As Facebook continues in the effort to launch its Libra cryptocurrency, the social media giant is likely to rely more heavily on paid lobbyists and the persuasion powers of its senior executives. Mark Zuckerberg prefers closed-door approach In a leaked audiotape of a Facebook town hall released by The Verge, the co-founder and CEO of...Read More
Following the release of the Bitcoin whitepaper in late 2008, thousands for cryptocurrency projects have been launched. The vast majority of them have been unsuccessful because they didn’t really have a unique value proposition. Starting with Ethereum and Nxt, blockchain-based platform developers have tried to create decentralized networks based on a variety of protocols including...Read More
Over the past few months, an odd trend has been seen: the Ethereum blockchain itself has started to gain traction, even as ETH’s price fell, with there being a large uptick in transaction volumes and overall network activity. It got to a point when last month, the fees that Ethereum users paid to use their...Read More