Ethereum Watch

The blockchain-based card game Gods Unchained is giving would-be players a glimpse of what it will actually look like in action. Advertisements The fantasy-themed trading card game, which draws inspiration from Magic: the Gathering and Hearthstone, uses the ethereum blockchain to house cards in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It has attracted attention from […]

Messenger app maker Kik is quitting ethereum for good as it continues to develop its cryptocurrency, dubbed kin. Advertisements Launched on ethereum early in the ICO boom, Kik has now announced that it will close kin’s atomic swap with ethereum. Without specifying a date, the Kin Ecosystem Foundation said Wednesday that it would soon release a […]

“If you build it strong enough, the law will follow.” Advertisements That’s how Daniel Nagy, the lead developer behind Swarm – ethereum’s decentralized storage-layer – described his “takeaway lesson” after a seven-year legal battle over his use of an early file-sharing network called Direct Connect (DC). A precursor to peer-to-peer file sharing service Bittorrent, DC is […]

Developers are eyeing January 16th as the date on which Constantinople, ethereum’s upcoming network hard fork, could launch. Advertisements The upgrade for the world’s second-largest blockchain was originally targeted for November, bringing with it a host of design changes aimed at streamlining the platform’s code in a bid to boost performance. Yet the November launch […]

Two principals at a Chinese school got in hot water after stealing power from the institution to mine the ethereum cryptocurrency. Advertisements According to a report from Hong Kong news outlet HK01 on Wednesday, Puman Middle School in Hunan province had been experiencing higher than normal noise levels from its computers over recent months, even on […]

Eighty-seven-year-old Canadian actor and producer William Shatner has just made some mysterious tweets supporting ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin. Advertisements Shatner, a popular figure for his role in the Star Trek TV series, first tweeted a “thumbs up” to Buterin on Wednesday, which was quick to turn into a discussion thread. In a reply to Shatner’s tweet, […]

The contentious nature of the ecosystem around cryptocurrencies is partly what gives them value – academics call it “belief heterogenity.” Advertisements But discord and personal sentiment alone isn’t enough to keep prices above zero, according to research from Wang Chun Wei, Ph.D., a finance lecturer at the University of Queensland in Australia. According to Wei, if […]

UAE gets a crypto exchange, BTCC is finished mining, and hackers go after Gate.io. Advertisements Here is some of what’s happening for Wednesday, November 7, 2018: Crypto Exchange Arrives in UAE The Al Zarooni Group and Crypto Bulls have launched the Cryptobulls Exchange, which they are calling the first to be registered in the United […]

November 6, 2018 11:00 PM Advertisements The tax office will pair blockchain technology with machine learning, according to the director-general. Thailand’s Revenue Department will use blockchain technology along with machine learning to improve the tax verification process and study methods used for tax evasion, per a November 5 article in The Bangkok Post. Advertisements It […]

November 6, 2018 11:26 PM Advertisements Call it a gift to the cryptospace. Peter Smith, CEO and co-founder of the company and wallet service Blockchain, today announced a crypto giveaway to the tune of $125 million worth of Stellar lumens (XLM). Smith said the airdrop is in celebration of the company “adding full support for […]