Some 20 US states are mulling creating Bitcoin reserves, and so is the federal government.
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The Protocol: Can Based Rollups Solve Ethereum’s Layer-2 Problem?
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Ben Schiller, CoinDesk’s Opinion and Features editor. In