‘End Poverty, Restore Trust’: World Bank Dives into Blockchain with Lab Launch
The World Bank is launching a blockchain lab to develop projects that can improve governance and social outcomes in the developing world.
Development
Community members have taken to Github to express their discontent over a controversial proposal for lost fund recovery.
Bitcoin devs have released the first paper on the Schnorr multi-signature protocol, which, if implemented, would increase bitcoin block sizes.
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 […]
Bitcoin’s Real Bottleneck
Dec 27, 2017
Bitcoin's markets may be booming but it's the network's rare development talent that may be most valuable.
As the World Economic Forum seeks a leadership role in blockchain, a senior executive argues its members still have much to learn.
