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The Week contest: Chess team – The Week
This week's question: Employees of Silicon Valley and Wall Street giants, including Google and Goldman Sachs, recently faced off at a chess match, with teams aiming to prove their employer's intellectual superiority. If you could name the chess team for a major corporation, what would you call it
Polish success in chess and bridge as Entebbe 2024 FISU Championship Mind Sports wraps up – FISU
The Entebbe 2024 FISU World University Championship Mind Sports has concluded in central Uganda.
ASX Now Aims To Deliver 1st Phase Of CHESS Replacement By 2026 – FinanceFeeds
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) is progressing with the targeted delivery of the first phase of the CHESS replacement project in 2026, the exchange group announced. According to feedback received on the proposed two-stage approach to implementation, the majority of respondents support a staged implementation of the CHESS replacement system
A Music of Shadows: Sheida Gharachedaghi Soundtrack to The Chess of the Wind – The Quietus
At a film festival in 1970s Iran, after the screening of The Chess of the Wind, a critic brutally asked the director Mohammad Reza Aslani, Who has permitted you to be a director? Later, another critic wrote What have the people done wrong that he wants to be a filmmaker
Vitalik Buterin says crypto regulations have created ‘anarcho-tyranny’ – Cointelegraph
Ethereums outspoken co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently expressed his frustration over the current state of cryptocurrency regulation and offered up a surefire solution to the problem.
Funding Wrap: Vitalik Buterin backs MegaLabs in its seed raise – Blockworks
Two prominent raises led this weeks funding rounds. Lets start with the most recent announcement, which came from the first real-time blockchain backed by heavy-hitters such as Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin Proposes Ethereum SSF for Faster Transaction – Crypto Times
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined a potential shift in Ethereums roadmap toward a Single-Slot Finality (SSF) mechanism to address current consensus challenges. In a blog post, Buterin discussed the drawbacks of Ethereums existing epoch-and-slot system, highlighting its complexity and slow finality period of 12.8 minutes, which can inconvenience users. The current Ethereum Gasper consensus mechanism uses a slot-and-epoch model where 32 slots are voted on in 12-second intervals, and epoch finality is achieved every 12.8 minutes.
Ethereum’s Buterin outlines ways to enhance transaction speed – crypto.news
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has put forward new proposals aimed at reducing transaction confirmation times, suggesting significant improvements to the system. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined new strategies to reduce transaction confirmation times on the Ethereum network, saying there are some applications that require latencies on the order of hundreds of milliseconds or even less. In a Jun.
Vitalik Buterin’s New Net Worth Revealed by Arkham – BeInCrypto
According to on-chain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence, Vitalik Buterins net worth surged from $552.86 million at the start of 2024 to $834.66 million at the time of writing. Ethereum co-founders wealth primarily comes from his substantial ETH holdings and strategic investments in various crypto projects, including StarkNet
Vitalik Buterin says crypto regulations have created anarcho-tyranny – StartupNews.fyi
The Ethereum co-founder says wed all be better off with either anarchy or tyranny but not both.