Blockchain Bible Chapter 4: Crypto Governance

In the first part of my Blockchain Bible series, I presented the foundations and fundamentals of blockchain technology. Other guides may tell you to hop into white papers right away. This is not the best way to learn. Without an elementary understanding of blockchain, many white papers can cause greater confusion because you lack the framework.

In the second part of the Blockchain Bible series, we examined the academic underpinnings of blockchain. These articles show you that cryptocurrency and blockchain did not appear overnight. Smart minds had been thinking about it for a long time.

In the  third part of the Blockchain Bible series, we examined some key, essential concepts surrounding blockchain.

In this fourth section, we will examine the concept of crypto governance. How do we self-regulate this new technology?

If you didn't read chapter one, chapter two, or chapter three, you need to read them. Without that foundation, many of these governance concepts will not make sense.

 

 

Part 4: Crypto Governance

 

4.01 An Overview of Governance in Blockchains by Odysseas Sclavounis and Nic Carter
https://www.docdroid.net/ddz6VzP/overview-governance-blockchains-nc-zcon.pdf

4.02 Governance Deep Dive by Alexandra Tran and Steven Elleman
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10cLFnYaR0r58DyPVYwMgJq3nJOFVkO02hxJf1hxGnJ0/edit?usp=sharing

4.03 The Myth of the Irrational Token Holder by Kathleen Breitman
https://medium.com/@kathleenbreit/the-myth-of-the-irrational-token-holder-c12438709afd 

4.04 Blockchain Governance (Governance 101) by Vlad Zamfir
https://youtu.be/9RtSod8EXn4

4.05 Blockchain Governance: Programming Our Future by Fred Ehrsam
https://medium.com/@FEhrsam/blockchain-governance-programming-our-future-c3bfe30f2d74

4.06 Against On-chain Governance by Vlad Zamfir
https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir/against-on-chain-governance-a4ceacd040ca

4.07 On-chain Vote Buying and the Rise of Dark DAOs by Philip Daian, Tyler Kell, Ian Miers, and Ari Juels
http://hackingdistributed.com/2018/07/02/on-chain-vote-buying/

4.08 Thoughts on Governance and Network Effects by Luke Duncan
https://blog.aragon.one/thoughts-on-governance-and-network-effects-f40fda3e3f98

4.09 Notes on Blockchain Governance by Vitalik Buterin
http://vitalik.ca/general/2017/12/17/voting.html

4.10 Tezos Position Paper by Arthur and Kathleen Breitman
https://www.tezos.com/static/papers/position_paper.pdf

4.11 Cosmos Governance and Constitution by Cosmos Network
https://github.com/cosmos/constitution/wiki/Governance-and-Constitution

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The Crypto Project that is Disrupting a $300,000,000,000 Industry

Google’s Adsense program did not appear until 2003. When it first hit the scene, it revolutionized online advertising. Needless to say, Adsense solidified Google as the tech giant we know today.

Depending on the year and the source, Adsense accounts for 25–30% of Google’s annual revenue. Online advertising is a big business for every tech company, and along with Google, Facebook and Amazon’s advertising platforms dominate the sector.

Advertising is an attack on our senses. A pre-roll advertisement on Youtube, flashing banner on our favorite website, or tracking advertisements on Facebook all grab our attention and focus away from our intended purpose.

What if you were compensated for your attention?

Well friends, I’d like to introduce you to the blockchain project that is going to revolutionize a $300 billion (and growing) industry.

 

Meet the Brave browser and its revolutionary Basic Attention Token (BAT).

When you log onto a website that operates on the Google Adsense platform, Google takes its cut and the website owner earns a percentage. You, the website visitor, are never compensated. Brave turns this linear arrangement and quickly converts it into a triangle.

Shown below, you can see that Brave introduces your interests into the equation. No longer will your privacy be infringed upon, and with Brave, the value of your time will be properly compensated.

Brave converts a win-win scenario into a win-win-win. A true ecosystem that benefits every moving piece. This is important in the era of advertising blocking software. The online advertising industry sits at a crossroads because Internet users are tired of being abused by countless advertisements. With Brave and the BAT token, users will become more receptive to advertisements, generating a higher rate of return for advertisers.

Brave summarizes its “triangle theory” well in the below diagram:

Brave has created a system that benefits all involved. Rarely in business do we see such a simple yet profound idea.

