What’s up with Filecoin and the uproar over its miners?
Miners' complaints with economic model are resulting in early rewards release and falling FIL prices. What happened to 800,000 coins?
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Bryan Michael Galvan
Miners' complaints with economic model are resulting in early rewards release and falling FIL prices. What happened to 800,000 coins?
Bryan Michael Galvan is a journalist and member of Forkast.News' editorial team. Bryan has worked for the South China Morning Post and has a Master's degree from the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
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