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William Foxley

William Foxley

Will Foxley is the host of The Mining Pod and publisher at Blockspace Media. A former co-host of CoinDesk's The Hash, Will was the director of content at Compass Mining and a tech reporter at CoinDesk.

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Ethereum 2.0: Closer Than Ever, Still Plenty of Work to Do
Five years later, Ethereum is still chugging along as a decentralized platform for self-executing code. Eth 2.0 is quite close, but for real this time.
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By William Foxley
Jul 31, 2020 at 12:50 p.m. UTC
Jul 31, 2020
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Ethereum
DeFi Lender Aave Rolls Out Governance Token on Path to Decentralization
Aave will transfer ownership of the protocol to a “genesis governance” built and approved by LEND token holders. It will also swap LEND tokens for AAVE.
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By William Foxley
Jul 29, 2020 at 4:08 p.m. UTC
Jul 29, 2020
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Prediction markets
5 Years After Launch, Predictions Market Platform Augur Releases Version 2
Augur v2 has all the bells and whistles: Interplanetary File System (IPFS), 0x Mesh, MakerDAO’s dai and Uniswap’s v2 oracle network.
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By William Foxley
Jul 28, 2020 at 10:06 p.m. UTC
Jul 28, 2020
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(BitInfoCharts Block Explorer/CoinDesk Research)
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Parity technologies
Polkadot Raises $43M in 72-Hour Private Sale: Source
A second private sale of the Polkadot token (DOT) has netted some 3,982.07 BTC worth an estimated $43.3 million as of press time, according to sources.
(BitInfoCharts Block Explorer/CoinDesk Research)
By William Foxley
Jul 27, 2020 at 9:44 p.m. UTC
Jul 27, 2020
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Ethereum
Chainlink Integration Brings Data Feeds to Binance’s DeFi Project
Binance is building out a DeFi platform with its Smart Chain protocol and has integrated Chainlink as a pricing solution.
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By William Foxley
Jul 23, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. UTC
Jul 23, 2020
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Proof-of-stake
Ethereum 2.0 Developers Announce ‘Final’ Testnet Before Network Launch
Medalla, the final testnet before Ethereum begins its long-awaited, gradual transition to proof of stake (PoS), has been announced.
(Preston van loon, Prysmatic labs/CoinDesk Archives)
By William Foxley
Jul 22, 2020 at 6:37 p.m. UTC
Jul 22, 2020
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China
Conflux Blockchain Announces Ecosystem Grants Program
Development grants will be paid in the platform's native token, CFX, in values up to $15,000 and $50,000 for both projects and firms respectively.
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By William Foxley
Jul 20, 2020 at 10:30 p.m. UTC
Jul 20, 2020
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OpenEthereum Supported 50% of Ethereum Classic Nodes. Now It’s Leaving the Project
Two of Ethereum Classic’s largest clients are walking away from the project. That leaves only 30% of the network to support future updates.
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By William Foxley
Jul 20, 2020 at 7:20 p.m. UTC
Jul 20, 2020
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Whale Alert Identifies 1.125 Million BTC as Satoshi's Stash
New on-chain analysis from Whale Alert suggests Satoshi Nakamoto mined an estimated 1,125,150 in bitcoin, now worth an estimated $10.9 billion.
(Whale Alert)
By William Foxley
Jul 20, 2020 at 5:24 p.m. UTC
Jul 20, 2020
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Bitmex
Twitter Hacker Is a BitMEX Trader, On-Chain Data Suggests
Whoever is responsible for Wednesday's Twitter hack was deep into the cryptocurrency space, with the BitMEX receipts to prove it.
(CoinDesk Research)
By William Foxley
Jul 16, 2020 at 5:38 p.m. UTC
Jul 16, 2020
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