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Justin Sun

3.6.2020
Born in 1990, Justin Sun is the founder and CEO of the Tron Foundation, the company behind the Tron blockchain. He is also the CEO of BitTorrent Inc. which he acquired in 2018. Sun was previously a representative and advisor for payments protocol company Ripple Labs in China, and also founded...

Bitcoin Cash

3.6.2020
On August 1, 2017, the Bitcoin protocol underwent a hard fork which split the network in two and gave birth to Bitcoin Cash. Tired of the infighting and perceived lack of progress on Bitcoin’s scaling debate, and unhappy with the decision to go ahead with the Segregated Witness or SegWit...

Vodafone Enlists Blockchain Nonprofit for Tracking Renewable Energy Use in Europe

3.6.2020
Vodafone and Energy Web are using SIM cards and blockchain to build more nimble renewable power grids

Lightning Network Overhaul Could Strengthen Bitcoin Privacy – But Many ‘Ifs’ Remain

3.6.2020
Bitcoin developers are exploring Point Timelock Contracts (PTLCs) to improve the privacy of payments on the Lightning Network

Riccardo Spagni

3.6.2020
Riccardo Spagni, also known by his internet handle “fluffypony,” was the lead maintainer of Monero, a privacy-centric cryptocurrency project that aims to obfuscate the linkability of transactions across source, quantity, and destination. Spagni is an entrepreneur who started his career...

Pieter Wuille

3.6.2020
Pieter Wuille is the co-founder of Blockstream and a top Bitcoin core developer. Wuille is best known for developing committed libraries Segregated Witness, libsecp256k1 and BIP (bitcoin proposal) 66. Born in Belgium, Wuille discovered Bitcoin in 2010. He was working at Google in Switzerland when...

Minnesota Official Alarms Privacy Advocates With Contact Tracing Comments

3.6.2020
Comments from a Minnesota official comparing law enforcement to contact tracing alerted privacy activists to the dangers of misusing COVID-19 health data

No, Marvin Ammori, CoinDesk Is Not Trying to Extort You

2.6.2020
Marvin Ammori, Head of Policy at Protocol Labs, says his crypto hero is Hal Finney, recalls his trip to Iceland and thinks crypto should disrupt banks next

Iranian Lawmaker Says Bitcoin Should Be Central Bank’s Turf

2.6.2020
An Iranian lawmaker wants his country’s central bank to take bitcoin seriously

Caitlin Long’s Avanti Raises $5M, Submits Wyoming Banking Charter Application

2.6.2020
Crypto bank Avanti has raised an angel round from the University of Wyoming Foundation, Anthony Pompliano’s Morgan Creek Digital and other investors

Market Wrap: Traders ‘Whack the Beehive’ as Bitcoin Surges Then Plunges

2.6.2020
Bitcoin’s jump up and right back down is at least partially due to the crypto derivatives markets

The Decentralized Web Has Plans, if Not Solutions, to the Misinformation Nightmare

2.6.2020
Donald Trump's recent spat with Twitter over the limits of free speech poses a question: Could decentralized media do better? It hasn't yet, as Civil and TruStory show, but Jack Dorsey wants to test some ideas

Media Startup Civil Shuts Down, Team Absorbed Into Decentralized ID Efforts at ConsenSys

2.6.2020
Blockchain media startup Civil is shutting down after three years, with its team pivoting to building decentralized identity tools at parent firm ConsenSys

Cellphones, Bitcoin and the Citizen Tools of Anti-Authoritarianism, Feat. Alex Gladstein

2.6.2020
As protests mount in the U.S., we sit down with an outspoken pro-bitcoin, anti-surveillance human-rights advocate

Jed McCaleb

2.6.2020
Jed McCaleb is an American programmer and entrepreneur. Born in 1975, McCaleb is well-known for creating one of the first bitcoin exchanges, the now defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox., which he eventually sold. He notably later co-founded blockchain companies Ripple and Stellar. McCaleb launched...