Dan Larimer’s Departure Brings EOS Disappointments to the Fore

Robinhood Markets announced Tuesday plans to render another 23% of its workforce jobless – just months after the app-based brokerage let go of 9% of its employees. On Tuesday, Robinhood said it was laying off 780 employees and also announced the departure of a key executive. The job cuts were concentrated in marketing, operations and […]

Fantom Foundation has responded to the news of Andre Conje exiting crypto. The announcement which came early on Sunday saw Anton Nell and Andre Conje announce their departure from crypto and decentralized finance (DeFi) and any contribution thereof. This had sent shocked the community as it came seemingly out of nowhere, leaving many questioning the […]

The former founder of Steemit and Block.one is tackling social media once more. Daniel Larimer, former chief technology officer of Block.one and a co-founder of Block.one and Steemit, has revealed his next project, called Clarion.The project is meant to become a mobile-first decentralized social media platform, supporting all types of social features like personal messaging via text and video, publishing content to followers or having Discord-like voice chat rooms.According to Larimer, Clarion “learns lessons from other projects,” including the initial idea for Steemit and Voice, two....

With only a few days of 2020 left, here’s a look at some of the major disappointments in the crypto industry during the year. While 2020 has been a landmark year for the crypto space, there have been a few notable letdowns. Despite the growing mainstream acceptance of virtual currencies, some governments are still creating policies that stifle innovation, placing their countries at a disadvantage in the emerging digital economy.Decentralized finance was a major talking point going into the year, and the market segment did not disappoint, with massive growth in investment throughout 2020.....

Bitcoin's breakthrough from a rather stagnant price has certainly made miners happy as of late. It might even entice the masses to splurge on a mining unit or two. Such an occurrence would certainly help the network as a whole. The recent meeting of minds between Chinese mining hardware suppliers brings back to the fore just how centralized mining continues to be. And while closed-door events like this are happening, the public must contend with the possibility that personal computers can be afflicted with mining malware - that's not positive for the cryptocurrency industry. With that in....