The global fallout continues – months of volatility ahead. As for crypto – the market continues to show mixed signals.

Zooming out – a world where fiat printing presses overheat is exactly the scenario Bitcoin is designed to thrive in.

Picks of the Week

This considered tweet thread on BTC’s place in the current market. Also very informative this discussion of recent BTC mining adjustments. As per usual Bit Brain has many insights to offer from BTC to gold and platinum.

Twitter

A thread on current market moves in a Bitcoin context (highly recommended):
https://twitter.com/max_bronstein/status/1244797130583113728

On being a BTC hodler (recommended):
https://twitter.com/My_Livin_Truth/status/1242337813200175105

Could the stage be any better set for BTC?:
https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1241728994904588293

It might be a lonely journey but it’s likely worth it:
https://twitter.com/GordonBuckley3/status/1244394008702414848

Time to learn (recommended):
https://twitter.com/BVBTC/status/1244301702229921792

A rejection of fiat and its consequences (recommended):
https://twitter.com/wiz/status/1245629524613582856

Has the fiat Emperor finally been revealed?:
https://twitter.com/selfbankt/status/1244777759567683589

Oil…a chart that puts BTC correction in perspective:
https://twitter.com/TaviCosta/status/1245761002764820480

Articles

Bitcoin is special – here’s an article outlining why (highly recommended):
https://medium.com/@breedlove22/the-number-zero-and-bitcoin-4c193336db5b

The age of corporate socialism:
https://medium.com/incerto/corporate-socialism-the-government-is-bailing-out-investors-managers-not-you-3b31a67bff4a

Bailouts a boon to BTC?:
https://medium.com/@m.helfman/bailouts-not-inflation-will-make-bitcoin-boom-31eefa3095de

Bit Brain tours the markets – also worth the time:
https://trybe.one/bitcoin-and-others-whats-happening

There’s more to adoption than an innovative protocol:
https://medium.com/casperlabs/your-consensus-protocol-wont-solve-the-adoption-problem-95a533ca4414

A nuanced reflection on broad market outcomes going forward (recommended):
https://www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default-source/memos/which-way-now.pdf

Podcast

A time and place for decentralization?:

YouTube

A project of immense ambition and one I have longheld:

Informative Bitcoin mining update:

Cardano in 2020 – a brief overview:

A telling visualisation of the US treasury yield curve:

Infographics

BTC making corporate waves:

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https://twitter.com/katmaiBeast/status/983024932023160832/photo/1

Not pretty…a hint of opportunity?

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​https://twitter.com/TaviCosta/status/1245761002764820480

You’d think that with home lockdown the weeks would pass more slowly – but as ever tempus fugit! As always looking forward to your comments and suggestions.

Note on Sources:

Twitter & Reddit (cryptos current meta-brains) / Medium / Trybe / Hackernoon / Whaleshares / TIMM and so on/ YouTube / various podcasts and whatever else I stumble upon. The aim is a useful weekly aggregator of ideas rather than news. Though I try to keep the sources current – I’ll reference these articles and podcasts etc. as I encounter them – they may have been published just a couple of days ago or in some cases quite a bit earlier.