Ethereum Watch

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance corporate consortium is releasing common business standards for organizations that use Ethereum. Advertisements After being teased in mid-April from a London blockchain event, the day has finally arrived for the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) to officially announce its highly anticipated Ethereum business standards. The Enterprise Ethereum Architecture Stack (EEAS) will serve […]

Australian regulators are cracking down on “misleading or deceptive conduct” among initial coin offerings. Advertisements In an announcement released May 1, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) revealed that it is issuing inquiries to ICO holders suspected of conduct or statements that may be misleading to Australian investors, in addition to inquiries regarding unlicensed […]

In the space of three hours on Wednesday, BitGrail announced its re-opening and then promptly disabled operations once again. Advertisements On May 2, 2018, BitGrail – a cryptocurrency exchange based in Italy – announced to its customers that the exchange was resuming services after a several-week hiatus. “Given the probable overload of servers, it is […]

In a remarkably detailed hearing on digital currencies, members of the United Kingdom’s Parliament asked industry stakeholders and experts about the possible advantages and disadvantages of blockchain. Advertisements On May 1, 2018, the United Kingdom Parliament’s Treasury Committee heard testimony on blockchain from the director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Management, Martin Walker, as well […]

Robert Sluymer of Fundstrat Global Advisors gave his technical analysis of 2018’s cryptocurrency markets, with particular focus on Ethereum (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC), on CNBC Tuesday, May 1. Advertisements Sluymer drew a parallel between the significant impact of uncertainties surrounding regulation and taxation on trading prices in January 2018 – which saw ETH plummeting from […]

Ethereum (ETH), the world’s second largest cryptocurrency, is coming under particular scrutiny from U.S. federal regulators, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports today, May 1. According to the WSJ, regulators are debating whether or not to classify it as a security under U.S. law. Advertisements The WSJ cites source familiar with the matter, who report […]

Cardano is all about research, review, and readiness for the future. If you haven’t read the series intro, head there to find out about the technical challenges facing Ethereum, plus an overview of smart contracts, Turing completeness, sidechains, and RSK. Advertisements Last week, we considered EOS as a challenger. This week, the smart contract and decentralized […]

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said yesterday that ethereum’s in-house scaling solution, sharding, is moving closer to completion. Advertisements Tweeting that “sharding is coming,” Buterin shared a new code repository that documents a partial proof-of-concept for what is called the “fork choice rule,” the code for how ethereum shards interact with the main blockchain. As detailed by […]

In a letter to investors, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said that demand for the powerful computers used to mine ether and other cryptocurrencies has contributed to a “boom of computing.” Advertisements Brin wrote Saturday that several factors have led to a surge in computing power that has seen search giant Google’s own processors speed up […]

As ethereum, now the world’s second most valuable blockchain, grows larger and more diverse, it’s becoming clear its mechanisms for getting input from its constituency are proving problematic. Advertisements Indeed, a series of proposals targeted at controversial topics – lost fund recovery, the ether supply rate and the emergence of new mining hardware – have […]