Sunday Reads – Things I Found Interesting 2021-05-30

Ethereum

Vitalik breaks down the limits to scaling.

Hard Forks

Eric Wall shares a flowchart from the Segwit2X Bitcoin scaling debate that can serve as a useful model for understanding contentious hard forks.

Now that we’ve got >80% signaling support for the taproot softfork (need 90%), here’s a throwback from 4 years ago about how crazy things can get when fork support gets contentious

(not expecting this for taproot but probably interesting for new people in the space to study) pic.twitter.com/rbMW5Kx4kp

— eriverse (@ercwl) May 27, 2021

Steve Bannon’s Italian Gladiator School for Western Culture

Ben Munster breaks down the absurdity of the above phrase.

ICYMI

https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/05/23/tether-and-bitfinex-are-unacceptable-the-fundamental-divide/

In this article I try to summarize what I see as the difference between the trader perspective and skeptic perspective on Tether and Bitfinex, plus it’s like a greatest hits of their fuck-ups.

https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/05/26/episode-6-crypto-capital-corp-the-quiet-billion-dollar-cryptocurrency-scam-crypto-critics-corner/

In this podcast episode Cas and I discuss Crypto Capital Corp, the shadow bank to the cartels and to Bitfinex and Tether.

https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/05/29/why-it-makes-sense-for-coinbase-to-list-tether/

In this article I try to work through my thoughts on why Coinbase listed Tether.

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