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The Week In Bitcoin - Issue #102: A Letter To Jamie Dimon, Investment Trends In Blockchain, Them Exchange Tokens & More

The Week In Bitcoin
The Week In Bitcoin - Issue #102: A Letter To Jamie Dimon, Investment Trends In Blockchain, Them Exchange Tokens & More
By Alan Tsen • Issue #102 • View online
✉️ This week you need to start by reading Adam Ludwin’s excellent letter to Jamie Dimon - it nails it on so many levels. 
📈 Also, CBInsights released a report on the current state of investment in the Blockchain space. Note: ICO ‘rounds’ have outstripped equity investment rounds by 5x (see graph below). 
🛒 Vitalik pens a good piece on the economics of running a token as a medium of exchange in a two-sided marketplace. I recommend reading this piece to anyone looking to do this on their platform. 
👉 Got some interesting news (which is not an ICO scam) I should include in my newsletter? DM slide me on the Twitters, Snap or Insta (I’m @alantsen across the distributed world wide web of social).
— Alan Tsen 👊💯
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News This Week
It’s easy to believe cryptocurrencies have no value. It’s also becoming fashionable to believe they will disrupt everything. Neither extreme is true.
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ICO Investment Outstrip Equity Funding Rounds By 5x 😲
ICO Investment Outstrip Equity Funding Rounds By 5x 😲
A data-driven deep dive on the evolution of the blockchain landscape — and how VCs, token sales, and consortia are shaping its future.
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One kind of token model that has become popular among many recent token sale projects is the “network medium of exchange token”. The general pitch for this k…
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Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin & Ethereum have ushered in a new era for the world, with Bitcoin hitting highs of nearly $6,000 yesterday. Most of us in the industry have been caught off-guard by…
vinnylingham.com  •  Share
When Numerai launched in December 2015, it was a one page website that looked like a Kaggle data science competition except everything was black and more cinematic. We didn’t want it to look like any…
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It made it seem like I was predicting an imminent crash which I was not. But just as bad, it has led to a lot of tweets like this one suggesting that I also said that people should have 10-20% of their net worth in crypto:
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The many Bitcoin derivatives, Altcoins, and other token-based protocols have created a thriving, if wild, marketplace. To understand our manic monetary moment, examining the history of classical…
hackernoon.com  •  Share
According to the Decred website, “Decred is an open and progressive cryptocurrency with a system of community-based governance integrated into its blockchain.” Bitcoin paved the way for…
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Everyone ends up trying to define Bitcoin at some stage, and the prosaic descriptions of it are as varied as the people who come up with them. I put it to you that trying to define Bitcoin is…
hackernoon.com  •  Share
Olaf Carlson-Wee is the founder and CEO of Polychain Capital - http://polychain.capital/ Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC.
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As I previously wrote about in my ICO Bubble post, blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and token sales are all the rage right now. In the 5+ years I’ve been working in the VC industry, this is…
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I wonder if Al Gore ever looks down at us peons, crawling around the internet like eight-legged leeches: I invented that. I took the initiative in creating the Internet. Now all these freeloaders are using MY internet protocol to drive billions of dollars worth of value. For FREE. Damn, I should have done an ICO.…
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