Added by Jeff Garzik in Labs, Metronome, News
After months of testing, auditing, building, and onboarding, the Metronome team is ready to enable cross-blockchain “chainhop” MET transfers between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic on June 26th. …
Added by Phil Gomes in Industry, News
At the start of Season Four of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Jean-Luc Picard returned home to his family vineyard on Earth to recover from his assimilation by the Borg. While enjoying one of the vineyard’s own vintages over dinner, Picard’s resentful brother remarked that the former’s spacefaring years spent drinking the artificial “synthehol” dulled his formerly discerning palate. …
Added by Dariusz Jakubowski in Labs, Metronome, News
Recently, I was invited to participate in a discussion hosted at Chicago’s Athena Trade, a blockchain-centric co-working space. I took the opportunity to discuss Metronome, one of the projects that BloqLabs helped build and launch. Here are the three ideas that drove the conversation: …
Added by Ryan Condron in Industry, Labs, News, Titan
During the Consensus 2019 conference in New York, I discussed the Titan hashpower marketplace and how it works. More importantly, though, I presented a vision for how the greater Titan network would address a persistent perceived threat to proof-of-work cryptocurrency networks: the centralization of mining. …
Added by Phil Gomes in News, Opinion
Coming out of the Consensus post-conference decompression, I finally had a few minutes to take in the 60 Minutes special on Bitcoin and see what crypto-Twitter thought. …
Added by Dariusz Jakubowski in Labs, Metronome, News
In April, the Metronome team continued testing the cross-chain capability, engaging with the community, and preparing for the Consensus conference in NYC this May. …
Added by Phil Gomes in Events, Industry, News
Like a number of companies in our industry, the Bloq team is gearing up for Consensus 2019 in New York. Here’s what we’ll be showing off at the New York Midtown Hilton (Clinton Room, second floor) during the show: …
Added by Dariusz Jakubowski in Labs, Metronome, News
Cross-chain interoperability is one of the most intensely pursued developments in blockchain technology and it comes as no surprise that multiple approaches are in the works. The Metronome team recently published an article outlining the differences between some of the more well-known attempts – and how these are different from Metronome’s “chainhop” approach. …
Added by Hadley Stern in BloqCloud, Industry, News
Financial Services, Cloud, and the Blockchain ImperativeI come from the financial services industry. While it has made great strides in exploringblockchain technology and has produced a number of proofs-of-concept, it has been slow to approach production-class projects that feature exposure to public blockchains. (I was fortunate in that my previous employer was forward-thinking in this sense.) On one hand, that makes it similar to many other sectors, which are often risk-averse and reluctant to jettison established norms. We are, after all, talking about people’s money. …
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