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When discussing bitcoin with investors who are new to the crypto sector this is their recurring question “… ” How DeFi adoption will impact the market cap of the King of Cryptos all very interesting but ultimately what can I do with bitcoin? What can I buy with it? True, adoption for bitcoin is somehow an issue, but it is also . Bitcoins´adoption is normally related to or its use as a currency, to buy things. a poorly understood issue the growth of its addresses Either way, the mainstream debate . Since bitcoin is primarily used as a store of value, its adoption as a store of value is not exactly compatible with the use as currency — indeed it is hoarded rather than spent. is mainly focused on the wrong issues While the adoption of bitcoin as is certainly the key driver at the moment — which will heavily impact on its market cap and price when it will — this still pales compared to what will be the future main driver for bitcoin adoption. digital-gold and as a store of value gain even only a fraction of the gold´s market share Enter DeFi, as many call it. Decentralized Finance or Democratized Finance For those new to the word, DeFi is quite simply the replication of legacy financial services, such as lending, payments, trading, asset management, insurance etc, provided via blockchain based applications in a decentralized manner. Clearly, the introduction of new technologies does not only improve on traditional financial services, but more importantly it creates opportunities to develop entirely new services, products and markets which were before today unheard of, like ), the and the creation of . DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations tokenization of entirely new asset classes scarcity-driven value for new digital assets On January 1st there were only 1.425 BTC locked in DeFi projects globally. On August 17th, the amount of BTC committed was over 48.000. At the current price of USD 12.400 this makes well over half a billion USD. For the legacy financial sector this is peanuts, it is a drop in the ocean of a multi trillion dollar market. That´s why they do not pay attention, not yet at least. But for the newly born DeFi sector it is a 33,8x growth in just 8 months. . Also the total value expressed in USD of the whole DeFi sector has gone up from USD 2 billion to over USD 6 billion in just the last two months. And it keeps accelerating Technological innovation is very subtle. At the beginning it is understood solely by very few tech proficient people within restricted circles and it is very difficult to predict what kind of changes such innovations can bring into people´s lives and businesses until it gets mass adoption. That is one of the reasons why — together with complement effects, network effects and viral product features — . technology adoption is non linear But when it gets traction, then it literally goes parabolic. But no worries, we are not there yet this is still the beginning. Since bitcoin represents the king monetary asset and the store of value for the whole crypto sector, its market cap goes hand in hand with the growth of DeFi applications, services and products. Bitcoin lubricates the DeFi system bringing liquidity to it and it acts as THE trusted monetary asset . pledged as a collateral in many applications Also note that — so far — bitcoin has been mainly tokenized (i.e “ ) for use within the Ethereum blockchain. wrapped” into an ERC20 Ethereum Token But what will happen when new DeFi applications will start to emerge also for the Bitcoin blockchain? Sceptics about the capability of the Bitcoin protocol to handle large transactional volumes will have to think again. Some are . already working on using smart contracts on the Lightning network for trading derivatives The difference between the use of bitcoin in DeFi applications running on Ethereum and its potential use on its own protocol is that “There’s a really big gap between DeFi, as Ethereum is trying to do it, and P2P finance,” Rubin said. “Uniswap is really great. But they tokenize their liquidity pools. … We [Bitcoiners] are talking about finding a way for people to work directly with each other.” Essentially, Bitcoin DeFi projects aren’t using derivatives of bitcoin like WBTC, they aim to enable traders to use directly bitcoin. And the consequences, in terms of bitcoin adoption, will be huge. So, let´s tentatively jot down some figures, just to have a rough idea of where bitcoin´s market cap might stand in a number of hypothesis: let´s assume that bitcoin´s adoption as digital gold continues and it gains X% of the market cap of gold currently at USD 13 trillion, based on an estimated above ground stock of 190.000 Tonnes and the current price of USD 1.990. let´s further assume that bitcoin´s adoption in DeFi applications increases and it gains X% of the market share of global legacy financial services, asset management and insurance sectors. Please note that the are not entirely reliable. But that was the best I could quickly find without doing a thorough data search which is not the scope of this article. statistical figures taken from Investopedia As you can see from the table above, in the first hypothesis we estimate a market cap of between USD 1,3 trillion to USD 3,9 trillion depending on the market share gain over gold (10% min to 30% max). This will project a BTC price between USD 68.000 and USD 205.000. In the second hypothesis we estimate gaining a much lower market share of the legacy financial services with DeFi applications, between 5% and 20%. BTC projected prices here vary much more as a consequence of the different market cap of each specific sector. Clearly though, DeFi adoption is not limited to just one sector, therefore they must be summed up. This is what we have done in the third hypothesis where we have summed up, conservatively, the minimum market share gains for each legacy financial sector together with the gold market. Here we project a BTC market cap of USD 4,73 trillion and a price of USD 248.000. The monetary supply of BTC is set conservatively at 19 Million considering that there is widespread consensus that between 2 to 4 million BTC are already lost for good, hence the 19 million max supply seems reasonable. As said, this is just an estimation and there are many more variables that should be taken into account, including the fact that bitcoin will probably have to share the benefits of DeFi adoption with other emerging cryptocurrencies in the future. But I am sure one gets the picture. One can play with the figures as much as wanted, but there is little doubt that the future market cap of bitcoin will be a multiple of today's. Barred adverse technological developments or currently inconceivable problems at Bitcoin´s protocol level, the only rational question is how many times a multiple of today´s price its future price will be. Hold tight interesting times ahead. © — 2020 www.bianconiandrea.com : Legal Disclaimer The website and the information contained herein is for general guidance only and it does not constitute legal advice. As such, it should not be used as a substitute for consultation with lawyers on specific issues. All information in this paper is provided “as is”, with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy, timeliness or warranty of any kind, express or implied. : Investment Disclaimer The website and the information contained herein is not intended to be a source of advice or credit analysis with respect to the material presented, and the information and/or documents contained in this website do not constitute investment advice. © — 2020 www.bianconiandrea.com Previously published at https://medium.com/@andreabianconi/bitcoin-goes-parabolic-and-its-not-the-price-c557f90a694a

Bitcoin Adoption Assumes A Parabolic Path

