Ethereum Watch

Embattled wallet Parity’s co-founders have said the Ethereum ‘missing’ since a codebase delete could return “within the next four to six months.” Advertisements In an interview with TechCrunch Editor At Large Mike Butcher, Gavin Wood and Jutta Steiner confirmed they hoped scheduled upgrades to the platform would enable the funds to be recovered. Since a […]

What Bitcoin Futures could mean for the crypto economy Advertisements Bitcoin continues to captivate the interest of the financially-minded as well as curious and often skeptical bystanders. Bitcoin is well on its way to becoming more than just a hot topic. The cryptocurrency’s legitimacy, along with its price, is on the rise. This month, the US […]

A new craze is sweeping the internet, just as Pokémon Go did last year, though this is more like the Tamagotchi’s that came to our pockets in the 1990s. Today it is CryptoKitties, a virtual pets based on blockchain technology. It is the first of its kind; a game that runs on the Ethereum network. […]

CryptoKitties, the massively popular Ethereum-based digital kitten breeding app and collectibles marketplace, has surpassed major decentralized cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta to become the largest decentralized application (dapp) on the Ethereum protocol by gas consumption. Advertisements According to ETH Gas Station, the CryptoKitties Ethereum smart contract accounted for 13.94 percent of Ethereum’s transaction volume over the last […]

Bloomberg has issued their customary list of the 50 most influential people of the year, and this year’s list includes Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum. Bloomberg’s Top 50 list includes some of the most important movers and shakers of the past year in any industry. Some of Buterin’s list-mates include Amazon founder and CEO Jeff […]

December 4, 2017 10:59 PM Advertisements Set your timer. The Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE) will launch its bitcoin futures at 5:00 p.m. CT on Sunday, December 10, 2017, with a pre-opening period beginning at 4:15 p.m. CT. The first full day of trading will be Monday, December 11, 2017. “Given the unprecedented interest […]

Venezuela’s president has announced that his country will issue cryptocurrency backed by reserves of oil and other natural resources. Advertisements Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced in a televised December 3 speech that his country will issue a cryptocurrency called “Petro,” the value of which will be backed by “the nation’s natural riches,” including gold, oil, […]

Assets have been frozen in relation to anti-fraud charges filed by the SEC’s Cyber Unit. Advertisements Today, December 4, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission froze $15 million in assets associated with a token offering in which investors say they were given a false promise of 13-fold profit in less than a month. Charges were […]

The United Kingdom is working to bring cryptocurrency trading platforms and wallet providers under the auspices of European Union regulation. Advertisements The government of the United Kingdom is discussing cryptocurrency-related amendments to the European Union’s 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive. Responding to an inquiry from MP Chris Evans (Islwyn) on the UK Parliament website, Stephen Barclay, […]

At a Blockchain conference hosted in Taipei, Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined the long-term roadmap of Ethereum development. Advertisements According to Buterin, most of the underlying issues of the Ethereum Blockchain network fall under the following categories: scalability, smart contract safety, consensus protocol and privacy. Several network updates including the most recent Byzantium hard fork […]