Ethereum Watch

ICO Alert does not endorse or recommend participating in any initial coin offerings. ICO Alert receives a promotional fee for the production of this ICO Alert Report. Please click here for additional important information. Advertisements ICO Alert Quick Facts Peer-to-peer Freelance system 1 ETH = 1,000 ERT token February 28, 2018 — March 31, 2018 30,000,000 total available […]

Ethereum is getting closer to deploying new technology that would allow the network to scale, its founder said. Advertisements “It seems like part one of phase one is getting something like being already done,” Vitalik Buterin said in a developer meeting. The technology, known as sharding, attempts to split the ethereum blockchain’s data into more manageable […]

Advertisements Credits: istock.com/BackyardProduction Ethereum News Update As predicted, the folks at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland hedged their bets on cryptocurrencies. On one hand, they don’t think Bitcoin is a stable currency; on the other, blockchain is a super-useful technology…for anything other than money. If you’re wondering why this matters, remember that […]

Sitting at his desk at Credit Suisse, Sina Nader watched the bottom fall out of the global economy. Advertisements As a junior associate helping manage a $100 million portfolio of equities, he had a first-hand view of the 2007-2008 collapse from the Swiss bank’s Los Angeles offices and recalls frantically taking screenshots of the price […]

On Wednesday, the leaders of the SEC and CFTC published a statement in the Wall Street Journal. They told readers that “regulators are looking at cryptocurrency” and the agencies take their responsibilities seriously. Advertisements On January 24, 2018, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Jay Clayton and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman J. […]

Russia’s Ministry of Finance has published a draft of the long-awaited law regulating token offerings and the trade of cryptocurrencies. Advertisements On January 25, Russia’s Ministry of Finance published the text of a draft law that would regulate the issuance, trade, and storage of cryptocurrencies, as well as placing certain legal requirements on parties that […]

January 26, 2018 11:16 PM Advertisements The vice governor of the People’s Bank of China wrote a telling op-ed about the central bank’s plans for creating a state-backed digital currency. Fan Yifei, vice governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), revealed new information about his country’s digital currency initiative Thursday. Breaking with what had […]

The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has been robbed of around 500 million NEM tokens in one of the largest heists the space has ever seen. Advertisements In a massive January 26 theft, somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 million NEM tokens were stolen from the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck. A statement on the company’s website […]

January 26, 2018 11:46 PM Advertisements Many of the services that offer entry into the cryptocurrency world remain centralized themselves. As recently profiled by the Wall Street Journal, CoinMarketCap has become one of the de facto resources for cryptocurrency stakeholders. With its aggregation and compilation of exchange data, few other platforms offer as comprehensive or […]