What's New in Crypto?

What's New in Crypto?

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  • Hacker News
  • Uhm… cryptography or cryptocurrency?
  • I assume cryptocurrency, since OP mentioned "true believers."

    There isn't cryptography true-believers, it is just mathematical proofs with sometimes good or bad code wrapping it.

  • A lot of the innovation now is happening in scaling
  • Monero is the best cryptocurrency for people that prioritize privacy and freedom.
  • Follow up: are we getting more efficient? Are the more energy efficient chains taking off?
  • Stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets are the only clearly useful things right now.
  • The bond market is about to get introduced to Bitcoin Bonds in Q3 of this year. I.e. bonds with yield denominated in btc.
  • Agent payment will be an important development direction for crypto in the future. Compared to traditional fiat payments, digital currencies have some inherent advantages.
  • Comments like heres an actual project I am working on and why the tech matters usually gets attention.
  • I just left a previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242955

    I think they'll be advances in taxation: it'll be simpler, fairer and easier. And that may make a UBI more doable.

  • ZK infra is finally practical for small teams. EIP- 4844 made L2 fees cheap enough to actually experiment