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Responsible disclosure in the era of cryptocurrencies (https://medium.com/@coryfields/responsible-disclosure-in-the-era-of-cryptocurrencies-48a99b85aad4?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------0-59------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-1§ionName=top)

My experience disclosing a critical Bitcoin Cash vulnerability
Cory Fields (https://medium.com/@coryfields?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
in MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative (https://medium.com/mit-media-lab-digital-currency-initiative?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
8 min read


The resolution of the Big Block experiment (https://medium.com/@LucasNuzzi/the-resolution-of-the-big-block-experiment-e1df3e38d03f?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------1-59------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-1§ionName=top)

Bitcoin's unwillingness to hard-fork is often portrayed as a "failure to evolve," but Bitcoin Cash's history…
Lucas Nuzzi (https://medium.com/@LucasNuzzi?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
in DigitalAssetResearch (https://medium.com/digitalassetresearch?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
18 min read


PoW is Efficient (https://medium.com/@danhedl/pow-is-efficient-aa3d442754d3?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------2-59------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-1§ionName=top)

Foreword
Dan Held (https://medium.com/@danhedl?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
in Picks & Shovels (https://medium.com/picks-and-shovels?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
11 min read


Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply (https://medium.com/@StopAndDecrypt/bitcoin-miners-beware-invalid-blocks-need-not-apply-51c293ee278b?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------3-59------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-1§ionName=top)

Bitcoin is an impenetrable fortress of validation.
StopAndDecrypt (https://medium.com/@StopAndDecrypt?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
in Hacker Noon (https://medium.com/hacker-daily?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
9 min read

Based on your reading history

Fixing OP_Fals (https://medium.com/@craig_10243/fixing-op-fals-fd157899d2b7?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------0-59------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-16§ionName=recommended)

One of the flaws in the mangled version of Bitcoin we have today come from the ability to "burn" and destroy…
Craig Wright (Bitcoin SV is the original Bitcoin.) (https://medium.com/@craig_10243?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
5 min read


The resolution of the Bitcoin Cash experiment (https://medium.com/@_unwriter/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-cash-experiment-52b86d8cd187?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------1-59------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-16§ionName=recommended)

Disclaimer: Before I go in, I want to say, if you are a Bitcoin application developer who happen to belong to…
_unwriter (https://medium.com/@_unwriter?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
20 min read


Who Controls Bitcoin Core? (https://medium.com/@lopp/who-controls-bitcoin-core-c55c0af91b8a?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------2-59------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-16§ionName=recommended)

Understanding how the focal point of Bitcoin development operates.
Jameson Lopp (https://medium.com/@lopp?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
14 min read

Best in Future

Scientists Are Working on a Pill for Loneliness (https://medium.com/@lauraentis_26564/scientists-are-working-on-a-pill-for-loneliness-79ee7e80373c?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------0-49------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-11§ionName=topic)

Inside the hunt for drugs that ease the effects of isolation on the brain
Laura Entis (https://medium.com/@lauraentis_26564?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
9 min read


A Vision of the Dark Future of Advertising (https://medium.com/@jamie.bartlett/a-vision-of-the-dark-future-of-advertising-40347c6ed448?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------1-49------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-11§ionName=topic)

Companies will know more about you than you can even imagine
Jamie Bartlett (https://medium.com/@jamie.bartlett?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
6 min read

Best in Sexuality

The Good Guy: A Story from the Author of 'Cat Person' (https://medium.com/@kristenroupenian/the-good-guy-a-story-from-the-author-of-cat-person-59e5bfe9322f?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------0-49------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-11§ionName=topic)

Sometimes Ted would lie awake at night imagining a tribunal of all the girls who'd ever rejected him
Kristen Roupenian (https://medium.com/@kristenroupenian?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
62 min read


Sex Is Sex. But Money Is Money. (https://medium.com/@readmatter/sex-is-sex-but-money-is-money-e7c10091713f?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------1-49------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-11§ionName=topic)

Escorts make $100 a hand job - but entrepreneurs like me? We make $5,000 a night. How I hacked the new…
Matter (https://medium.com/@readmatter?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
27 min read


Porn Is Becoming Taboo Again (https://medium.com/@luxnightmare/porn-is-becoming-taboo-again-a4d69d17d04b?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------2-49------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-11§ionName=topic)

