Greg Thomson
Greg Thomson
Greg Thomson is a journalist from Glasgow, Scotland. Covering the cryptocurrency and blockchain beat, he aims to unearth stories relevant to investors and enthusiasts in an industry that's often as mysterious as the anonymous, pseudonymous entity who created it. Disclosure: He owns less than $500 in ETH.Source
Glasgow, Scotland
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Bitcoin transaction fees soar after Bitcoin halving - Decrypt

Bitcoin transaction fees soar after Bitcoin halving - Decrypt

 App Email Discuss PodcastAverage transaction fees on the Bitcoin network have hit a new 11-month high. According to from Bitinfocharts, the average fee paid for transacting on Bitcoin hit $5.16 on May 14—a phenomenon not witnessed since June 2019.The average transaction cost increased 168% over the previous four days alone. Bitcoin fees have been on the rise ever since the turn of the year—and especially since to the block reward halving.Seen below, BTC’s average fees rose an astonishing 1,742% since January 1. Yet the majority of that growth was kickstarted on April 28—exactly two weeks...

May 17, 2020
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Craig Wright Accused of Plagiarizing Law Degree Dissertation

Craig Wright Accused of Plagiarizing Law Degree Dissertation

Close scrutiny of Craig Wright’s paper for his 2008 law degree reveals that he may not even have written his own dissertation. 0:00 The man who claims to have written the Bitcoin () whitepaper may not have written his own law degree dissertation.That’s the picture painted by “PaintedFrog,” the pseudonymous writer of a on April 9. This post demonstrates large-scale similarities between Wright’s dissertation and several other publicly available sources. Wright’s for his LLM in International Commercial Law for Northumbria University was written in 2008, titled The Impact of Internet...

April 10, 2020
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Steem network to seize $5 million from its own users - Decrypt

Steem network to seize $5 million from its own users - Decrypt

 App Email Discuss PodcastSeveral users of the Steemit (STEEM) blockchain application are going to lose 23.6 million STEEM, worth $5 million, in an upcoming hardfork scheduled for May 20.In December 2019, Tron CEO Justin Sun bought the Steemit blogging platform, and in February 2020, he the Steem blockchain platform itself. The upgrade will penalize those who opposed his hostile takeover.A major Steem stakeholder who’s set to lose his funds in the upgrade, Dan Hensley, told Decrypt, “If Justin thinks he will get away with this he has messed with the wrong person.”Since the article was...

May 19, 2020
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