Forking hell.
The article focuses on an ideological and technical dispute concerning the digital currency Bitcoin. It states two of the main developers for the Bitcoin released a competing version of the currency's software on August 15, 2015. It mentions that Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared from vie...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 416; no. 8952; p. 60 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
8/22/2015
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