A few months ago, I embarked on a job search. In addition to the usual litmus test, considering the product, team, role, etc., I was adding some complexity. I wanted to continue my work as an educator. Last year, my research interests had taken me as far as Chile, where I taught computer science in public high schools as a Fulbright Scholar. My research question was simple — what should skills-based education look like? Back in San Francisco, I was disappointed to find there weren’t all that many EdTech companies that inspired me. Enter . On the surface, the product might not look like it has much to do with education, but I saw an opportunity. Parabola gives knowledge workers the capabilities of engineers—a visual way of creating scripts to analyze data. Parabola This happens all the time. You have data living in a few different places—lead data in Salesforce, performance data in Dropbox, and a smattering of other attributes living in Google sheets. You want to perform some analysis on them, and then move the results somewhere else. “More likely than not, you’ll want to perform the same analysis at the end of every month. Usually, you are faced with two options. You could get really fast at doing the same things over and over again. Maybe allow yourself to dabble in the guilty pleasures side of your Spotify to make it through the final stretch. Your only other good option is bothering an engineer and convincing them this is worth it. Parabola offers a bridge between manual work and fully engineered solutions. Instead of repeating processes or allocating g resources, Parabola offers a remedy where ‘mood-boosting’ Spotify playlists do not. engineerin How to build flows with Parabola By creating a ‘flow,’ a series of operations you can perform on your data, you can automate away a lot of the work you’re stuck repeating. Parabola’s proposed paradigm is: build a data pipeline once, so that you can run it whenever you want, thereby cutting out the tedium of repeated work I think of Parabola as an educational tool, one that makes engineering design patterns accessible Although Parabola users are not writing code, they are to think like engineers. Creating a flow in Parabola requires many of the patterns that allow engineers to build robust systems. learning design Creating data pipelines in Parabola is a study in how to design, build, and test systems. I like working on a product that deepens a user’s knowledge base, instead of shying away from the challenge of putting powerful tools in the hands of users. But more importantly, Parabola serves as a sandbox, where users learn these design patterns through experimentation Over the course of my research project in Chile, I became enamored with the , which postulates that people learn most effectively through experimentation and play. In my workshops, students built their first video games using ‘sandbox-style’ educational tools developed by MIT. Constructionist theory of learning Although it’s tempting to break things into bite-sized chunks for users or students, we’re often over simplifying complex concepts. I found that teachers consistently underestimate their students’ ability to figure things out on their own. In my programming workshops, I saw the power of experimentation as a teaching method. I saw what students could build when equipped with the right tools. Back to Parabola. I liked the idea of giving people the power to engineer solutions. But I loved the tactic: trust people to figure it out for themselves. And that’s exactly what I saw Parabola users doing. It’s inspiring to see the complexity of flows that previously non-technical users build for themselves in Parabola. The team has put a ton of thought into building a product you can tinker with. The interface was designed to make powerful operations easy to understand conceptually. Whereas Excel was never designed for the crazy things it’s used for today, Parabola was. As a result, Parabola users are programming concepts intuitively. Parabola users are creating fully-engineered solutions all on their own. As an educator, that got (and continues to get) me really excited. learning

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Parabolic Advances in Crypto — Are they Good or Bad?

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The Web3 economy is driven by use cases, innovations, hype, and trends. User activity is the foundation that shifts weight in favour of either of the four. Thus, it is a key metric to evaluate the growth potential of a project or a sector as a whole. Trends dictate price movements in the crypto market (especially the bull market). We all are witness to the unprecedented hike in the prices of metaverse and NFT projects during the previous bull run. Leading gaming projects like Sandbox ($SAND) and Axie Infinity ($AXS) provided investors with over 16,000% returns during the 2021 peak. The takeaway? Staying ahead of trends is one of the best ways to make it big in the bull market. I am unearthing the top 4 trends that can do a repeat of the P2E or metaverse boom in 2024. Trend 1: Re-Staking Science is yet to develop a technology that makes a human omnipresent (unless you are a mystic disguised as a degen 😛). However, re-staking enables your funds to be omnipresent. Introduced by EigenLayer, restaking allows Ethereum HODLers to boost their earnings by using their staked ETH to secure protocols other than ETH. ETH HODLers have been staking $ETH since the emergence of the project. Ethereum has a staking market cap of more than $223B. However, once staked, over 16M ETH tokens sit idly, safeguarding the network. Further, EigenLayer allows users to earn points by staking Puffer ETH (Puffer Finance), rswETH (Swell Network), and ezETH (Renzo Protocol) Restaking creates a win-win opportunity for both HODLers and protocols, unlocking additional wealth-generation opportunities. This essentially means $ETH worth billions entering active circulation. With more new projects following the path of EigenLayer, restaking could very well be one of the top trends to dominate the 2024 bull run. Trend 2: Layer 3 The blockchain trilemma has been a massive challenge since the inception of the blockchain industry. The emergence of Layer 2 chains like Arbitrum, Polygon, and Avalanche was aimed at boosting scalability. Clearly, there were many takers of Layer 2 as they improved scalability and enhanced overall efficiency. The increased adoption of Layer 2 projects was reflected in the price rally of tokens line $MATIC (Polygon) during the previous bull run. Layer 3 solutions intend to take scalability to the next level by introducing customization and interoperability to facilitate the deployment of dApps. As blockchain nears mainstream adoption, the architecture has to be made flexible to get future-ready. That’s where L2 solutions come into the picture. Emerging DEXs like Syndr are developing their own L3 chains to facilitate institution-grade derivatives trading with Web2-like user experience, with the end goal being accelerated adoption. It is only a matter of time before L3 chains witness an L2-like rise in adoption and hype. Trend 3: AI 2022 saw a mini rally led by AI projects and the trend continued in the first half of 2023 as well. Aptos, one of the top AI projects in the crypto space, rallied nearly 300% last year. This is when the crypto market cap was barely hovering at around $1 Trillion. With 2024 expected to be one of the biggest bull runs (no speculations, only sentiment analysis), AI projects could lead the parabolic rise this year. Trend 4: DePin DePin (short form for Decentralized physical infrastructure network) is an innovative concept born to incentivize participation or contribution of resources to power a blockchain network. De-Pin lets innovators bootstrap projects and offer services by encouraging contributors to run peer-to-peer (P2P) hardware infrastructure networks. Just like SocialFi rewards users for sharing their data, DePin rewards users for sharing unutilized hardware to support a network. Some of the top DePin projects are Render Network, Filecoin, and Theta Network. These are just trends derived using the current sentiment on crypto-dominated social media channels, hype, TVL, user adoption, and market scenario. Note: This list does not include any financial advice and is meant to educate the audience about the current market scenario.

