If you’ve spent much time on crypto Twitter within the past couple of days, you may have seen some discussion and even hysteria regarding a recently-mined block. Block #528249’s six leading characters were “21e800”, a phrase that has grabbed the attention of conspiracists and curious individuals throughout the cryptocurrency space. “An Exceptionally Simple Theory of […] origin »
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.
EOS successfully launched its Mainnet on June 9 after getting through some technological rough spots but then took almost a week to reach the voting threshold to elect its “21 block producers”.