Hey, how are you doing?
It’s our #5 week at home, and we are getting adjusted to the isolated life and sort of having fun now - my little one never got bored of [mastering lego] and we #wfh while being her new playdates and customer service.
COVID-19 is bigger than anything written below but there are still some other activities and things people are meme-ing. Hope you stay safe, keep calm and have some fun. (And special thanks to the contribution from Ryan and Jack)
What’s heat
Binance bought CoinMarketCap for $400M - [does it mean its competitors and new coins need to pay for listing on CMC now?]
Multicoin recently said in a letter to its limited partner that Huobi Chain is “a catalyst [that] we believe will be similar to the Binance Chain launch in 2019.” Here are some reasonable skeptics. [P.S. I love Huobi Chain as it is built on CKB’s layer2 framework Muta]
MakerDAO sold 21k MKR for 5.3M Dai in auction after the recent market collapse, it released some future scheme in its official report.
The K5 CKB Asic by Bitmain was advertising at 3X profitable than its S19 Bitcoin ASIC after the market crash, Odaily (media) published an article (in CN) warning buyers as the mining profitability could change rapidly, which is true to all new PoW coins. Hashrate on Nervos CKB has increased ~20X since Asics.
The author of personal finance book <Rich Dad Poor Dad> says people should buy gold,sliver & crypto/bitcoin. Since the book was once so popular in China - I still have a copy from highschool, people in crypto take this as a big and encouraging news.
Something to read/watch
Chapter 1: The Big Picture in a Tiny Nutshell By Ray Dalio to describe the cause-effect relationships behind the archetypical rise and decline of the most powerful empires.
The world after coronavirus by Yuval Noah Harari
Students from Tsinghua University made a 18 mins’ movie (with EN captions) based on 112 short videos on Kuaishou (TikTok’s equivalent in China). It recorded clips from Dec31 - Feb7 as the corona invading everyday life day by day.
Online Events
Virtual Events List curated by Etherscan
Notable conference
*April 3-6 Noncon (virtual)
April 4-5 Deconomy (Korea)
*April 4-6 ZKProof workshop
*May 1-2 DeFi Discussions Conf with ConsenSys
*May 7-8 Ethereal Virtual Summit 2020
May 9-10 Magical Crypto Conference (New York City)
*May 11-13 Consensus 2020 by CoinDesk
*June 8-10 Mainnet Events by Messari
*June 24-26 Remote Crypto Con
June 15-21 Korea Blockchain Week (Seoul)
July 6-7 M2 Asset Management (Oxford)
July 15-16 Asia Blockchain Summit (Taipei)
July 22-23 Mining Disrupt (Miami)
Sep 11-16 Shanghai Blockchain Week by Wanxiang Blockchain (Shanghai)
Sep 28-30 Hong Kong Blockchain Week 2020
October 7-8 Token2049 (Hong Kong)
Q3 (tbd) Bitcoin2020 (San Francisco)