Blockchain at a crossroads: From Davos hype to global impact

The parliament member claimed that there are no anti-blockchain voices in the Russian government 536 Total views 1 Total shares Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the Russian parliament’s Financial Markets committee, had some good news for blockchain fans in Russia. According to Aksakov, there are “no anti-blockchain voices” in the government and he believes that…

As the Kyrgyz government discusses raising electricity tariffs again, a former official says that crypto mining is a significant driver of the ongoing energy crisis. 3147 Total views 21 Total shares Amid growing concerns over the energy sector in Kyrgyzstan, a former government official has argued that cryptocurrency mining is a major factor driving the…

Blockchain protocol research and development company CasperLabs has appointed Ethereum Foundation researcher Vlad Zamfir as lead consensus protocol architect, a Medium post by the company reveals on Feb. 22.CasperLabs is a company trying to develop the so-called correct-by-construction Casper proof-of-stake (PoS) Ethereum (ETH) consensus algorithm. In a PoS cryptocurrency, block creators are chosen by random…

Marathon Digital sold a large chunk of its Bitcoin production in May as miners adjusted operations after the halving event.

About 2,000 years ago during its Han dynasty, China made peace with some of the nomadic people of Central Asia who continuously ransacked Silk Road traders for an easy payday. It did so in order to fully establish the Silk Road trade route, which stretched from China to Europe, and to secure a great source…

Robert Wiecko is getting back into playing electric guitar. Armed with his brand new Fender Stratocaster, the COO of DASH Core Group is reliving his youth as a high school student living in Poland. “It’s an amazing feeling to restart something you loved so much and forgot for some reason.” Playing guitar gives him a…

The reported fundraiser will come after the Republican National Convention, in which delegates are expected to nominate Donald Trump as the party’s presidential candidate.

Sony Block Solutions Labs, a year-old joint venture between the Sony Group and Startale Labs, has introduced an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain to lure app developers across various sectors.