Ethereum Watch

Despite significant industry support, Civil was unable to reach its fundraising goals. What’s next for the blockchain company? Advertisements Yesterday, on October 15, Civil’s token sale came to an end without reaching its soft cap of $8 million. By the end of the sale, Civil had raised less than $1.5 million. Today, the company’s CEO […]

This week, we discuss kidnappings & gunpoint attacks demanding cryptocurrency. We often say that cryptocurrency is unseizable. But in one sense, it’s actually more seizable than dollars in your bank account: Kidnappers’ crypto accounts, unlike bank accounts, are unfreezable and are themselves unseizable — making stolen funds completely unrecoverable. Advertisements What can we do to be safe […]

Roadblocks for Constantinople testing, regulatory insecurity in Britain, and who needs Twitter love when you’ve got DocuSign? Advertisements This is the maiden edition of the Daily Byte, a morning roundup of some of the most interesting stories in blockchain and cryptocurrency. Here’s what’s happening for October 15, 2018: “Give Us Time to Think About It”; […]

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 […]

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Advertisements Source: CoinDesk

Advertisements Source: CoinDesk

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 […]