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Web3athon Challenges Consensus Delegates to Find Crypto Solutions to 'Hyperlocal' Problems
8.6.2022
This made-for Web3 hackathon welcomes everyone to pitch ideas
Consensus Pitch Fest: Mona Is Building a Limitless Metaverse
6.6.2022
Creator-focused platform – a finalist in the Consensus Pitch Fest this week – announces $14.6M Series A funding from Web 3 investors including ConsenSys, OpenSEA, Polygon Studios and Protocol Labs
Consensus Festival Guide: Creator Summit, NFTs and Music
6.6.2022
What not to miss this week at Consensus if you're into crypto-related creativity. We have you covered!
Previewing the Regulatory Panels at Consensus 2022
6.6.2022
We’ll be in Austin, Texas this week for CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022. Regulators and lawmakers will be out in force to discuss how they’re approaching the rapidly growing cryptocurrency sector
Consensus Festival Guide: The Future of Crypto Regulation
2.6.2022
Highlights from the program at the upcoming festival in Austin, June 9-12
Reliably unreliable: Solana price dives after latest network outage
2.6.2022
Solana has suffered its fifth outage of 2022, and the year is only five months old. A bug-related consensus failure was the culprit this time
Consensus 2022 Visitor Guide: CBDCs and Public Money
2.6.2022
Central bank digital currencies, including a possible digital dollar, remain a hot-button topic in the crypto world. Here’s a rundown of our top choices for attendees interested in government and money at this year’s Consensus Festival in Austin, Texas
Solana Halts Block Production, Validators Told to Prep for a Restart, Network’s Decentralization Criticized
1.6.2022
On June 1, 2022, the Solana network halted block production again as the blockchain network has stopped working a number of times during the network’s lifetime. According to the Solana status update, validator operators are being asked to prepare for a restart. Solana Continues to Be Plagued...
Hey Crypto World, Let’s Talk About Mainstreaming the Satoshi at Consensus
31.5.2022
The high price of bitcoin intimidates crypto newbies. CoinDesk is hosting a private session at Consensus 2022 to begin changing the conversation
Ropsten Ethereum testnet ready for Merge ‘first dress rehearsal’
31.5.2022
The Merge on Ethereum is closer than ever as the Ropsten testnet is set to execute its own Merge to give developers a look at what to expect for the real thing
Consensus 2022 Visitor Guide: Getting Down With DAOs
27.5.2022
Short for decentralized autonomous organizations, DAOs will be covered extensively at Consensus. Here are our top picks for those interested in jumping down the DAO rabbit hole
Consensus 2022 Visitor Guide: Getting Down With DAOs
27.5.2022
Short for decentralized autonomous organizations, DAOs will be covered extensively at Consensus. Here are our top picks for those interested in jumping down the DAO rabbit hole
Consensus 2022 Visitor Guide: Getting Down With DAOs
27.5.2022
Short for decentralized autonomous organizations, DAOs will be covered extensively at Consensus. Here are our top picks for those interested in jumping down the DAO rabbit hole
Layer-2 adoption could spur the next crypto turning point
23.5.2022
A mysterious Redditor may turn out to be clairvoyant with predictions that layer-2 scaling solutions on Ethereum will take center stage in the coming months
Internet Service Company Cloudflare to Run Ethereum Validator Nodes as Part of Its Web3 Focus
18.5.2022
Cloudflare, an internet services and DDoS protection company, has announced a new strategy regarding its Web3 experiments. The company revealed it will run Ethereum validator nodes as part of its commitment to help to scale the internet by using proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus technologies. This...
Polkadot Becomes a 'Fully Interoperable Multichain' With the Launch of its Cross-Consensus Messaging Format
4.5.2022
Popular blockchain protocol Polkadot (DOT) has launched its messaging system XCM (cross-consensus messaging) to enable communication between its various parachains and allow assets like non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to be transferred from one chain to another.
With the launch of this format...
After Solana’s Co-Founder Said BTC Should Change Its Consensus Algo, Solana Mainnet Loses Consensus for 7 Hours
1.5.2022
While Ethereum users participating in the Otherside metaverse land sale caused network fees to rise and created issues for the blockchain explorer Etherscan, it overshadowed Solana’s blockchain network outage. It seems a flood of inbound transactions on Saturday caused Solana’s...
Solana Co-Founder Believes Bitcoin Needs to Change to Proof-of-Stake Consensus to Remain Relevant
1.5.2022
Anatoly Yakovenko, one of the co-founders of Solana, the proof-of-stake based, smart contracts enabled blockchain, issued a series of statements criticizing bitcoin’s consensus algorithm. In an interview on CNBC, Yakovenko stated that bitcoin might lose adoption if it doesn’t change...
Monero community reaches consensus for July hard fork
18.4.2022
Monero hard forks are meant to improve the base protocol and will not result in the splitting and creation of a new coin
Today’s Top Ethereum and Bitcoin Mining Devices Continue to Rake in Profits
17.4.2022
As the crypto economy hovers just under $2 trillion in value, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mining devices are making decent profits. While ASIC miners can still mine ethereum, a 1.5 gigahash (GH/s) Ethash mining device can rake in $51.58 per day in profits. SHA256 bitcoin miners...