Rachel Rose O'Leary
Rachel-Rose O'Leary is a writer specializing in ethereum, with an interest in privacy technologies. She is a director at Multidisciplinary Academic Grants in Cryptocurrencies (MAGIC), a US-based charitable organization focused on privacy infrastructure for the public good. Her background is in philosophy and digital arts, and she is a one-time web3.js contributor. She holds value in bitcoin and has previously held value in zcash See: Editorial Policy.
This Binance Labs-Backed Crypto Startup Wants to Anonymize Everything
Nym Technologies, a stealth startup sporting a roster of privacy activists and cryptography experts, plans "to anonymize the world."
Block 7,080,000: Ethereum Devs Propose Activation Point for Next Hard Fork
Ethereum is moving closer to the activation of the long-in-the-waiting network upgrade known as Constantinople.
The Race Is On to Replace Ethereum’s Most Centralized Layer
Ethereum developers are working on numerous approaches to replacing or enhancing a popular tool for connecting to the network.
Crypto Anarchists Are Building Tools to Resist the State in Eastern Europe
A new centre for "crypto-anarchy" based in Slovakia is pushing for a return to what they believe are the technology's core political tenets.
Ethereum Developers Are Quietly Planning an Accelerated Tech Roadmap
Internal documents show that ethereum developers are privately planning strategies to more aggressively advance the world's third-largest blockchain.
After the Fork: How Competing Bitcoin Cash Blockchains Might Wage War
The war for bitcoin cash is only beginning.
A 7-Year Legal Fight Led This Dev to Build Unstoppable Ethereum Storage
Developer Daniel Nagy's legal battle over a file-sharing node led him to develop ethereum's storage layer, Swarm.
Ethereum Sets Tentative January Goal for Next Blockchain Upgrade
Ethereum developers have tentatively agreed a mid-January deadline for the network's upcoming Constantinople hard fork.
The Little-Known Ways Ethereum Reveals User Location Data
At Devcon4, Geth developer Péter Szilágyi detailed the little-known ways that data about ethereum users can become public.
As Plasma Stalls, Snarks Become New Hope for Scaling Ethereum Now
As work on ethereum's plasma scaling solution proceeds, some developers are hailing a form of cryptography used by zcash as an alternative.