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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 […]

Decentralized music content distributor and monetization platform, VOISE, is enhancing its reputation on the market and improving the profitability of its token by locking up 600,000 tokens and removing them from circulation. The platform will use smart contracts to collate these token and lock them up for thirty days in order to boost revenue generation […]

Ripple, or XRP, is both a protocol and a cryptocurrency. As a protocol, it is designed to facilitate inter-bank foreign exchange transactions. Ripple is designed to allow banks to send money to each other without a central counterparty and it’s based on the open source Interledger protocol. Ripple is also designed to allow integration with […]

This article is an entry in CoinDesk’s Most Influential in Blockchain 2017 series. Advertisements Blockchain may be an early-stage technology, but it’s big business already. In this video interview, ConsenSys CEO, and one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential people, Joe Lubin discusses his company’s explosive growth, the value of cryptocurrencies and the social impact of his startup’s work. […]