Ethereum Watch

The top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization are all down today in excess of 10 percent, market data reveals. Advertisements According to CoinMarketCap.com, those cryptocurrencies have fallen by at least 13% – and in excess of 25% in the case of XRP – since the start of the day. At one point, within the 24-hour […]

The last few days have seen some extreme movements in the cryptocurrency market. And while almost all cryptocurrencies are trading in red right now, it has been a roller coaster ride for Ethereum, which touched record highs of over $1,400 and is now trading at a little over $1,100. Advertisements Ethereum has grown rapidly in […]

Credit: iStock.com/hwanchul Advertisements Cryptocurrencies look like a wasteland this Tuesday morning, and Ethereum is no exception. ETH was down 13.18% against the U.S. dollar at the time of writing. This put the Ethereum to USD rate at $1,143.57, which is a sharp retracement, though a minor one compared to Ripple or Bitcoin. XRP lost more […]

Peter Loop is associate vice president and senior principal technology architect at Infosys, where he focuses on delivering enterprise cryptocurrency and blockchain ledger technologies, API management and cloud migration of enterprise systems. Advertisements This article is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2017 in Review opinion series. During the course of 2017, we saw big technology players making […]

As the South Korean government backs away from a full-scale ban, investors should be thinking more and more about political risk. How do you protect your crypto investments against sudden shifts in the regulatory landscape? Advertisements One option is to avoid cryptos altogether. I know the potential returns are seductive, but if you can’t take […]

Credits:istock.com/Lightboxx Advertisements After drowning in red for a week, cryptocurrency prices picked up steam on Friday morning. Ethereum had weathered the storm better than most, yet it also climbed on the renewed sense of optimism. ETH prices jumped 4.33% against the U.S. dollar, putting the Ethereum to USD exchange rate at $1,255.57. Since there is relative […]

Credit:iStock.com/Adrian Bysiak Advertisements I’ve often heard that wisdom is the rarest commodity on Earth, but I never fully grasped its meaning till yesterday. I was reading conflicting reports about Korea’s impending regulations—none of which is written in stone—and then ETH prices fell by double digits. I was shocked. One report said that Korean authorities were […]

What if there were no exchanges to hack? Advertisements As a new generation of crypto users begin to invest in the technology, developers are growing concerned about its infrastructure. They’ve seen this happen before – new users enter the space attracted by big gains, then suddenly, a catastrophic failure, usually at the very exchanges designed […]

Source: dencg / Shutterstock.com Advertisements Over the past few years, the number of monthly Bitcoin transactions has skyrocketed. Source: Wikipedia The problem is, the current mechanism is not sufficient to maintain these levels of growth. Right now, the state of all blockchain protocols involves every node storing all states and processing all transactions. Advertisements While […]

Credit:iStock.com/ByoungJoo Advertisements Once again, regulators at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have rejected applications for Bitcoin-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs), citing volatility as their main concern. Three different funds submitted proposals for the ETFs. However, all three put distance between the proposed product and the underlying asset, meaning that the ETFs would not hold […]