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Imagine a friend of yours who is not in the crypto industry but is interested in learning more, maybe owns a nominal amount.

Which of these books would they be most likely to pick up:

(Heart to Vote - general comments also welcome)
Markets Are Eating the World: Why Bitcoin and Blockchain Matters for All of Us
Markets Are Eating the World: A Brief History of Bitcoin, Blockchain and Why It Matters
Markets Are Eating the World: Surviving and Thriving in Our Bitcoin and Blockchain Future
Markets Are Eating the World: A Guide To Our Bitcoin and Blockchain Future
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Taylor Pearson
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I have spent a bunch of this year learning about/dealing with the regulation in the financial services industry.

My main takeaway is that 95% of it effectively hurts consumers and helps lawyers.
I could write a plain English explanation of most 100-page legal document in 3 pages which consumers could actually understand, but it would be a huge liability and so we must pay the lawyers to write a 100-page doc which no one will ever read.
They will, by necessity, have all the costs of said lawyers passed on to them though.
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1/ Been thinking about how to create a framework for the impact of blockchain-based smart contracts.

Here is what I have so far:
2/ The two major variables seem to be

1. The reliability of oracles
2. The scale/unit of censorship resistance
3/ With very reliable oracles and high levels of scale with minimal or no sacrifices to censorship resistant, you can write a smart contract for anything which can be specified in code.
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Taylor Pearson
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Within Bitcoin, finance or any complex field with asymmetric information, the median consumer necessarily relies on vetted experts to inform product decisions.
Counterintuitively then, the best way to reach these consumers is not directly but through the cognoscenti of the field and getting their buy in.
Most people are far more comfortable making decisions about which type of peanut butter we want (Jiff is the correct answer btw) than portfolio allocation
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Dan Zuller
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1/ Just attended a very interesting @duffandphelps luncheon on valuing #cryptoassets. Here’s a thread on my key takeaways, as I understood them.
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0/ Can you believe we're already 10% through the year!? When you consider all that's transpired in the #crypto/#blockchain so far in 2019, that fact becomes less surprising.

Below, a 17-part thread based on what went down over the past day or so. Helping you stay informed!
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Fiat<-->#Crypto within users' self-custodied wallet, all whilst using #AirSwap's trading interface!
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Chris Burniske
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The outcome of @Kik’s fight with the SEC is going to be pivotal for #crypto regulation in the US: google.com/amp/s/www.coin…
With words like the below, @Kik looks really ready to fight:

“the Commission will not and cannot demonstrate that Kin in and of itself or any specific sale or distribution of Kin fall within the purview of the federal securities laws”

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0/ Surprise surprise, it's been another hot start to the week for the #crypto/#blockchain ecosystem. Encouraging to see!

Below is a 18-part thread I created to help you keep informed re industry news that broke over the past ~24 hours. Hope you enjoy it!
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0.0/ A lot of #crypto news today from the securities enforcement world:

- DOJ goes to trial on ICO-related securities fraud charges
- SEC charges broker-dealer & hedge fund with securities violations
- FINRA charges broker with fraud & dealing unregistered securities

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