Ethereum Watch

Updated Bitcoin ETF timelines suggested; Telegram launches ID verification tool; new report from Gallup shows strong interest in cryptocurrency! Advertisements Photo from Shutterstock Latest Reports Suggest Bitcoin ETF Will Not Happen Soon The SEC has seen multiple applications regarding a Bitcoin ETF, including the Winklevoss ETF that received another rejection a few days ago. As seen […]

If cryptocurrency is decentralizing the world of money, a new bitcoin wallet startup thinks it could also help decentralize the world of work. Advertisements Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Misthos launched its multi-signature wallet Monday on top of Blockstack‘s decentralized application platform. One of the first enterprise products launched on Blockstack, the wallet is designed for […]

The Dubai International Financial Centre Courts have created a taskforce to investigate the use of blockchain to improve the country’s court system as part of the Smart Dubai initiative. Advertisements The Dubai International Financial Centre Courts (DIFC), a specialized court system that handles commercial disputes, has announced it is attempting to create what it is […]

This English town wants to become the first climate-positive city by using blockchain technology. Advertisements According to a recent announcement, the Liverpool City Council has partnered with the nonprofit Poseidon Foundation to integrate blockchain technology into the city’s daily operations, with the goal of becoming a climate-positive city by the end of 2020. Through Poseidon’s […]

The commissioner discusses why she disagrees with the SEC’s denial, her vision of the SEC’s mission, and her status as a champion for capital markets. Advertisements Last week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) denied a rule change proposal by the Winklevoss twins that would have allowed the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust to be publicly […]

IBM and settlement processing company CLS are working with a collection of tech and financial companies to create an online, blockchain-based app store. Advertisements On Monday, IBM announced a partnership with CLS to develop a project called LedgerConnect, which is intended to allow financial and software developer companies to share blockchain-related applications. According to the […]

What if ethereum looked more like monero? Advertisements Fusing the privacy features of the latter into ethereum would make many of the platform’s stakeholders, including developers who have been working on privacy-enhancing features for some time, excited. But privacy techniques are rarely utilized because of the serious trade-offs presented – such as larger storage requirements […]

Ethereum developers are already implementing code for Constantinople, the network’s next system-wide upgrade. Advertisements The second part of a series of upgrades to make the ethereum network more efficient and less costly in terms of fees, Constantinople will be activated sometime before October’s Devcon4 ethereum conference, according to stakeholders during a core developer meeting Friday. […]

Like Galileo, Descartes felt too threatened to publicly question some prevailing opinions. Perhaps he had some internal inhibitions, too. Advertisements It’s difficult to question what everyone else believes. Just ask Lucas Goodwin from House of Cards. Just ask an activist whose views, despite having intelligent arguments for them, are still marginalized by much of society — a […]

Google Pulls MetaMask But Not Phishing Apps, Iran Plans State Cryptocurrency, Top Market Moves Advertisements Google Pulled MetaMask from Chrome Store, but Left a Phishing Scam Up Coindesk reports, and ICO Alert confirms, that the giant Google removed the popular Ethereum browser utility MetaMask from its Google Chrome App Store. Google claimed this was a mistake. Meanwhile, […]