Ethereum Watch

The latest synopsis of the collective projects in the Ethereum ecosystem was released by the development team. Advertisements The Ethereum Foundation has released a roundup of 2017’s Q4 developments. These latter updates focus on scalability, with the goal of expanding the capacity of the network to handle more complex applications and a higher volume of […]

What is Monero Advertisements Monero (XMR) is a cryptocurrency that has been on the market since April 2014. It is a private, untraceable and secure type of online payment. That means any transactions can’t be linked to a person’s real life identity. It also does not show the amount of Monero sent or received and […]

The non-profit that oversees development of ethereum has officially unveiled two subsidy programs that will support research on how to grow the number of transactions its blockchain can process. Advertisements In a blog post published Tuesday, ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin described how the network is beginning to reach 1 million transactions per day. In his […]

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Ether (ETH), the native currency of the Ethereum platform and the third largest cryptocurrency by market cap, reached a new all-time high today, trading at $914 earlier this morning. At press time Ether was trading at an average of $889 and boasting a 16.26 percent increase in price in the past 24 hours. Advertisements In […]

Credit: iStock.com/gamegfx Advertisements After failing to break above $800.00 for more than a week, Ethereum prices finally caught a tailwind on Tuesday morning, soaring as high as $914.83. This was a record high for the Ethereum to USD exchange rate. The Ethereum to Bitcoin rate, meanwhile, also rose 13.59% to 0.06439940 BTC. Clearly, money is […]

There is a race going on today between two cryptocurrencies for second place in the market capacity charts. Ripple and Ethereum are both vying for the spot just behind Bitcoin, the two altcoins have posted strong gains during the Asian trading session today. Advertisements Recently knocked off its second spot is Ethereum which has also […]

Malaysia’s deputy finance minister has clarified the country’s position on cryptocurrencies. There will not be a blanket ban against crypto. Advertisements Local media is reporting that the Malaysian deputy finance minister, Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani, has said that his nation will not make cryptocurrencies illegal and that regulations are still being considered. “Financial innovation […]

Yves Mersch is worried that bitcoin may threaten financial stability as “market infrastructures such as stock exchanges enter this business.” Advertisements The ex-governor of the Luxembourg Central Bank, Yves Mersch, serves as a member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB). In a recent interview with German newspaper Börsen-Zeitung, Mersch discussed the […]

In 2017, several Ethereum-based decentralized application (dapp) browsers gained significant popularity, primarily due to the rise of dapps like CryptoKitties. During its peak, CryptoKitties, the digital cartoon collectibles game, was responsible for more than 20 percent of the entire Ethereum network’s daily transaction volume. Advertisements CryptoKitties in particular was praised by some of the cryptocurrency […]