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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A Real-Time Battle Over Trashy Art Is Becoming a Big Deal for Bitcoin

A new digital art project, covered in crypto politics and penises, displays a serious use for bitcoin's layer-two tech, the lightning network.

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EOS's Experimental Launch Might Be Putting Investor Money at Risk

Many point to the potential security threats as a reason votes have been trickling in (instead of rushing in) on the EOS blockchain.

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4 Projects Seeking to Solve Ethereum's Privacy Paradox

Ethereum uses transparency as part of its security but potential problems with data exposure are now being addressed.

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Ethereum Software Parity to Update After Critical Bug Detected

A critical bug was found in Parity's software within a testing environment and users are hurrying to update so it doesn't affect the mainnet.

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Testing for Ethereum's Coming Consensus Change Is Moving Ahead

Less than a year since Casper was formalized, ethereum clients are starting to test a smart contract for the network's big consensus change.

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Crypto's War On Miners? It Might Already Be Over

Months ago, savvy coders were taking an any-means-necessary approach to keeping big miners off their blockchains. Now, reality is setting in.

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Startup Behind Zk-Starks Tech to Seek Cryptocurrencies as Customers

Lead scientists behind privacy tech zk-starks have started a business providing the solution to blockchains in exchange for tokens.

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Experimental Voting Effort Aims to Break Ethereum Governance Gridlock

Vitalik Buterin has suggested experimenting with quadratic voting, a governance model furthered by Dr. Glen Weyl, on the ethereum platform.

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A New Startup Has Zooko and Naval Betting on Better Crypto Contracts

A group of old-school security researchers have raised funds to build a better smart contracting language.

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Amber Baldet’s New Startup Is a Blockchain Dapp Store

Ex-JPMorgan blockchain lead Amber Baldet has finally revealed her new startup, a decentralized application store.

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