2023 年关于加密货币的 10 篇最佳长读物

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距离年底只有几天了，我们回顾 12 个月的专题、采访和专栏，挖掘其中的精华。

以太坊联合创始人 Joe Lubin 讲述乐队如何解散；

约翰·麦卡菲的遗孀讲述了有关他的死亡、橙丸儿童的道德规范、帐户抽象、重新注册等问题。

贫民窟的亿万富翁令人难以置信的多边形的白手起家故事 Sandeep Nailwal

从童年生活在德里亚穆纳河东岸的贫民窟，到推出价值 60 亿美元的 Polygon 区块链，Sandeep Nailwal 讲述了一个令人难以置信的白手起家的故事。

现在，他幸福地生活在迪拜未来派的空调城市景观中，他告诉杂志，他于 1987 年出生在喜马拉雅山脚下一个名叫拉姆纳加尔 (Ramnagar) 的农村，那里没有电力。

他的父母十几岁时就结婚了，四岁时就收拾行李回家去德里碰碰运气。

他们最终来到了河东岸的贫困定居点，通常被轻蔑地称为

贾姆纳帕尔

。

想象一下纽约的布朗克斯，内尔沃尔说。

相当于三级区域。

即使是现在，当你去那里时，仍然会看到一个非常贫民区的地方。

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约翰·迈克菲去世两年后独家报道，寡妇珍妮丝身无分文，需要答案

科技经理约翰·迈克菲 (John McAfee) 的遗孀珍妮丝·迈克菲 (Janice McAfee) 仍处于悲痛之中。

她靠打零工养活自己，资金也用完了，在尸检记录公布之前她无法继续生活。

自从两年多前，加密货币大师和反病毒先锋的丈夫约翰·麦卡菲 (John McAfee) 在巴塞罗那监狱去世后，她一直留在西班牙的一个秘密地点，只是在朋友的好意下才从无家可归的状态中解救出来。

她无法继续前进，因为她仍然不知道她的丈夫发生了什么事，尽管加泰罗尼亚法院今年 9 月裁定约翰·麦卡菲死于自杀，并且案件实际上已经结案。

Joe Lubin 关于 ETH 创始人分裂和加密谷歌的真相

Joe Lubin 解释了 2014 年两位联合创始人被赶出时到底发生了什么，以及以太坊如何真正成为世界计算机。

有一个围绕以太坊两位最重要的联合创始人 Joe Lubin 和 Vitalik Buterin 展开的故事，解释了他们在大约十年前如何走向不同的方向。

这表明两人在区块链的未来方向上发生了争执，20 岁的理想主义者 Buterin 决心将以太坊变成一个非营利基金会，而 Lubin 和其他人则希望通过一家营利性公司将该技术商业化。

以太坊基础设施和软件公司 Consensys 的亿万富翁创始人在特拉维夫接受杂志深度采访时告诉杂志，事实并非如此。

What happened was people were looking for a way to explain why these two people were bumped out of the project. And that was a convenient way to label it. But that wasnt the reason they were moved.

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Account abstraction supercharges Ethereum wallets: Dummies guide

Ethereums ERC-4337 smart accounts standard is a game-changer for user-friendly crypto payments and mainstream adoption.

For years, Bitcoiners have repeated the mantra be your own bank. But in truth, storing any type of crypto in a wallet has been a lot closer to stuffing cash under your mattress than to a complex financial institution like a bank.

Thats all set to change with the announcement of smart accounts, also known as account abstraction, on Ethereum and every other chain compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine, including Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, BNB Smart Chain, Avalanche and Gnosis Chain.

Years in the making, the new ERC-4337 standard transforms a crypto wallet into something with all the features of a real bank.

It gives you the same features a bank would without having to trust a bank, says Ethereum Foundation security researcher Yoav Weiss.

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Best and worst countries for crypto taxes Plus crypto tax tips

So, youve struck it rich in crypto? Youll want to head to one of these countries to keep your newfound wealth.

Taxes are a nightmare for compliance. And crypto taxes which include a variety of innovative mechanisms and products that have no analog in traditional finance are 10 times worse.

Complicating matters even further, the global industry operates across borders and jurisdictions. But there are definitely better and worse countries for the newly crypto-rich to base themselves as tax havens even Americans who get followed around by the IRS with its hand out no matter where they are.

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This is your brain on crypto Substance abuse grows among crypto traders

What is it about crypto trading that can make some users susceptible to substance abuse, and how can they get help?

