Climate activists and crypto billionaire Chris Larsen want to convince Bitcoin companies, miners and developers into changing Bitcoin’s consensus mechanism.
To fully understand Facebook’s goals, consider how Libra will function at launch and compare it to the “permissionless” version that it may evolve into later.
Several major cryptocurrency traders, including representatives from Galaxy Digital Holdings and Cumberland DRW, reportedly met to discuss an industry-wide blacklist of suspicious actors to stem the tide of scams and theft in the space.
Professor Susan Athey's presentation on “Blockchain and the Future of Finance" at the University of Stanford Graduate School provoked one student to protest its “multiple misstatements” about Bitcoin and its fundamentals.
The U.S. branch of cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin is adding five new coins to its listings: Ripple (XRP), Cardano (ADA), Stellar lumens (XLM), Zcash (ZEC) and 0x (ZRX).