August 29, 2017

Ethereum News and Links

Thanks to everyone concerned about our wellbeing down on the Texas Gulf Coast (and boo to those pontificating on the causes while people are still suffering and evacuating). My family came out unscathed, but it was catastrophic for wide swaths of the region. Let’s just hope the levees hold for the next few weeks – even though they are under maintained and weren’t designed to hold water – or it will get worse.

to those pontificating on the causes while people are still suffering and evacuating). My family came out unscathed, but it was catastrophic for wide swaths of the region. Let’s just hope the levees hold for the next few weeks – even though they are under maintained and weren’t designed to hold water – or it will get worse. Eric Olszewski set up a site with Habitat for Humanity Texas if you’d like to donate Eth: eth4harvey.com

Due to hurricane prep and distractions, I didn’t get around to the daily newsletter last week. That should happen this week. You can subscribe to the daily newsletter here.





Protocol





Stuff for developers

Solidity v0.4.16.

Introducing the Infura API





Ethereum in the Enterprise





Ecosystem





Project Announcements





Project Updates





Interviews and Talks

Epicenter talks to former SEC enforcement attorney Nick Morgan

Status Q&A with FunFair’s Jez San

Swap talks to the Blockchain Show

Short Joey Krug video talking about the next few years





Token Sale Projects





General

Fred Ehrsam advocates better incentives for protocol research. Provocative, but I lean toward the opposite view. The one concrete data point we have in Ethereum is the sizable Doge <-> Ether relay bounty which launched almost 2 years ago yet has not been claimed.

Stox seems to like to pay athletes to tweet about them. This time Uruguay’s Luis Suarez

SEC issues pronouncement against publicly traded companies doing market manipulation through ICO announcements

Speaking of PR - Burger King Russia’s Whoppercoin PR stunt

IBTimes profile of Joe Lubin





Dates of note

From Token Sale Calendar:

Upcoming token sale start dates:





Ongoing token sales:





Want to be included? If you are building your project on Ethereum, email weekinethereum @ gmail [period] com with 1) your URL, 2) sale date and 3) a brief but convincing description of how you are using Ethereum, preferably with a link to your Github repo. Listings are free. But please make sure to follow those instructions. If you don’t follow the instructions, you likely won’t get a response.

WARNING: list may include or even likely includes scams. Do your own research and due diligence before putting value at risk.

[I aim for a relatively comprehensive list of Ethereum sales, but make no warranty as to even whether they are legit; as such, I thus likewise warrant nothing about whether any will produce a satisfactory return. I have passed the CFA exams, but this is not investment advice. If you’re interested in what I do, you can find my somewhat out-of-date investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous newsletters.]

Every week I include this, but then I get emails that make it obvious that you skipped this section

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Will curate for tweets and upvotes



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