Ethereum Watch

December 12, 2017 9:55 PM Advertisements While Ether, Litecoin, and bitcoin reach all-time highs, the popularity of exchanges offering trading platforms for these cryptocurrencies has also surged. However, rather than rise to the demand, many exchanges have struggled to meet it, leaving investors to muddle through issues like high-latency trades, if not outright exchange closure. […]

December 12, 2017 4:25 PM Advertisements An expansion of Australian Anti-Money Laundering regulatory measures will prompt cryptocurrency exchanges to engage in increased account monitoring and to register with a government agency. A recently passed amendment to legislation in Australia will bring cryptocurrency exchanges under the regulatory authority of a bill designed to combat money laundering […]

An interview with Benny & Elsa, two of the CoFounders of CryptoKitties On the show today are Benny & Elsa, two of the founders of CryptoKitties, a recent game that has taken the Ethereum community by storm. During the podcast, we’ll talk about the platform, how they came up with the idea, future thoughts on […]

CryptoKitties, the Ethereum-based digital kitten collectibles game, has processed more than $12 million in sales on its decentralized marketplace. Advertisements Essentially, CryptoKitties is a Tamagotchi-like game developed as a decentralized application (dapp) launched on top of the Ethereum protocol. Each digital kitten represents a unique crypto asset and the ownership of it cannot be altered, […]

December 11, 2017 11:59 PM Advertisements On the afternoon of December 11, 2017, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton released a statement directed to “Main Street” investors and market professionals regarding his general views on cryptocurrency and the market for token offerings (ICOs). What does the leader of the US securities market regulator think of cryptocurrency? On […]

The advent of blockchain technology has opened up new, interdisciplinary verticals of value across the globe. As the world rewires itself to capture the advantageous deliverables of Web 3.0, the new field of cryptoeconomics will play a leading role in developing the society of tomorrow. Advertisements As blockchain technology becomes ubiquitously integrated into the computer […]

Digital assets may be an effective means for skirting sanctions in the short term because the understandings that some regulators have of the cryptospace are shaky at best. Once these parties get up to speed, though, virtual currencies may prove no better-suited to this end than their fiat counterparts. As usual, the distant future is […]

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Apple Inc. may be looking at blockchain systems for timestamp verification, according to published patent filings. Advertisements On December 7, 2017, the US Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application filed by Apple Inc. that would utilize a blockchain-based “multi-check architecture” to provide timestamp verification. Apple’s filing details the use of “Public Key Infrastructure” […]

This Sunday, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) is slated to become the first traditional institution to offer bitcoin derivatives, a development that has raised concerns from the Futures Industry Association (FIA) among others. This morning, ETHNews spoke with CBOE, which provided a response to an open letter from FIA to the Commodity Futures Trading […]