Stripe Backs Non-Profit Decentralized Payment Network Stellar, From Mt. Gox’s Original Creator

 There’s Bitcoin, the asset and hedge against fiat currencies and the politics of their central banks. And then there’s Bitcoin, a fundamental innovation around a distributed public ledger of transactions. Many crypto-currencies try to split or play with the distinction between the two. An early attempt was the Ripple, from OpenCoin. But the team behind that startup split.… Read More