Decentralization

Valid Points: Ethereum 2.0 Trends Toward Decentralization

Also: Tomorrow, the first backward-incompatible upgrade for the Beacon Chain will activate on the Pyrmont test network.

Tech  ·  18 August 2021

Did Laozi Dream of Blockchain?

The ancient Daoist philosopher has lessons for the crypto age, in the latest essay for Crypto Questioned.

Opinion  ·  30 July 2021
Enterprise Blockchain

Choosing Who We Trust

Oracles, algorithms and blockchains provide an alternative to a system where you have to form all-or-nothing business relationships.

Opinion  ·  26 July 2021
DeFi

Regulators Everywhere Should Follow Wyoming’s DAO Law

Wyoming's world-first law on DAOs is the start of recognizing these legal entities worldwide, says a lawyer specializing in such arrangements.

Opinion  ·  8 July 2021
DeFi

Terra’s 25-Fold Price Jump This Year Shows Growing Bet on Algorithmic Stablecoins

The South Korean-based stablecoin platform Terra has seen its market capitalization overtake better-known decentralized rival Maker's.

Markets  ·  14 May 2021
Decentralization

Brave Integrates .Crypto Blockchain Domains, Expanding Access to Web 3.0

Brave users can access 30,000 decentralized sites and 700,000 blockchain domain names.

Tech  ·  13 May 2021
DeFi

Uniswap’s ‘Token’ Issue

A battle between a decentralized exchange and a token project raises questions over what level of control creators can exercise in crypto.

News  ·  1 April 2021
Governance

The Graph to Host Protocol Governance on Decentralized GitHub Alternative Radicle

Radicle enables collaborative permissionless code in a decentralized way.

Tech  ·  11 March 2021
Binance

Dapps Don’t Care About Your Feelings

By testing the limits of what's permissible on Binance Smart Chain, anonymous developers are testing whether it's really a blockchain.

Tech  ·  4 March 2021
Ethereum

Controversial Dapps Test Binance Smart Chain’s Decentralization

Developers built politically sensitive applications on Binance Smart Chain as a way of showing the increasingly popular blockchain platform is not as decentralized as Ethereum. The dapps remain online.

Business  ·  3 March 2021
YouTube

Lessons from CoinDesk’s One-Day YouTube Shutdown

The helplessness we felt during the suspension points to a much bigger problem for everyone, writes Michael J. Casey.

Policy & regulation  ·  2 March 2021
Decentralization

Ideamarket Is a Literal Marketplace for Ideas (and Online Reputation)

The goal is to relieve social media platforms of the task of making judgments on behalf of the public.

Tech  ·  19 February 2021
Newsletters

Blockchain Bites: Why Buy an NFT?

Investors may be realizing the same deflationary market mechanisms that apply to bitcoin’s scarcity creates similar opportunities in NFTs.

News  ·  17 February 2021
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization

"One thing is clear: this is a serious project now, and we need to start taking decentralization seriously," said Wladimir van der Laan.

Tech  ·  22 January 2021
Decentralization

Sci-Hub Leaves Handshake Blockchain After 2 Days, Citing Centralization Concerns

Sci-Hub, a pirate library of academic papers censored by Twitter, PayPal and domain systems, left the distributed domain platform Handshake after two days, unsatisfied by the level of decentralization.

Tech  ·  14 January 2021