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William Foxley

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.

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SegWit inventor Pieter Wuille speaks in 2015. (Scaling Bitcoin)
Finance
Bitpay
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)
By William Foxley
Jul 2, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Jul 2, 2020
BitPayPaymentsBitcoinSegWit
(Max Bender/Unsplash)
Tech
Privacy
Cryptography Startup Brings Private Payment Channels to Tezos Blockchain
Cryptography firm Bolt Labs has launched a private payment solution, zkChannels, on Tezos.
(Max Bender/Unsplash)
By William Foxley
Jul 1, 2020 at 4:10 p.m. UTC
Jul 1, 2020
PrivacyPaymentsLightning NetworkTezosXTZBolt Labs
Bundestag, Berlin, Germany (Ricardo Gomez Angel/Unsplash)
Tech
Developers
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)
By William Foxley
Jun 30, 2020 at 4:28 p.m. UTC
Jun 30, 2020
DevelopersEthereumHard ForksGeth
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Tech
Ethereum
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.
(Jonathan Borba/Unsplash)
By William Foxley
Jun 29, 2020 at 5:10 p.m. UTC
Jun 29, 2020
EthereumEthereum MiningGas
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Tech
Bitcoin
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.
(Shutterstock)
By William Foxley
Jun 26, 2020 at 4:09 p.m. UTC
Jun 26, 2020
BitcoinBlockstreamLiquid Network
stake, staking, StakerDAO
Tech
Daos
Tezos-Based DAO Goes Live With Launch of STKR Token
Tezos-based "tokenized hedge fund" StakerDAO is now live after distributing its STKR governance token to funding round partners.
stake, staking, StakerDAO
By William Foxley
Jun 25, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. UTC
Jun 25, 2020
DAOsPolychain CapitalTezosStakerDAO
Emin Gün Sirer (CoinDesk archives)
Tech
Blockchain
Base Layer Wars Heat Up With Another $12M Committed to AVA Labs' Avalanche Blockchain
AVA Labs has closed a $12 million private token sale. The funding round – co-led by Galaxy Digital, Bitmain, Initialized and others – comes weeks before an anticipated mainnet...
Emin Gün Sirer (CoinDesk archives)
By William Foxley
Jun 25, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Jun 25, 2020
BlockchainSmart ContractsEmin Gün SirerAvalancheAva LabsBase Layers
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Finance
Venture capital
This Startup Is Forking Compound to Make Hiring More Efficient
Braintrust launched out of stealth mode Wednesday, backed by a $6 million seed round featuring True Ventures, Homebrew Ventures, Uprising Ventures, Galaxy Digital, IDEO CoLab,...
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By William Foxley
Jun 24, 2020 at 4:01 p.m. UTC
Jun 24, 2020
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Ja Rule (Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock)
Finance
Ethereum
‘Social Money’ Startup Inks Deal With Rapper Ja Rule, Releases Song With Lil B
Ja Rule has inked a deal with Roll, an Ethereum-based protocol that allows content creators to control their own platforms using personal crypto tokens.
Ja Rule (Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock)
By William Foxley
Jun 23, 2020 at 7:31 p.m. UTC
Jun 23, 2020
EthereumMusicTokensRollJa RuleLil B
BaFin, Germany, regulator
Policy
Germany
Germany's Neufund Shuts Down Security Token Platform, Saying BaFin Failed to Act
Citing regulatory concerns, Berlin-based security token startup Neufund has announced plans to freeze its fundraising campaigns and sideline future tokenized equity offerings.
BaFin, Germany, regulator
By William Foxley
Jun 22, 2020 at 8:25 p.m. UTC
Jun 22, 2020
GermanyEuropeBaFinSecurity TokensNeufund