Restaking, Layer3, and AI: Top 4 Trends Set To Takeover DeFi In 2024

Bitcoin is a fire breathing Dragon, A Quantum Computer, an Ice King. Fire makes the economy go round, and Ice brings on necessary winters that reset the planet for the next crop. The hotter the bitcoin, the more secure The colder the qubit, the more pure Exponentially they run in unique directions. Exponentially they become ever more useful. Humanity is lucky to have Bitcoin and Quantum Technologies. I am lucky that these two are destined for marriage. Converging at the nanoscale to create me, and you, an infinity stone. Circa 2100 Circa 2100 CE, it will be the 22nd century. Nobody knows what will happen then. But I know two things, quantum computational technologies will be more mature, and Bitcoin will also be more mature. They shall no longer be teenagers; they shall be wise sages then. Powerful sages. The maturity will come in many forms. For Bitcoin, a lot more people will be orange-pilled. When the US Dollar Debt balloons to a nice $100 trillion, you can be sure illions of people will be Bitcoiners. B It is incredible. If any country on earth spent , its economy would soon be in hyperinflationary hell, to collapse not even a year later. But if that country is the USA, via the Federal Reserve, it enjoys a wide swimming pool thanks to global reserve currency status. $1 trillion dollars of debt every 100 days But that is not all. The US Dollar also enjoys a ‘ ’ in the form of investments flowing in from outside the USA or its US Dollar.  I mean, most Bitcoiners are Americans, so Bitcoin is keeping the US Dollar afloat! Dollar Milkshake Let that sink in. *** So, circa 2100, the US Dollar still rules the Iron Throne. It keeps growing big and strong from all the milkshakes it enjoys, and then there is the one provided by Artificial Intelligence, feeding on our internet data. At $100 trillion in debt, subways in New York City are now rags, woke-ism is at an all-time high (ATH) and millions of American people choose to “identify” as young, rich, and very beautiful. In Africa, the oil is nearly gone, but the poverty still stinks. The energy transition is still mostly a theoretical idea, alternations between mild heat waves and raging rainstorms visit everyone who lives in the tropics. The Cold War between Russia and the USA, started in 1947, still goes on. Occasionally becoming hot every other while, to the detriment of other people. This is a ystopia. D At least burgers are still cheap (they contain insects now), and many AI data servers have been relocated to the moon to allow human beings some peace and quiet. These servers would be buzzing all over the place like bees (that don’t make honey). Unsurprisingly, Bitcoiners have decided they need another freedom technology on their hands. Bitcoin is being milked by AI, for AI ensures taxes are paid in lossy inflationary dollars. Nobody still thinks the bubble will burst. Maybe the can be kicked as far into the future as our imaginations allow us. can Bitcoiners learn about quantum computing big time. And underground start-ups are started. Quantum Hacking the World’s Problems A Short Story It is Monday 15th March, 2100. Finally, the password-cracking monster is created. Call it QKraken. The scientist responsible for this works for a pretty huge company under the ground, off books, and off signals. Code name - Q After cranking in parallel universes for 8 hours, the QC spits out the key to one of Satoshi's earliest wallet addresses. There they are - 50BTC. 500 million dollars. He almost pees his pants. "Should I call HQ?" HQ is sleeping. Nobody works past midnight or this early on a Monday. It won’t be rewarded (damned ballooning taxes). So, 8 hours of work on Monday, in the 22nd century, is enough work as it is. "Should I freaking spend some??" He tries to think, but it is not happening. SHA256 and RSA are now toast! His team can finally crack open decades of secrets shored up by millions of people, over the course of decades! Jesus. This is nuclear! Q tries to think but it is not happening. Computing game theoretic analyses that would make a supercomputer freeze out, he falls asleep at the computer. And he has this strange dream: It is Judgement Day, like in the Terminator movies. Someone, perhaps the Russians, get tired of the monolithic power wielded by the US Dollar and its huge AI dogs, so one of them presses the button. Or is it the Joker from the Batman movies? The countdown is started, and nobody is around who remembers how to press the kill switch. This is it. This is the Great Filter. Fate is going to reset the clock. Take human civilization back to the Stone Age. The nukes fall fast and in the thousands. Nothing can stop them. In a few minutes, their parabolic trajectories will be through. Then, hell will engulf the earth. They all fall harmlessly to the ground. Like dead weights. Why, what happened? … “Q” He wakes up. A little frightened. “You fell asleep at your desk, are you alright?” “Yes…yes, I’m alright” - wiping slight drool from his mouth. Vivian looks at him with pitiful eyes. Q isn’t sure if he even cracked SHA256. He wants to check again, but he is too tired. Did he stop a nuclear fallout? Did he destroy encryption? He decides to go out and check. Forgetting he could just turn on his phone and check if WhatsApp is no longer encrypted. He gets into the street. It is a usual Monday morning. Nothing unusual. He needs a break. He goes home. There is yet enough time to save the world. Of that, he feels sure. *** Shor-GPT In a good world, people will want Shor-GPT (a spin-off of ChatGPT). For they are accruing massive amounts of files and accounts whose passwords they never remember. *** Being a Bitcoiner who loves quantum computers, is like being a nuclear scientist who loves world peace. At the surface, it is impossible. Then you dig a little deeper and behold, only nuclear power shall cure energy poverty and the cycles of currency inflation rooted in playing the economy like a fiddle (because more useful energy, not more money, creates value in an economy). If anything, we should perfect playing the atom like a fiddle, not fellow humanity. It is kind of the same thing with quantum computers. Yeah yeah, Shor’s algorithm might “one day” hack Bitcoin’s encryption algorithms. Until you realize quantum computers are too at the moment. busy kicking their own butts . Like Spot But given that Shor’s algorithm (with its logarithmic speed) is stronger than noble quantum algorithms like Grover’s search which could be used for Bitcoin mining (using only quadratic speed), then the reality of hacking encryption is something we need to find good and profitable uses for else it will remain simply destructive. The first thing is the need, and the second is the cost. Even today, encryption can be hacked at many levels if you have a need and can provide the cost. Say you lose the password to your laptop, hacking it is a good thing. Say you lose the password to your phone with $50 million worth of BTC; hacking it is a good thing. You don’t care if the process will use a CPU or a QPU or a prayer; you want to open the phone. This is ethical hacking. Like crime, unethical hacking spreads when social structures become oppressive to their citizens. Massive debt burdens - like $100 trillion - are oppressive. So the drug use, the crime, and the unethical hacking will only get worse. Whether it be with classical, quantum, or social hacking technologies. The shabbiness will get worse, and our only hope is to take up laptops and build classical, quantum, social code. If somebody doesn’t want nefarious characters who build selfish quantum hacking tech, then they should not frustrate plus oppress their poor parents while these characters are still children. So flip it on its head, and it is a glorious revolution. Hacking, once again, becomes discovery. It is discovery. We hack away rocks and find gold, oil, and fossilized dinosaur bones. Hacking is breaking new ground. Adult humans become alike little children, breaking open their toys to see what makes them tick. So that they can buidl even better toys. (Aside - This is why I destroyed many of my childhood toy cars). “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” - Matthew 18:3 (Holy Bible) Heaven, Utopia, awaits us if we change our ways. Awaits us if we acknowledge that ice and fire, Bitcoin and Quantum Computers, are no enemies. They are two great creatures with great use cases. And we need to tame them both. Or they will tame us.

