Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen is a leader of THORChain, a blockchain that is not supposed to have any leaders—and is reeling from a series of expensive controversies.

“Once contribution and reputation building can be automated, the attack surface moves from the code to the governance process around it. Projects that rely on informal trust and maintainer intuition ...

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...