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![](https://i.imgur.com/ZOcVGFe.jpg) Photo by [Thought Catalog](https://unsplash.com/photos/505eectW54k) on Unsplash Volatility and a bearish tinge defined last week's price action. Zooming out - nothing to fret on just yet. Flash DeFi allowed some creative means to rake in profits highlighting the experimental nature of this sector. World markets continue to ignore the ramifications of a global behemoth in lockdown - anticipating easy monetary policy to keep the party going. As always, the week was not lacking in developments from Sweden's Central bank trialing a broad implementation of crypto to Cardano successfully hardforking in anticipation of the phase Shelley launch. --- ## Picks of the Week A standout this week is this article exploring the many aspects of [Bitcoin adoption](https://twitter.com/AleksSvetski/status/1227819486524235776). In addition, this brief comparison of the [value proposition](https://youtu.be/NWkMXeAW9UU/) of BTC versus the Alts is well worth checking out. --- # Twitter Attributes of a typical Bitcoiner (highly recommended): https://twitter.com/AleksSvetski/status/1227819486524235776 Arguing that the next round of no-coiner entry into crypto will dwarf what has gone before: https://twitter.com/WhiteRabbitBTC/status/1227593793777491968 Follow this link to a series that will take you deep into the crypto rabbit hole (highly recommended): https://twitter.com/GordonBuckley3/status/1227010545691217920 Does fractional reserve banking make sense with bitcoin as a global reserve asset? https://twitter.com/thibm_/status/1227022756975448065 Craig Wright is not Satoshi and there's ample evidence to prove it: https://twitter.com/AriDavidPaul/status/1227035693081382915 Discussing and visualizing DEX: https://twitter.com/teo_leibowitz/status/1228461705338007554 On trust and governments: https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1228888570259107840 How QE leaves the 99% ever further behind (highly recommended): https://twitter.com/GeorgeGammon/status/1228435284322406400 Pondering the 'everything rally' (recommended): https://twitter.com/Kevin_Kelly_II/status/1230291678088638465 --- # Articles Exploring the many aspects of Bitcoin adoption (highly recommended): https://philjbonello.substack.com/p/the-many-angles-of-bitcoin-adoption On Bitcoiner traits (recommended): https://medium.com/the-capital/what-it-takes-to-be-a-bitcoiner-607c08d171f2 Efficient Market Hypothesis and Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model: https://medium.com/@100trillionUSD/efficient-market-hypothesis-and-bitcoin-stock-to-flow-model-db17f40e6107 Exploring whether Bitcoin’s decentralization is threatened by a new type of hash rate centralization (recommended): https://medium.com/in-bitcoin-we-trust/bitcoins-decentralization-is-threatened-by-a-new-type-of-hash-rate-s-centralization-e058ea215138 Is 2020 the year Wall Street co-opts/adopts crypto?: https://markhelfman.com/2020/02/07/2020-the-year-wall-street-takes-over-cryptocurrency/ A defense of online transaction privacy (recommended): https://coincenter.org/entry/we-must-protect-our-ability-to-transact-privately-online Discussing cryptography-based voting and the US elections: https://hackernoon.com/cryptography-based-voting-and-the-us-elections-the-reality-baq23ao6 Has this article nailed WAX's partnership - I think it has (not Disney as I first thought): https://www.eoswriter.io/167221_who-is-the-iconic-global-company-wax-is-partnering-with.eos A DeFi exploit (?) explored: https://messari.io/article/messari-daily-brief-bleedfi Part One of an ambitious AI series - this one setting its sights 5 years from now (non-crypto specific): https://hackernoon.com/ai-in-five-fifty-and-five-hundred-years-part-one-e630058b547f --- # Podcast Bitcoiner toxicity towards alts is neither entirely tribal nor without merit (recommended): ![](https://i.imgur.com/23thMYw.png) https://anchor.fm/the-two-minute-crypto-podcast/episodes/Two-Minute-Crypto--Placing-Bitcoiner-Toxicity-Towards-Altcoins-in-Context-eaotam --- # YouTube An eloquent vision of the opportunity that is Bitcoin: https://youtu.be/q8R71WGO3qU --- Why BTC?: https://youtu.be/s25G67tpy9U --- Prediction cap for BTC in 2020: https://youtu.be/osYhgQfAiuQ --- Exploring the potential return of BTC versus the Alts (highly recommended): https://youtu.be/NWkMXeAW9UU --- A tour of the Ethereum ecosystem and pending developments (recommended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGi0Aga5Qck --- Escaping the fiat scam: https://youtu.be/wrrLnVuvkq4 --- # Infographics Sure looks like progress: ![](https://i.imgur.com/lb6OTv6.png) https://twitter.com/TheCryptoLark/status/1230268796767596544/photo/1 --- Bitcoin Maximalism as a service: ![](https://i.imgur.com/dv2ojJz.jpg) https://twitter.com/MarioLemieux99/status/1225934032128614400/photo/1 --- # Website / Utility Great site for exploring Bitcoin statistics/metrics (highly recommended): ![](https://i.imgur.com/waXeZ3e.png) https://coin.dance/stats --- The weeks seem to fly by - the rabbit hole ever deeper, ever more involving! As always, looking forward to your comments and suggestions. --- **Note on Sources:** *Twitter & Reddit (cryptos current meta-brains) / Medium / Trybe / Hackernoon / Whaleshares / TIMM and so on/ YouTube / various podcasts and whatever else I stumble upon. The aim is a useful weekly aggregator of ideas rather than news. Though I try to keep the sources current – I’ll reference these articles and podcasts etc. as I encounter them – they may have been published just a couple of days ago or in some cases quite a bit earlier.* --- Also published on [TIMM](https://mentormarket.io/cryptocurrencies/cryptos-decrypted/the-sunday-crypto-recap-down-the-rabbit-hole-69/). ![](https://i.imgur.com/nDfgt1X.png)

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