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Rachel-Rose O'Leary

Rachel-Rose O'Leary

Rachel-Rose O'Leary is a coder and writer at Dark Renaissance Technologies. She was lead tech writer for CoinDesk 2017-2018, covering privacy tech and Ethereum. She has a background in digital art and philosophy, and has been writing about crypto since 2015.

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'Turbo Geth' Seeks to Scale Ethereum – And It's Already in Beta
Instead of tackling ethereum's transaction costs, developer Alexey Akhunov focused on the blockchain's state, and the software is ready.
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By Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Sep 21, 2018 at 4:00 a.m. UTC
Sep 21, 2018
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This DEX Is Enabling Merchant Payments in Any Ethereum Token
Kyber Network is adapting the liquidity tool it uses within its decentralized exchange to allow businesses to accept payments in any ethereum token.
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By Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Sep 18, 2018 at 12:59 p.m. UTC
Sep 18, 2018
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EVM 2.0: Inside the Race to Replace the Heart of Ethereum
The virtual machine that allows ethereum to compute everything in a decentralized way is getting a massive overhaul.
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By Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Sep 16, 2018 at 9:15 a.m. UTC
Sep 16, 2018
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Ethereum's Constantinople Hard Fork to Activate on Testnet in October
Ethereum developers have confirmed an upcoming upgrade will activate on Ropsten around October 9.
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By Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Sep 14, 2018 at 4:21 p.m. UTC
Sep 14, 2018
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Ethereum's Vlad Zamfir Claims Milestone In Blockchain Sharding
Ethereum researcher Vlad Zamfir has coded up the base architecture of upcoming scaling solution, sharding.
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By Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Sep 14, 2018 at 4:00 a.m. UTC
Sep 14, 2018
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Ethereum's ASIC Rebellion Heats Up With New Effort to Brick Big Miners
Miners are discussing whether they can get a hardware change added to remove ASICs from an upcoming ethereum software update.
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By Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Sep 11, 2018 at 8:00 a.m. UTC
Sep 11, 2018
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The Creator of Proof-of-Stake Thinks He Finally Figured It Out
Pseudonymous developer Sunny King, the creator of proof-of-stake, has a new approach for the consensus mechanism – and it revolves around hardware.
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By Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Sep 7, 2018 at 4:00 a.m. UTC
Sep 7, 2018
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There's a Problem With Crypto Funding – And Vitalik Just Might Have a Solution
A new paper by Vitalik Buterin and other researchers proposes a novel way to finance the public goods a decentralized ecosystem needs.
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By Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Sep 4, 2018 at 2:00 a.m. UTC
Sep 4, 2018
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Ethereum Developers Move to Alter Blockchain's Economics In Next Upgrade
Developers agreed to reduce ethereum issuance from 3 ETH to 2 ETH in an upcoming hard fork, Constantinople.
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By Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Aug 31, 2018 at 3:53 p.m. UTC
Aug 31, 2018
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Ethereum's Next Upgrade Could Be the $29 Billion Blockchain's Biggest Test Yet
Disagreement surrounding an upcoming upgrade, Constantinope, is putting ethereum to the test.
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By Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Aug 30, 2018 at 8:00 a.m. UTC
Aug 30, 2018
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