A prominent bitcoin developer has labeled the currency a failed experiment, widening the rift over an arcane but critical technical issue that has divided the community for nearly a year.“The fundamentals are broken, and whatever happens to the price in the short term, the long-term trend should probably be downwards,” developer Mike Hearn wrote on the blogging platform Medium.“I will no longer be taking part in bitcoin development... Most Popular Videos Film Clip: 'The Big Sick' Lower Your Wireless Bill With These Tips 'Bridge Crew': Voice Command Comes to 'Star Trek' VR Videogame A New Road to Income: Barron's Buzz Opinion Journal: Macron vs.Data SheetApple’s Spat With FBI Exposes Deeper Rift Over PrivacyAdam LashinskyI was in L.A.Monday, and you’d think everywhere I went people would be talking about the Academy Awards the night before.(Columnist’s prerogative: Three cheers for journalism!)They were talking about Apple versus the FBI.I still find that when I talk to people generally involved in the non-technology business world there is little sympathy for Apple’s position, as I wrote last week.

Among technologists, pro-encryption is the norm.This seems to be a debate about technology—a face-off between privacy advocates and law enforcement officials and their supporters.Yet in reality it is as much a statement about belief in government.One simplistic way to think about it is where one stands on Edward Snowden: Hero or villain?The hero crowd tends to be on Apple’s side; those who see Snowden as a traitor obviously are with the FBI.Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter.This spat is so much bigger than Apple and the FBI, though.To understand this, I highly recommend a Rolling Stone article from last fall by the journalist David Kushner about the so-called Darknet.Kushner explains in admirably clear language how a separate network runs on a U.S.-government-funded browser called Tor that allows its users to be anonymous.The government started it as a voice for dissidents and others needing privacy, yet a small percentage of Darknet users are criminals, including drug dealers.Unsurprisingly, federal prosecutors want to chip away at anonymity on the Darknet even though their own government created it.

Supporters don’t condone criminality on the Darknet, but they oppose the government’s efforts to unmask anyone on it.The solution?Share This Story!Let friends in your social network know what you are reading aboutTwitterGoogle+LinkedInPinterestPosted!A link has been posted to your Facebook feed.xEmbedCLOSESAN FRANCISCO — Apple's decision to withhold spending and technical support from the Republican National Convention next month underscores a deepening rift between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump.The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has waged a verbal assault against Apple, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and — through a surrogate — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for several months, while advocating hardline stances on immigration and minorities that have rankled progressive tech executives.A person briefed on Apple's decision confirmed the snub, earlier reported by Politico, saying the decision was relayed to Republican officials.That person asked not to be named because they are not authorized to discuss it publicly.Emily Lauer, a spokeswoman for the host committee raising funds for the Republican convention in Cleveland, told USA TODAY she could “only confirm that they have not been part of the more than 100 committed donors.”Apple is the latest corporate player to spurn the Republican event, to be held in Cleveland, or speak against Trump.HP Inc., The Coca-Cola Co.

and Microsoft have eliminated or reduced financial support.Microsoft is providing products and services but won’t donate cash.Coca-Cola has indicated it would give just $75,000, compared to more than $600,000 in 2012.is not giving money or technical support to either the Republican or the Democratic convention, in Philadelphia next month.Wells Fargo, Ford Motor, United Parcel Service and Motorola are also among the companies steering clear of the Republican gathering, according to a recent Bloomberg report.Google and Facebook have said they will provide some support to the GOP event.Silicon Valley, which normally makes its bets through venture funding, is investing heavily on Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.ethereum jpyHer campaign has collected $2.68 million in donations, compared with $21,815 for Trump, who has largely self-funded his campaign, according to Crowdpac, a nonpartisan political crowdfunding web site.On Monday, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky told an audience in France that Trump was on the "wrong side of history" with his idea of building a wall between Mexico and the U.S.USA TODAYVoices: Fresh off California win, Clinton is tech's candidateThis month, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich abruptly canceled a fundraiser for Trump amid outrage from within Intel for his anti-immigration stance, according to a report in Re/code.Trump has made his candidacy a hard sell in the valley because he's been so antagonistic toward it.bitcoin mining 1080

When Apple refused a government request to hack the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, Calif., shooters, Trump called for a boycott of Apple products.After Zuckerberg took a thinly-veiled jab at Trump's immigration stance during a speech in April, a Trump aide called out Zuckerberg for "self-righteousness."In December 2015, Trump tweeted that Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, was using the newspaper as a "tax shelter" to save the "no-profit company" Amazon.Still, Apple's action is jarring because it contributes cash or products to both parties during the conventions.Four years ago, Apple lent products to the Democratic and Republican conventions but withheld writing checks.bitcoin valor en pesos colombianosIn 2008, it provided about $140,000 in products and services to both conventions, according to Politico, citing campaign finance records.Apple CEO Tim Cook is also supporting a more moderate Republican, hosting a fundraiser for House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., later this month in Silicon Valley, according to an invite obtained by Politico.Despite the corporate boycotts, convention organizers said they have exceeded the fundraising pace for the 2012 Republican convention in Tampa.bitcoin cz wiki

Lauer said the Cleveland group has only $6.5 million of its $64 million budget left to collect.USA TODAYPolitical conventions race to close fundraising gapsActivists, who have been lobbying companies to boycott the convention over Trump’s harsh rhetoric about women, Latinos and Muslims, hailed Apple’s move.“This is not about left or right,” said Rashad Robinson, spokesman for Color of Change PAC, which has spearheaded the anti-Trump campaign.como instalar bitcoin en linux“This is about right and wrong.”Robinson said his group will work to get other firms to join the growing boycott list.“This is not a business-as-usual convention,” he said.bitcoin live wetten“Companies will have to answer five and 10 years from now about what they did in this moment.”Follow USA TODAY San Francisco Bureau Chief Jon Swartz @jswartz on Twitter.bitcoin highest payout