A Tale of Ice and Fire

Cryptocurrency is a wild ride—a thrilling rollercoaster of highs and lows, with shocking surges followed by stomach-churning crashes. Bitcoin’s price is $52,000 as of this post! YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit tell you to make money now, FAST, and cash out with massive gains. What altcoin is about to explode? What's the best narrative for 2024? Sounds great. Who paid them for that? No time to panic Guard against the temptation of buying a significant amount of cryptocurrency at current prices, especially when history has shown us that better opportunities may lie ahead. This market always has downswings of 30 to 50% once or twice each year. Sometimes, these downswings can last months. Save your money for those times. Mark, You're telling us not to buy? It's the start of a massive bull market! What? I literally just said to buy some crypto. The bull market started in November 2022. It’s ok. You never get a bad price on bitcoin. No altcoin is worth its price today, but some will go much higher in the future. I'm a firm believer in the transformative power of blockchain technology and the potential of cryptocurrencies to revolutionize finance. I am even more bullish on the investment opportunity. That's something you can't get with any other asset class. However, I also recognize the importance of timing and strategic decision-making in this volatile market. Let's take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Keep it simple Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies seem destined to reach new all-time highs any day now. It's easy to get caught up in the FOMO and feel the urge to jump on the bandwagon before prices climb even higher. Here's the thing: the crypto market is notoriously unpredictable, and what goes up must eventually come down. That's not to say that prices won't continue to rise in the short term. They very well might. There's just not that much more room to go up. That parabolic rise doesn’t have a lot of room left. Maybe 50% on bitcoin? 200% to 800% on altcoins? That’s less than you got last year and far less than you’ll get once the market settles down. Buying at current prices carries inherent risks, especially if you're investing a significant portion of your portfolio. Markets move in cycles. When you rush to buy at the booms, you risk being left holding the bag when they bust. Consider adopting a more measured approach. Wait for prices to drop. ”Consolidations” or “corrections,” as the traders say. When you do that, you position yourself to capitalize on better prices in the future. A drop to $35,000 wouldn't even break the uptrend we started in November 2022, but you’d get a lot more crypto for your money. One strategy to consider is dollar-cost averaging (DCA), where you invest a fixed amount of money at regular intervals regardless of market conditions. This reduces the risk of buying the peaks while also taking advantage of opportunities to accumulate crypto at lower prices during downturns. It's proven effective in all upward-trending markets. It's an objectively powerful way to invest. A man a plan a canal . . . Another approach that beats dollar-cost averaging without extra work or timing the market? . My plan With my plan, you’re up 850% at best, but more likely up about 110% with cash to spare. At worst, you’re even on your investment. On average, you get 30% more crypto with my plan than you get with dollar-cost averaging for the same amount that you put into the market, without trading or timing prices. The basic premise: buy low and grow. This seems backward. Traders would never buy an asset when it crashes. “Don't catch a falling knife.” Wait for a “break of resistance.” Oh well. The results speak for themselves. You can see for yourself in the chart that goes along with my plan. You may feel the urge to buy cryptocurrency at today's prices. With so much upside, you can wait for opportunities to come. A little patience and restraint can go a long way. You don't need to chase prices as they run away from you. Odds are, they’ll come back—if you’re patient. Available as a collectible NFT at . https://mirror.xyz https://mirror.xyz/0x9a6600c7B40801dda9A0Fa4E8DE7b1B99FE524a7/CY5DfVqBMJo_ZT_6Vbw2_xWS3tssY8oA0ZNx9KATlRQ?embedable=true Mark Helfman publishes the newsletter. He is also the author of three books and a top Bitcoin writer on and . Learn more about him in his and connect with him on or . Crypto is Easy Medium Hacker Noon bio Superpeer Tealfeed

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The Devil Is In The (Crypto) Details:
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দ্য ডেভিল ইজ ইন দ্য (ক্রিপ্টো) বিবরণ:
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Die Wahrheit in den Kontroversen finden

El diablo está en los detalles (cripto):
Encontrar la verdad en las controversias

Le diable est dans les détails (de la cryptographie) :
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The Devil Is In The (Crypto) 詳細:
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Cybersecurity stocks enjoyed a strong 2023 off the back of a generative AI boom that has posed new challenges to the industry as a whole. As rapidly advancing artificial intelligence brings fresh problems and solutions for online privacy and safety, could we see cybersecurity stocks emulate the astonishing success of semiconductor firms like Nvidia over the year ahead? Today, online businesses are having to counter increasingly sophisticated threats. that global cyberattacks have grown between 40% to 45% in 2023, with major breaches striking Las Vegas hotel operators MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment as well as genomics and biotech firm 23andMe. Forbes data suggests The , buoyed by advancing technologies like AI, has prompted a widespread increase in cybersecurity spending among businesses. According to Gartner data, worldwide end-user spending on security and risk management is set to in 2024, representing a 14.3% increase over last year. severity of cyberattacks reach $215 billion This heightened emphasis on cybersecurity spending has led some Wall Street analysts to suggest that the industry is next in line for a growth spurt, with generative AI growth helping to pave the way for more sophisticated defensive solutions for leading players. “Cybersecurity is becoming increasingly important as enterprises and organizations rely more on technology,” , head of investment advice at Freedom Finance Europe. “The rise in cybercrime has led to an increased demand for cybersecurity products and services, and it is expected that this demand will continue to grow in 2024.” explains Maxim Manturov In 2023, the emergence of generative AI, sparked by OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT, paved the way for a significant market rally that saw semiconductor stocks undergo major market rallies, with Nvidia [NASDAQ: NVDA] stock returning more than 220% over the calendar year. Could the growing need for security solutions push cybersecurity stocks into similar territory over the year ahead? Emulating the 2023 Semiconductor Boom The underlying reason why semiconductor stocks like Nvidia and AMD [NASDAQ: AMD] were so popular in 2023 was that they were quickly identified as the firms best placed to facilitate the widespread adoption of generative AI solutions. Semiconductor manufacturers had the power to produce chips to support Large Language Models for businesses seeking to embrace GenAI, and investors decided to bet big on the revenues that this would bring. As we can see from the iShares Semiconductor ETF [NASDAQ: SOXX], the industry as a whole enjoyed significant growth in 2023 that nearly doubled that of the S&P 500 over the year. With both Nvidia and AMD posting triple-digit gains, it’s clear that investor appetite for generative AI was focused largely on semiconductors. Using the First Trust NASDAQ Cybersecurity ETF [NASDAQ: CIBR] as an example, we can see that the cybersecurity industry enjoyed strong growth that also outperformed the S&P 500. But could there be room for online security to take center stage in 2024? Security Risks and Opportunities of GenAI Forecasts suggest that generative AI will become omnipresent across enterprises in the future. As much as have reported that they are or will soon be using Large Language Models (LLMs) as part of their operations, with 57% expressing the same intentions. 