Increasingly, porn is being pushed back into the shadows
Lux Alptraum (https://medium.com/@luxnightmare?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
8 min read

Best in Addiction

The Rise and Rise of Ketamine (https://medium.com/@zoecormier/the-rise-and-rise-of-ketamine-644b0aba9cb3?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------0-49------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-11§ionName=topic)

Shaking off its reputation as a nasty club drug, K is being shown to have instant success treating depression
Zoe Cormier (https://medium.com/@zoecormier?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
7 min read


The Effects of Caffeine, Alcohol, and Exercise on Sleep: Analyzing the… (https://medium.com/@maxfrenzel/the-effects-of-caffeine-alcohol-and-exercise-on-sleep-analyzing-the-surprising-results-117330af2480?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------1-49------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-11§ionName=topic)

How much coffee is too much? A case study and tutorial on self-tracking to improve sleep.
Max Frenzel (https://medium.com/@maxfrenzel?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
in Better Humans (https://medium.com/better-humans?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
20 min read


I Battled for My Brother, the Addict (https://medium.com/@verity.largo/i-battled-for-my-brother-the-addict-b92c127696fb?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------2-49------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-11§ionName=topic)

Nothing could save my beautiful brother until he decided to save himself
Verity Largo (https://medium.com/@verity.largo?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
9 min read

Best in Politics

Military Fanboys Are Obsessively Reenacting America's Next Civil War (https://medium.com/@aarongell/a-dispatch-from-the-second-civil-war-835635943c53?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------0-49------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-11§ionName=topic)

I trekked to Oklahoma to join the insurgency
Aaron Gell (https://medium.com/@aarongell?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
22 min read


Bernie Sanders' Ugly Campaigning Is Bad for Democrats - and Great for Trump (https://medium.com/@sady_doyle/bernie-sanders-bad-attitude-is-bad-for-democrats-and-great-for-trump-bd0ac7376146?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------1-49------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-11§ionName=topic)

As Sanders gears up for a possible 2020 run, his supporters are already turning his Democratic competitors…
Sady Doyle (https://medium.com/@sady_doyle?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
7 min read


Who's Afraid of AOC? (https://medium.com/@jessicavalenti/whos-afraid-of-aoc-ba3ac04d28b3?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------2-49------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-11§ionName=topic)

The future isn't old, white, and male - and that has conservative men worried
Jessica Valenti (https://medium.com/@jessicavalenti?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
3 min read

Most read

Applause from Medium Staff
Streaming Music is Ripping You Off (https://medium.com/@sharkyl/streaming-music-is-ripping-you-off-61dc501e7f94?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------0-62------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-21§ionName=evergreen)

Fight back with this simple hack
Sharky Laguana (https://medium.com/@sharkyl?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
in Cuepoint (https://medium.com/cuepoint?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
13 min read


Why and how the Cryptobubble will burst (https://medium.com/@dennyk/why-and-how-the-cryptobubble-will-burst-de9bc7fc5332?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------1-62------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-21§ionName=evergreen)

For someone who has lived through the .com bubble the madness currently unfolding in the crypto space is just…
DK (https://medium.com/@dennyk?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
13 min read


The Logic of Risk Taking (https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf41029d3?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------2-62------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-21§ionName=evergreen)

A central chapter that crystallizes all my work. In forth. Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (https://medium.com/@nntaleb?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
in INCERTO (https://medium.com/incerto?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
13 min read

Editors' picks

Why Is It So Hard to Make a Computer Talk Like a Human? (https://medium.com/@thecurioushuman/why-is-it-so-hard-to-make-a-computer-talk-like-a-human-690ff378eeee?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------0-13------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-6§ionName=suggested)

The next generation of computerized voices has to be human enough to connect with but not so human that we…
Starre Julia Vartan (https://medium.com/@thecurioushuman?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
6 min read


What It Means to Lose 25 Pounds When You Weigh 460 (https://medium.com/@tomlinsonwrites/what-it-means-to-lose-25-pounds-when-you-weigh-460-7c3a4d1fc0f4?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader------1-13------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c-6§ionName=suggested)

It may not sound like much, but go pick up 25 pounds at the gym, and imagine carrying that around all day
tommy tomlinson (https://medium.com/@tomlinsonwrites?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1547820026382-digest.reader-------------------------ee589f1f_017f_4520_9791_44a315d3008c)
5 min read

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