William Foxley

Multimedia Director, Compass Mining

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.

Latest from William Foxley

Tech

Reddit Seeks Scaling Solution for Ethereum-Based 'Community Points'

Reddit announced a partnership with the Ethereum Foundation to find a scaling solution for the site's new blockchain-based Community Points.

Jun 18, 2020

Finance

Polychain Capital, Square Crypto’s Steve Lee Invest in Bitcoin Broker’s $5.7M Seed Round

Bitcoin broker River Financial has closed a $5.7 million seed round to secure additional U.S. money transmitter licenses.

Jun 17, 2020

Tech

Unstoppable Domains Launches Censorship-Resistant Blogging Platform

Decentralized blogging is coming to a .crypto URL near you thanks to a partnership between Unstoppable Domains and Protocol Labs.

Jun 11, 2020

Unstoppable Domains CEO Matthew Gould (left) and CTO Braden Pezeshki (Credit: Unstoppable Domains)

Tech

Sequoia-Backed Band Protocol Creeps Onto Chainlink’s Turf With Oracle Product

Band Protocol 2.0 launched Wednesday with its mainnet oracle solution, BandChain, leveraging the Cosmos SDK from Tendermint Labs.

Jun 10, 2020

Finance

Hacker Noon Raises $1M From Former Ripple CTO's Firm for Content Micro-Tipping

Tech site Hacker Noon is adding micropayments following an integration with Coil that runs on the Interledger protocol.

Jun 10, 2020

Tech

NEAR Protocol Enlists Bison Trails for Validator Support as It Heads Toward Full Mainnet

Bison Trails will help host the NEAR Protocol’s early validator set, currently consisting of over 150 nodes including some 40 of the project’s investors.

Jun 9, 2020

Finance

Crypto News Outlet BlockTV Shuts Down, Citing Impact of COVID-19

Cryptocurrency-focused media startup BlockTV has shut down operations due to the economic strains of the COVID-19 crisis, according to two former employees.

Jun 8, 2020

Tech

Latest Bitcoin Core Code Release Protects Against Nation-State Attacks

Bitcoin Core released a new software update Wednesday. Notably, it includes experimental software to hedge against attacks from nation-states and ISPs.

Jun 3, 2020

SHADOWBAN: A new code fix is meant to stop large actors from executing a potential attack on bitcoin. (Mt. Erebus, Antarctica. Credit: Shutterstock)

Tech

Hard Fork Sets Stage for Ethereum Classic's Second Major Departure From Ethereum

Ethereum Classic has largely followed Ethereum in lockstep. But as the larger chain goes toward Proof-of-Stake, ETC is sticking with Proof-of-Work.

Jun 3, 2020

"You’re going to have many, many Ethereum-flavored solutions compatible to varying degrees," says ETC Cooperative's Bob Summerwill. (Credit: CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Twetch Gets Suspended From Twitter in Wake of Trump 'Fact-Check' Storm

The Twitter account of BSV-based social media platform Twetch was suspended Thursday without warning, said Twetch co-founder Josh Petty.

May 28, 2020