69% of public sector companies While generative AI adoption is widely regarded as a powerful disruptive force across a vast range of industries, there are also many concerns surrounding the security threats they could pose. The adoption of LLMs raises concerns about the risks of using third-party models and their capabilities in a largely unregulated space. This rapid growth of generative AI is pushing more organizations into ramping up their artificial intelligence initiatives without sufficient guidelines or regulations in place to ensure that both AI and LLMs are safe and ethically sound. While this means that embracing AI at scale could be seen as a threat, it also offers fresh ways for companies to combat cybercrime. With many small businesses and startups incapable of building security teams to counter threats, defensive AI can offer all organizations a to keep cybercriminals at bay. valuable framework “As AI crosses a new threshold, security predictions at scale are becoming more tangible,” , CTO at IBM Security. “Although early security use cases of generative AI focus on the front end, improving security analysts’ productivity, I don’t think we’re far from seeing generative AI deliver a transformative impact on the back end to completely reimagine threat detection and response into threat prediction and protection. suggests Sridhar Muppidi “The technology is there, and the innovations have matured. The cybersecurity industry will soon reach a historic milestone, achieving prediction at scale.” Innovative Cybersecurity to Bring Wall Street Growth As generative AI presents more sophisticated risks to online businesses, cybersecurity firms that embrace artificial intelligence can be best placed to combat threats more effectively and consistently. This will invariably present new opportunities to investors on Wall Street, with leading cybersecurity stocks already working on comprehensively embracing AI solutions. With this in mind, three cybersecurity stocks could be well placed to emulate the success of leading semiconductor firms on Wall Street should investors turn their attention to AI defences in 2024: 1. Fortinet Inc [FTNT] \Fortinet is no stranger to parabolic growth on Wall Street, having made spectacular gains in the wake of the pandemic-driven push towards digital transformation in recent years. The firm has seen much of its growth emerge from the firewall market, which analysts believe has been steadily improving over the second half of 2023. The beauty of Fortinet is that , managing director at Bank of America, believe that the stock is trading at a “significant discount” in comparison to the firm’s bull and bear scenarios, which still implies a 4% upside in a worst-case scenario. analysts led by Tal Liani 2. CrowdStrike [NASDAQ: CRWD] CrowdStrike became one of the most impressive cybersecurity performers in 2023 and is readily embracing generative AI solutions to add further strength in the future. The firm is a leading resource for endpoint security and specializes in antivirus, detection, response, and combatting malware. In May 2023, CrowdStrike , a generative AI security analyst that provides automated detection and response to assist users of all skill levels to identify and stop breaches in a more simplified manner. The LLM will also enable customers to ask questions in dozens of languages to receive more accurate and intuitive responses from the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. introduced Charlotte AI 3. Microsoft [NASDAQ: MSFT] Tech giant Microsoft always has the power to enter industries and become a market leader, and the recent in-roads the firm has been making in cybersecurity could help its stock to become recognized as a prominent force in the sector. Having recently implemented a new AI assistant within the Microsoft Security Copilot platform, Microsoft’s cybersecurity capabilities are continuing to grow thanks to artificial intelligence solutions. In November 2023, what the company termed “the next major step in this industry-defining vision: combining the power of leading solutions in security information and event management (SIEM), extended detection and response (XDR), and generative AI for security into the first unified security operations platform.” Microsoft announced This AI-driven security upgrade for Microsoft Security Copilot further underlines the stock’s position as a key innovator in the field of . cybersecurity Can Cybersecurity Emulate the Semiconductor Boom? The semiconductor industry benefitted from having a strong relationship with generative AI due to its key role in implementing the technology. While the GenAI boom was a rare instance that brought floods of investor optimism and growth to global markets, it’s reasonable to expect cybersecurity to experience growth as the implications of the technology place a greater emphasis on security. 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*Note: a SWOT analysis is an evaluation of the fundamental, operational, technical, social, economic, and even to some degree administrative elements of a project. This is not a model to be used for trading purposes. (NFA, DYOR) Composed of four elements, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, a SWOT analysis framework provides excellent insight for establishing a high-level understanding of the state of a project’s well-being through the lens of a birds-eye view. It can help formulate decisions around which areas require more attention, set performance goals, and organize a foundational understanding of where a project is headed. Rarely (if ever) used in crypto, it is time to apply this timeless method of evaluation to the digital asset space. Today, Celo (CELO), the carbon-negative, mobile-first blockchain dedicated to “creating conditions of prosperity for all” through regenerative finance, will get a SWOT. 💪 Strengths (Internal) (Helpful) 1. REFI Positioning A combination of DEFI and social good, regenerative finance is a movement that taps into ecological benefits to society and/or the environment. No network has remotely as much of the intellectual mindshare around innovations happening in this space as Celo. Affiliating itself with social good from launch, Celo has become the host of today’s leading projects, including Toucan, Kolektivo, Flowcarbon, Gooddollar, Glo Dollar, Impact Market, and others. Considering how underserved and under explored REFI has been as a whole, there is no upper bound to model the potential returns this as a sector can attract during the seasonal capital shuffling. 2. On-Chain Metrics Blossoming After a painful bear market and drawn-out winter, the seasons have shifted, and the on-chain metrics have thawed. Celo has been showing strong, sustainable growth across the board. DAA (Daily Active Addresses) have been going parabolic since May 2023, rallying from 5k in December 2022 to around 200k exactly 1 year later, a clean 40x. Total addresses jumped from 1.5m to ~4m (a notable 2.67x). TVL has begun ticking up from ~$80m to ~$120m. Total amount of active, verified, smart contracts steadily rising beyond 33,000. Daily transactions have rebounded from their painful lows of around 100k per day earlier this year to around 400k now, and no signs of slowing down. 3. Focus on Stablecoin Payments Many people underestimate how still nascent and small crypto is relative to the enormous economic markets it is tackling. Remaining one of the largest financial sectors ripe for disruption, payments are tightly correlated with stablecoins, and stablecoins are tightly correlated with real commercial/retail adoption; therefore, the use case and value proposition that Celo is pursuing have universal appeal. Moreover, having a concrete vision and a clear market to innovate around does not receive enough recognition. The vast majority of alternative layer 1’s lack focus and try too hard to become the ultimate generalized solutions that can support every exotic use case under the degen sun. Celo can allocate its resources and efforts more efficiently and not waste time on things such as Memecoins. This is not to say memecoins are bad, just highlighting the nature of the project. 