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Solana’s genesis story — Anatoly Yakovenko’s vision for a high-performance blockchain

“I literally had two coffees and a beer, and I had this eureka moment at four in the morning," Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko recalls as he leans back thoughtfully. Speaking to Cointelegraph at the annual Breakpoint conference in Amsterdam, the co-founder recounts a late night brainwave of a “hyper-optimized, fast as possible”

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Former Coinbase exec posits blockchain-driven vision of future societies

The Dutch city of Amsterdam — no stranger to international conferences dedicated to cryptocurrencies, blockchain and decentralization — was recently host to the Network State Conference, which explored decentralization at an entirely different level. Conference speakers and attendees gathered to discuss and debate whether a new form of decentralized country is

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​​JPEX scandal won’t hurt Hong Kong crypto vision: Financial Secretary

The Hong Kong government says the recent $165 million alleged scandal involving crypto exchange JPEX won’t  stifle its Web3 vision for the region. In a Nov. 2 keynote at Hong Kong Fintech Week, the region’s Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui said the saga hasn’t affected the

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Former PayPal president explores vision for Bitcoin as global payment network

Former Meta and PayPal exec David Marcus believes Bitcoin’s underlying technology could serve as the basis for a universal financial protocol on the internet. David Marcus, currently the CEO of Lightspark, proposed a somewhat unconventional vision for Bitcoin (BTC) in a CNBC interview on Monday, Sept. 11. Known for his past

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