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Crypto exchange Luno is cutting roughly one in five of its global workforce, with CEO James Lanigan pointing directly to automation as the driver. The company is pivoting away from retail trading toward institutional infrastructure, and it appears the technology enabling that shift is also eliminating the jobs that once supported the old model.
South Korea is pressing ahead with plans to tax cryptocurrency gains starting January first, two thousand twenty seven, with a threshold set at the equivalent of one thousand seven hundred forty dollars. Parliament is now the battleground, and the fact that the country has already delayed this measure three times makes it genuinely unclear whether this deadline will hold.
And in the open source database world, MariaDB is once again facing uncomfortable questions about its commitment to the community. With support for MySQL Galera Cluster ending in roughly two months, observers are asking how much of the technology's future the company intends to keep freely available, versus reserving for paying enterprise customers.
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