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An Elegant Approach to Consensus

by Stefan Thomas

Proof of Work is simple and relatively reliable, but it expends a ton of energy. Proof of Stake is complex, logically awkward, and plutocratic. Neither solves the question of governance. But what if there's a better way? Enter: Proof of Association.

An Elegant Approach to Consensus

by Stefan Thomas

Proof of Work is simple and relatively reliable, but it expends a ton of energy. Proof of Stake is complex, logically awkward, and plutocratic. Neither solves the question of governance. But what if there's a better way? Enter: Proof of Association.

An Elegant Approach to Consensus

by Stefan Thomas

Proof of Work is simple and relatively reliable, but it expends a ton of energy. Proof of Stake is complex, logically awkward, and plutocratic. Neither solves the question of governance. But what if there's a better way? Enter: Proof of Association.

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Coil x Internet Archive: Can Big Tech and Big Content Deliver a Sustainable Creative Ecosystem?

On January 19th, Coil hosted a YouTube Live conversation in collaboration with Internet Archive. Listen in as authors of Chokepoint Capitalism, Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin, join journalist Brad Stone for a discussion on Big Tech, Big Content, and the creative labor market.

Coil x Internet Archive: Can Big Tech and Big Content Deliver a Sustainable Creative Ecosystem?

On January 19th, Coil hosted a YouTube Live conversation in collaboration with Internet Archive. Listen in as authors of Chokepoint Capitalism, Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin, join journalist Brad Stone for a discussion on Big Tech, Big Content, and the creative labor market.

Coil x Internet Archive: Can Big Tech and Big Content Deliver a Sustainable Creative Ecosystem?

On January 19th, Coil hosted a YouTube Live conversation in collaboration with Internet Archive. Listen in as authors of Chokepoint Capitalism, Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin, join journalist Brad Stone for a discussion on Big Tech, Big Content, and the creative labor market.

Coming Soon: An Interledger Peer-to-Peer Network

For the past several years, the Interledger Protocol has been used very effectively among a small group of early adopters. However, many developers still can’t access the network due to the difficulty of peering with an existing participant. Enter: Dassie

Coming Soon: An Interledger Peer-to-Peer Network

For the past several years, the Interledger Protocol has been used very effectively among a small group of early adopters. However, many developers still can’t access the network due to the difficulty of peering with an existing participant. Enter: Dassie

Coming Soon: An Interledger Peer-to-Peer Network

For the past several years, the Interledger Protocol has been used very effectively among a small group of early adopters. However, many developers still can’t access the network due to the difficulty of peering with an existing participant. Enter: Dassie

Kosta Peric x Briana Marbury: Digital Payments: A Revolution in Financial Inclusion

by Kelly Weimert

On October 4th, Coil hosted a TwitterSpaces conversation between Briana Marbury, the Executive Director of the Interledger Foundation, and Kosta Peric, the Deputy Director for Financial Services for the Poor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a board member of the Interledger Foundation.

Kosta Peric x Briana Marbury: Digital Payments: A Revolution in Financial Inclusion

On October 4th, Coil hosted a TwitterSpaces conversation between Briana Marbury, the Executive Director of the Interledger Foundation, and Kosta Peric, the Deputy Director for Financial Services for the Poor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a board member of the Interledger Foundation.

Kosta Peric x Briana Marbury: Digital Payments: A Revolution in Financial Inclusion

by Kelly Weimert

On October 4th, Coil hosted a TwitterSpaces conversation between Briana Marbury, the Executive Director of the Interledger Foundation, and Kosta Peric, the Deputy Director for Financial Services for the Poor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a board member of the Interledger Foundation.

What is Interledger and How Will it Shape the Future of Payments‍?

by Kelly Weimert

What if you could send money to anyone in the world and they received it quickly, inexpensively, and easily in their native currency? The Interledger Protocol offers that solution.

What is Interledger and How Will it Shape the Future of Payments‍?

What if you could send money to anyone in the world and they received it quickly, inexpensively, and easily in their native currency? The Interledger Protocol offers that solution.

