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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
OpenZeppelin Discloses 'High Severity Vulnerability' in DeFi Wallet Argent
A “high severity vulnerability” was found and patched in Ethereum wallet Argent, according to leading white-hat hackers OpenZeppelin.
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By William Foxley
Jun 19, 2020 at 3:28 p.m. UTC
Jun 19, 2020
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Tech
Privacy
The Zcash Privacy Tech Underlying Ethereum’s Transition to Eth 2.0
Ethereum’s consensus algorithm is not the only thing changing with the launch of Eth 2.0. The underlying cryptography itself is getting an overhaul.
Multiple curves
By William Foxley
Jun 19, 2020 at 1:46 p.m. UTC
Jun 19, 2020
PrivacyProof-of-StakeEthereumScalingZcashElectric Coin CompanyEth 2.0
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Tech
Reddit
Reddit Seeks Scaling Solution for Ethereum-Based 'Community Points'
Reddit announced a partnership with the Ethereum Foundation to find a scaling solution for the site's new blockchain-based Community Points.
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By William Foxley
Jun 18, 2020 at 8:03 p.m. UTC
Jun 18, 2020
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Finance
Venture capital
Polychain Capital, Square Crypto’s Steve Lee Invest in Bitcoin Broker’s $5.7M Seed Round
Bitcoin broker River Financial has closed a $5.7 million seed round to secure additional U.S. money transmitter licenses.
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By William Foxley
Jun 17, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Jun 17, 2020
Venture CapitalAsset ManagementPolychain CapitalElizabeth StarkRiver FinancialCrypto Brokers
Unstoppable Domains CEO Matthew Gould (left) and CTO Braden Pezeshki (Credit: Unstoppable Domains)
Tech
Censorship
Unstoppable Domains Launches Censorship-Resistant Blogging Platform
Decentralized blogging is coming to a .crypto URL near you thanks to a partnership between Unstoppable Domains and Protocol Labs.
Unstoppable Domains CEO Matthew Gould (left) and CTO Braden Pezeshki (Credit: Unstoppable Domains)
By William Foxley
Jun 11, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Jun 11, 2020
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Tech
Oracles
Sequoia-Backed Band Protocol Creeps Onto Chainlink’s Turf With Oracle Product
Band Protocol 2.0 launched Wednesday with its mainnet oracle solution, BandChain, leveraging the Cosmos SDK from Tendermint Labs.
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By William Foxley
Jun 10, 2020 at 2:11 p.m. UTC
Jun 10, 2020
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Finance
Micropayments
Hacker Noon Raises $1M From Former Ripple CTO's Firm for Content Micro-Tipping
Tech site Hacker Noon is adding micropayments following an integration with Coil that runs on the Interledger protocol.
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By William Foxley
Jun 10, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Jun 10, 2020
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Tech
Infrastructure
NEAR Protocol Enlists Bison Trails for Validator Support as It Heads Toward Full Mainnet
Bison Trails will help host the NEAR Protocol’s early validator set, currently consisting of over 150 nodes including some 40 of the project’s investors.
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By William Foxley
Jun 9, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Jun 9, 2020
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Finance
Startups
Crypto News Outlet BlockTV Shuts Down, Citing Impact of COVID-19
Cryptocurrency-focused media startup BlockTV has shut down operations due to the economic strains of the COVID-19 crisis, according to two former employees.
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By William Foxley
Jun 8, 2020 at 9:05 p.m. UTC
Jun 8, 2020
StartupsMediaLayoffsBlockTV
SHADOWBAN: A new code fix is meant to stop large actors from executing a potential attack on bitcoin. (Mt. Erebus, Antarctica. Credit: Shutterstock)
Tech
Open source
Latest Bitcoin Core Code Release Protects Against Nation-State Attacks
Bitcoin Core released a new software update Wednesday. Notably, it includes experimental software to hedge against attacks from nation-states and ISPs.
SHADOWBAN: A new code fix is meant to stop large actors from executing a potential attack on bitcoin. (Mt. Erebus, Antarctica. Credit: Shutterstock)
By William Foxley
Jun 3, 2020 at 9:34 p.m. UTC
Jun 3, 2020
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