Open Source

Google’s Win for Open Source

“What happened here, that no one expected, is the Supreme Court found fair use as a matter of law," tech lawyer Marta Belcher said.

News  ·  6 April 2021

Uniswap V3 Introduces New License to Spoil Future SUSHIs

Included in the new Uniswap white paper is a “business source license” that acts as a time delay against would-be copycats.

Tech  ·  23 March 2021
Governance

Taproot Update: Bitcoin Users Home In on Activation Plan, Date Still TBD

The meeting ended with rough consensus in favor of BIP8 (false), as well as with approval of two possible methods to put this BIP into motion.

Tech  ·  3 February 2021
DeFi

How DeFi ‘Degens’ Are Funding the Next Wave of Open-Source Development

Gitcoin's Kevin Owocki coins the phrase "regenerative finance" to describe the future of funding open-source development.

People  ·  30 December 2020
Ethereum

Developers Debate Disclosure Protocols After ‘Accidental’ Ethereum Hard Fork

Ethereum’s largest client Geth hard-forked after a bug was tripped Wednesday. Developers are now weighing the merits of security disclosures methods.

Tech  ·  13 November 2020
Blockchain Education

Blockchain Commons Internship Introduces New Developers to Open Source

The Blockchain Commons took on 7 interns this year to build out the organization’s many open-source projects.

Tech  ·  23 September 2020
Privacy

The Linux Foundation Wants Open-Source Tech to Address Future Pandemics

The Linux Foundation hopes open-source apps will play a key role in tracing exposure to diseases like COVID-19 while being fully transparent.

Tech  ·  12 August 2020
Ethereum

Marlin Releases Open-Source ‘Layer 0’ Transaction Relayer for Ethereum

Marlin has open sourced its OpenWeaver relay network to help speed up low latency mempool syncs of the Ethereum network and support decentralization.

Tech  ·  8 July 2020
Payments

Kraken Pledges $150K for Development of Open-Source BTCPay Server

Crypto exchange Kraken has donated $150,000 to the foundation managing BtcPay Server, an open-source tool for merchants accepting bitcoin payments.

Tech  ·  25 June 2020
Binance

Brave Browser’s Affiliate Link Controversy, Explained

Privacy browser Brave was called out this weekend when users noticed that typing "Binance" resulted in an auto-complete ending in a referral link.

Business  ·  8 June 2020
Open Source

Latest Bitcoin Core Code Release Protects Against Nation-State Attacks

Bitcoin Core released a new software update Wednesday. Notably, it includes experimental software to hedge against attacks from nation-states and ISPs.

Tech  ·  3 June 2020
Facebook

Big Tech Signs Rare Open Source Pledge to Boost Supplies During COVID-19

Major tech firms are opening their patents to allow developers to build much needed tools during the coronavirus crisis.

Policy & regulation  ·  20 April 2020
Bitcoin

Is Bitcoin in 2020 Really Like the Early Internet?

Bitcoin may be behind the internet’s timeline in terms of commercial use cases, but it has already achieved comparable social functions.

Tech  ·  11 January 2020
Open Source

Planned $1.1B Sale of .Org Angers Many Open Source Crypto Developers

The potential sale of the .org top-level domain could mean higher costs for open source crypto projects.

Tech  ·  12 December 2019
Twitter

Jack Dorsey Announces New Twitter Team: Square Crypto, but for Social Media

It could be a harbinger of a radical shift in social media infrastructure, depending on the execution.

Business  ·  11 December 2019