Blockchain governance, consensus and decision making

Code Is Law – But It's Not the Only Law for Blockchains It's the combination of internal and external rules that ultimately dictates how blockch... (2018)

Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin has issued new details on his vision for proof-of-stake, ethereum's coming consensus change. (2018)

How does Bitcoin mine money from 1s and 0s? Through blockchain, a tool for creating secure, decentralized peer-to-peer applications. The technology... (2018)

Blockchain governance is shaped by much more than protocol rules: the underlying internet rails, social norms, markets and laws all have an influen... (2018)

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who rece... (2018)

After a roughly year-long initial coin offering (ICO), what has become perhaps the most hotly anticipated blockchain is scheduled to launch on June 2. (2018)

Bitcoin cash devs are fighting over what code changes to make next. If no one compromises, hard-forked coin could itself split into two. (2018)

With its community aligned, Zcash's first hard fork, Overwinter, might not be exciting. But as always, you never really rule out a blockchain split. (2018)

Disagreement surrounding an upcoming upgrade, Constantinope, is putting ethereum to the test. (2018)

A system for holding referenda on EOS is expected to launch soon. And that could release a huge pile of funds – or get rid of it. (2018)

More than a potential competition between blockchain platforms, tensions between IBM and Intel point to bigger questions around governance. (2018)

Whether in corporations, boardrooms, or political elections, voting is something we see in all kinds of social systems... including blockchains. It... (2019)