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1/ While I appreciate the work of @CoinMarketCap & the many other token data aggregators, it’s important to recognize none of them represent the entire #cryptoasset reality.
2/ When people new to the space first realize @CoinMarketCap has ~1,500 #cryptoassets listed, many will exclaim, “Wow, that’s a lot!” But in reality, that’s just the tip of the iceberg...
3/ consider, for example, that @wavesplatform has 12,297 #tokens that have been launched on its platform and trade on its internal DEX.
4/ regardless of what you think of the quality of any of these assets, the fact still remains that @wavesplatform has ~10x as many tokens listed on its DEX as @CoinMarketCap represents as the entire #cryptoasset reality.
5/ This is not a knock on @CoinMarketCap, nor an endorsement of @wavesplatform, but rather an example of how viral and sprawling activity & experimentation is within the #cryptoasset ecosystem.
6/ From a regulatory angle, this means we cannot approach #crypto from a centralized perspective. It would be like trying to patch an oil tanker’s hull with bubble gum.
7/ I mean this with zero incendiary tone: #cryptoassets cannot be controlled—as software spawned assets, they move too fast.
8/ We must come up with 21st century regulatory mechanisms to place guardrails on a 21st century asset class.
9/ of course, there are many learnings #crypto can borrow from when we were dealing with the birth of other asset classes, such as equities in the 17th century—or perhaps more applicable, ways in which we regulated the internet on a supranational basis (eg, ICANN)
10/ and the toxic attitude toward regulators and the state has to go if we want to take #crypto mainstream.
11/ Anarchists and libertarians can call me a sell-out, but the state *always* plays a role in any technological revolution. Just ask @CarlotaPrzPerez.
12/ in short, #crypto evolves at a speed unlike any other asset class, placing it outside the control of any nation-state & requiring a dynamic regulatory approach. We, the industry, must welcome working w/ regulators, as opposed to knee-jerk categorizing them as the enemy.
13/ Neither #crypto, nor the regulators, are going away 🙂

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More from @cburniske

Oct 7, 2018
1/ A PoS industry is rapidly emerging that will someday rival PoW in profits and wealth creation.
2/ That's billions in profit and tens of billions in wealth creation for PoS providers (at current PoW levels), with at least an order of magnitude of headroom.
3/ This is despite PoW & PoS having a shared destiny as commodity industries with thin margins.

PoW will converge on the cost of electricity and PoS on the cost of crypto-capital (?).
Read 13 tweets
Oct 6, 2018
1/ While new crypto value capture mechanisms can rise to prominence in bull markets, they are tested, hardened and de-risked by bear markets.
2/ Only those that survive multiple crypto bear markets establish themselves as reliable “value capture mechanisms.”
3/ Store of value (SoV) = only crypto value capture mechanism that's significantly de-risked, but that doesn’t mean SoV is the only one that will ever work.
Read 15 tweets
Sep 23, 2018
1/ Many tokens currently face stagnant cryptoeconomies, as supply was never spent or earned, but instead brought into existence via balance sheet swaps.
2/ “Balance sheet swaps”= investors in ICOs swapping assets with the issuer, giving birth to a native token without it ever having to go into *circulation.*
3/ Most ICO investors then held the token on their balance sheets, as they never planned to be on the supply-side or demand-side of the network.
Read 8 tweets
Sep 22, 2018
1/ @alexhevans recently dug into the numbers behind forks of #Bitcoin, #Ethereum, #Monero & #Zcash.

Main conclusion: Value can’t be forked away as easily as people like to think. placeholder.vc/blog/2018/9/17…
2/ Secondary conclusion: Despite parent #cryptonetworks retaining users, devs & value, the child forks trade at (puzzling) relative valuation premiums.
3/ To follow are graphs and conclusions from @alexhevans that are relevant to specific actors or ratios (if you're not a fan of long form writing 😉)
Read 11 tweets
Sep 16, 2018
1/ When studying non-fungible #cryptoassets, I'm seeing two types discussed: "functionals" and "investment instruments."
2/ "Functionals" are non-fungibles that are meant to be used, a means to access services like ticketing, voting, payment, and more. Best existing examples?
3/ "Investment instrument" non-fungibles are held for their store of value characteristics, be they solely digital things, or derivations of meatspace assets (real estate, art, cars, etc).
Read 5 tweets
Sep 10, 2018
1/ Get ready for a predictable #crypto pattern: in the coming months, we will see an increasing number of #Bitcoin maximalists tormenting “altcoin investors” for straying from the mother ship.
2/ The maximalist drum will get louder as we go deeper into the bear market, with #bitcoin falling less than most other coins, and its dominance index growing. coinmarketcap.com/charts/#domina…
3/ #Bitcoin is the benchmark after all, the market beta of crypto, with most everything oscillating at a higher amplitude than $BTC.
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