This week CoinDesk recounted the saga of Bitcoin developer's Luke Dashjr's proposal to amend key open-source software in a way that would have severely curtailed the use of data-oriented applications ...
Once a cash-burning enterprise software firm, Strategy Inc. MSTR – previously known as MicroStrategy Inc. – became the most extreme expression of the Bitcoin age. Under the vision of Michael Saylor, ...
Bitcoin’s supply cap is enforced by software and social consensus, not by immutable law. Bugs have tested that system before. The 2010 inflation incident was real and required a rollback, while the ...
Open-source code is code that is posted publicly online. Anyone is free to use the code for their own purposes, scrutinize it for bugs or propose new changes or features. Open-source code is the ...