A Fight Is Breaking Out Over Bitcoin Cash – And It Just Might Split the Code Bitcoin cash devs are fighting over what code changes to make next. If no one compromises, hard-forked coin could itself split into two. … Read More
The Downside of Democracy (and What it Means for Blockchain Governance) Introducing on-chain governance to crypto networks is likely to make them more like nation-states with the inefficiencies that entails.… Read More
The Age of Endless Blockchain Forks Is Coming to an End Real-world assets will force a change in blockchain governance, writes EY’s Paul Brody. Forks will still be possible, but will attract fewer users.… Read More
Bitcoin Forks and Livestock Law? Tax Day 2018 Is a Different Animal U.S. income tax treatment of forks is unclear. A conservative approach would be to treat the receipt of new cryptocurrency as taxable ordinary income.… Read More
No-Fork Guarantee? New Cryptocurrency Touts Resistance to Code Splits Hedera, a new public ledger developed by enterprise DLT software firm Swirlds, uses a patented codebase to prevent forking or cloning of the currency.… Read More