4. Network of Validators Home to 110 validator nodes, owned by 78 independent entities, including some of the most significant Web2 technology companies on the plant, such as Google Cloud, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, et al., as well as some of the most well-known crypto and Web3 entities such as Binance, Polychain Capital, Blockdaemon, and others; Celo has the material support from a set of validators many dream of. 5. One Block Finality A common area of concern in the context of public blockchain infrastructure, finality has become a definitive factor in the design preferences of financial institutions around the world. As it relates to retail finance, the quicker the finality, the more confidence the users have with their transactions, the more likely they are to return and use the product again. Celo has always had this at the front of mind in their operations. This “immediate” finality structure mitigates reorgs (something infinitely valuable at the enterprise level) and was possibly an important factor in Celo being able to build powerful relationships with legacy Web2 conglomerates. 6. Finite CELO Supply Inflation Launching with 60% (600m) of the total token supply circulating (depending on how it’s measured), Celo has an extremely smooth emission model to release the remaining 40% (400m) of tokens over the course of 30 years (ending in 2050). At the end of the emissions, the token supply model would, in fact, become slightly deflationary due to the transaction burns. Moreover, the emissions are primarily allocated to community building and validator/staking incentives, which means they would potentially foster economically resilient networks of aligned actors. This is, of course, in addition to the most sensitive benefit of balancing the impacts of dilution on existing/early participants. 7. Transaction Fee Payments While most major blockchains constantly deal with the friction of forcing participants to acquire native tokens in order to interact with the networks, Celo has introduced semi-agnostic network fee payments, allowing transactions to be paid for in any of the approved alternative assets. Opting for such a model seems counterintuitive as it would defeat the existential purpose of the gas token itself; however, it is not unlikely that this friendliness translates to a higher degree of adoption. By having multi-asset fee payments, the network can, in fact, help bolster asset velocity and become economically intertwined with other projects. 😞 Weaknesses (Internal) (Harmful) 1. Gingerbread Identity Crises Celo used to distinguish itself in the marketplace by playing the role of an independent, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain network focused on mobile clients and payments (aka stablecoins). Recently, however, the project has embarked on a technical restructuring (known as the “Gingerbread” hard fork) to transition into an extension of the Ethereum ecosystem by becoming an OP-stack-based Layer 2. Even though this action was enforced by the community itself through a governance proposal, such a fundamental pivot can result in organizational chaos, which, if untamed, can result in the collapse of interest. If the project built its community on a specific set of fundamental beliefs and those beliefs change, it runs the risk of alienating previous members. 2. Low Network Earning vs MCAP Validator earnings is a theme that plagues all low-fee, high-throughput layer 1 networks. Earnings are established based on how much validators accrue from transaction fees. Considering that most transactions on Celo are below <$0.001 and only a small portion of them are paid to validators, it comes as no surprise that the CELO network posted annual earnings around sub <$50,000 USD. When weighed against its floating capitalization of $324,577,949, we arrive at a ratio of 6,500:1. To be totally fair, as an individual metric to gauge a cryptocurrency’s “fair value,” this is incomplete, but can certainly be used as a component in building a more complete picture. 🧐 Opportunities (External) (Helpful) 1. Low DEFI Diversity Currently sitting at just three (3) with Mento, Curve, and Uniswap controlling over 90% of Celo’s total DEFI TVL, the decentralized financial scene on Celo is craving development. Of natively built Celo solutions, only Mento has any material relevance with its some odd 60 million collateralized stablecoins minted; otherwise, the leading DEX is non-native, lending markets are effectively non-existent, and no derivatives/perps built on it. Young projects looking to gain center stage in an ecosystem and old-timers looking to expand to new horizons would find Celo a pleasant opportunity due to its lack of competition and EVM compatibility. It is almost certain that over the course of the next 12–24 months, this balance will change; the projects that rise to capture market share will bring abundance to the Celo social sphere. 2. Gingerbread Hard Fork Activated at the End of Q3 as the initiation of Celo’s techno-economic restructuring, Gingerbread is a 2-phase process that will transform the network from an independent EVM-compatible Layer 1 to an ETH-aligned Layer 2. Introducing a multitude of changes, including the principle of “Ultragreen Money,” which will adjust the transaction mechanism to burn 80% of fees and funnel 20% towards a Carbon offset Fund. Supercharging finality guarantees with a second layer of security derived from the Ethereum epochs (so finality within Celo itself and the finality of its Data on Ethereum). Leveraging the OP-stack for its execution and EigenDA for posting its activity engenders Celo to both of those ecosystems, which could translate into powerful network effects. The existing validators will have their roles shift into sequencers, which would make Celo the first L2 to have a truly decentralized sequencer set. 3. Support from Ethereum Ecosystem By aligning itself with Ethereum, it seems more likely than not that many reputable protocols will extend operations over to Celo, especially when considering the extremely high level of compatibility that will be present. Already getting public praise from prominent members Vitalik and Joseph Lubin for their innovations, lending protocol AAVE has announced that it will be coming to Celo, bringing with it the mature infrastructure and stakeholder set already prevalent across many EVM-compatible networks. 😳 Threats (External) (Harmful) 1. DEFI Centralization With just 3 protocols controlling over 90% of the TVL on Celo, the ecosystem is at risk of over-concentrated protocols that disincentivize new competitors. Liquidity is highly reflexive; where there is liquidity, more shall flow; where there is little, it shall dry over time. Certainly, the argument can be made that centralization counteracts fragmentation and increases market efficiencies, but having a high degree of reliance on a small group of actors introduces unwanted risks for Celo itself. Without stimulating competition, new ideas will not make their way to Celo and instead be attracted to more conducive environments. 2. Weak Social Presence CELO does not have the ravaging maniacal die-hard community members or social presence common to most L1s. Even though this quaintness might seem understandable from the perspective of enterprise participants, those raw savage human emotions that drive market hype cycles through peek euphoria and keep it alive in the depths of winter are the foundation of markets. By not cultivating this kind of culture, it is only a matter of time until the projects that do capture all the creative imaginations and attract more users. Meme’s matter. Takeaway: Laying closer to the centralized side of Web3, Celo is a polished environment that emphasizes cooperation, coordination, and goodwill without degen tribalism. Carbon neutrality, prosperity, cooperation, and a smorgasbord of other ESG-conscious, purpose-driven material is woven throughout all of its branding and content. While generally tucked away from the average retail participant, Celo has received a lot of support and recognition from renowned industry insiders, including Vitalik Buterin, Sreeram Kannan, Joseph Lubin, et al., for its technical decisions, as well as operational integrations with global megacorps such as Kickstarter and Google Cloud. Conclusion: Fostering environmental well-being, supercharging capitalism with the narrative to become a tool for social good, and delicately balancing financial innovation, Celo is an intellectually stimulating project that has put considerable effort into distinguishing itself from others and defining its product market fit. In the unique position of abandoning its original architecture in hopes of reinvigorating market interest with technology, Celo has become an interesting project to watch, if not for price, then as a case study on the merits of such fundamental structural changes. One simply cannot fade the long-term potential of Celo. Thank you so much for reading, I hope this serves you well on your journey. Live long and prosper 🥂 Also published . here

