Lisk lays off 21 of 53 employees

Approximately 40% of the employees working on the Lisk project were laid off on December 9th. Additionally, the contracts of three employees who were yet to join were also terminated. 32 staff remain in the following departments: 15 Development 5 Research 4 Operations 4 Marketing 2 Design 2 Business Development Read more…

RIP Decentralization: A single province in China controls 54 percent of Bitcoin’s hashrate (Report)

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/12/11/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-mining-hash-rate-china-renewable-energy-blockchain/ “Bitcoin miners in China wield two-thirds of the network’s processing power, and more than half of it is controlled by a single province [Sichuan].” CZ comment: “Mining is highly encouraged in China now. They hope to control bitcoin by having all the miners in the country (ie, under their Read more…