Would-be coders and eager trolls are digging into the early code for Facebook's Libra blockchain.
Long-time Bitcoin Core contributor Michael Ford has been named the newest maintainer of the open-source software project.
Posts on GitHub and Reddit suggest that momentum is building behind he change to ethereum's protocol.
Ethereum dev Yoichi Hirai has resigned as GitHub editor, airing concerns that a contentious proposal may be in violation of Japanese law.
More than 26,000 new projects related to blockchain were created on code repository GitHub last year, according to data collected by Deloitte.
The index was created by the investment firm to forecast "what may happen to bitcoin in the medium term".
