Ethereum Audible

"crypto markets are becoming highly interconnected with the traditional financial sector"

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DeFi is growing and is quickly on its way to becoming a new financial paradigm, yet there are financial risks in DeFi that manifest in new ways that we haven’t seen in the traditional financial system:

In an effort to remove humans and automate as much as possible through smart contracts, DeFi has introduced or amplified these risks. This paper explores all of these aspects.

"crypto markets are becoming highly interconnected with the traditional financial sector"

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DeFi is growing and is quickly on its way to becoming a new financial paradigm, yet there are financial risks in DeFi that manifest in new ways that we haven’t seen in the traditional financial system:

In an effort to remove humans and automate as much as possible through smart contracts, DeFi has introduced or amplified these risks. This paper explores all of these aspects.

"In this article, I’ll talk about L2s on Ethereum, the state of the current scaling ecosystem, and why I believe running L2s on top of Ethereum is the most economically and technically sustainable scaling solution long term."

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In this episode we're going to be be reading through part 2 of this epic guide on L2s on Ethereum by DCBuilder. After completing this guide you'll have a good grip on all the different acronyms and projects in the L2 ecosystem of Ethereum and you'll know the difference between optimistic rollups, ZK rollups, and EVM compatible or non compatible rollups. Enjoy!

Here is the original post with a plethora of links and resources: https://dcbuilder.mirror.xyz/QX_ELJBQBm1Iq45ktPsz8pWLZN1C52DmEtH09boZuo0

"In this article, I’ll talk about L2s on Ethereum, the state of the current scaling ecosystem, and why I believe running L2s on top of Ethereum is the most economically and technically sustainable scaling solution long term."

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In this episode we're going to be be reading through part 1 of this epic guide on L2s on Ethereum by DCBuilder. After completing this guide you'll have a good grip on all the different acronyms and projects in the L2 ecosystem of Ethereum and you'll know the difference between optimistic rollups, ZK rollups, and EVM compatible or non compatible rollups. Enjoy!

Here is the original post with a plethora of links and resources: https://dcbuilder.mirror.xyz/QX_ELJBQBm1Iq45ktPsz8pWLZN1C52DmEtH09boZuo0

"I'll take the opposed, in that I think there is decent precedent to find ETH to not be a security in a post-merge environment.  Let's breakdown some specifics:"

In this readthrough I'm going to Twitter for the first time to read a 43 long tweet thread (yup - 43 tweets) by @adamscochran, aka Adam Cochran, Partner at CEHV and Adj. Professor of Info Sci/Biz Analysis. He analyzes whether Ethereum's shift to Proof of Stake makes it eligible to be names a security by the SEC and analyzes Ethereum vs the Howie test, previous rulings in the US court system and theories of what different staking make ups could lead to.

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Follow Adam on Twitter: @adamscochran

Adam Levitin's tweet thread making the case for why PoS is a security: https://twitter.com/AdamLevitin/status/1550990967670554624

Adam Chocran's tweet thread responding and making the case why PoS is NOT a security: https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/1551278224218488832

Adam has put the thread into a website: https://isethereumasecurity.com/

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IT'S MERGE WEEK!

To celebrate I'm going back to the OG episode for this podcast - Vitalik's article on Why Proof of Stake!

On Nov 6th 2020 Vitalik Buterin wrote a short article on why the Ethereum ecosystem is migrating to Proof of Stake (PoS). Despite the shift being planned for years there's a lot of discussion in the ecosystem on why Ethereum is doing this, what are the benefits to PoS over Proof of Work (PoW) and whether this migration is fair to all the players in the ecosystem.

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To read the original blog: https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html

For a summary of the article: https://thewizardstower.com/ethereum-primer#32c8bb249298410ebd37305fb7543c93

The merge is coming - right next week! Here are some of my recent favorite pieces of content that cover the bull and the bear case.

To read:

The Complete Guide to Rollups: https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/the-complete-guide-to-rollups

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ethereum: https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-ethereum

Bankless:

https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-arthur-hayes

https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-ethereum-unsensored

http://podcast.banklesshq.com/dissenting-from-chinas-censorship-with-jiajun-zeng-layer-zero

Unchained:

Given the sanctions on Tornado cash is Ethereum Censorship Resistant? https://youtu.be/_ohvRtxJzrc

Magic Internet Money:

https://www.bradmills.ca/podcast/navigating-the-cryptocurrency-chessboard-with-guests-lyn-alden-dylan-leclair-and-checkmate

The Bitcoin whitepaper! This is a plain readthrough of the whitepaper.

"We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust. We started with

the usual framework of coins made from digital signatures, which provides strong control of

ownership, but is incomplete without a way to prevent double-spending. To solve this, we

proposed a peer-to-peer network using proof-of-work to record a public history of transactions

that quickly becomes computationally impractical for an attacker to change if honest nodes

control a majority of CPU power. The network is robust in its unstructured simplicity. Nodes

work all at once with little coordination. They do not need to be identified, since messages are

not routed to any particular place and only need to be delivered on a best effort basis. Nodes can

leave and rejoin the network at will, accepting the proof-of-work chain as proof of what

happened while they were gone. They vote with their CPU power, expressing their acceptance of

valid blocks by working on extending them and rejecting invalid blocks by refusing to work on

them. Any needed rules and incentives can be enforced with this consensus mechanism."

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Link to whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

The Bitcoin whitepaper explained! This is a readthrough of the whitepaper interspersed with commentary that breaks down the important parts and offers explanations and meaning.

"We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust. We started with

the usual framework of coins made from digital signatures, which provides strong control of

ownership, but is incomplete without a way to prevent double-spending. To solve this, we

proposed a peer-to-peer network using proof-of-work to record a public history of transactions

that quickly becomes computationally impractical for an attacker to change if honest nodes

control a majority of CPU power. The network is robust in its unstructured simplicity. Nodes

work all at once with little coordination. They do not need to be identified, since messages are

not routed to any particular place and only need to be delivered on a best effort basis. Nodes can

leave and rejoin the network at will, accepting the proof-of-work chain as proof of what

happened while they were gone. They vote with their CPU power, expressing their acceptance of

valid blocks by working on extending them and rejecting invalid blocks by refusing to work on

them. Any needed rules and incentives can be enforced with this consensus mechanism."

As always, you can support the show by supporting and subscribing to Alpe Audio: 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1

Want to learn on the go but need more depth than a podcast? Alpe is the app for you. It’s an audio education app that brings great in depth courses that are as fun as podcasts but as educational as well, a degree. Each lesson comes with summaries, additional resources, flash cards and more. You can even find Ethereum Audible on Alpe with all those additional resources.

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Link to whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

"I continue to view the digitization of money as a key theme for the 2020s decade and beyond, both in bottom-up ways (e.g. bitcoins) and in top-down ways (e.g. central bank digital currencies), and am interested to see the directions that it goes in."

Today we're reading part 3, the final part, of Lyn Alden's 1:30 hour long article on the state of network. This will be a 3 part series due to length. In the first part we'll cover why a medium of exchange first needs to be built on top of a store of value. Lyn uses the lessons learned from previous Bitcoin forks and imitators to bring this point home.

In part 2 we cover why layers make sense to scale and how the Lightning Network is structured.

In part 3 we cover the critiques of the network and a summary of thoughts.

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Link to the paper: https://www.lynalden.com/lightning-network/

Analysis of Bitcoins maximum price: https://thewizardstower.com/the-bitcoin-maxi-price-whats-the-maximum-price-of-bitcoin