He continued:
“At the foundation, the way we view our role is to deploy resources to support participants in the community.”
It’s a statement on the foundation’s realignment with users after months of tension between members of the project’s team that ended in February.
The initial goal was to launch a so-called “betanet” of the blockchain by the end of Q2.
For instance, the project, which remains one of the largest initial coin offerings in history raising $232 million, will have some oversight initially.
This is far fewer than what EOS had before launch; in EOS’ case, dozens of organizations were vying for validator spaces before the launch.
When Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first Bitcoin block, he encoded into it a reference to a newspaper headline for that day: “Chancellor on Brink of Second Bailout for Banks. ” In doing so, he placed an anti-bank, anti-corruption ideology at the foundation of Bitcoin itself.
The Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) now officially accepts donations made with cryptocurrencies, the non-profit announced Monday. The move is “a natural fit” for the organization, which aims to support journalists reporting on issues within governments, said executive director Trevor Timm.
During a recent address to the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D. C, Jonathan Johnson, the former chairman and current member of the board for Overstock, sought to emphasize that payments in the form of bitcoin comprise a steadily growing source of revenue for the company.