Ask HN: What's New in Crypto?

5 points·kaycebasques··11 comments

Few seem focused on it anymore, which means that there's probably a bunch of interesting innovations underway. I know that there are some well-informed true believers lurking here. What's new in crypto?

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I think they'll be advances in taxation: it'll be simpler, fairer and easier. And that may make a UBI more doable.

Comments like heres an actual project I am working on and why the tech matters usually gets attention.

Agent payment will be an important development direction for crypto in the future. Compared to traditional fiat payments, digital currencies have some inherent advantages.

The bond market is about to get introduced to Bitcoin Bonds in Q3 of this year. I.e. bonds with yield denominated in btc.

Stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets are the only clearly useful things right now.

Follow up: are we getting more efficient? Are the more energy efficient chains taking off?

Monero is the best cryptocurrency for people that prioritize privacy and freedom.

A lot of the innovation now is happening in scaling

Uhm… cryptography or cryptocurrency?

I assume cryptocurrency, since OP mentioned "true believers."

There isn't cryptography true-believers, it is just mathematical proofs with sometimes good or bad code wrapping it.

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