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Consensus Magazine

What Consensus Speakers Are Looking Forward to This Year

Networking, conversations and the dozens and dozens of side events are some of the things this year's cast of crypto luminaries are excited about in Austin, Texas.

Austin Texas (Mitchell Kmetz/Unsplash)

Consensus Magazine

What to Expect at Consensus 2024: Spotlight on Blockchain Tech

The three-day conference (May 29-31) features a host of big-name speakers from the realm of blockchain tech, including Sergey Nazarov, Casey Rodarmor, Joe Lubin, Emin Gün Sirer and Rune Christensen. Here is a preview of everything on offer.

Cosmos co-founder and Informal Systems CEO Ethan Buchman is scheduled to speak on the "bitcoinization of Cosmos" at Consensus 2024. (Bradley Keoun)

Consensus Magazine

Infrastructure Companies Dominate List of Finalists for Consensus 2024 Pitchfest

Forty Web3 startups from 12 different countries and territories are heading to Consensus to pitch.

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Opinion

Hamster Wheel: Telegram’s Social Gaming Brings Millions to Crypto

Telegram’s Hamster Kombat game has amassed 8 million users in four weeks. It shows how gaming could be a potent tool for Web3 projects looking for audiences.

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Consensus Magazine

How Web3 Marketing Changes the Game

Web3 promises a new relationship between brands and consumers. Fewer cookies and less tracking. More participation and ownership.

An image from the Googleplex, Mountain View, USA.

Consensus Magazine

Miners Eye Middle East as Next Region for Growth

The halving and a possible U.S. mining tax have miners considering new locations for basing their cost-sensitive operations.

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Finance

Influencer-Investors Get Perks to Pitch Tokens: Inside Crypto's 'KOL' Economy

Unlike paid shills of yore, "key opinion leaders" invest in the projects they promote on social media. In return for buzz, they can sell tokens sooner than other investors.

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Consensus Magazine

Web3 in the Middle East: Do All Roads Lead to Riyadh?

With a young population, enormous government funding and the hope of favorable regulation, expectations are high that Saudi Arabia will become a hub for crypto in the Middle East. But will the hype match reality?

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Tech

Runes, Casey Rodarmor's Protocol for 'Sh*tcoins' on Bitcoin, Set to Go Live at Halving

Rodarmor created last year's breakout Ordinals protocol, which is used to create non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Bitcoin. Now, he says the relevance of protocols like his new Runes, used to create fungible tokens, is set to grow.

Ordinals and Runes creator Casey Rodarmor (rodarmor.com)

Tech

Bitcoin Halving Has Crypto Miners Racing for 'Epic Sat' Potentially Worth Millions

Bitcoin's once-every-four-years "halving" this week may be very different from those of earlier epochs, typically ho-hum affairs. Now, an intense competition is underway to mine the first block after the halving, which could contain a rare and collectible fragment of a bitcoin known as an "epic sat."

16:9 Treasure chest (Ashin K Suresh/Unsplash)