Ethereum Watch

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The proposals just keep piling in. Advertisements At press time, a total of six ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) have emerged, each hoping to alter the project’s code ahead of an upcoming software update (scheduled for October). Driving the debate is ethereum’s so-called “difficulty bomb,” a piece of code locked into the $45 billion platform that […]

The developer team behind ethereum is considering possible changes to a planned rollout of new technology upgrades. Advertisements Addressing rumors that such plans are now under review, ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin told a meeting of the platform’s open-source developers Friday that the idea is that the team might seek to alter the sequence in which Casper and […]

A hotly anticipated change aimed at ridding ethereum of its bitcoin-inspired mining process is moving forward in testing, with the platform’s popular software clients now participating in review. Advertisements Following on an April software release that saw the idea formalized in code, the upgrade looks to transition the world’s second largest blockchain to a new […]

A new version of the code behind Casper, a planned change to the way the ethereum network reaches consensus, has been published for wider scrutiny by auditors and client developers. Advertisements Danny Ryan, the developer behind Casper FFG, posted a version 0.1.0 “first release” of the code to GitHub Tuesday, noting, “v0.1.0 marks us more clearly […]

1,500 ether. Advertisements That’s how much cryptocurrency users will need to participate in testing ethereum‘s upcoming consensus protocol, Casper, at least according to the blockchain’s creator Vitalik Buterin. During the final day of an ethereum conference in Toronto last week, Buterin took the stage to discuss his version of the software designed to change the way […]

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 […]

Is ethereum’s biggest future upgrade “fundamentally vulnerable?” Advertisements That was the claim put forward by distributed systems expert and founding VMware researcher Dahlia Malkhi on Friday, who used those exact words to describe ethereum’s Casper protocol at Financial Cryptography 2018 in Curacao. During a keynote presentation, Malkhi’s covered blockchain through the lens of a long-studied area […]

The price of ether is shattering all-time highs. Advertisements Rising to more than $1,000 for the first time ever last week, the cryptocurrency has reclaimed its place as the second-largest blockchain by total value, days after being temporarily surpassed by Ripple’s XRP token. However, as with that controversial market move, the massive uptick in value […]

There is a race going on today between two cryptocurrencies for second place in the market capacity charts. Ripple and Ethereum are both vying for the spot just behind Bitcoin, the two altcoins have posted strong gains during the Asian trading session today. Advertisements Recently knocked off its second spot is Ethereum which has also […]