A quick link version of the weekend read, both due to the inordinate amount of smart folks posting this week and my overcrowded flight boarding in about 10 minutes.
1. Smart folks writing about digital currency, trust and other things that sometimes make my head hurt
How To Explain The Value Of Replicated, Shared Ledgers From First Principles by Richard Brown
What Has Been The Reaction To Permissioned Distributed Ledgers? By Tim Swanson
Visions, Part 2: The Problem of Trust by Vitalik Buterin
The Sum of All Chains - Let's Converge! By Ian Grigg
How Bitcoin Is Like SMTP by Joel Monegro
2. Companies in the News
Overstock Files to Offer Stock That Works Like Bitcoin from Wired
Western Union 'Exploring' Pilot Program With Ripple Labs in CoinDesk (pair with: Western Union: 'Too Early' to Discuss Ripple Labs Pilot Project)
3. Odds and Ends
Nice short read: In Code We Trust in NY Times
Nice identity read: Identity Is Broken — Can Banks Fix It? In American Banker
Really long but entertaining read: The Untold Story of Silk Road in Wired