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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Former Bitcoin lead dev predicts demise of BTC network ... with a major silver lining

Bitcoin prices could reach $6 million per coin in forty years’ time, but the whales may eventually pull the plug.

A former lead developer for the Bitcoin network has postulated a possible future for the world’s most popular cryptocurrency which includes an epic price prediction.

Software developer Gavin Andresen published a recent blog post called “A Possible BTC Future” in which he predicts the demise of the Bitcoin network.

Before BTC meets its end, it will reach a price of $6 million per coin in 2061, Andresen predicts. Before you get too excited, he added that $1 million dollars today will be worth $6 million in the next forty years, due to massive inflation.

The former Bitcoin client programmer admitted that his predictions were a “little piece of science fiction,” but that the scenario was entirely possible. Transaction fees would cost around $7,500 but most transactions will not occur on the network itself, he added.

Instead they’d be on a mirrored chain using wrapped tokens to save on fees and improve speeds. The whales, which would control the entire thing, would continue to transact on the main chain. By 2100, these whales would recognize that the mining fee had dropped to near zero and so few transactions are occurring so they will shut it down, Andresen predicted.

“Eventually, there are zero new BTC being produced on the BTC network, and zero BTC circulating on the BTC network. There is nothing left to secure, and the chain stops.”

The silver lining is that there will still be 20 million or so BTC moving around on other blockchains which would retain their value through scarcity, he added. Mathematically, the last Bitcoin is due to be mined in 2140. Currently, just 2.17 million, or 10.5%, remain to be mined.

Related: 5 Surprising Facts From Gavin Andresen’s Sworn Deposition

Andresen, who also founded the Bitcoin Foundation, stepped down from his lead role in 2014 and has receded from the spotlight in recent years. In 2016, he was ostracized from the Bitcoin community for supporting Craig Wright’s claims to be BTC creator Satoshi Nakamoto.

He later admitted that this was a mistake and testified that he had been “bamboozled” by Wright’s claims in June 2020.

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