Blockchains

• U.S. Regulators Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether
• Samsung Moves Into Bitcoin Mining With Mass ASICs Production
• Facebook’s New Policy Prohibits ICO and Crypto Advertising
• Nice piece on Chia
• State of Decentralized Exchanges, 2018
• Cryptocurrency Regulation in 2018: Where the World Stands Right Now

Distributed Systems

• Paxos derived

InfoSec

• Part 2: How to stop me harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site

Programming

• Data-First Architecture - Asset Management

Theory

• What's New in the Big Data Theory 2017

Papers

• A sample of brilliance
• A theory of the learnable
• Blockchains from a distributed computing perspective