What is Interledger and How Will it Shape the Future of Payments‍?

by Kelly Weimert

What if you could send money to anyone in the world and they received it quickly, inexpensively, and easily in their native currency? The Interledger Protocol offers that solution.

Why Lightning Won’t Solve Blockchain Interoperability

by Stefan Thomas

Lightning requires specific transaction semantics and advanced payment channel support for systems to participate, which is an interoperability problem. Interledger was created from day one with a singular purpose: to solve the problem of interoperability—not just with blockchains but with all ledgers.

Why Lightning Won’t Solve Blockchain Interoperability

Lightning requires specific transaction semantics and advanced payment channel support for systems to participate, which is an interoperability problem. Interledger was created from day one with a singular purpose: to solve the problem of interoperability—not just with blockchains but with all ledgers.

Why Lightning Won’t Solve Blockchain Interoperability

by Stefan Thomas

Lightning requires specific transaction semantics and advanced payment channel support for systems to participate, which is an interoperability problem. Interledger was created from day one with a singular purpose: to solve the problem of interoperability—not just with blockchains but with all ledgers.

Coil x TigerBeetle: Databases of The Future

by Kelly Weimert

On August 25th, Coil hosted a TwitterSpaces conversation between Adrian Hope-Bailie, the founder of Fynbos and Coil’s former head of Interledger services, and Joran Dirk Greef, a staff engineer at Coil who played an integral role in creating TigerBeetle, an innovative database that can track financial transactions at blazing speeds.

Coil x TigerBeetle: Databases of The Future

On August 25th, Coil hosted a TwitterSpaces conversation between Adrian Hope-Bailie, the founder of Fynbos and Coil’s former head of Interledger services, and Joran Dirk Greef, a staff engineer at Coil who played an integral role in creating TigerBeetle, an innovative database that can track financial transactions at blazing speeds.

Coil x TigerBeetle: Databases of The Future

by Kelly Weimert

On August 25th, Coil hosted a TwitterSpaces conversation between Adrian Hope-Bailie, the founder of Fynbos and Coil’s former head of Interledger services, and Joran Dirk Greef, a staff engineer at Coil who played an integral role in creating TigerBeetle, an innovative database that can track financial transactions at blazing speeds.

What is Web Monetization and Why Is it Important?

by Kelly Weimert

Web Monetization is a nascent technology that can completely transform the way we use the internet. But before you can leverage Web Monetization, it helps to understand what, exactly, it is and why it’s so important.

What is Web Monetization and Why Is it Important?

Web Monetization is a nascent technology that can completely transform the way we use the internet. But before you can leverage Web Monetization, it helps to understand what, exactly, it is and why it’s so important.

What is Web Monetization and Why Is it Important?

by Kelly Weimert

Web Monetization is a nascent technology that can completely transform the way we use the internet. But before you can leverage Web Monetization, it helps to understand what, exactly, it is and why it’s so important.

Blockchain Is Stuck in the '80s

by Stefan Thomas

Blockchains are like the BBSes of the ‘80s—closed, complex, and clunky but still showing plenty of promise. What we need is a scalable, economically neutral, and technologically agnostic universal protocol that seamlessly allows value and data to be exchanged from one chain to another.

Blockchain Is Stuck in the '80s

Blockchains are like the BBSes of the ‘80s—closed, complex, and clunky but still showing plenty of promise. What we need is a scalable, economically neutral, and technologically agnostic universal protocol that seamlessly allows value and data to be exchanged from one chain to another.

Blockchain Is Stuck in the '80s

by Stefan Thomas

Blockchains are like the BBSes of the ‘80s—closed, complex, and clunky but still showing plenty of promise. What we need is a scalable, economically neutral, and technologically agnostic universal protocol that seamlessly allows value and data to be exchanged from one chain to another.

