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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What to Expect When Ethereum's Constantinople Hard Fork Happens
Ethereum's next system-wide upgrade, Constantinople, is expected to go live next week.
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Ethereum Miner Linzhi Calls Out Project Coders for Proposed ASIC Ban
Shenzhen-based miner manufacturer Linzhi has pushed back against ethereum's “tentative” decision to block specialized ASIC hardware.
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Ethereum Developers Give 'Tentative' Greenlight to ASIC-Blocking Code
A 'tentative' consensus was reached today that ethereum's developers will propose blocking ASIC before the blockchain's proof-of-stake upgrade.
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Ethereum's New Radical: Glen Weyl Isn't Vitalik But He's Its Next Best Hope
CoinDesk profiles author Glen Weyl, whose radical ideas are reviving development on the world's third-largest blockchian, ethereum.
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Grin and Beam: A Tale of Two Coins Being Built on Mimblewimble
Mimblewimble is about to go live – not in one, but in two new cryptocurrency implementations.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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