Once hailed as the "Ethereum of China," Neo's token price has fallen on hard times ever since the world's most populous nation introduced a series of acute bans on cryptocurrency operations last year. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Neo's developers — who wished to remain anonymous — explained that partners run most projects sponsored by Neo Global Development, or … [Read more...] about ‘China’s crypto ban had little impact on Neo,’ says organization’s developers
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Dorsey Proposes Non-Profit Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund for Developers
The main purpose of the fund will be to defend developers from from lawsuits regarding their activities in the Bitcoin ecosystem, Dorsey wrote in an email to the bitcoin-dev mailing list dated Jan 12. Jan 12, 2022 at 6:27 a.m. UTCUpdated Jan 12, 2022 at 6:27 a.m. UTCJack Dorsey (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Source link … [Read more...] about Dorsey Proposes Non-Profit Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund for Developers
Inside the blockchain developer’s mind: Proof-of-burn blockchain consensus
Cointelegraph is following the development of an entirely new blockchain from inception to mainnet and beyond through its series, Inside the Blockchain Developer’s Mind. In previous parts, Andrew Levine of Koinos Group discussed some of the challenges the team has faced since identifying the key issues they intend to solve, and outlined three of the “crises” that are holding … [Read more...] about Inside the blockchain developer’s mind: Proof-of-burn blockchain consensus
Inside the blockchain developer’s mind: Proof-of-stake blockchain consensus
Cointelegraph is following the development of an entirely new blockchain from inception to mainnet and beyond through its series Inside the Blockchain Developer’s Mind. In previous parts, Andrew Levine of Koinos Group discussed some of the challenges the team has faced since identifying the key issues they intend to solve and outlined three of the “crises” that are holding back … [Read more...] about Inside the blockchain developer’s mind: Proof-of-stake blockchain consensus
The Developers Who Wrote Bitcoin’s Taproot Upgrade
Written by Wuille, Nick and Towns, BIP 341 proposed a new Segregated Witness (SegWit) version 1 output type, with spending rules based on Taproot, Schnorr signatures, and Merkle branches (part of the cryptographic scheme that generates the hashes that encode data on the blockchain.) SegWit, the previous major Bitcoin upgrade, essentially allowed for larger blocks of … [Read more...] about The Developers Who Wrote Bitcoin’s Taproot Upgrade