“There’s a minimum cost to get a new line going,” Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko told CoinDesk in an interview. With at least 100,000 customers for chapter 2 having already paid $450, the economics for selling an affordable second device are more viable than the “brutal” numbers that backed Solana’s experimental first phone, which originally retailed for $1,000, he said.
China’s Leading Blockchain Advocate Faces Investigation
Yao Qian, a prominent ‘pro-blockchain official’ in China, is under investigation by Chinese authorities for undisclosed “violations of law.” The...