Although documented statistics about cryptocurrency trading and substance abuse are hard to come by, addiction experts are treating an increasing number of crypto traders.

Abdullah Boulad, founder and CEO of The Balance Luxury Rehab, tells Magazine that a number of crypto traders struggle with substance abuse. Our client base is diverse, but this is a unique demographic that weve seen an increase in over the recent years, Boulad says.

According to Boulad, the high intensity of cryptocurrency trading combined with 24/7 accessibility encourages some to use stimulants to keep up the pace. Substances like amphetamines, cocaine and even excessive caffeine use are common among these individuals, says Boulad.

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Read also Features Crypto innovators of color restricted by the rules aimed to protect them Features Exclusive: 2 years after John McAfees death, widow Janice is broke and needs answers Should you orange pill children? The case for Bitcoin kids books

Bitcoiners want to pass on their values to the next generation, and BTC kids books aim to help. But is it education or indoctrination?

Any kid who doesnt learn something about Bitcoin is missing out, says Bitcoin advocate Ben De Waal.

De Waal explains that his 12-year-old daughter, Samantha, has already convinced a couple of her schoolmates and a teacher to hop on the Bitcoin bandwagon, though shes not attempting to orange pill the entire school yet.

Thanks to her upbringing in a Bitcoin family that has largely abandoned fiat currency, Sam is now a Bitcoin ambassador wunderkind nicknamed The Bitcoin Kid.

Just two years after she read her first Bitcoin book, Sam found herself on the grand stage of BTC Prague 2023 in mid-June, delivering a speech about Bitcoin.

Oh, and she had to follow MicroStrategys Michael Saylors presentation, too.

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Ordinals turned Bitcoin into a worse version of Ethereum Can we fix it?

Deluged by NFTs and BRC-20 tokens, Bitcoin has suddenly become a worse version of Ethereum. There are conflicting ideas about how to fix it.

The core developers and miners who signed off on the networks Taproot upgrade in November 2021 never envisaged this would be the result. Bitcoin now suffers from many of the same problems that have bedeviled Ethereum for years, including scammy memecoins and shitcoins, NFTs of monkey pictures hogging block space and skyrocketing transaction fees.

The network is even having to deal with incidences of miner extractable value (MEV), whereby miners profit by reordering pending transactions.

Im kind of upset at myself for not realizing, says Quantum Economics founder Mati Greenspan, a Bitcoiner since 2013.

It took these guys starting to hype up JPEGs on Bitcoin until I was like: Oh shit, what did we just do? He laughs ruefully.

Some Bitcoiners on Bitcointalk and Twitter refer to the impact of Ordinal NFTs and BRC-20 tokens as an attack on Bitcoin, an exploit of Taproot, or simply as spam clogging up the network.

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Ethereum restaking Blockchain innovation or dangerous house of cards?

Ethereum restaking proposed by middleware protocol EigenLayer is a controversial innovation over the past year that has some of the brightest minds worried about the potential ramifications.

Restaking involves reusing staked or locked-up ETH tokens to earn fees and rewards. The restaked tokens can then help secure and validate other protocols.

Proponents believe restaking can squeeze additional security and rewards from already-staked ETH and grow the crypto ecosystem in a healthier way based on Ethereums existing trust mechanisms. Restaking could serve as a security primitive for exporting Ethereums trust generated by its validators to other projects.

Yet Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and a number of key devs worry that restaking is a house of cards that will inevitably tumble. Some of those Ethereum devs have even proposed a fork to head off restaking.

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Read also Features The risks and benefits of VCs for crypto communities Features How to protect your crypto in a volatile market: Bitcoin OGs and experts weigh in Real AI use cases in crypto: No. 15

For every genuine blockchain project harnessing artificial intelligence in an attempt to create a better world like Dr Ben Goertzels Singularity.net there are 100 coins like AI Doge that have simply wedged the hyped-up terms AI and crypto together to flog tokens.

Magazine spoke with Near founder Illia Polosukhin, Framework Ventures founder Vance Spencer, MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen, Richard Ma from Quantstamp, Ralf Kubli from Casper and others to examine some of the key hype-free, genuine use cases for AI in crypto and blockchain.

Plus, weve included reasons why you shouldnt necessarily believe the hype. Check out the various installments here:

No. 1: The best money for AI is cryptoNo. 2: AIs can run DAOsNo. 3: Smart contract audits & cybersecurityNo. 4: Fighting AI fakes with blockchainNo. 5: Crypto-based AI markets and AI financial analysis