#hashbased is a blockchain innovation newsletter provided by HashBased.com, an OKA innovation brand

Worth reading

• Bitcoin 2019 Annual Review by Jameson Lopp
• The Political Philosophy Of RadicalxChange by E. Glen Weyl
• The Great Race to Crypto Banking
• Secretary-General Says United Nations Must Embrace Blockchain
• Central Bank Digital Currencies: 4 Questions and Answers
• Lightning Network Traffic Analysis Raises Questions Over Fees and Privacy
• Bitcoin’s 2019 in Lightning: What This Year Brought Us
• The 1.x Files: The State of Stateless Ethereum
• The investment case for Embedded Finance
• Say Goodbye to Banking as We Know It

• New crypto journal launched @ Nakamoto.com. It aims to be

a venue for quality technical, philosophical, and cultural writing that is of general interest to the crypto community as a whole, for beginner and expert alike.

The inaugural articles are:

• Bitcoin becomes the Flag of Technology by Balaji S. Srinivasan
• What are the Key Properties of Bitcoin? by Jameson Lopp
• Credible Neutrality As A Guiding Principle by Vitalik Buterin
• It Will Take Years for Smart People to Understand Cryptocurrencies by Michael Arrington
• A beginner’s guide to DeFi by Linda J. Xie
• Coinbase’s Pragmatic Crypto Culture by Dan Romero
• Zcash, the HTTPS of Blockchains by Zooko Wilcox and Josh Swihart

Academe

• Charlie Hou, Mingxun Zhou, Yan Ji, Phil Daian, Florian Tramer, Giulia Fanti, Ari Juels, SquirRL: Automating Attack Discovery on Blockchain Incentive Mechanisms with Deep Reinforcement Learning, arXiv:1912.01798
• Xinming Wang, Jiahao He, Zhijian Xie, Gansen Zhao, Shing-Chi Cheung, ContractGuard: Defend Ethereum Smart Contracts with Embedded Intrusion Detection, arXiv:1911.10472
• Since AVA network platform is nearing launch it is good to read again this article:
  Team Rocket, Maofan Yin, Kevin Sekniqi, Robbert van Renesse, Emin Gün Sirer, Scalable and Probabilistic Leaderless BFT Consensus through Metastability, arXiv:1906.08936