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Bitcoin's Attack Vectors: Fungibility (https://medium.com/@MattoshiN/bitcoins-attack-vectors-fungibility-ed58cb4cff73?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------0-59------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-1§ionName=top)

When attempting to define the characteristics that make a currency 'functional', Aristotle settled on five…
Matt ฿ (https://medium.com/@MattoshiN?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
in ChainRift Research (https://medium.com/chainrift-research?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
4 min read


An introduction to Proof-of-Stake token yields: Assessing risks and rewards (https://medium.com/@wclittle/an-introduction-to-proof-of-stake-token-yields-assessing-risks-and-rewards-7db8e1f2e962?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------1-59------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-1§ionName=top)

Although the latest wave of blockchain hype has calmed down this year, the ferocity of teams working on the…
Will Little (https://medium.com/@wclittle?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
in Figment Networks (https://medium.com/figment-networks?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
7 min read


Why It's Hard to "Get" Bitcoin: The Blockchain Spectrum (https://medium.com/@shrubvandal/why-its-hard-to-get-bitcoin-the-blockchain-spectrum-806847e1c575?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------2-59------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-1§ionName=top)

This article was prompted by the overwhelming response to an earlier version of the diagram below as tweeted…
Dhruv Bansal (https://medium.com/@shrubvandal?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
in Unchained Capital Blog (https://medium.com/unchained-capital-blog?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
17 min read


Project Spotlight: Rootstock (https://medium.com/@flatoutcrypto/project-spotlight-rootstock-6bc1144b835b?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------3-59------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-1§ionName=top)

I am not someone who generally dallies with decision making and this rapid-fire approach extends to…
FlatOutCrypto (https://medium.com/@flatoutcrypto?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
in Hacker Noon (https://medium.com/hacker-daily?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
13 min read

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Setting up and transacting on the Bitcoin lightning network (https://medium.com/@Jayvdb/setting-up-and-transacting-on-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-a9ada42ec305?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------0-59------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-16§ionName=recommended)

It's early days so it's impossible to know where this is going but it's possible a high number of businesses…
Jason van den Berg (https://medium.com/@Jayvdb?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
7 min read


Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Switch (https://medium.com/@lopp/fifteen-men-on-a-dead-mans-switch-b7e2cbbfa49d?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------1-59------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-16§ionName=recommended)

Crypto Asset End of Life Planning Complexities
Jameson Lopp (https://medium.com/@lopp?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
6 min read


Speaking of Equihash (https://medium.com/@beam_privacy/speaking-of-equihash-1ab467d01f68?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------2-59------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-16§ionName=recommended)

The generalized birthday problem
Beam Privacy (https://medium.com/@beam_privacy?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
in BEAM-MW (https://medium.com/beam-mw?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
13 min read

Best in History

How Hitler Nearly Destroyed the Great American Novel (https://medium.com/@RyanHoliday/how-hitler-nearly-destroyed-the-great-american-novel-ed5f7bb77aeb?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------0-49------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-11§ionName=topic)

When Houghton Mifflin published "Mein Kampf" in 1933, it sparked what could be the strangest saga in…
Ryan Holiday (https://medium.com/@RyanHoliday?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
29 min read


The 'Schindler's List' Escape Room Is Real, and I Got Out (https://medium.com/@margarita.gokunsilver/the-schindlers-list-escape-room-is-real-and-i-failed-to-escape-35cc3e297069?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------1-49------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-11§ionName=topic)

Inside a dubious effort to transform the tragedies of the Holocaust into a 60-minute puzzle game
Margarita Gokun Silver (https://medium.com/@margarita.gokunsilver?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
9 min read


How a Phone Glitch Sparked a Teenage Riot (https://medium.com/@ShaunRaviv/how-a-phone-glitch-sparked-a-teenage-riot-eb785c39bd01?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------2-49------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-11§ionName=topic)

When kids turned a state-owned telecom system into a proto-Internet, police cracked down with brutal force
Shaun Raviv (https://medium.com/@ShaunRaviv?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
16 min read

Best in Politics

The Geopolitics of 2069 Are Crazier Than You Can Imagine (https://medium.com/@ianbremmer/the-geopolitics-of-2069-are-crazier-than-you-can-imagine-a7d9d4392abf?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------0-49------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-11§ionName=topic)

If you think 2019 is going to be chaotic, just wait for 2069
Ian Bremmer (https://medium.com/@ianbremmer?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
3 min read


