Every week Bitcoin makes further progress in the world economy: Larger and larger businesses are accepting it as payment, governments continue to grapple with regulations, and a complex digital infrastructure is growing on top of the core protocol. Such innovations speak to the technological ingenuity of the human race at a time when legacy financial..
This author’s views do not represent the views of Coin Brief. The Bitcoin Foundation is considered by many to be the main representative of Bitcoin. The Foundation is tasked with promoting the global acceptance of Bitcoin, which includes helping major companies accept it as payment, lobbying governments to take a favorable stance towards digital currency,..
Mike Hearn is a former Google engineer who now works on a variety of Bitcoin-related projects, including the Java implementation of the protocol that serves as a foundation for wallet applications. He is one of just 10-15 people who handle writing the core Bitcoin code before it can be approved by miners on the network,..
Computer scientist and prominent Bitcoin advocate Andreas Antonopoulos has resigned from the Bitcoin Foundation over the group’s “complete lack of transparency,” according to his Twitter feed. Antonopoulos previously stepped down from the Foundation’s anti-poverty committee two weeks ago, and recent events have pushed Antonopoulos to sever the rest of his ties with the group. He..
