Bitcoin Cash Miners Propose Controversial Soft Fork for Zcash-Style Development Fund
The proposed fork will see 12.5 percent of block rewards diverted to a new BCH-specific development fund. Reactions have been mixed.
Development
Wow! After such price rise, Dogecoin’s developers have much coding to do.
U.S. bitcoiners can now make tax-exempt donations to fund Bitcoin development.
Prominent backers include CoinShares’ Meltem Demirors, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor.
Blockchain doesn't need ARPANET-type government support. But co-ordination and collective action are vital to avoid duplication of effort.
With bitcoin’s next likely major upgrade in the works, students of the cryptocurrency can inspect the code themselves, helped by core developers.
Development
As Crypto Markets Go Cold, Who Will Pay for Open-Source Code?
Formerly a CoinDesk Contributing Editor, Daniel Cawrey is author of the upcoming “Mastering Blockchain” book to be published by O’Reilly Media. Earlier this year IBM purchased Red Hat, the oft-referred to model for how open source can thrive, for $34 billion. Long the consultant to enterprises, IBM is going through a transitional period as a […]
