Ethereum Watch

Ex-CFTC chairman Gary Gensler believes that Ether and Ripple’s XRP might be ‘noncompliant securities.’ Bitcoin, he anticipates, may remain exempt from that classification. Advertisements This afternoon, former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Gary Gensler is slated to deliver a speech at MIT’s Business of Blockchain Conference. In remarks entitled “A Global View: Regulations for […]

Developers of Ethereum (ETH), the largest altcoin by market capitalization, have published Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) #1011 on Friday, April 20, to create a hybrid system of consensus that seeks to push the network away from issues associated with crypto mining. Advertisements The proposal consists of specifications for implementing the Hybrid Casper the Friendly Finality […]

Amazon Web Services launches blockchain templates, Venture Capital Working Group lobbies against classifying utility tokens as securities, top 5 cryptocurrency price changes, and more! Advertisements Amazon Web Services has launched “AWS Blockchain Templates,” which gives users pre-set blockchain framework templates. Image from LuckyStep. Amazon Web Services Launches Blockchain Templates for Ethereum and Hyperledger Amazon Web Services […]

New code written to change the way the ethereum network reaches consensus is now ready for review, developers said Friday. Advertisements Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP) 1011, known as Hybrid Casper FFG (short for “Friendly Finality Gadget”), would implement the first step in a long-planned shift away from the energy-intensive mining process and toward towards a […]

In today’s ICO Alert Crypto Minute: WikiLeaks calls for global blockade of Coinbase, Taiwan eyes November deadline for regulation, and Bithumb to issue its own token and hold ICO. Don’t miss this… WikiLeaks calls for global blockade of Coinbase According to a post by WikiLeaks, the organization will call for a global blockade of Coinbase sometime next […]

What is Ubcoin? Ubcoin Market is a global mobile marketplace for buying and selling real world goods for cryptocurrency. The goal of Ubcoin Market is to empower consumers around the world to invest in crypto and to enjoy the purchasing power of their crypto investments by creating a Ubcoin mobile marketplace. Simply put, it is the […]

As the Ethereum community debated a proposal to fork the network in order to unfreeze Ether tokens locked in some Parity wallets, developer Alex Van De Sande wrote a blog post arguing that any contentious hard fork would hurt the network. Along those lines, he advocates for finding a solution to the problem of the […]

The European Parliament voted strongly in favor of regulations, which would deter cryptocurrency-based money laundering and terrorism financing. Advertisements On April 19, 2018, members of the European Parliament approved a December agreement with the European Council, which calls for “closer regulation of virtual currencies, like Bitcoin, to prevent them being used for money laundering and […]

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has hit out at Blockchain platform Tron, among others, telling mainstream media April 18 it was an example of “projects that never had a soul.” Advertisements Speaking to the Financial Times along with comments which ranged from Ethereum’s success to his views of “the Establishment,” Buterin focused on the rapid rise […]

In today’s ICO Alert Crypto Minute: NASA invests in blockchain research, tZero discusses ICO regulation with the SEC, and Seeking Alpha makes the move into the crypto space. Don’t miss this… NASA Funds Development Of Autonomous Spacecraft That Uses Blockchain NASA awarded a grant of $330,000 to Jin Wei Kocsis, an assistant professor of electrical and […]