Ethereum Watch

The Ethereum co-founder and the economics professor disagree about crypto. Advertisements On Wednesday, October 10, economist Nouriel Roubini, who teaches at New York University’s Stern School of Business, angrily tweeted to Vitalik Buterin criticizing him for the delay in Ethereum’s proof-of-stake (PoS) development, as well as about what Roubini sees as the impossibility of any […]

No need to panic, folks. Turns out core devs are pretty good at their jobs. Here’s your chill pill. On the other hand, a tweet by President Donald Trump was included in the block that broke Ropsten. Coincidence? Advertisements On Saturday, October 13, Geth and Parity clients brought the Constantinople hard fork to the Ropsten […]

After a turbulent year for Bithumb, a Singapore-based consortium has purchased the Korean exchange. Advertisements According to South Korean news outlet Naver, cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has been purchased by a Singaporean group called BK Global Consortium. This consortium is reportedly headed by a plastic surgeon named Kim Byung Gun, formerly Bithumb’s fifth largest shareholder. A […]

Coinfirm, a RegTech and blockchain startup, working with KAD ICT Hub, is launching an anti-fraud platform in an African country where digital scams occur all too frequently. Advertisements Though it boasts one of Africa’s strongest economies, Nigeria’s reputation is held back by incidents of online and digital fraud, many of them now relating to Bitcoin […]

October 11, 2018 10:33 PM Advertisements Earlier this month, an IMF report fretted about cryptocurrency’s risk to economic systems. Another international body is worried, too. In the wake of the IMF’s denouncement of cryptocurrency’s risk to the world economy, G20 advisor the Financial Stability Board (FSB) has upped its previous assessment of crypto in a […]

The banking committee today heard blockchain offers “otherwise unattainable benefits.” It also heard it is just a “glorified spreadsheet” that will never produce anything of value. Advertisements Members of the US Senate have made yet another effort to find out what cryptocurrency and blockchains are. Two months ago, it was the energy committee’s turn. Today, […]

October 11, 2018 11:43 PM Advertisements For starters, the agency didn’t like the company using its logo without permission. Anyone who has participated in the crypto sphere in the last few years knows it has attracted malicious actors willing to do just about anything to make a quick buck. Advertisements Just yesterday, the North American […]

‘Sandboxed’ crypto exchange Rain attempts to be the region’s first exchange with central bank approval. Distrust and cultural challenges, however, mean it has a steep hill to climb. Advertisements The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – the economic union consisting of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates – may have its […]

The governor has signed into law a bill that makes it legal to put certain corporate records on a blockchain. Advertisements California governor Jerry Brown has signed into law a bill that will make it acceptable to keep certain legally required corporate records and communications on a blockchain. According to the bill’s summary, the new […]

Another blockchain patent for Mastercard. Advertisements According to a patent awarded yesterday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, credit card giant Mastercard is developing a system to generate blocks for a partitioned blockchain. Specifically, the patent would allow for a permissioned blockchain capable of supporting multiple cryptocurrencies at the same time. The patent, which […]