Ethereum Watch

Ethereum Classic was 51% attacked for the second time in less than two years. The most recent hack, which happened over a two-day period starting July 31st, netted hackers an estimated $5.6 million. Advertisements Since then, many have reached out to the Ethereum Classic team, including IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson. Hoskinson left Ethereum in 2014 […]

Ethereum Classic suffered a 51% attack last weekend, the second such attack in less than two years. Initial investigations at the time showed no evidence of double-spending. Advertisements Advertisements Ethereum Classic (ETC) price drops after reports of a 51% attack. (Source: TradingView.com) However, almost a week on, further investigations have revealed that the attacker managed […]

Ethereum Classic suffered a 51% attack in the early hours of August 1st. Advertisements A blog post from the ETC Cooperative said attackers flooded the network with offline mined blocks. As a result, the network was unable to process the volume of transactions, leading to a reorganization of the chain and split between nodes. “Miner […]

After a nine-month delay and $3.8 million of investment, an upstart manufacturer is ready to produce its first batch of powerful new machines for mining cryptocurrencies ethereum and ethereum classic. Advertisements Linzhi, based in Shenzen, China, said Wednesday it had ordered 37 wafers from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the main parts that will allow it […]

Yesterday, ethereum celebrated its fourth birthday. Advertisements Four years ago, on July 30, 2015, the world’s first general-purpose blockchain platform went live. Called ethereum, the platform was the first of its kind to feature a Turing-complete virtual machine and native programming language able to deploy code of any algorithmic complexity. “Before ethereum, developers had to […]

Advertisements Source: CoinDesk

It’s one of the biggest debates in cryptocurrency. Is code law? Or is the intent of code law? Should bugs on the blockchain be allowed to stand unchanged, or should they be fixed retroactively? On Bitgenstein’s Table, we consider 2,500 years of the wisest human thought in philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics, and more to make […]

The original Ethereum chain, with a commitment to immutability, sidechains, and aspirations in the IoT space. Confusing newcomers is something cryptocurrency does particularly well. Advertisements Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash. Ethereum. Ethereum Classic. …Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Diamond, Bitcoin God, Ethereum Fog… Ethereum originally hard-forked to undo the damage caused by a bad actor, as we’ll explore below, but […]

Some members of the crypto community were surprised Tuesday when the U.S.-based exchange startup Coinbase announced that it plans to list ethereum classic (ETC). Advertisements ETC traces its origins back to 2016 and the collapse of the DAO, the ethereum-based, smart contract-powered funding vehicle that fell apart following a debilitating code exploit. The network is […]

Ethereum classic (ETC) is set to fork in the coming days as part of a bid to diffuse a so-called ‘bomb’ in its code. Advertisements Set for block 5,900,000, the change, in which all users of the original ethereum blockchain will need to update their software, is meant to disable a feature that is designed to […]