December 11, 2018
Ethereum Constantinople upgrade for Jan 16, 2019, Ethereum Satelitte on SpaceX Falcon 9, A primer on IPFS (Interplanetary File System)
Vitalik Buterin provides examples in a Twitter thread for non-financial applications of blockchain including academic credentials, self-sovereign identity and auctioning compliance (integrity of processes).
The SEC delayed its decision on the VanEck/SolidX bitcoin ETF for the last time. With a *final* deadline set for February 27. Opinion Twitter thread by lawyer Jake Chervinsky on why the ETF is unlikely to happen by then.
For anybody that is interested, there is a community callout by Justin Drake for contributions of interest/inflation opinions for the economics of ETH 2.0.
XYO Network Headed to Space - Definitive Agreement Executed to Bring XYO Into Orbit With Launch of Blockchain Satellite on SpaceX Falcon 9 (Press Release)
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January 16, 2019: Ethereum Constantinople Hard Fork (Block 7,080,000)
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Security
Education
A primer on IPFS (Interplanetary File System: IPFS allows us to retrieve content based on what the content is, not where the content is)
Vitalik Buterin: A CBC Casper Tutorial
Legal
Jay Clayton: SEC Balancing Crypto Innovation And Investor Protection
Developers
Latest ETH 2.0 implementors call // Latest What’s New in ETH 2.0 by Ben Edgington
General
The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services by Angela Strange (a16z Crypto)
Introducing Offers to Lend: Lenders can now create peer-to-peer loan offers on Bloqboard using the Dharma protocol
Samsung is Building Cryptocurrency Wallets for Bitcoin and Ethereum Based ERC 20 Tokens
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