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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Tecnologie

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)

Tecnologie

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)

Tecnologie

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)

Tecnologie

Marlin Releases Open-Source ‘Layer 0’ Transaction Relayer for Ethereum

Marlin has open sourced its OpenWeaver relay network to help speed up low latency mempool syncs of the Ethereum network and support decentralization.

(Federico Beccari/Unspash)

Tecnologie

Gelato Gives Developers a New ‘Money Lego’ Tool for DeFi Applications

Decentralized exchange Gnosis will be the first major platform to integrate Gelato's audited v1 transaction automator for token swaps on Ethereum's mainnet.

(Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finanza

After Years of Resistance, BitPay Adopts SegWit for Cheaper Bitcoin Transactions

Payments processor BitPay has added support for SegWit, three years after a competing block size proposal fractured the Bitcoin community.

SegWit inventor Pieter Wuille speaks in 2015. (Scaling Bitcoin)

Tecnologie

Cryptography Startup Brings Private Payment Channels to Tezos Blockchain

Cryptography firm Bolt Labs has launched a private payment solution, zkChannels, on Tezos.

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Tecnologie

Ethereum Developers Delay Berlin Hard Fork to Stem Client Centralization Concerns

79% of Ethereum nodes run on Geth. Core developers have pushed back July's Berlin hard fork so other clients can catch up.

Bundestag, Berlin, Germany (Ricardo Gomez Angel/Unsplash)

Tecnologie

Ethereum Developers Consider New Fee Model as Gas Costs Climb

With EIP 1559, Ethereum developers are proposing a dynamic pricing system to lower the blockchain network's current high gas fees.

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Tecnologie

Blockstream's Liquid Network Sent $8M in BTC Unsafely, Says Bitcoin Developer

Bitcoins stored on the Liquid Network were temporarily able to be seized by network moderators Thursday night.

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