Ethereum Watch

23andMe’s developer partners recently received an email notifying them that they would no longer have access to customers’ raw genomic data. Timicoin, a blockchain-based healthcare data platform, spoke out about the change. Advertisements Last Thursday, personal genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe notified outside app developers via email that it would disable their access to its […]

The new unit is intended to boost the bank’s intellectual capital concerning emerging technologies. Advertisements The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has formed a new unit to research use cases for blockchain, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, according to reporting from Indian newspaper The Economic Times. The unit will be responsible for researching how […]

Please remember to make your own research before investing in any project. Advertisements General Idea The GaxCoin project wants to focus on few things at once. The main aim is to provide the sole ecosystem for the other features and services to be built upon. The GaxClub will be the master marketplace for everyone to […]

Immutable platforms & privacy coins resist censorship in different ways. Do we want the future they promise? (on Bitgenstein’s Table, the Crypto Philosophy Podcast) That’s not patriotic! That’s sedition! That’s heresy! For thousands of years, people have questioned the decisions of their overlords and have been suppressed. Sometimes by burning at the stake, or machinegun fire, […]

Do you believe in God? Would you put your cryptocurrency holdings on it? Advertisements Augur, an ethereum-based platform for betting on the outcome of real-world events, aims to be a repository of crowd-sourced knowledge for journalists, investors and policymakers, as well as an effective tool for hedging against adverse outcomes. But it’s also become one […]

A phone call that brought together a broad representation of the ethereum community to discuss critical code changes on which decisions need to be made ahead of a software upgrade scheduled for October, failed to produce immediate results Friday. Advertisements The bi-weekly developers call, which this week included a majority of the network’s miners and […]

Miners, investors, developers and more. Advertisements That’s a summary of the diverse set of ethereum stakeholders that will be in attendance at an upcoming developer call, according to Ethereum Foundation communication officer Hudson Jameson. Set to take place at 14:00 UTC Friday, the live-streamed meeting aims to address some of the platform’s most challenging questions ahead of […]

The blockchain network now has PlasmaChain, GameChain, and SocialChain in production. Advertisements Known for its “truly scalable” blockchain trading card game Zombie Battleground, the Loom Network has been making headway in the Ethereum scaling space. Loom’s software development kit apparently enables developers to build scalable blockchain games and social networks. Most recently, though, the team […]

The bounty-issuing software improvement community’s new offering allows individuals to make bounty suggestions for GitHub issues. Advertisements Vivek Singh, community builder at Gitcoin, recently announced the alpha release of Gitcoin Requests. This feature will allow members in the community to request bounties for certain GitHub issues and propose how much they should be funded, though […]

MtGox is accepting civil rehabilitation claims until October 22. Advertisements Creditors who lost their bitcoin when Japanese cryptocurrency exchange MtGox went bankrupt in 2014 can start filing civil rehabilitation claims in an attempt to recover their lost virtual currency. An online guide published by MtGox rehabilitation trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi outlines three ways in which users […]