Ethereum Watch

At the beach, they say, all your troubles melt away. Advertisements But that’s not entirely the case for researchers who spent part of this week at the Financial Crypto 2018 conference on the Caribbean island of Curacao, discussing the decentralization of the two largest crypto protocols, bitcoin and ethereum – or where they’re lacking in this regard. […]

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 […]

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. […]

Yet another ethereum scaling solution is launching a test network. Advertisements Announced Friday, Liquidity.Network is officially joining Raiden Network as the latest ethereum project to attempt to move transactions off the world’s second most valuable blockchain and into payment channels, in turn, allowing the network to support greater adoption and use. Similar to bitcoin’s better-known Lightning Network, Liquidity.Network […]

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 […]

On November 24, 2015, James Levy received 40,000 ether from the Ethereum Foundation. Advertisements Worth roughly $35,000 at the time (and nearly $35 million today), the grant was an award for Levy’s efforts to create an early smart contracting tool, and one of many meant to encourage work on what was then another nascent cryptocurrency in a […]

iStock.com/gamegfx Ethereum News Update Among seasoned Ethereum investors, there’s a belief that Bitcoin will undergo a crisis moment at some point in the future. Advertisements Here’s what would theoretically happen: Bitcoin starts to lose investor confidence, Ethereum is treated as a safe-haven asset, investment flows from BTC to ETH increase, and then the ETH/BTC ratio […]

Ethereum News Update As cryptocurrency markets continue to trade sideways, investors are growing impatient. What happened to three- and four-digit returns? Where are the epic rallies? Advertisements Sorry to disappoint, but it’s not that simple. No one can pinpoint when cryptos will surge (don’t trust anyone who says they can predict with 100% accuracy). Animal spirits […]

Ethereum’s governance model isn’t flawed, it’s just badly communicated, the cryptocurrency’s creator Vitalik Buterin said in a developer meeting Friday. Advertisements Coming amidst a heated debate over a proposal that seeks to standardize a method by which changes to the ethereum software would be considered as a way to retrieve lost funds, developers discussed how to […]