From the serious to the ridiculous, today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief has got it all, and by “all” read “a varied selection of crypto-related topics numbering no less than four and no more than six.” That doesn’t sound nearly as alluring though, does it? All it is then. Take a deep breath and let’s dive right in.
Also read: Craig Wright Referenced as Satoshi in Chinese University Textbook
Oh No Nano!
Yesterday was a big day for free transactions altcoin Nano: its Android wallet was released. Shortly after being unveiled, however, a small problem was detected. Okay, make that a pretty big problem:
For the record, Nano is the coin synonymous with the collapse of Bitgrail exchange and that was trading for $33 late last year, versus under $3 today. Nano holders have been hurting enough, in other words, without this latest debacle to deal with.
Nano dropped in price following news of its wallet fail.
Everything Is a Copy of a Copy
With the launch of Tron’s mainnet in progress, it seems a good time to revisit claims of plagiary surrounding Justin Sun’s much hyped altcoin. Technically these claims aren’t being revisited in fact, since they’re fresh ones, not to be confused with the original claims of Tron having plagiarized large chunks of its whitepaper. Digital Asset Research have been poking around in Tron’s codebase and what they’ve found looks very familiar. They write:
While copying code without attribution opens the project up to some legal risks, they pale in comparison to the technical risks that the project faces. EthereumJ [which Tron is based on] is known to be unreliable and has issues like memory leakage.
As a parting salvo, they add: “The
