Ethereum Watch

iStock.com/rclassenlayouts Ethereum News Update It’s rare for new blockchain companies to influence my Ethereum price forecast, but there are exceptions to the rule. Multicoin Capital Management, LLC. is a good example. Advertisements Multicoin is an investment firm that will soon traverse the blockchain space, hunting for the next generation of tokens. What sets it apart […]

What Is Mining? Mining is to the blockchain what prospecting is to gold. It is the process of extracting cryptocurrency from the network. Miners, the people who do the mining, devote time, computer space, and energy to solve complex problems and find transactions on the network that have not been previously recorded. Advertisements These transactions […]

iStock.com/Adrian Bysiak Ethereum News Update Among the power brokers at this week’s DC Blockchain Summit was Brian Quintenz, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), who said there might be “potential” for a self-regulatory body. (Source: “Crypto Industry Should Self Regulate, Says CFTC Commissioner,” CoinDesk, March 8, 2018.) Advertisements “I believe that a […]

iStock.com/Lightboxx Ethereum News Update Ethereum prices, and cryptocurrency values more broadly, slipped again on Thursday as investors mulled regulatory actions in the United States and Japan. Advertisements This is surprising, given that U.S. regulators have largely welcomed cryptocurrencies with open arms. They tend to harbor a deep respect for innovation. Even if they worry about […]

iStock.com/Adrian Bysiak Ethereum News Update Looming over the cryptocurrency market is a big question mark concerning how regulators view the asset class. Advertisements Are they commodities? Are they securities? The difference might not seem important to investors, but it could have a huge impact on Ethereum prices. After all, securities are tightly regulated. Classifying cryptocurrencies […]

iStock.com/allanswart Ethereum News Update To many crypto-enthusiasts, blockchain is synonymous with decentralization. A growing number of powerful entities, however, think the two are separable, and that may give Ethereum an edge over Bitcoin. Advertisements Why, you ask? Well, Bitcoin has a political mission carved into its DNA. Its core aim is to disrupt the financial […]

iStock.com/BackyardProduction Ethereum News Update Scaling questions abound for Bitcoin and Ethereum, but at least Ethereum is well on its way to a solution. And no, I don’t mean “Raiden.” Advertisements As the most famous of Ethereum’s potential saviors, Raiden could still end up declogging the Ethereum network, but it will have to outrace a new […]

iStock.com/allanswart Ethereum News Update While blockchain use-cases are filtering into the real economy, cryptocurrency markets have sputtered to a standstill. Prices are just moving sideways. Advertisements But before we delve into those forces, I want to emphasize that blockchain development is happening at all levels of business, even the upper echelon of the Fortune 500. […]

Ethereum News Update Earlier in the year, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that 2018 is when cryptocurrencies would have to live up to the hype from last year. It seems he might be right. Advertisements What we’re seeing this year is tectonic movement on regulatory issues, industry standards, and technical progress. Some of these changes […]

Ethereum News Update There’s a lot of Ethereum news this morning, so I cherry-picked the three most interesting stories I could find. One of them, in particular, might affect our Ethereum price forecast. Advertisements Before I get to those stories, however, you should probably know that ETH prices are down 1.95% against the U.S. dollar. The […]