Governance


Policy

Mnuchin's Number Two Says Private Cryptos Pose Threat to Government Power and Will Be Watched

The deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury has raised the specter of a not-so-distant future when private digital currencies have stripped some of the power from governments. Policymakers will take a "hard look" at that, he said.

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Markets

With 18 Million Bitcoins Mined, How Hard Is That 21 Million Limit?

The 18 millionth bitcoin is about to be mined. Though the remaining 3 million will take 120 years to mint, some question the certainty of the original hard cap.

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Markets

MakerDAO's Multi-Collateral DAI Token Is Launching Nov. 18

From Nov. 18, borrowers of DAI tokens will be able to stake multiple types of cryptocurrency collateral, not just ETH.

MakerDAO CEO Rune Christensen image via CoinDesk archives

Tech

Hyperledger Blockchain Group Weighs Changes to Fix Election Issues

The blockchain consortium’s powerful technical steering committee is discussing changes to its elections process to boost voter turnout and more.

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Markets

IBM Official Elected Chair of Hyperledger Blockchain Tech Board

Arnaud Le Hors of IBM has been elected chair of the technical steering committee at Hyperledger, succeeding Intel's Dan Middleton.

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Markets

Steemit to Automate Development Funding With New DAO

The blockchain project that focuses on monetizing social media sites is launching a DAO in its coming hard fork upgrade.

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Markets

Zooko Wilcox Pushes for New Developer Fund to Support Zcash

Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox has called for the creation of a new "Dev Fund" to support the operations of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency.

Zooko Wilcox, CEO of Zcash developer Electric Coin Company

Markets

Bridging the Gap Between Bitcoin and Global Regulators

We need to solve the communication problem between crypto projects and regulators to build a healthy ecosystem, writes Shin’ichiro Matsuo.

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Markets

How Blockchain Voting Is Supposed to Work (But In Practice Rarely Does)

There are a number of blockchain projects affirming they have a system of on-chain governance that works. But is that true?

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Markets

In First, Tezos Blockchain Activates Upgrade By Token Holder Voting

Tezos has activated its first ever on-chain upgrade initiated entirely by Tezos bakers during a three months period of both voting and code testing.

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