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Who Draws the Lines? The Case for Decentralized Map Making

[Jun 27, 2024 11:24 AM] Today, a small group of cartography companies control the world’s maps. What if there was a way of creating an open-source system where on-the-ground mappers were incentivized to participate? Hivemapper CEO Ariel Seidman outlines the argument.

Bitcoin Season Two Proposals Facing Early Headwinds

[Jun 27, 2024 11:22 AM] If you haven’t been around too long, it’s hard to fully appreciate how quickly narratives can shift in this industry, especially when playing catch-up. Fads grow old, memes become tired. It's fair to say that this year’s seasonal craze is currentlyâ

Exploring Bitcoin L2s: Possibilities Beyond Lightning

[Jun 27, 2024 10:00 AM] Bitcoin’s secondary layers are often overlooked despite their undoubted potential to enhance Bitcoin’s potential for even more advanced functionality. Much of the focus is directed at the Lightning Network and its ability to handle…

DePIN Is the Sharing Economy 2.0

[Jun 27, 2024 9:30 AM] Daniel Andrade, co-founder of Hotspotty, was deep in the DePIN space before it had a name. More than an incremental innovation for crypto, he sees it as a fundamental shift in how we manage everything from wireless networks to energy grids.

Every DePIN Has a Story

[Jun 27, 2024 9:29 AM] Sean Carey, the co-founder of Helium, says decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) can solve real problems while rewarding users. This is what he expects to see in the future.

How to Mitigate the Unique Risks of Tokenized Assets

[Jun 26, 2024 11:20 AM] Particula’s Senior Vice President of Business Development, Axel Jester, says the growing complexity of tokenized assets demands robust risk management and continuous lifecycle monitoring.

NFTs Are Dead (But They’re Changing Everything)

[Jun 26, 2024 11:00 AM] Forget million-dollar profile pictures, the real innovation of NFTs is ownership rights. This technology still has potential to transform industries, says Layne Nadeau, Founder and CEO of Nval, a pricing and analytics platform for NFTs and other…

Palestinian Taxi Driver Uses Bitcoin To Save Civilians In Gaza

[Jun 26, 2024 10:29 AM] Countless lives were changed on October 7th, 2023, and Yusef Mahmoud’s was no different. Even before the war, the Palestinian taxi driver couldn’t stand being a passive observer of unemployment and hunger, both prevalent in Gaza’s everyday life. Inâ

Ron Wyden on FISA Reform and Crypto

[Jun 25, 2024 11:30 PM] Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has been a long-standing member of the U.S. Senate, and was a sponsor or co-sponsor of several key pieces of legislation enabling broad adoption of the internet. More recently, he voted in favor of a House Resolution…

Bitcoin's Trump Card: Dividing Is The Wrong Move

[Jun 25, 2024 9:41 AM] Courtesy of Bitcoin magazine, Trump (left) with Bitcoin Magazine CEO David Bailey (right) Ever since Donald Trump became more vocal in support of Bitcoin heading into this year’s Presidential campaign, I’ve been sitting with a wide range of…

Give Me Self-Custody Or Give Me Death

[Jun 24, 2024 12:14 PM] It feels like this year is going by at the speed of light, doesn’t it? I can hardly believe that it's already June. Everyone is in vacation mode and ready to relax by the pool and forget the daily grind of work and taking care of a family.I…

The Internet of Things Is Still Broken (But DePIN Can Fix it)

[Jun 24, 2024 9:35 AM] Manufacturers have struggled to make services for smart devices profitable, leading to problems for consumers. But these machines could be corralled to create blockchain-linked decentralized cloud infrastructure, says E&Y’s Paul Brody.

Bitcoin Blockspace: Dynamics of System Resource Use

[Jun 21, 2024 10:04 AM] Competition for blockspace is and always will be one of the core tensions that exist between different users of the Bitcoin protocol. At the end of the day there are only two restrictions on how it will be used, the technical and consensus layer of…

Crypto for Advisors: Crypto Trends

[Jun 20, 2024 10:00 AM] The digital asset market has begun transitioning from early adoption to mass adoption. A sea change in industry leadership, product development and fiduciary commitment swept crypto in 2023 and early into 2024.

Crypto's Long-Tail Disruptive Trends

[Jun 19, 2024 10:16 AM] Interoperability between blockchain networks. Restaking. EVMs. Some major trends giving digital assets markets a lift in the new cycle, Santiago Velasco, Senior Trader, Nonco.

Patrick McHenry Explains FIT21's Passage

[Jun 18, 2024 11:30 PM] Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) chairs the powerful House Financial Services Committee, and has been the leading Republican on the panel for years. Last year, he spent a few weeks as the Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives…

Bridging Bitcoin & Ethereum: BOB’s Hybrid Layer Two Solution

[Jun 18, 2024 9:22 AM] Bitcoin & Beyond is an educational series by the team at The Rollup focused on a new and emerging class of builders in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Through spaces, panels, and interactive presentations, the objective is to provide deep technical insights…

Marketing Bitcoin to Gen-Z

[Jun 18, 2024 8:30 AM] Gen-Z is, without a doubt, the most tech-savvy generation. Growing up with technology from day one, they possess an innate understanding of digital platforms and navigate the online world with ease. This generation's familiarity with technology…

#FreeSamourai

[Jun 17, 2024 7:30 AM] Samourai WalletFrom the start, Samourai Wallet have been transparent about their services. They provided their code fully open sourced and explained every public service they ran. All of this was done in public for everyone to see as they…

The Emerging Bitcoin Modular Ecosystem

[Jun 14, 2024 9:39 AM] What’s modularity anyway?Modularity is the result of a curious experiment playing out in Ethereum as a reaction to the poor scaling properties of blockchains. To address this bottleneck, developers have taken the radical approach of auctioning off…

Why Institutional Bitcoin Investors Need Optimal Networks

[Jun 14, 2024 9:21 AM] As Bitcoin is increasingly integrated into the economy, investors are recognizing the importance of scalability. Bitcoin investors are particularly interested in the potential of this digital asset to transform not only retail establishments and…

Crypto for Advisors: Advisors and Crypto

[Jun 13, 2024 10:00 AM] In today's Crypto for Advisors newsletter, Adam Blumberg shares the key highlights and trends from the recent FA/RIA at the Consensus 2024 conference.