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The Cosmos (ATOM) SWOT Analysis—Q4, 2023 a SWOT analysis is an evaluation of the fundamental, operational, technical, social, economic, and even to some degree administrative elements of a project. This is not a model to be used for trading purposes. (NFA, DYOR) Note: Composed of four elements, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, a SWOT analysis framework provides excellent insight for establishing a high-level understanding of the state of a project's well-being through the lens of a birds-eye view. It can help formulate decisions around which areas require more attention, set performance goals, and organize a foundational understanding of where a project is headed. Rarely (if ever) used in crypto, it is time to apply this timeless method of evaluation to the digital asset space. Today, the interoperability OG and father of the IBC, will get a SWOT. Cosmos (ATOM), 💪 Strengths (Internal) (Helpful) 1. AEZ The Atomic Economic Zone is at the heart of Cosmos's upcoming techno-economic overhaul. The purpose of the Economic Zone is to tighten the alignment of the ecosystem with the ATOM token. A multitude of networks, including Kujira, Agoric, Osmosis, Stride, Neutron, et al., have already integrated and pledged their diligence. At its most basic, the AEZ's main focus is to have ATOM play a foundational role in the inter-chain activities and unifiy chains with universally applicable governance frameworks. 2. World Class Governance Communityx Either legendary community-building skills, deviously clever teams, or a combination of both, Cosmos has achieved incredible levels of engagement both through its social and governance platforms. The core community is always active and involved in the proceedings, helping steer the project and uphold its interesting commitment to decentralization. 3. Adoption by Chains Comos has seen an influx of projects into its ecosystem. Hosting over 46 networks so far, of which many are considered to be noteworthy (Osmosis, KUJI, Cronos, ThorChain, Injective, Secret, KAVA, Akash, etc.) and a pipeline of new leading projects, namely Celestia and dYdX, the positioning of Cosmos within the context of the greater industry could be tipping into the "Too-Big-Too-Fail" territory. 4. Contribution to Web3 Technology From its consensus mechanism (CometBFT) to the inter-chain communications protocol (IBC) to its appchain thesis and beyond, so many solutions have tapped into the tech pioneered by Cosmos and made available through their SDK. Value in the form of new technological primitives can be found laden throughout their excellent documentation. If a project could truly be valued on its merits, Cosmos would dwarf 99% of other base layers. 5. Shift of Security Model Cosmos has been undergoing tectonic transformations in its architecture. Previously acting as a relay point, the Cosmos Hub will now act as a point of unified security provision. Effectively, the shift signifies an emphasis on shared security (whereby multiple different networks leverage the same validator set). While there has been some valid rebuttal against using economic primitives (price) for security due to the implied relationship between price and security, the conversation has primarily been based in theory and cannot be proven until something happens. The new model just might be enough to help Cosmos stand out from the increasing pool of infrastructure providers in Web3. 6. Stake Rate over 67% Stake rate is a direct expression of an ecosystem's community's willingness to support a project. With over 2/3's of all ATOM staked, Cosmos happens to have one of the highest rates among other networks of the same caliber. Taking into consideration that ATOM was among the worst performers (purely from a price perspective) this last year, the fact that long-term stakeholders did not abandon their positions (in fact, actually grew them from 62% same time last year) shows deep commitment. The higher the stake rate, the more constrained the circulating supply and the sharper the reflexivity between demand and price. If this trend continues, it would be unlikely that ATOM does not reflect it. 😞 Weaknesses (Internal) (Harmful) While a SWOT analysis does not usually account for price action, it is impossible to ignore the fact that ATOM is one of the worst performers among tier-1 crypto projects. Regardless of the parabolic growth taking place across independent Cosmos chains and the market at large, it seems that market participants are simply not interested in ATOM. The expression of interest is similar to liquidity, a self-feeding mechanism where interest begets more interest. 1. Economic Underperformance 2. Tokenomics A contentious point that has long been discussed around Cosmos is the design of its core system; while the technology has been amazing and certainly seen adoption, the ATOM token's economics have been lackluster in their ability to capture value. With its relatively high double-digit perpetual inflation, absence as a requirement for Cosmos chain's fees, and inability to address these issues earlier, has resulted in a prolonged period of sub-optimal performance attributable to the inefficient initial implementation forces the project to ensure invisible costs in the form of early community members. The problem can be (and is currently being) fixed but it does not guarantee that the new model will not be flawed in its own right. 3. IBC's Lack of Asset Interoperability A lesser talked about nuance with the technical design of the Inter-blockchain-Communication protocol is the accounting system that takes place under the hood during the movement of assets between chains. Every transfer instantiates its own trail. ETH on Osmis is (osm)ETH) moving it from Osmosis to Kujira turns it into (osm-kuji)ETH). If moved to Cronos, the asset becomes (osm-kuji-cro)ETH). Therefore, it loses its composability because other ETH will have different trails depending on how it has been transferred. Imagine party A has 10 ETH in a liquidity pool on KAVA, and party B wants to provide liquidity in that same pool. Moving their 10 (osm-kuji-cro)ETH) to KAVA, party B's asset becomes (osm-kuji-cro-kava)ETH) which is different than Party A's (kava)ETH) in the pool; therefore, party B is unable to join the KAVA liquidity pools; unless there have been sophisticated customizations built in to accommodate that or they retrace their ETH's footprint. 4. IBC's Performance Waning The Interblockchain Communications Protocol was once heralded as one of the industry's most promising innovations in the interoperability space and contributed to the blossoming of Cosmos's hosting of over >45 independent chains. However, it seems that over the last year demands for IBC have been dwindling. Total transfers are down over -38%, Unique senders are down -48%, and Unique Receivers down -48%. If this trend continues, it could be a matter of time before we see the once-glorified technology disappear into an oblivion of obsolescence. 