live! 🙌🎉 However, @AragonProject points to a serious concern as 680 #contracts are broken: “#Developers don’t want to build on a moving target, and backward #compatibility should be taken seriously as well” https://t.co/jr6YVsJo9u $ETH $ANT #DAO
— Bart van Maarseveen (@bvanmaarseveen) December 8, 2019
BIS fear central banks become irrelevant
#BIS boss #Carstens fears central banks become #irrelevant once #crypto takes over. Remedy: put #central #banks in control. Dutch @DNB_NL 🏦 seemed to have listened 👂 https://t.co/QK65Tvh1At #regulation #fail #fear
— Bart van Maarseveen (@bvanmaarseveen) December 7, 2019
Börse Stuttgart open first regulated coin/token trading platform in Germany
https://cointelegraph.com/news/borse-stuttgart-digital-exchange-opens-to-all-users-based-in-germany
Börse Stuttgart Stock Exchange Joins Axel Springer On Launching Crypto Trading Platform https://t.co/TICUZIoPir Borse Stuttgart And Axel Springer To Collaborate On A New Crypto Trading Platform A joint crypto trading platform has been launched by a collaboration between one of …
— Bitcoin Exchange Guide (@bitcoinsguide) March 27, 2019
Komodo team runs a p2p full node in your browser with AtomicDEX
https://cointelegraph.com/news/komodos-atomicdex-exchange-runs-a-p2p-full-node-in-your-web-browser
Komodo’s AtomicDEX Exchange Runs a P2P Full Node in Your Web Browser – this is The final boarding call before moon @AtomicDex $KMD $BTC $ETH https://t.co/QgkEvOt3Uq
— Azizi Mohamed (@Azizisimo) December 7, 2019
Research: DeFi & PoS are not a good match
New research: DeFi cannibalizes PoS security! https://t.co/UknlKnCwua
— Haseeb Qureshi (@hosseeb) December 2, 2019
Turns out, there’s a deep and intrinsic tension between PoS consensus and on-chain lending markets. TL;DR below. 👇1/7
https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/how-defi-cannibalizes-pos-security-84b146f00697
DeFi doesn't turn off blockchain governance and is worse off with PoW than PoS, AMA https://t.co/3esqkJW3u3
— Vlad Zamfir (@VladZamfir) December 3, 2019
Vertcoin suffered 51% attack twice
BREAKING: Hackers mount 51% attack against Vertcoin (VTC) cryptocurrency and steal… uhm… $29 🙃https://t.co/oEfx81UZdw pic.twitter.com/Uin7Zn5p12
— Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) December 2, 2019
https://www.coindesk.com/the-vertcoin-cryptocurrency-just-got-51-attacked-again
Dutch Ministry of Finance & central bank take AMLD5 too far
#Dutch Ministry of Finance @Financien & central #bank @DNB_NL lay out #AMLD5 interpretation while subverting the #democratic process & require #illegal #licensing. Critics say they could do irreparable #damage to the young #crypto #industry. @WBHoekstra https://t.co/u2dXSe1Mfk
— Bart van Maarseveen (@bvanmaarseveen) December 2, 2019
US arrests ETH dev for educating North Koreans
https://www.coindesk.com/us-arrests-ethereum-developer-for-training-north-koreans-to-evade-sanctions
Some thoughts on the recent arrest of an Ethereum developer for giving presentation in North Korea and symbolic ETH transfer to South Korea (which afaik didn't take place).
— Sjors Provoost (@provoost) November 30, 2019
What precedent is the FBI trying to set? https://t.co/UQUA0VfMle
FunctionX launches blockchain phone
Starting in 3 days, pre-order of #FunctionX blockchain phone. Take back control, your data belongs to you, decentralise everything. https://t.co/ue7FXR6hBz #BlokOnBlok pic.twitter.com/EmwVX4r7YS
— Zac (@zibin) November 26, 2019
created by Pundi X Labs & 100% open source
Attack on Grin’s privacy model
I just published a new attack that breaks Mimblewimble's privacy model. This attack traces 96% of all sender and recipient addresses in real time. Here's a summary and what it means for the future of privacy coins:https://t.co/tsIDLyfpzp
— Ivan Bogatyy (@IvanBogatyy) November 18, 2019
And the response of the Grin team
Global debt breaks $255T
Bitcoin plan B in action as global debt soars to $255 trillion https://t.co/OZTHISbPrT
— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) November 17, 2019