Here’s a quick flowchart describing how Brave and the BAT token interact with users and publishers:

 

For the price watchers, it’s important to note that Coinbase announced five cryptocurrencies that they were exploring to add to their exchange. BAT was one of those five. For American crypto-enthusiasts, it is obvious what a Coinbase listing would do for BAT and Brave’s future.

Brave is an exciting project with its crosshairs firmly positioned on a $300 billion dollar industry. With Google, Facebook, and others clearly lined up, they are taking their aim.

Rarely do you find a blockchain project that makes so much sense. Moreover, Brave’s ecosystem is already running with its stout browser. Simple ideas go far, and I expect Brave to be a long running project in this new era of technology.

Try Brave’s Browser today!

 

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Blockchain Bible Chapter 3: Crypto Concepts

In the first part of my Blockchain Bible series, I presented the foundations and fundamentals of blockchain technology. Other guides may tell you to hop into white papers right away. This is not the best way to learn. Without an elementary understanding of blockchain, many white papers can cause greater confusion because you lack the framework.

In the second part of the Blockchain Bible series, we examined the academic underpinnings of blockchain. These articles show you that cryptocurrency and blockchain did not appear overnight. Smart minds had been thinking about it for a long time.

In this third section, we will examine some key, essential concepts surrounding blockchain. If you didn't read chapter one or chapter two, you need to read them. Without that foundation, many of these concepts will go over your head.

 

 

Part 3: Crypto Concepts (24 Concepts to Crypto Clarity)

3.01 Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble by Steven Johnson
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html

3.02 Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design by Christopher Dixon
https://medium.com/@cdixon/crypto-tokens-a-breakthrough-in-open-network-design-e600975be2ef 

3.03 Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation by Albert Wenger
http://continuations.com/post/148098927445/crypto-tokens-and-the-coming-age-of-protocol 

3.04 Fat Protocols by Joel Monegro
https://www.usv.com/blog/fat-protocols 

3.05 Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols by Olaf Carson-Wee and Christopher Dixon
https://a16z.com/2017/04/03/cryptocurrencies-protocols-appcoins/

3.06 Getting Applications into People’s Hands by Juan Benet and Christopher Dixon
https://a16z.com/2017/09/14/networks-protocols-labs-tokens/

3.07 Blockchain: What Is It Good for? by Edward Felten
http://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/02/26/blockchain-what-is-it-good-for/

3.08 How the US Government Used Blockchain to Fight Fraud by Kathryn Haun
https://youtu.be/507wn9VcSAE 

3.09 Bitcoin Network Effects by Elad Gil
http://blog.eladgil.com/2017/12/bitcoin-network-effects_11.html

3.10 Keepers: Workers That Maintain Blockchain Networks  by Ryan Zurrer
https://medium.com/@rzurrer/keepers-workers-that-maintain-blockchain-networks-a40182615b66

3.11 The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency by Tim Ferris
https://tim.blog/2017/06/04/nick-szabo/

3.12 Why Crypto Tokens Matter by Fred Ehrsam and Christopher Dixon
https://a16z.com/2017/09/28/cryptocurrencies-networks-tokens/

3.13 What Are Cryptonetworks and Why Are Tokens Fundamental? by Nick Grossman
https://www.nickgrossman.is/2018/cryptonetworks-and-why-tokens-are-fundamental/

3.14 Why It’s Hard to “Get” Bitcoin by Dhruv Bansal
https://blog.unchained-capital.com/blockchain-spectrum-806847e1c575

3.15 Money, Blockchains, and Social Scalability by Nick Szabo
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/money-blockchains-and-social-scalability.html

3.16 What Do We Mean by “Blockchains Are Trustless”? by Preethi Kasireddy
https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/eli5-what-do-we-mean-by-blockchains-are-trustless-aa420635d5f6 

3.17 Why Decentralization Matters  by Christopher Dixon
https://medium.com/@cdixon/why-decentralization-matters-5e3f79f7638e

3.18 The Meaning of Decentralization by Vitalik Buterin
https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274

3.19 Quantifying Decentralization by Balaji Srinivasan and Leland Lee
https://news.earn.com/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c28e

3.20 The Truth About Blockchain by Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani
https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-truth-about-blockchain

