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Staking week 2023
Opinion The Most Pressing Issue on Ethereum is Validator Size Growth If appetite for staking on Ethereum does not slow meaningfully over the next several months, the size of Ethereum’s validator set could become problematic for the blockchain, says Christine Kim, Vice President of Research at Galaxy Digital. By Christine KimSep 29, 2023 Opinion Where Liquid Staking Meets Tokenization The crypto industry is changing rapidly, and liquid staking stands at the forefront of this transformation.
Using Proof-of-Stake for a Decentralized Credit Bureau
At Spectral, we’re creating and incentivizing a network of modelers, creators, users and validators using proof-of-stake mechanics. The idea — similar to Chainlink (LINK) and The Graph’s (GRT) models — is to build a decentralized marketplace with a built-in feedback mechanism that ferrets out and discourages bad actors. This article is part of CoinDesk's "Staking Week." James McGirk is a senior writer at Spectral Finance and the co-founder of Lonely ROCKS.
Using Proof-of-Stake for a Decentralized Credit Bureau Original
At Spectral, we’re creating and incentivizing a network of modelers, creators, users and validators using proof-of-stake mechanics. The idea — similar to Chainlink (LINK) and The Graph’s (GRT) models — is to build a decentralized marketplace with a built-in feedback mechanism that ferrets out and discourages bad actors. This article is part of CoinDesk's "Staking Week." James McGirk is a senior writer at Spectral Finance and the co-founder of Lonely ROCKS.
The Death of a Discord Server
On April 17, ClubNFT officially shut its Discord server down. “We have decided to consolidate all our discussions onto just Twitter and Instagram,” wrote community manager Ana Marie Alanes to @everyone. It was the first server death I’d personally witnessed but I’m guessing it won’t be the last, given how recent developments in reputation and identity tokens could streamline the process of Web3 community building. I never quite clicked with Discord.
Anyone Can Start a Hedge Fund: How On-Chain Credit Changes the Crypto Economy Original
There is one thing you can’t do with lending in decentralized finance (DeFi). You can’t borrow more than you can stake. With a few minor and heavily asterisked exceptions, there are no on-chain credit cards, no mortgages, no unsecured loans and no commercial paper in crypto. James McGirk is an independent writer and TK at on-chain credit protocol Alchemy.
This World Sleep Day, let Nick Jonas, Diddy, and more put you to sleep only with Audible’s sleep catalogue
Amidst the daily chaos of life, the one thing that provides you with an escape from stress and revives you for the next day is SLEEP. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the need for relaxation and sound sleep is more profound than ever. March 18th is globally known as World Sleep Day. To celebrate and of course, experience the best sleep of your life, enjoy Audible’s sleep catalogue with audiobooks and podcasts narrated by renowned celebrit harnessing the power of audio! ies.
The Reality Czar
One moment some of my more financially sophisticated friends were joking about bidding up the price of Gamestop shares, the next moment the stock price was going parabolic.
Bull Run Democracy, Revisited
Jan 7, 2021 at 8:59 p.m. UTC An AirdropVenezuela event(AirTM) Bull Run Democracy, Revisited The maddest and most poetic experiment of the 2017 bull run was seeding Venezuela with cryptocurrency, expecting it would topple the government. At the time, the Venezuelan state was teetering, squeezed by embargoes, falling oil prices, hyperinflation and hunger.
There’s a City in My Mind
Arcosanti is a glorious cliff-side would-be utopia: a cluster of apses and arches that suddenly jut out of the Arizona desert. There are stately apartments with circular windows where the permanent residents live and they cast bronze bells and blast Flight of the Valkyries when lightning storms come swirling in…. Hidden from view, down in the tarantula-infested Big Bug Creek below are the yurts and concrete cubes where the transient residents live.
The Perfect Swing
Hear singer, songwriter, and actor Nick Jonas lend his voice to the history of one of his favorite subjects: baseball. This unique story is written specifically to help you drift off, with no clear beginning, middle, or end, so you don’t need to follow the details too closely. In it, you’ll hear Nick Jonas describe how Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams reached legendary status, and how they shaped the three components of a perfect swing. What is the perfect swing?
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UCSC genome browser posts the coronavirus genome
The virus structure is made up of at least three viral proteins, the spike protein, the membrane protein and the envelope protein.
UC Santa Cruz launches the country's first graduate program in serious games
The Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz is launching the first professional master’s degree program in serious games offered in the United States, with an initial cohort of students starting in fall 2019. Serious games are designed to accomplish a purpose other than pure entertainment and aim to impact measurable social goals.
The Surprisingly Strong Case for Colonizing Venus
Science fiction writers have come up with a plausible scenario for a floating city above the fiery planet. Why worry about building a colony on Mars when instead you could float one high above the surface of Venus?
A Ride-Along With the Underground Railroad Rescued Kitty Network
The following is an account of events experienced first-hand. The rendezvous was arranged for a motel parking lot just off the I-44 freeway in Oklahoma. (“Please beware of this one,” warned a Google review of the motel. “Your life is not safe here.”) A helicopter cruised overhead. Outside, the temperature was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. A man and a woman in a black Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled under an awning. Ten minutes to go before the drop-off.
My Grandfather’s Imposter
Texaco had been sending geologists to Colombia since the 1920s. Not all came back. There were promising signs of petroleum everywhere: oil seeps that drooled rainbows into streams and mysterious dead zones; quiet, empty holes in the jungle canopy where all the plant life had been killed off by leaking natural gas. Next door, in Venezuela, was the best evidence of all: Standard Oil of New Jersey (now Exxon-Mobil) found a goliath oil field beneath Lake Maracaibo.
Jesse Ventura Suspects a Conspiracy About His Show About Conspiracies
His TruTV program brings in big ratings investigating time travel and lizard people. But when he starts questioning the government... Most retired governors use their connections to assume quiet but well-paid positions in the private sector, or loud but well-paid positions as commentators on cable news networks.
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