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An original investigation: I scraped more than one million code commits to analyze the gender balance of contributors to the top 100 cryptocurrency projects. @corintxt/i-tried-to-gauge-what-percentage-of-cryptocurrency-developers-are-female-the-answer-not-enough-58e1d242f7b8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@corintxt/i-tr…

"Porn remains a safe haven for those with progressive thoughts and novel ideas," says @AdminKlein. Including crypto. Read Jess Klein's dispatch from January's @XBIZ Awards, where several blockchain companies were up for honors. bit.ly/2X9QHQD

For my final dispatch for @BreakerMag (RIP), I traveled to one of the holiest sites in all of blockchain: Zug, or "Crypto Valley." I'm gonna miss this beat. [Sniff.] breakermag.com/switzerlands-c…

For his last "Trailbreaker" column, @jeffwilser visits Switzerland's Crypto Valley - birthplace of Ethereum, and home to 700 blockchain companies (at least some of the time). “Switzerland has decentralization in its DNA,” says one local. bit.ly/2Wf5ufp

[New content] @FinbarrToesland visits Paralelní Polis, a crypto anarchy workspace in Prague bit.ly/2QejuAQ

And sincere thanks to @TheBlock__ @treyditto and @BreakerMag for putting together the #AtomicSwapNYC event, and letting me and @valkenburgh have the discussion we've been wanting to have for a while, in public and on @PeterMcCormack's podcast, no less!

Benedict George visits Rotate, the first London bar to accept bitcoin via the Lightning Network: bit.ly/2VyqwGB @bgBenedict

Lightning to the rescue? @benjaminopowers takes microtipping browser extension bit.ly/2HaiOcH for a spin: bit.ly/2VQfECV

Breakermag's roving correspondent @jeffwilser checks in with Liberland: the campaign for a libertarian free state in the Danube (powered by blockchain, of course): bit.ly/2LuexoN

"These agents could learn about us over time, and then take on the mental burden of shopping for small ticket items." @jp_koning on a potential fix for micropayments: bit.ly/2DSGLTR

Micropayments, long fancied, never popular, face a big psychological challenge: for most consumers, making choices for small ticket items is too time consuming/boring. One possible answer: automated shopping agents @jp_koning bit.ly/2DSGLTR

Mostly true, thanks Robert !

Thanks @matthewde_silva for this bit.ly/2WlcEeP

"We have shit to do besides waiting for Grammys." We spoke to @TuneYards's Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, who just released their score for 'Sorry to Bother You.' bit.ly/2V7N2pc @naytronix

We have some sad news. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the site. We had a lot of fun covering this radical and imaginative space. The site will remain live for now and we'll continue to publish new content during May. bit.ly/2LffFwt

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"Will we one day be making online purchases with a digital version of central bank-issued cash?" bit.ly/2vtYQTw @jp_koning @dandolfa

.@Jaguar's trying out a system where drivers get crypto rewards for sharing data about their driving experience. But how much data sharing is too much data sharing? @iotatoken

Crypto Capital Is the Common Thread Between Bitfinex, QuadrigaCX, and Other Troubled Exchanges bit.ly/2L5sFof