Ethereum Watch

How to Buy Ethereum (ETH) Currency? At the beginning of this year, the price of ether was hovering around the $10 mark. Since then the cryptocurrency market has been on a tear and the price of ether has gone up to a whopping $417.12 * and the Ethereum market cap is $39,564,365,782. It’s little wonder […]

Although Bitcoin is the father of all cryptos, Ethereum has descendants of its own. Advertisements A whole crop of decentralized application blockchains—such as Cardano (ADA), NEM (XEM), and NEO (NEO)—have surfaced as rivals to their forefather, earning them the title of potential “Ethereum killers.” How does this affect the ETH price? Well, there’s no doubt […]

Credit: iStock.com/pikepicture Advertisements If you woke this morning to flashing red on your trading screens, don’t be alarmed. Yes, there was a fall in crypto prices, but the retracement was due in large part to Bitcoin Cash (BCH). BCH was finally added to Coinbase, a leading U.S. exchange that serves as most people’s gateway into […]

Credit:iStock.com/ByoungJoo Advertisements Are Investors Leaving ETH? There is no question that Ethereum is the second-biggest and second-most famous cryptocurrency in the world. It is fast becoming a household name. And yet, despite its surge in popularity, some investors are still asking: Will Ethereum crash in 2018? Sorry, but the answer isn’t what you might think. […]

Christmas may have come early in crypto land as altcoins are hitting the top of their charts once again in the Asian trading session this morning. Bitcoin has remained relatively flat since the launch of CME’s futures contracts on Sunday. Prices have only fluctuated slightly between $17k and $19k over the past few days. Advertisements […]

Thessy Mehrain is director of product and innovation at ConsenSys, where she works on dapps and protocols to enable social innovation via the ethereum blockchain. She is also the founder of “Women in Blockchain” New York, a distributed global network building diversity and inclusion. Advertisements The following article is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2017 in […]

flickr.com/Marc van der Chijs Advertisements Does anyone else hear Frank Sinatra? Because the song Fly Me To The Moon is stuck in my head. What made me think of that song? All I did was check Ethereum prices this morning. The music started to play as soon as I saw the currency was up 17% from […]

Hyperledger, one of the competitors to the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance (EEA), recently lost two of its biggest clients: The CME Group and Deutsche Boerse. Advertisements What’s the big deal? Well, both were major exchanges. Both contributed $250,000 apiece to Hyperledger. And both downgraded their status from Premium to General members. In other words, this is […]

I sent $25 of Bitcoin from one address (in Coinbase) to another (Kraken). – $25 sent– $16 fee– $41 total 40% of the total transaction in fees. unbelievable — Kristian Freeman (@imkmf) December 8, 2017 Ready to send your first bitcoin? That will be $26 please… Advertisements Sure, that’s on the high end of what you might […]

Ethereum Wiki: What Is Ethereum?  Ethereum is a software computing platform based on blockchain technology. The platform allows for the building and deployment of decentralized applications called smart contracts. Advertisements These smart contracts run exactly as they were programmed, without any scope for fraud, censorship, or third-party interference. You can create and store registries of […]