If Not Now, When? (https://medium.com/@mdaum213/if-not-now-when-a19afe63e09f?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------1-49------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-11§ionName=topic)

There's nothing wrong with calling fellow liberals into account over needless, often opportunistic, identity…
Meghan Daum (https://medium.com/@mdaum213?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
8 min read


I'm With Her. And Her, and Her, and Her. (https://medium.com/@sady_doyle/im-with-her-and-her-and-her-and-her-8ad238f5e49?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------2-49------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-11§ionName=topic)

For the first time in history, the Democratic primary field is mostly female - and completely revolutionary
Sady Doyle (https://medium.com/@sady_doyle?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
6 min read

Best in Poetry

To Become the Woman I Am (https://medium.com/@jessicasemaan/to-become-the-woman-i-am-e09fd6fd9ceb?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------0-49------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-11§ionName=topic)

A eulogy for the voices in my head
Jessica Semaan (https://medium.com/@jessicasemaan?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
2 min read


The Man Who Defamed Edgar Allan Poe (https://medium.com/@joshhrala/the-man-who-defamed-edgar-allan-poe-d536a603ff95?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------1-49------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-11§ionName=topic)

How a literary rival created a fake image of one of America's most-beloved poets.
Josh Hrala (https://medium.com/@joshhrala?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
in The Arcanist (https://medium.com/the-arcanist?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
7 min read


Things that didn't happen (https://medium.com/@anna_now/things-that-didnt-happen-a8b90eb62f44?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------2-49------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-11§ionName=topic)

a poem
anna breslin (https://medium.com/@anna_now?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
in annapoetics (https://medium.com/annapoetics?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
1 min read

Best in Music

Bloodletting (https://medium.com/@grantreynolds_30109/bloodletting-166c05a2b868?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------0-49------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-11§ionName=topic)

My introduction to Concrete Blonde
Grant Reynolds (https://medium.com/@grantreynolds_30109?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
in Spiralbound (https://medium.com/spiralbound?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
2 min read


A Brief, Maddening Descent into Collecting Vinyl (https://medium.com/@brockwilbur/a-brief-maddening-descent-into-collecting-vinyl-8625116bd946?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------1-49------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-11§ionName=topic)

It begins innocently enough…until you buy MIDI files pressed onto vinyl. Are they worth it?
Brock Wilbur (https://medium.com/@brockwilbur?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
6 min read


John Green Is Ready To Love Everything He Loves (https://medium.com/@bsidechats/john-green-is-ready-to-love-everything-he-loves-da753a380d55?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------2-49------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-11§ionName=topic)

The formative sounds of a best-selling American novelist
Kelly Stacy & Ashley Ford (https://medium.com/@bsidechats?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
10 min read

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Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons (https://medium.com/@nntaleb/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surgeons-23b0e2cf6d52?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------0-62------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-21§ionName=evergreen)

CHAPTER from SKIN IN THE GAME
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (https://medium.com/@nntaleb?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
in INCERTO (https://medium.com/incerto?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
17 min read


Applause from Medium Staff
This is Not My Beautiful House (https://medium.com/@kimfrancenyc/this-is-not-my-beautiful-house-899180e993cf?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------1-62------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-21§ionName=evergreen)

Not long after marrying the man I would go on to divorce, I bought a Brooklyn brownstone that satisfied all…
Kim France (https://medium.com/@kimfrancenyc?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
15 min read


Inequality and Skin in the Game (https://medium.com/@nntaleb/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d8f00bc0cb46?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------2-62------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-21§ionName=evergreen)

(Chapter from Skin in the Game)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (https://medium.com/@nntaleb?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
in INCERTO (https://medium.com/incerto?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
15 min read

Editors' picks

The Truth About Being a Black Woman in a Liberal City (https://medium.com/@omogunla/a-black-woman-in-a-liberal-city-a2447c6049f3?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------0-13------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-6§ionName=suggested)

Dispatches from a disingenuously "progressive" city that still appears to have a race problem
Lakeya Omogun (https://medium.com/@omogunla?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
8 min read


Apple Is Fighting a Good Fight Against Facebook and Google (https://medium.com/@dlberes/apple-is-fighting-a-good-fight-against-facebook-and-google-cd39b8a6b733?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader------1-13------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b-6§ionName=suggested)

But it can't win, exactly
Damon Beres (https://medium.com/@dlberes?source=email-6aea86892e2d-1549370712651-digest.reader-------------------------6ea65a68_0ca2_4ef8_8155_8931ca42567b)
4 min read

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