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.

William Foxley

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Tech

'Decentralized Court' Aragon Hit With Flurry of Resignations

Eleven staffers of Aragon One and one from the Aragon Association have announced their resignations Thursday due to an apparent lack of financial transparency.

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Finance

Bitcoin Lightning Startup Zap Goes Global, Adding Multiple Fiat Pairs, Stablecoins

Visa partner Strike is adding support for multiple fiat currency pairs plus stablecoins as part of its journey to become a “Bitcoin neo-bank.”

Zap founder Jack Mallers speaks at Bitcoin 2019 in San Francisco.

Finance

ShapeShift Is Going Full DeFi to Lose KYC Rules

Erik Voorhees’ ShapeShift is morphing into a decentralized exchange (DEX). It's losing the KYC restrictions at the same time.

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Tech

Valid Points: New Year, New Price Gains For ETH

Bullish price activity has tipped the total value of ETH locked into Ethereum 2.0 past $2.4 billion.

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Tech

Valid Points: A Year in Review by Your Ethereum 2.0 Staking Experts

In our year-end Ethereum roundup, we feature four charts from four Eth 2.0 staking experts recounting the best highlights of 2020.

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Finance

Panthers’ Russell Okung Becomes First NFL Player to Be Paid in Bitcoin

Okung’s $13 million salary is being split 50-50 between bitcoin and fiat by way of Zap’s Strike product.

Russell Okung of the Carolina Panthers

Finance

Cere Network Raises $1.5M More to Bring Its 'Decentralized Salesforce' to Polkadot

Binance-backed Cere Network has raised another $1.5 million to become a decentralized version of Salesforce.

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Markets

Valid Points: Forget Staking, There Are Still Coins to Be Mined on PoW Ethereum

Ethereum miners are making investments to maximize profits before mining becomes obsolete and gets replaced by validating on Ethereum 2.0.

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Tech

Linzhi Begins Rollout of Long-Awaited Ethereum Miner 'Phoenix'

Linzhi’s “Phoenix” Ethereum ASIC miner is three times more powerful than other machines on the market, as well as more energy efficient.

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Finance

Robot Ventures, Others Back 'Crypto Stripe' Flexa in $6M Raise

The crypto payment provider has raised $6 million from a private sale of its AMP token used for its new backend.

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