Ethereum Watch

September 17, 2018 9:04 PM Advertisements A group of industrialists hopes to improve on the proposed laws the national legislature is currently considering. The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) is reportedly working on a draft bill regarding the use of cryptocurrency, according to a September 14 article on the Russian tech site ForkLog. […]

September 17, 2018 8:55 PM Advertisements In a press release today, the Tezos Foundation has announced its mainnet is officially out of beta. The Tezos Foundation offered some good news for a change, when in a press release, it stated its network was no longer in the beta phase. However, it’s not clear from the […]

Since Bitcoin’s inception in the financial world it has given birth to a new field of ideas and solutions to be explored by many for the issues that are globally met right now. Mostly and tremendously in the currency industry. One of the most influential and respected figures trying to shape-up and improve the crypto-verse […]

September 14, 2018 9:21 PM Advertisements Josh Garza gets 21 months for a $9 million fraud. After pleading guilty to a wire fraud charge in July of last year, Josh Garza, former CEO of GAW Miners, has been sentenced to 21 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, the first […]

September 14, 2018 8:16 PM Advertisements Today, the core devs announced the date that Constantinople-implemented clients will fork the Ropsten testnet. There is no date yet announced for the launch of Constantinople on the mainnet. Sometime in the second week of October, all Constantinople-implemented clients will fork the Ropsten testnet. Martin Holst Swende suggested aiming […]

September 14, 2018 10:37 PM Advertisements The mobile Dapp browsing provider cuts no slack for the popular collaboration tool. Status recently announced it would discontinue using the workflow and messaging app Slack. According to Chad Jackson, product manager at Status, using Slack violates “pretty much all” of the group’s principles, including “privacy, security, transparency, decentralization, […]

September 13, 2018 11:00 PM Advertisements A bill enabling the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to investigate cryptocurrencies is now headed to the Senate. Yesterday, the House of Representative passed the FinCEN Improvement Act of 2018, a bipartisan bill that, if enacted, would expand the role of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). FinCEN, a division […]

September 13, 2018 9:57 PM Advertisements ChainSafe and folks from Parity Technologies are advocating for a new proof of authority testnet that would be easier to use across clients. The algorithm chosen to back it may prove contentious. On September 13, Afri Schoedon of Parity Technologies posted a call for participation to create a more […]

September 13, 2018 9:38 PM Advertisements To cope with demand, the agency has brought on more staff. On September 12, the director-general of the Strategy Development and Management Bureau of Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), Kiyotaka Sasaki, revealed to Reuters the agency has added 12 members to its current staff of 30 to improve the […]

September 12, 2018 8:36 PM Advertisements The agency announced two regulatory “firsts” this week. This week the SEC announced two enforcement actions in the cryptocurrency space. Both Crypto Asset Management LP (CAM), a cryptocurrency hedge fund, and TokenLot, an ICO platform, have been shut down by the regulators. Both actions are being described by the […]