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

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.

Binance BSC, Binance app

Tech

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)

Markets

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.

(Conflux)

Tech

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.

(Ryan Oswick/Unsplash)

Tech

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)

Tech

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)

Tech

Zcash Latest Hard Fork 'Heartwood' Makes Mining Private

Privacy coin zcash has successfully hard forked at block height 903,000 in a planned network update known as “Heartwood.”

Zcash Foundation Executive Director Josh Cincinnati speaks at ETHDenver 2020. (Will Foxley/CoinDesk)

Tech

Twitter Hack Used Bitcoin to Cash In: Here's Why

You can send bitcoin from your phone or computer to anyone, just about anywhere in the world. And once you’ve sent it, you can’t get it back.

(Michael Dziedzic/ Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Quantstamp Audit Greenlights Ethereum 2.0 Client Prysm for Launch

Ethereum 2.0 client Prysm is “basically ready” to launch, according to the audit firm's CEO Richard Ma in a phone call with CoinDesk.

(Michael Dziedzic/Unsplash)

Tech

Researcher Hopes Cosmos-Style 'Checkpoint' Could Fix Ethereum's Data Problem

The “ReGenesis” proposal by Ethereum researcher Alexey Akhunov would “nuke” the state for certain nodes. It might just fix the network’s growing data issue.

(Guillermo Ferla/Unsplash)