According to CoinJournal, Bitcoin is now more likely to activate Segregated Witness (SegWit) before August 1st. A pull request to make SegWit2x (also known as the New York Agreement) more compatible with BIP 148, which is an attempt to activate SegWit via a user-activated soft fork, was recently merged into the project.
Bixin Pool, F2Pool, and BATPOOL all posted public support for the activation of SegWit via the SegWit2x proposal today. It remains unclear if these bitcoin mining pools also support the hard fork portion of the SegWit2x proposal, as Bixin’s version of the published letter stated, “Bixin Pool will support any scaling schemes which are technologically mature and deployed by the community.”
CoinDesk has published an opinion piece from three civil litigators and criminal and regulatory defense attorneys regarding where the SEC might stand on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). In the post, the trio outline how the case of SEC vs Traffic Monsoon provides a potential roadmap for aggressive SEC enforcement regarding ICOs.
According to Reuters, an SEC official has claimed that token issuers have a responsibility to protect their investors. Although this story was published in late May, it was mostly overlooked by the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities until today. This was the first public comment made by an SEC official on the topic of ICOs.
Bitsonline has published an interview with Jackson Palmer, who was the creator of Dogecoin. In the interview, Palmer shares his take on the current state of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.