Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson recently said that he would not mind working with Litecoin founder, Charlie Lee, to test cross chain communication. "It would be great to do something together," Hoskinson said in a July 7 tweet to Lee. Both men founded industry giants Hoskinson founded Cardano (ADA), which, at press time, sits seventh on the list of crypto assets in market cap size, according to CoinMarketCap. Litecoin maintains the eighth spot. Both figure heads hold notable status in the crypto and blockchain space. "I love the idea of testing cross chain communication between Litecoin and Cardano. We got a …

Cardano’s native cryptocurrency, ADA, may be listed on Coinbase by the end of 2020. This news comes following an announcement that ADA holders will soon be able to stake their assets in Coinbase custody. More announcements coming in 2020 A spokesperson from IOHK — Cardano's development company — released the following statement to Cointelegraph replying to the question of whether a Coinbase listing is also in the works: “With the release of Adrestria, our new suite of libraries and APIs, allowing for a seamless, modular process of integrating Cardano with exchanges, we’ve been working closely with a number of exchanges, …

Cardano (ADA) is upgrading from “Byron” over to “Shelley”. According to an announcement from the project: “We’ve been successfully running node v 1.14.2 on the Shelley public testnet for over a week now. And we can confirm that we’ll deploy the new node to the Cardano mainnet… today, 30th June as per the first date in the rollout plan.” Shelley offers greater decentralization and lays the groundwork for Goguen, which will introduce smart contracts. The Shelley version of Daedalus wallet has been released as well. This story is currently developing.

Three Republican senators introduced a bill to end “warrant-proof” encryption on June 23. It invokes national security as a pretext for requiring device manufacturers and service providers to assist law enforcement by providing access to encrypted data. Pedophiles & national security The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act is sponsored by Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). According to GovTrack, all three senators score high on the conservativeness scale, with Blackburn receiving a perfect 1.00. Graham is also one of the sponsors of the EARN IT Act, which many privacy advocates heavily criticized for what they …

Charles Hoskinson, the creator of Cardano (ADA), has described participating in cryptocurrency as an inherently political act. Speaking during an impromptu ask-me-anything on YouTube, Hoskinson asserted that crypto-driven fundamental disruptions to monetary relations will not come without struggle, placing the crypto phenomenon within the political arena. Hoskinson also urged members of the crypto community to take a stand against increasing regulatory moves to crack down on encryption. Crypto is inherently political In the AMA streamed on June 5, Charles Hoskinson proclaimed that “Crypto is a political movement.” "Crypto is as political as it gets,” he said. “We’re going to reinvent …

In a Cointelegraph interview, Charles Hoskinson said that in his opinion, recursive snarks could be a solution for the Bitcoin’s (BTC) scalability problems. Intellectual dishonesty Hoskinson believes that there was a lot of intellectual dishonesty in the block size debate, which eventually led to the creation of Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Discussing the main argument of the Bitcoin core supporters that the increase in block size would have led to the greater centralization of the network, Hoskinson said: “Just an insane argument. And this is the intellectual dishonesty of that argument. So that's like saying: ‘network capacity, CPUs and hard disks …

The price of Cardano (ADA) has increased 60% in the week following Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson revealing the roadmap for the Shelley upgrade in a YouTube podcast with Lark Davis, aka Cryptolark. Shelley will see the network upgraded from a centralized network to a distributed one through the Shelley protocol upgrade by July 7, viewers were told, in conjunction with details about staking rewards and the hard fork. This is the biggest change in protocols from any blockchain project, according to Hoskinson: “This is like Ripple changing its consensus protocol [...] No cryptocurrency has really done this to this scale …

Charles Hoskinson does not know why his fellow Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin will not acknowledge the existence of Cardano (ADA) while speaking enthusiastically about other blockchain projects. Ignore fetish In a recent Cointelegraph interview, Hoskinson lamented Buterin ignoring Cardano. Hoskinson said that this ignorance of Cardano’s achievements hurts Ethereum, as everything that Cardano does is open source and could be borrowed by the rival. Ethereum has been plagued by delays in the development of its second generation proof-of-stake platform. When asked directly about about the crux of this tacit conflict, Hoskinson responded: “I don't live in his mind, so …

In a recent Cointelgraph interview, Ethereum co-founder and Cardano founder Charles Hoskinon said that he believes that Adam Back “checks all the boxes” as a Satoshi Nakamoto candidate. The puzzle of Satoshi’s true identity never seems to get old. Although Hoskinson admits that he does not have any hard evidence connecting the Blockstream’s founder to the pseudonymous Bitcoin creator, he did make a mental profile of Satoshi — Back seemingly has a perfect fit. Hoskinson believes that Satoshi was somebody, who lived either in Western Europe of the coastal United States, was comfortable with British English, and had a background …

In a recent Cointelegraph interview, Charles Hoskinson elaborated on the crypto-native chip that IOHK is working at its blockchain lab at the University of Wyoming that may lead to many groundbreaking use cases, including a cash-like experience for cryptocurrency. Crypto-native microchip It all began when IOHK, the company charged with the development of Cardano (ADA), began exploring supply chain use cases and realized that there were no chips on the market that could satisfy its requirements — embeddability, ability to store cryptographic keys, and being inexpensive to produce: “Really what we noticed is that there's unfortunately no market standard right …

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has revealed why the University of Wyoming presented a more attractive choice than Harvard, MIT or Cornell for Input Output’s (IOHK’s) lab. IOHK, the company charged with the development of Cardano, donated $500,000 in ADA to the blockchain lab at the university earlier this year. The State of Wyoming is known for its progressive crypto legislation, which allowed former Wall Street executive Caitlin Long to establish the first crypto-native bank in the U.S. Hoskinson noted that the university was, “the first state institution in the entire United States to treat ADA like U.S. dollars.” Gender studies …

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao and Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson have taken gold bug Peter Schiff to task for his professionalized Bitcoin (BTC) naysaying. On May 6, Zhao, better known in the industry as CZ, responded to Schiff’s online admission that he likes to “rile up” folk in the crypto space, quipping that: “He [Schiff] tweets more #bitcoin than gold. And his commenters/followers are all bitcoin people. He is the sheep in wolf's skin.” Schiff — a libertarian economist and broker/dealer who made his name as a vocal public advocate of gold — has in recent years devoted significant airspace to …