CoinDesk Struck By Blockchain Meltdown As Hard Fork Hits Website
Sources close to CoinDesk confirm that at 9:00am GMT, the website’s proprietary news blockchain, the distributed, immutable record of its news coverage, experienced a sudden, controversial hard fork resulting in two separate and irreconcilable versions of its news history. From this time forward, readers have reported unexpected increases in the size of the CoinDesk’s text, to the point where certain articles experience wildly fluctuating text sizes. However, for many observers of the website, the split is not unexpected, as it follows a months-long debate in the once-lauded organization....
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