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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DeFi Audit Firms Seeing 'Overwhelming Demand' Even Amid Token Price Slump

Overbooked audit firms are “rejecting” DeFi projects for code checks as the young sector wallows in its first bear market.

DeFi projects are lined up out the door for code audits as 'DeFi Summer' dies down.

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Validator Vote Transitions NEAR Protocol to Proof-of-Stake Mainnet

The Andreessen Horowitz-backed blockchain project successfully transitioned to Phase 2 of Mainnet after a suprise validator vote.

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Ethereum's Top Dapps Are Increasingly Turning to 'Rollups': Here's Why

A majority of the top Ethereum-based decentralized applications (dapps) are switching to rollups, a layer 2 for increasing throughput.

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Zcash's Electric Coin Company Shifts to Non-Profit Status Following Stockholder Vote

Zcash developer Electric Coin Company will transition to a new non-profit, with a majority of shareholders electing to donate their equity.

Zcash co-founder Zooko Wilcox (right) speaks at ETHDenver 2019.

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Lightning Vulnerability Discovered; LND Node Operators Urged to Upgrade ASAP

An undisclosed vulnerability in LND versions 0.10.x and below was revealed Thursday. Developers are urging node operators to update to the newest version.

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New Ethereum Fee Model Has Some Miners Crying Foul: Survey

Eight of the nine mining projects answering a survey on EIP 1559 had a negative impression of the proposal, with seven saying they would not implement the change.

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BlueWallet Adds Privacy Feature 'PayJoin' for Bitcoin Transactions

Mobile and desktop Bitcoin and Lightning wallet BlueWallet has added support for BIP 78 with its PayJoin feature.

Igor Korsakov, co-founder of BlueWallet

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What to Watch at ETHOnline, This Year’s Devcon

Ethereum’s annual developer conference, ETHOnline, kicks off Friday afternoon, standing in for the regular Devcon in-person event.

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Should DEXs Be Worried After BitMEX? DeFi Founders Weigh In

The sudden takedown of crypto exchange BitMEX has cast a new light on Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) markets.

Uniswap has become Ethereum's most prominent DEX.

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DeFi Has a Front-Running Problem. Sparkpool's Potential Fix Is Launching This Month

Ethereum mining pool Sparkpool will launch its new mining network, Taichi Network, complete with a “private transaction” feature this month.

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