Tech

Applications

Zoom’s CIO Sees a Rise in the Decentralized Workforce

The future of work is decentralized. Zoom, with its centralized app, is leading the charge, says CIO Harry Moseley.

Tech  ·  6 February 2020
Facebook

Libra Vice Chair Not Worried About the Leavers

Libra Vice Chair Dante A. Disparte said some departing Libra partners left the door wide open for an eventual return. They will be welcomed back when they're ready.

Tech  ·  5 February 2020
Blockchain Voting

Iowa Caucus App Fiasco Shows Need for Open Source Transparency

Iowa's election mess shows the risks of relying on centralized, digital systems and software that lacks transparency.

Tech  ·  4 February 2020
Blockchain Voting

No, a Blockchain Wouldn’t Have Prevented the Iowa Caucus Debacle

If anything, blockchains add meaningful complexity, which means more ways things could go wrong under imperfect, or real-life conditions.

Tech  ·  4 February 2020
Hard Forks

Bitcoin SV Sees Minor Split as Blockchain Shifts to ‘Genesis’ Upgrade

The upgrade saw an "inadvertent" split as an unknown entity mined a block on the old chain, the BSV team says.

Tech  ·  4 February 2020
Ethereum

Aztec Launches Privacy Network on Ethereum

Users will be able to create private assets using the protocol.

Tech  ·  3 February 2020
China

What Are China’s Goals Behind Its Digital Yuan?

The story of the digital yuan is more complex than we knew and Professor Michael Sung explains why.

Tech  ·  3 February 2020
DeFi

PoolTogether DeFi App Announces $1M Investment After No-Loss Lottery Payout Tops $1K

PoolTogether is announcing a $1.05 million investment round as it adds a USDC pool to its DeFi-powered "no-loss lottery."

Tech  ·  3 February 2020
Payments

MIT Develops ‘Spider’ Tech to Enable More Efficient Off-Chain Crypto Transactions

The researchers say their new routing scheme can help avoid congestion on off-chain cryptocurrency networks.

Tech  ·  3 February 2020
Exchanges

Winklevoss Patents Tout Use Case for Gemini Stablecoin Tech in Banking

Banks and other "trusted entities" could become licensed issuers of the stablecoin, the patents suggest.

Tech  ·  3 February 2020
Governance

Zcash’s Funding Vote and the Woes of Decentralized Governance

The zcash community has agreed to continue funding the development of its privacy coin after a months-long – and often contentious – campaign to address imminent funding losses.

Tech  ·  1 February 2020
DLT

‘Key Milestone’ for Hyperledger as Fabric Blockchain Platform Reaches 2.0 Release

Version 2.0 marks the most significant release since Fabric first launched in 2017.

Tech  ·  31 January 2020
Privacy

Third-Party Trackers Are Pulling Your Data Off Ring’s Android App

A new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation details the personally identifiable information pulled from your Ring app.

Tech  ·  31 January 2020
Ethereum

‘One Network, Many Chains’ – The Case for Blockchain Interoperability

Inter-blockchain communication (IBC) is poised to be a major theme of 2020. And, like most trends in crypto, it has its fair share of hope, hype and haters.

Tech  ·  30 January 2020
Governance

Roger Ver’s Mining Pool Pulls Support for Bitcoin Cash Dev Fund Over Chain Split Threat

Ver said he was "mostly just along for the ride" as some mining pools stepped back from the prospect of competing hard forks.

Tech  ·  28 January 2020