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“Can’t we just solve scaling? Can’t we just solve privacy? Can’t we just say ‘done’ and get to feature-complete?” Advertisements That was the question Bob Summerwill asked the audience at the ethereum conference EthCC in Paris on Thursday, the comments coming as part of a broader talk that called for an end to “tribalism” in the community supporting […]

iStock.com/SergSim Ethereum News Update Ethereum prices are plummeting on Tuesday morning, in part due to an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and a report from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). Advertisements Oliver’s show, for those who may not have seen it, features a comedic deep-dive into hot news topics of the […]

What do private blockchain builders really want? Advertisements According to JP Morgan blockchain lead Amber Baldet, they’re faced with the same concerns as anyone building public blockchains today. “These problems really aren’t so far apart, it’s just that people are trying to solve the problems in different ways,” Baldet told the audience at EthCC, an […]

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 […]

Thailand to publish new law on cryptocurrencies and ICOs within a month, Vitalik Buterin proposes Plasma Cash as a scalability solution for Ethereum, top 5 cryptocurrency price changes, and more! Advertisements Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, recently presented a possible scaling solution for Ethereum, called Plasma Cash. Image from Inked Pixels. Buterin Proposes Plasma Cash as a […]

ConsenSys, the New York-based blockchain application startup, has announced today it is partnering with TrueDigital, a new affiliate of online interest rate swap marketplace trueEx, in an effort to develop a benchmark price for ethereum’s ether cryptocurrency. Advertisements According to an announcement, the two firms are planning to design a target reference index for the […]

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 […]

In a surprise appearance at the ethereum community conference EthCC in Paris Friday, ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin presented a scaling solution for Plasma, a system of smart contracts that seeks to increase the computational potential of the world’s second-largest blockchain. Advertisements Created by Buterin and Bitcoin Lightning Network co-creator Joseph Poon last year, the scaling […]

Ethereum’s moon math is showing signs of coming back to earth. Advertisements Such was the feeling at EthCC, an ethereum developer conference in Paris, Thursday, where a dedicated privacy track struck a somber note compared to years past. Indeed, despite a software upgrade in October that saw improvements built to pave the way for confidentiality, […]