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Nov 01, 2023

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Over this last week we’ve had to squash a few nasty bugs on the Bankless Publishing website, so you’ll see various changes to the layout as we transition our main online presence to one which provides a place to aggregate the content from our many platforms. What won’t change is our commitment to bringing you informative and interesting reading material, and this means we’ll just keep on shipping!

Because of last week’s extermination, we took the opportunity to ship two articles via Substack, and we began to share our content through other protocols. Please follow us on Hey.xyz (Lens) and find BanklessPub on Farcaster to help us grow our audience in more web3-native lands.

This week, we cover the tokenization of uranium, the story of The DAO hack and the subsequent Ethereum hard fork, and some simple ways to stack sats via Bitcoin’s social layer — specifically by engaging its L2 Lightning Network.

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Contributors: Frank America, Kornekt, trewkat, HiroKennelly

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Tokenized Uranium: A New Asset Class for a New Era

Author: Ryan Gorman | Editor: trewkat and Kornekt | Designer: Tonytad

This article explains the advantages of tokenizing uranium, such as increased liquidity, fractional ownership, and transparency. The author believes blockchain technology can streamline regulatory compliance and reduce administrative costs, potentially revolutionizing the way uranium assets are owned, traded, and managed.

With tokenized uranium, for example, Uranium3o8, ownership is democratized so that investors of all types can buy exposure to the price movements of U3O8 for pretty much the first time in history. This development is coming at a time when demand far outstrips supply. Nations are increasingly turning to nuclear power to combat climate change as part of a cleaner energy mix involving wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, flared natural gas, and other sources.

Learn more about getting the ‘spicy rocks’ onchain in this article by Ryan Gorman.

Not Forking Around: The DAO Hack

Author & Designer: trewkat | Editor: Hiro Kennelly

The DAO hack and subsequent hard fork had a profound impact on the Ethereum community, leading to discussions about immutability, consensus, and the role of hard forks in blockchain networks. The original chain, which did not implement the fork, continued as Ethereum Classic (ETC), while the new chain, which implemented the fork, continued as Ethereum (ETH).

Ethereum Classic’s website will tell you that it exists “in response to contract censorship on sister chain Ethereum™ (ETH) and to uphold and preserve the principle of Code is Law”. There is also a fascinating and detailed account of The DAO exploit on the Ethereum Classic website.

Stroll through the history of the Ethereum hard fork in this article by trewkat.

4 Simple Ways to Stack Sats

Author: Frank America | Editor: trewkat | Designer: Tonytad

This article provides readers with various ways to acquire satoshis through involvement in the bitcoin ecosystem. A satoshi is the smallest unit of bitcoin, named after the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. One bitcoin (BTC) is divisible into 100 million satoshis (sats).

One way to get started in the market without putting too much skin in the game is to simply participate. Similar to the way the Ethereum ecosystem rewards onchain behavior with airdrops, NFTs, and POAPs, the Bitcoin network has some innovative ways for its community to gather rewards.

Find out a few simple ways to stack sats in this article by Frank America.