On the tenth birthday of the Bitcoin community, Arjun Balaji, founder and managing associate at Shomei Capital, explains why would not fear an excessive amount of about potential bugs within the code reminiscent of there was final fall, why we’ll see improved scalability, privateness and fungibility within the prime cryptocurrency in 2019, and why he believes the Lightning Community will foster extra developer exercise on Bitcoin. He additionally explains his view that governance tokens and token curated registries might be much less common than they had been in 2018 and the way such techniques additional entrench current energy constructions. We have a look at the totally different waves of crypto funds, how they will differentiate themselves through the crypto winter, and why we’ll see some consolidation in that sector. Plus, he explains why long-term, worth from safety tokens might be captured by underwriters and why it is unclear who’re the correct buyers for safety tokens.
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Episode hyperlinks:
Arjun’s crypto theses for 2019: https://medium.com/@arjunblj/crypto-theses-for-2019-dd20cb7f9895
CVE bug in Bitcoin caught final fall: https://www.coindesk.com/the-latest-bitcoin-bug-was-so-bad-developers-kept-its-full-details-a-secret