Ethereum Watch

The potential opening of a Fidelity Investment cryptocurrency exchange begs the question of how money designed to be independent of banks could be affected by the introduction of an institutional interloper. Advertisements Cryptocurrency has always held a contentious relationship with traditional banking. In 2009, the genesis block of bitcoin had embedded in it an indictment […]

The company behind some of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency mining chips and one of the world’s largest bitcoin mining pools is open to going public. Advertisements Bitmain, a Beijing-based chip developer and operator of the AntPool bitcoin mining pool, could be receptive to an initial public offering (IPO), according to a Thursday report by […]

Amidst a national narrative in which cryptocurrency is sometimes endorsed and sometimes disparaged, President Vladimir Putin has confirmed at least one emerging truth about cryptocurrency moving forward in the Russian Federation. Advertisements Vladimir Putin has made clear his take on the sovereignty of cryptocurrencies. “Russia cannot have its own cryptocurrency inherently, just like no other […]

Cryptocurrency mining company Coinmint has announced its New York data center project, which it hopes to have the largest capacity for digital currency mining in the world. Advertisements Coinmint signed a lease for the 1300 acre Alcoa site in Massena, New York, which has a 435-megawatt power capacity, on December 1, 2017. Operations to convert […]

Coinbase has acquired three California-based companies in an effort to not only expand its business, but to achieve regulatory compliance as the cryptospace strives for mass adoption. Advertisements One of the most popular fiat onramps to the cryptospace, San Francisco’s Coinbase, isn’t waiting to be regulated. Rather, the famous exchange is acquiring security broker-dealer Keystone […]

A critical consensus bug has been uncovered in a testing environment used by one of the two principal softwares crucial to the operation of the world’s second-largest blockchain. Advertisements Revealed last night by UK-based Parity Technologies in a blog post, the issue was found to cause those running the software to fall out of sync, […]

Ledger launches new software portfolios to pair with cold wallets, Coinbase entering Japan, sherpa dies while trying to pull off a crypto stunt for Askfm, top gainers, huge losers and more! Advertisements ASKfm Cryptocurrency Promotional Stunt Ends in Death on Mt. Everest In an attempt to send their coin “to the moon”, ASKfm sent a climbing expedition […]

Ripple’s former CTO Stefan Thomas is going up against Ethereum with the launch of a new smart contracts platform. Advertisements Well, “new” isn’t quite right – the platform Thomas released implementations for today is Codius, an open-source project that Ripple released in beta in 2014 but shelved the following year. Now, though, having announced his departure […]

A hotly anticipated change aimed at ridding ethereum of its bitcoin-inspired mining process is moving forward in testing, with the platform’s popular software clients now participating in review. Advertisements Following on an April software release that saw the idea formalized in code, the upgrade looks to transition the world’s second largest blockchain to a new […]

In the last year, initial coin offerings attracted billions of dollars in cryptocurrency capital from retail investors. Some folks have hailed ICOs as democratizing startup investment opportunities, but the system is not without its flaws. Advertisements When I was small, my mom played a guessing game with me and my sister when we went shopping. […]