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Cryptocurrency reviews from the executives, employees and alumni of Coin Center.
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Elizabeth Stark
on Dentacoin
CEO and Cofounder of Lightning Labs
Dentacoin: helping people gamble away their money on dentists since 2017.â„¢
Full review2018-01-13
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Neeraj Agrawal
on Dentacoin
Director of Communications at Coin Center
Amazing: Thanks to explosive growth in Dentacoin, the tooth fairy is now wealthier than Bill Gates.
Full review2018-01-07
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Elizabeth Stark
on XRP
CEO and Cofounder of Lightning Labs
Like are you fucking kidding me? Not a chance in hell that XRP is more decentralized than BTC.
But hey, once something is used as a metric, it's no longer a useful measure.
Full review2018-08-22
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Jeff Garzik on Litecoin Founder and CEO of Bloq
Litecoin is a cheaper, faster, marginally less-secure version of BTC. Plenty of advantages there.
Full review2017-09-01
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TRON is a fascinating economic and ethical study. Can a photocopy pump be backfilled with real substance?
It's like paper mache art. Inflate a paper-thin balloon, then surround it with hardened substance.
Full review2018-04-06
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Continuing to be impressed by Binance.
Full review
Silicon Valley talks about building a "moat". Binance's $BNB is just that; it's integrated in 100 little ways into their website, from fee rebates to voting to small altcoin balance exch; very sticky.2018-05-01
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Elizabeth Stark
on Bitcoin Gold
CEO and Cofounder of Lightning Labs
[N]ot all chains are equal. Have you seen the recent attacks on XVG, etc.? Not to mention BTG, Monacoin, Bytecoin, the list goes on.
The potential attack surface (you want it to be small) and cost of attacking the network (you want it to be high) are *hugely* important.
Full review2018-05-23
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Balaji Srinivasan
on Bitcoin
Former CTO of Coinbase
Show thread Balaji Srinivasan on BitcoinAs the decade ends, the biggest unicorn of the 2010s wasn’t Uber, Airbnb, or Snap. It was Bitcoin.
Full review2019-12-03
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Balaji Srinivasan
on EOS
Former CTO of Coinbase
[Crypto is] not a zero sum game. I think EOS has a shot at crypto gaming and social networks, which are lower stakes and higher volume than ETH's ICOs and [decentralized finance], which is in turn lower stakes and higher volume than BTC (digital gold).
Full review2019-08-20
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The more "wrapped" tokens [from other cryptocurrencies] on ETH, the more ETH becomes a blockchain for financial exchange. Wrapped BTC was actually mentioned in one of [Ethereum founder] Vitalik Buterin's earliest papers, and is now a reality.
Being able to create smart contracts that can work with multiple currencies is very powerful from a programmability standpoint. Smart contracts could be written to ingest and dispense BTC, ETH, ETC, USD and more depending on conditions. Asset baskets could be automated on chain.
Full review2019-03-04
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Balaji Srinivasan
on Dai
Former CTO of Coinbase
I am actually bullish on DAI. Track record has been good and has dispelled many initial concerns.
Full review2019-01-24
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Balaji Srinivasan
on Ethereum
Former CTO of Coinbase
Show thread Balaji Srinivasan on Ethereum
The switch from physical mail to email increased speed 1000X and changed the metabolism of business.
Getting a ~1000X improvement in settlement times via ETH (1 day to 1 minute) is similar. I’ve already seen millions of dollars of txs where same minute settlement changes things.
At Earn, we would be on the phone with a client. They would send (say) $100k in ETH. We would hit refresh and see money hit on-chain. We would then send $10 paid messages to 10,000 users.
Full review2019-12-04