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Your After Hours Guide to the Last Day of Consensus
It's Friday night in Austin, Texas. Here's what to do.
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Your After Hours Guide to Consensus 2024, Thursday Night
Still looking to network after day two of the most anticipated crypto conference? Check out these side events.
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J. Christopher Giancarlo, Former Chairman, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Willkie Farr & Gallagher (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)
Your After Hours Guide to Consensus 2024, Wednesday Night
Events to consider following the first day of the conference.
J. Christopher Giancarlo, Former Chairman, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Willkie Farr & Gallagher (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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Your Afterhours Guide to Consensus 2024, Tuesday Night
Here are the cool things to do on the evening before the first day of CoinDesk's flagship conference.
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Bitcoin sculpture made from scrap metal outside the BitCluster mining farm in Norilsk, Russia. (BitCluster)
Allen Farrington: Capital in the 21st Century
In the same way Bitcoin mining incentivizes more energy, cheaper energy and new energy, Bitcoin can also incentivize the building of more products, cheaper products and new pr...
Bitcoin sculpture made from scrap metal outside the BitCluster mining farm in Norilsk, Russia. (BitCluster)

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz (Will Foxley/The Big Empty)
Bitcoin Mining’s Boon for Small Town America
Will Foxley’s doc about a small Texas town’s embrace of a new mining facility paints a more positive story about Bitcoin’s impact on rural communities than typically reported....
Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz (Will Foxley/The Big Empty)

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Must Bitcoin ‘Drop Ideals’ of Decentralization to Achieve Mass Adoption?
Key management is crucial to crypto maintaining decentralization. But, as hacks and exploits have grown in number, the dream of self-custody has become more difficult to maint...
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Has public perception of the much-hyped Lightning networks changed over the years? (Rizka/Wikimedia Commons)
Are Bitcoin Developers Losing Faith in Lightning?
High-profile defections, and ongoing criticism from the community, paints a picture of a much-hyped scaling project running out of steam. But bitcoiners have always been criti...
Has public perception of the much-hyped Lightning networks changed over the years? (Rizka/Wikimedia Commons)

Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (Art Institute of Chicago)
The Munchables Hack Is Way Worse Than It Seems
Apparently orchestrated from North Korea, the $63 million hack adds grist to the argument that crypto exploits pose a plausible national security risk.
Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (Art Institute of Chicago)

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Remembering ‘True Names’ Author Vernor Vinge
Known for popularizing the term “singularity,” the cypherpunk writer, who died this week, was prophetic about the age of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency.
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