Added by Steve Beauregard in Events, News
The Unchained conference in Berlin drew more veterans than newcomers, but whispers of a CryptoSpring were growing in volume. Both chain-agnostics and Bitcoin maximalists debated their respective views on-stage, delivering a rich basis for trend-watching. …
Added by Jeff Garzik in Labs, Metronome, News
Yesterday, the Metronome team demonstrated that two-way, cross-chain imports/exports of Metronome (MET) — “chainhops” as we call them — between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic are now possible as of June 26, 2019, at 21:48 UTC. The first port took place soon after as of Ethereum blockheight #8036077 on 06.206.2019 at 21:50:45 UTC. …
Added by Matthew Roszak in Labs, Metronome, News
Just about two years ago, Jeff Garzik and I surveyed the cryptocurrency landscape of the time. We saw an explosion of innovation as the cryptocurrency world continued its flight path towards new and novel decentralized money systems. Observing the ecosystem’s successes and failures, we asked: “What would a cryptocurrency from a blank slate look like if it had the benefit of all these lessons?” …
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. …
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