Ethereum Watch

Credit: iStock.com/hwanchul Advertisements Cryptocurrencies look like a wasteland this Tuesday morning, and Ethereum is no exception. ETH was down 13.18% against the U.S. dollar at the time of writing. This put the Ethereum to USD rate at $1,143.57, which is a sharp retracement, though a minor one compared to Ripple or Bitcoin. XRP lost more […]

As soon as next season, Mavericks fans might be able to buy their tickets with cryptocurrencies. Advertisements Mark Cuban, serial entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, responded yesterday to a fan’s query on social media as to whether or not they could use cryptocurrencies to buy tickets to Mavericks games: As an investor with […]

January 16, 2018 10:24 PM Advertisements On Tuesday, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a handful of central securities depositories to explore distributed ledger technology applications. On January 16, 2018, SWIFT, the Belgium-based “global provider of secure financial messaging services,” announced the signing of […]

January 16, 2018 11:53 PM Advertisements A slew of news on crackdowns related to cryptocurrencies has come out of China in the past several days. These include actions by the People’s Bank of China to further curtail digital asset trading, an alliance between the central bank and other agencies to target fraudulent virtual currency schemes, […]

As the South Korean government backs away from a full-scale ban, investors should be thinking more and more about political risk. How do you protect your crypto investments against sudden shifts in the regulatory landscape? Advertisements One option is to avoid cryptos altogether. I know the potential returns are seductive, but if you can’t take […]

South Korea’s government announced that it may still go on to ban the trading of cryptocurrencies on exchanges, following apparently conflicting reports on the matter days earlier. Advertisements A statement issued on January 15 by South Korea’s Office for Government Policy Coordination (a branch of the Prime Minister’s Secretariat) warned that a national ban of […]

NASA has awarded a grant to the University of Akron for research into data analysis and other topics related to space exploration. The allocation will help a team led by associate professor Jin Wei to pioneer a resilient networking system based in part on the Ethereum blockchain. Advertisements Space exploration has taken monumental leaps, but […]

Although some believe that developing common standards for blockchain technology could hamper its growth and stifle its spirit, it is the creation of such standards that will spur greater ingenuity, innovation, and eventually mass adoption. Advertisements What is the maximum amount of time a conversation about blockchain technology can last before the mention of cryptocurrency, […]

January 13, 2018 12:14 AM Advertisements Baidu, the Chinese search engine that often draws comparisons to Google, has launched a Blockchain-as-a-service platform. On January 12, it was announced that one of China’s leading websites in terms of traffic, the search engine Baidu, launched a Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform called Baidu Trust. According to Baidu Financial, the […]

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