First Anniversary, First Chainhop
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. …
Facebook’s Libra In Two Tortured Analogies
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. …
Athena Trade – Metronome Discussion
Added by Bloq 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: …
Rethinking Decentralization
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. …
“60 Minutes” and the Seven Words That Kill a Movement
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. …
A Look Back at NY Blockchain Week
April Metronome Update
Consensus 2019: Testing the Midtown Hilton’s Innovation-Per-Square-Foot Threshold
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: …
Different Approaches to Interoperability
Added by Bloq 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. …