Bitcoin's Unfinished Business: Why Micropayments Still Matter

Tiny, cheap-to-deliver payments can open new markets for small digital goods. Can a new wave of crypto-inflected startups plug a longstanding gap in the internet? Coil's CEO Stefan Thomas weighs in.

Bitcoin's Unfinished Business: Why Micropayments Still Matter

David Z Morris for CoinDesk

Tiny, cheap-to-deliver payments can open new markets for small digital goods. Can a new wave of crypto-inflected startups plug a longstanding gap in the internet? Coil's CEO Stefan Thomas weighs in.

Bitcoin's Unfinished Business: Why Micropayments Still Matter

Tiny, cheap-to-deliver payments can open new markets for small digital goods. Can a new wave of crypto-inflected startups plug a longstanding gap in the internet? Coil's CEO Stefan Thomas weighs in.

Coil Brings Web Monetization to MozFest!

Coil was a presenting sponsor at MozFest 2022. Coil's CEO Stefan Thomas joins the Mozilla Foundation's Jesee Ward to chat about the benefits of Web Monetization, open-source development, and the Interledger Foundation

Coil Brings Web Monetization to MozFest!

Mozilla Foundation

Coil was a presenting sponsor at MozFest 2022. Coil's CEO Stefan Thomas joins the Mozilla Foundation's Jesee Ward to chat about the benefits of Web Monetization, open-source development, and the Interledger Foundation

Coil Brings Web Monetization to MozFest!

Coil was a presenting sponsor at MozFest 2022. Coil's CEO Stefan Thomas joins the Mozilla Foundation's Jesee Ward to chat about the benefits of Web Monetization, open-source development, and the Interledger Foundation

Brad Stone x Stefan Thomas: Unpacking Web3, Blockchain & Open Source

Coil's CEO Stefan Thomas joins journalist Brad Stone on Twitter Spaces to unpack the current and future states of Web3, blockchain, and open-source technology.

Brad Stone x Stefan Thomas: Unpacking Web3, Blockchain & Open Source

Coil's CEO Stefan Thomas joins journalist Brad Stone on Twitter Spaces to unpack the current and future states of Web3, blockchain, and open-source technology.

Brad Stone x Stefan Thomas: Unpacking Web3, Blockchain & Open Source

Coil's CEO Stefan Thomas joins journalist Brad Stone on Twitter Spaces to unpack the current and future states of Web3, blockchain, and open-source technology.

Coil and the Mojaloop Foundation - Financial Inclusion: Let’s Do this Together

Coil’s Adrian Hope-Bailie worked on the Mojaloop open-source project during a previous stint at Ripple and was instrumental in providing guidance around the Interledger protocol. Adrian chats about the transition from the open-source project to the newly established Mojaloop Foundation.

Coil and the Mojaloop Foundation - Financial Inclusion: Let’s Do this Together

Mojaloop Foundation

Coil’s Adrian Hope-Bailie worked on the Mojaloop open-source project during a previous stint at Ripple and was instrumental in providing guidance around the Interledger protocol. Adrian chats about the transition from the open-source project to the newly established Mojaloop Foundation.

Coil and the Mojaloop Foundation - Financial Inclusion: Let’s Do this Together

Coil’s Adrian Hope-Bailie worked on the Mojaloop open-source project during a previous stint at Ripple and was instrumental in providing guidance around the Interledger protocol. Adrian chats about the transition from the open-source project to the newly established Mojaloop Foundation.

Doubling Down on Privacy

by Ben Sharafian

Coil's extension is with you wherever you go on the web. The extension looks for sites where Web Monetization is enabled, and tells Coil to send micropayments. The whole process happens without requiring any user interaction.

Doubling Down on Privacy

Coil's extension is with you wherever you go on the web. The extension looks for sites where Web Monetization is enabled, and tells Coil to send micropayments. The whole process happens without requiring any user interaction.

Doubling Down on Privacy

by Ben Sharafian

Coil's extension is with you wherever you go on the web. The extension looks for sites where Web Monetization is enabled, and tells Coil to send micropayments. The whole process happens without requiring any user interaction.