Centralization

The popular decentralized exchange, Uniswap, is having one of its latest governance proposals stonewalled by the crypto venture capital giant Andreesen Horowitz (a16z).  The ongoing proposal vote, which ends on February 10, is currently 38% weighed against the change – almost entirely due to the software investor. So Much for Decentralization The proposal, tabled by 0xPlasma Labs on February 2, would have Uniswap v3 deployed to BNB chain. To enable the deployment, the proposal chose to use Wormhole – an…

Twitter’s co-founder and former CEO, Jack Dorsey, called out Ethereum for being insufficiently decentralized on Monday. Under one of Vitalik Buterin’s Twitter posts, he alleged the protocol has “one, if not many, single points of failure.” Decentralization and Social Media Vitalik’s initial tweet did not relate to Ethereum at all. Rather, the network’s founder offered his thoughts on Elon Musk’s recent $43 billion offer to completely take over Twitter. While he doesn’t oppose Elon running the show, he stood against…

Humanity hangs in the balance as the deadly Coronavirus affects various sectors, including healthcare, manufacturing, finance, and many more. Since the beginning of the outbreak, governments and citizens have had to adopt a new lifestyle that involves quarantine and social distancing practices.  To offset the current pandemic, global stakeholders at the World Economic Forum came up with a radical solution known as the Great Reset, which aims to change the global economy. The meeting, which took place in June 2020,…

On July 15, 2020, a massive hack described as "a coordinated social engineering attack" by Twitter targeted multiple high-profile users, including Tesla's Elon Musk, investor Warren Buffet, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and many others. The attack prompted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to say that it was a tough day for the social media platform. https://twitter.com/jack/status/1283594553618911232?s=19 The hack which targeted crypto users suggests that scammers managed to either find a severe security loophole in Twitter's login recovery process or that they somehow…

Despite being around for a long time now, numerous individuals still consider cryptocurrencies to be undergoing experimentation. However, Bitcoin has been able to gain some form of importance in the financial domain. This is such that governments and central banks worldwide are planning towards the regulation and introduction of their own digital currencies. We have numerous cryptocurrencies in the market but Bitcoin remains the leader despite its remarkable shortcomings. At press time, the dominance of Bitcoin was 62.97 percent, while its…