Ep. 10 | ERC20 and MEW hacks, cryptocurrencies fail the currency test, Vitalik bashes TRON

Published: April 26, 2018, midnight

Crypto Weekly once again returns - another week, another plethora of cryptocurrency news to wade through. This week Crypto Weekly launched their Patreon page, check it out at https://www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly and show the gang some love. They know you've made a bucket load from their musings, so give a little back. NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE. This week the biggest news saw an exploit uncovered in ERC20 tokens that enabled the illegitimate minting of coins. Not only this but MyEtherWallet (MEW) was the subject of a rather well executed hack of the AWS DNS route53 service. The Geordie Prince gets fired up about some American legislation of crypto and the gang collectively bash the soon to be head of the New York Federal reserve. In other news Vitalik continues to keep it incredibly real by notifying the world that a whole lot of the trash we see in the form of ERC20 tokens are in fact trash - especially TRON. Ken's Coin of the Week scrutinises CellBlocks - a means of using the blockchain to make the economies of prisons less exploitative. Find out for yourself what the consensus was. Beak continues to make gains and gives us a run down of some of the best picks for the next quarter of 2018. If you don't listen to what he has to say it's almost as if you hate free money NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE. Finally we end as always with Horse Watch. Crypto Weekly try and come up with a few suggestions as to how horse can improve uptake of their dApp. If you yourself have any ideas, feel free to throw them a tweet @EthorseTeam