3.21 The Slow Death of the Firm by Nick Tomaino
https://thecontrol.co/the-slow-death-of-the-firm-1bd6cc81286b

3.22 Vitalik Buterin by Laura Shin
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/unchained-big-ideas-from-worlds-blockchain-cryptocurrency/id1123922160

3.23 Mental Models for Understanding Tokens by Nick Tomaino and Christopher Dixon
https://a16z.com/2018/01/21/mental-models-tokens-crypto-trends/

3.24 Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults, and Coercion by Vitalik Buterin
https://vitalik.ca/general/2017/03/14/forks_and_markets.html

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Blockchain Bible Chapter 2: Academic Underpinnings to Modern Crypto

In the first part of my Blockchain Bible series, I presented the sources for you to get a fundamental understanding of blockchain technology. Many guides will tell you to read Satoshi's white paper first. However, without a simple understanding of blockchain, hopping into white papers can lead to even greater confusion.

In this section, these assembled articles will show you the academic underpinnings to modern crypto. How did we get here?

If you look closely, you'll notice that academics have been thinking of these issues for decades.

 

1. 2009 - Bitcoin Whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

2. 2013 - Ethereum Ehitepaper by Vitalik Buterin
https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper

3. 1982 - The Byzantine Generals Problem by Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~luca/cs174/byzantine.pdf

4. 1988 - The Agoric Papers by Mark Miller and K. Eric Drexler
https://e-drexler.com/d/09/00/AgoricsPapers/agoricpapers.html

5. 1997 - Idea of Smart Contracts by Nick Szabo
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/idea.html

6. 2014 - Why Bitcoin Matters by Marc Andreessen
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/

7. 2017 - Bitcoin’s Academic Pedigree by Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3136559

 

Some of the material can be dense, so if you need to re-read these papers a few times, it is perfectly normal.

 

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Blockchain Bible: Foundations and Fundamentals

This post is Part 1 of a new series I call the Blockchain Bible. In this multi-part series, I have curated some of the best articles on blockchain and arranged them in multiple digestible chunks of information.

The most important part of understanding any subject is to get a clear understanding of the fundamentals.

In this Part 1, these articles, videos, and courses will give you a clear understanding of blockchain technology at the 10,000 foot level. With this high-level, macro view, you will see how each piece fits in the system.

Upon completion of this Part 1, you will know more than 99% of the people walking around the street.

Now, let's get started.

Please go through each article in order. They are presented in a way that each one builds upon the previous, each block in the chain grows your knowledge, and in the end, you'll have a great understanding of the basics of blockchain.

 

Part 1: Foundations and Fundamentals (12 Steps to Blockchain Clarity)

 

1.01 - WTF is the blockchain? by Mohit Mamoria
https://hackernoon.com/wtf-is-the-blockchain-1da89ba19348

 

1.02 - Ever Wonder How Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually works? from 3Blue1Brown
https://youtu.be/bBC-nXj3Ng4

 

1.03 - How the bitcoin protocol actually works by Michael Nielsen
http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/

 

1.04 - Ethereum in 25 minutes (DevCon2) by Vitalik Buterin
https://youtu.be/66SaEDzlmP4

 

1.05 - How Does Ethereum Work? by Preethi Kasireddy
https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/how-does-ethereum-work-anyway-22d1df506369

 

1.06 - Decrypting crypto, from bitcoin and blockchain to ICOs by Alex Rampell
https://a16z.com/2017/12/08/summit-crypto-alex-rampell/

 

1.07 - An Introduction to Crypto by Linda Xie
https://a16z.com/2018/05/04/intro-to-crypto/

 

1.08 - Cryptographic Hash Functions by Khan Academy
https://youtu.be/0WiTaBI82Mc

 

1.09 - Blockchain Primer by Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson, and Jason Potts
https://medium.com/@cryptoeconomics/the-blockchain-economy-a-beginners-guide-to-institutional-cryptoeconomics-64bf2f2beec4

 

1.10 - Ethereum's Terminology by Matt Condon
https://medium.com/@mattcondon/getting-up-to-speed-on-ethereum-63ed28821bbe

 

1.11 - Glossary of Blockchain Terminology
https://tangelo.co/insights/blog/techs-must-have-reference-guide-to-blockchain-and-cryptocurrency

 

1.12 - Beginner’s guide series on cryptoassets (series) by Linda Xie
https://medium.com/@linda.xie/beginners-guide-series-on-cryptoassets-d897535d887 

 

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