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Will the future of currency be led by the U.S., China, Bitcoin, or some combination we can barely imagine today?
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
This week’s Long Reads Sunday is a reading of “The Currency Cold War: Four Scenarios” by Jeff Wilsner – part of CoinDesk’s Internet 2030 series.
In it, Wilsner talks to experts about four scenarios:
In addition to reading, NLW gives his take on which scenario is most likely.
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This week there are two episodes of the podcast going up, both of them longer than normal. This one, episode one hundred, is the hundredth-episode special and is an hour and a half long. It looks at the early career of the Beatles, and at the three recordings of “Love Me Do”. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.
Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “Misirlou” by Dick Dale and the Deltones.
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With the final preparations for the launch of Ethereum 2.0 soon to be underway, CoinDesk's Christine Kim spoke with Developers Raul Jordan and Eduardo Antuña Díez about what's left to do.
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Lead developer at Prysmatic Labs Raul Jordan, who has been building Ethereum 2.0 software for over two years, explained his team would be wrapping up all feature development by October 15.
“At that time, it’s all hands on deck to just have good documentation, good user experience, fix-up security holes [and] basically prepare for launch. That’s where we are today if all remains on track,” said Jordan.
The final features currently in development by Prysmatic Labs and other software development teams include making sure different code implementations of Ethereum 2.0, also called “clients”, are interoperable and can be used interchangeably by a user without running the risk of losing validator rewards.
See also: A Day in the Life of an Ethereum 2.0 Validator
It’s not only client developers who are beginning final preparations for this network upgrade. Ethereum startups building hardware and tooling for users to participate in the Ethereum 2.0 launch are also working on adding last-minute features to their products.
Eduardo Antuña Díez, project lead at DAppNode, said, “The most important thing that we realized after the first [Ethereum 2.0] testnet is that people need to know the status of their validators. Having a good monitoring system to be able to know when your validator is down … we are working in that direction.”
Before Ethereum 2.0 goes live, Jordan and Díez both noted that a new contract will be created on the current Ethereum blockchain to receive deposits of 32 ETH. Only once this contract accumulates a minimum of 524,288 ETH, which is worth roughly $181 million at time of writing, will the new Ethereum blockchain officially kick-start at midnight UTC the following day.
See also: Ethereum 2.0: How It Works and Why It Matters
About the security of the deposit contract, Jordan said, “There’s no way to retrieve [funds]. … It’s considered a burn in the short term. It’s not like there’s any sort of admin key or any sort of way to take those funds out. There’s no way somebody can take all the ETH that is locked in there.”
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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
05:17 – Fear of mortality
06:48 – Chaos of 2020 and beyond
10:32 – Are we going to be okay?
19:30 – Violence, competition, and Sober October
26:45 – Mike Tyson
27:49 – Managing obsession
30:13 – Jiu jitsu game
35:55 – Best martial art for self defense
39:30 – Guns
43:59 – Memorable JRE moments
49:31 – Ideas breed in brains of humans
56:08 – Advice for Lex
1:06:09 – Long-form conversation
1:12:28 – Meaning of life
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In this episode, we hear about the disastrous conclusion of the Second Crusade, which stands in complete contrast to the spectacular success of the First Crusade. It also marked a turning point for both the Crusaders and the Byzantines, as their mutual hostility grew amidst the rising tide of Islamic power.
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Last week saw the third-biggest outflow from stock funds in history, and the dollar is the strongest it’s been since April. Here’s what’s going on.
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On this edition of The Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at the fourth painful week for traditional markets in a row.
He discusses the factors contributing to the trouble, including:
This week on The Breakdown:
Monday | The FinCEN Files Show Banks Don’t Actually Care About Stopping Money Laundering
Tuesday | Marty Bent on Why Bitcoin and Big Energy Are Unlikely Allies
Wednesday | Violent Reflexivity: Why Market Movements Are More Aggressive Than Ever, Feat. Corey Hoffstein
Thursday | Did Corporate Insiders Perfectly Predict the Market Top?
Friday | Sven Henrich on the Ever-Weakening Economic Cycle
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Dahlia Lithwick is joined by the Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal and Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern for some hard truths about the future of the Supreme Court and what, if anything, Democrats can do about it.
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