🧐 Opportunities (External) (Helpful) 1. ATOM 2.0 Initiatives have been put forth by the Foundation to transform ATOM tokenomics. A multitude of parameter adjustments to address centralization concerns, value accrual, and inflation. Already slowly being rolled out through governance proposal 848, the staking rate has been cut from ~14% to 10%, lowering the real yield from 19.3% to 13.4%. With lower inflation, there is a higher proclivity from users to hold on to their assets and find DEFI applications for it. Value accrual will be imposed through the alignment of independent environments with the use of ATOM tokens to facilitate cross-chain settlements. As it pertains to centralization, Cosmos currently scores 8 on the Nakamoto coefficient, meaning that it only takes 8 of the 177 validators to subvert the network. Under the new regime, there will be disincentives put in place for delegators that over-concentrate their allocation; a tax that increases alongside validator balances and, in turn, economically incentivizes end users to increase their delegations to smaller validators. 2. Widespread adoption of IBC This one is a bit of a wildcard, shot-in-the-dark, roll-of-the-dice potentiality, but one with gargantuan positive implications. In the event that the new ATOM token model delivers on its promise to adequately capture the value, and IBC delivers on its promise to provide seamless interoperability functionality, there is a good chance that Cosmos becomes further engrained into the industry through an acceleration of adoption. 3. Fork Proposal Jae Kwon, founder of Tendermint and co-creator of Cosmos, is known for his activism and radical attitude. He has recently come out and said that given the circumstance of Cosmos currently suffering from inadequate governance, it would be best to fork the network. By and large, forks a notoriously malicious event that can negatively impact the integrity of the original chain and result in communities being split. However, this appears to have an inverse potential for Cosmos as it would put an end to the continual disputes within the network and enrich the holders with new tokens. Be it purely speculative airdrop hunting or some genius economic resolution, talk of a possible fork has actually been accepted relatively well by the crypto markets. This can have very strong short-to-medium-term impacts on price as people try to front-run each other and qualify for the hard fork. 😳 Threats (External) (Harmful) 1. Terra Luna Debacle Built with the Cosmos SDK, Terra was an IBC-compatible network that handled tens of Billions of dollars in UST transactions. After a spectacular blowout that literally wiped hundreds of billions from the Crypto market's capitalization within days, the crippling whiplash crept across the entire industry, with Cosmos suffering a loss of over -75% 2 months post-mortem. Frankly, no direct value correlation between Cosmos and Terra Luna existed; however, based on the fact that their SDK was used, the image of Comsos has been tainted by possibly the most notable failures of any crypto protocol. 2. Declining Activity and Revenue In spite of an extremely positive market sentiment, Cosmos has seen declines across the board in terms of its utilization. The amount of daily active addresses has shrunk from >17,000 to ~16,000, the amount of daily transactions fell by nearly 33% from ~63,000 to ~40,000, and average revenue fell by nearly 50%, from a laughable $4,000 to an even more laughable $2,000. Luckily, the project does not seem to rely on the revenue it generates to sustain itself, otherwise it might have already been dead. 3. Rise of Advanced Alternative Competition Scalability and interoperability have been, are, and likely will continue to be the most aggressively researched sectors of the Web3 economy. With each new generation of blockchain-based technology, new superior solutions come to market with the capacity to outperform and displace predecessors. Rollups, Subnets, Parachains, Payment Channels, Nested side-chains; the growing amount of similar tech that enables similar capabilities currently available will likely continue to dominate mindshare and further squeeze OG's like Comsos out of public consciousness. Takeaway: Jokingly referred to as the "Dogecoin for Intellectuals", Cosmos is floating on the fringes between techno-economic paradise and irrelevance. The architectural pivot towards becoming providers of a validator set for other networks is not something entirely new; other projects, such as Eigen Layer, are ahead in this regard. However, if Cosmos's approach finds better market adoption, it holds a lot of promise for the ATOM token. There remains an elephant in the room; valid rebuttals about a logical gap in Cosmos's economic modeling. If the security provision by validators is based on their stake, then the security itself hinges upon speculative elements; if the price goes down, then so does security. Conclusion: It seems that despite the internal techno-political headwinds, Cosmos continues to be a domineering force on the layer 0/1 scene. Outside of what was mentioned earlier, is the fact that Cosmos has the support and material endorsement from many of the industry's Giga-brains (such as Chris Burniske from Placeholder Ventures) that make the case as to why Cosmos is a better option than its two leading competitors Polkadot and Avalanche. Cosmos is living proof that even with an incredibly talented team, good intentions, innovative technology, and a flourishing community, nothing is ever guaranteed in crypto. A cool piece of information about Cosmos that is hardly ever mentioned is the brilliance in the intentions behind the Cosmos Hub's design. The Hub itself is just an account-based model based on an environment that does not support smart contracts. This minimalism is distinctly reminiscent of Bitcoin, where the product is hyper-focused and purpose-built to mitigate the attack vector surface area and prevent fees from running out of control. Thank you so much for reading,
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Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879, by Various, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book . A NOVEL ENGINE REGULATOR. here A NOVEL ENGINE REGULATOR. The accompanying engraving represents two different styles of regulator, invented by Mr. Stenberg, in which the effect of centrifugal force is utilized. In a vessel, A, of parabolic shape is placed a disk, C, which floats on glycerine contained by the vessel, and is attached to the walls of the vessel by an annular membrane, so that it may rise and fall in a vertical direction as the glycerine is carried with more or less force toward the edge of the vessel by centrifugal action. The inner surface of the vessel, A, is provided with radial grooves, by which the rotary motion of the vessel is communicated to the glycerine. To the center of the disk, C, is attached a vertical rod, which extends downward through the hollow shaft and is connected with governor valve. An increase of speed throws the glycerine toward the periphery of the valve, and, raising the disk, C, closes the steam valve; a diminution of speed permits the glycerine to fall back, when the disk descends and the valve opens. The disk, C, has a small aperture for the admission and escape of air, and the apparatus is adjusted by pouring lead into the groove in the disk. The regulator shown in Fig. 2 operates upon the same principle, but it is adjusted by means of a spring. This apparatus is manufactured by Blancke Bros., Magdeburg.— Musée de l'Industrie. A Strange People. Botel Tobago is an island in the South Seas which has lately been visited by a party of United States naval officers. They were surveying a rock east of the South Cape of Formosa, and called at this island. They found a curious race of Malay stock. These aborigines did not know what money was good for. Nor had they ever used tobacco or rum. They gave the officers goats and pigs for tin pots and brass buttons, and hung around the vessel all day in their canoes waiting for a chance to dive for something which might be thrown overboard. They wore clouts only, ate taro and yams, and had axes, spears, and knives made of common iron. Their canoes were made without nails, and were ornamented with geometrical lines. They wore the beards of goats and small shells as ornaments. Such is the account of these strange people given by Dr. Siegfried, in a letter read at the last meeting of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Various (2006). Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18866/pg18866-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at , located at . www.gutenberg.org https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html

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