When blockchain technology first entered the popular psyche with the arrival of Bitcoin in 2009, the buzz term that caused a splash across the world was decentralization. That concept — of networks ...

Today, thanks to collaborative online tools, the citizens of a state or community are interconnected and can participate in building the world of tomorrow. Whether or not the citizen is geographically ...

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On May 30, Tezos implemented the amendment Athens A, as the result of a voting process that involved its baker nodes (the Tezos equivalent of “miners”) from Feb. 28 to May 30. Although the actual ...

The Bitcoin white paper doesn’t mention the word decentralization once – but it’s obviously there by another name: peer-to-peer. The Ethereum white paper mentions decentralization about 40 times. And ...

Pollak stressed that Base’s code is open source and that the chain aspires to be a Linux-style eco-system used by many ...

Bitcoin full nodes secure the network by independently verifying transactions and reinforcing Bitcoin’s consensus rules. Full ...

As ShapeShift winds down and the DAO ramps up, the foundation sets a model in ensuring a smooth transition to full decentralization The majority of DAOs form from the ground up, as DAOs from the ...