# Ryan X Charles News

Datt To Introduce A Decentralized, Bitcoin-Enabled, Content-Sharing Platform

December 15, 2015 by Joseph Young at Business, Entertainment, News

Ryan X. Charles, blockchain engineer and former Reddit cryptocurrency engineer has launched the first prototype of Datt, a Reddit-like content-sharing platform with integrated bitcoin payments. Datt v0.1.0, the prototype, has all the basic technical pieces of the platform in place, including cryptoidentities, P2P content sharing and P2P (bitcoin) payments. With...

California Bitcoin License Draws Criticism from Crypto Community

September 6, 2015 by Joseph Young at Business, Finance, News

Similar to New York’s BitLicense, which has caused the closure of many prominent bitcoin startups and exchanges like Kraken, Localbitcoins.com, Shapeshift, etc. in the state of New York, the California Senate is planning to pass a bill called AB 1326, a licensing requirement for bitcoin startups and exchanges in California....