Things created during the prior crypto bear market (2014-2016): - Ethereum - Stellar - Lightning - Zcash - Chain ... just to name a few! Bear markets are not only healthy, but necessary, for this grand experiment to have the oxygen it needs to invent and build.

1/ "What news or event could reverse the bear trend?" Is the question I get asked most frequently. I think it's the wrong question based on a faulty assumption. People often mistakenly assume that the current trend (bull or bear) will continue until some exogenous event.

I've found that generating ideas is not really an active process. But removing ideas is. A lot of "deep thinking" is simply about eliminating the noise to reveal the ideas already there.

Bank of America was awarded a patent for a device that stores cryptographic keys on Tuesday, and the document's details hint at applications for cryptocurrencies. ow.ly/7C1k30mqXvv

A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicbksjdhd. First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.

#bitcoin is now an ERC20 token 😄

In the wake of TD Ameritrade quietly opening Bitcoin trading for some of its customers, I was just told that eTrade is preparing to begin offering both Bitcoin and Ether trading to its 5 million or so customers and is just finalizing a third party to actually hold the coins.

CME accounts for a large portion of the global bitcoin volume when non-verifiable volume (95% of exchange volume according to Bitwise) are eliminated. Expect Bakkt to change the landscape of the bitcoin market with qualified custody and insurance.

We're thrilled to share that Google is one of the great companies integrating #Chainlink into their approach to smart contract adoption. Here's how @GCPcloud users can use Chainlink to connect to BigQuery, one of Google's most popular cloud services. cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

Big Ethereum-related news 🚀 -Fnality is creating tokenized versions of 5 major fiat currencies 💱 -Fully collateralized by cash held at central banks 🏦 -Building on a private version of Ethereum 😍 -Open to bridging with JPM Coin 🌉

Not sure how I feel about this, but it’s an interesting discussion.

One impediment to world domination of open finance is risk of smart-contract hack But what if smart-contracts were insured? Yesterday marked the first purchase of smart-contract insurance on Nexus Mutual $1k worth of coverage on a Maker loan at a cost of 2.6% per yr Very cool

If you can't interpret the past you have no chance of predicting the future

You can’t teach a stubborn dog new tricks

CFTC Chairman Giancarlo: “We owe it this new generation to respect their enthusiasm about virtual currencies with a thoughtful and balanced response, not a dismissive one.”

Yep x.com/imhkr/status/9…

Almost everything in Crypto is too complicated and this presents an incredible opportunity for product designers to simplify