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...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 416; no. 8952; p. 60
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 8/22/2015
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