Backstage pass: The only black swan at the liquidity maelstrom superposition meetup
Clarity looks murky // 24-7 NYC // Iran and Venezuela USD // CT toasted // PM smacked // Quantum threat // Saylor promise
11 years ago this week, bitcoin was $210.
The 11th biggest coin was peercoin.
The 111th was digital note.
Byzantine Whose-Fault-Is-This? Tolerant
Consensus has been one of the primary achievements of blockchains. The technology we’ve all convened around swiftly enables disparate humans to come to agreement, again and again, about the state of networks that hold billions of dollars worth of assets. The whole thing would feel pretty “Kumbaya” if so many entrepreneurs in the space didn’t also love to talk about stocking up on guns.
So, one could be forgiven for forgetting that consensus is the specialty of the blockchain industry amid this week, as different key opinion leaders and also actual leaders split over whether or not to move forward with the Clarity Act, the legislation for regulating the making and trading of tokens.
And it’s also for kno…