As the Bitcoin halving marked another major milestone in the crypto space, leaders in the crypto community shared different perspectives on how the event would affect the different areas of crypto. On ...
Greenpeace USA and the Environmental Working Group (EWG), with $5 million in backing from Ripple Labs co-founder Chris Larsen, recently launched the Change The Code Campaign. This lobbying effort — ...
Peter Howson has received funding from The British Academy. The switch, they claim, would reduce bitcoin’s carbon footprint by 99.9%. But it’s unlikely to happen soon – and here’s why. Bitcoiners ...
Chris Larsen, co-founder of Ripple also joined in on the call, saying Bitcoin is the “outlier” now that Ethereum’s model is set to change. Greenpeace, along with other climate groups, and co-founder ...
When environmentalist groups in March unveiled a campaign to move Bitcoin’s code away from the energy-intensive proof-of-work (PoW) model, many bitcoiners scoffed at the idea. Setting aside the ...
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The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1186: “They’re trying to ‘change the code’ again.” Sign up for the newsletter here. We meet here in this dark corner of the Internet a little less ...
Bitcoin 2025 joins America’s 250th celebration with a presidential partnership, 30,000 attendees and exclusive programming. In an interview with TheStreet Roundtable, Sean Hagan, Head of Media at BTC ...
Chris Larsen, the co-founder of XRP XRP/USD issuer Ripple Labs, has unveiled a $5 million campaign to change Bitcoin’s BTC/USD consensus mechanism. What Happened: The campaign “Change the Code, Not ...
Bitcoin just received a significant upgrade. As The Block notes, the Bitcoin network rolled out a long-in-the-making "Taproot" code upgrade early today (November 14th). The update improves both ...