Ethereum Watch

A hotly anticipated change aimed at ridding ethereum of its bitcoin-inspired mining process is moving forward in testing, with the platform’s popular software clients now participating in review. Advertisements Following on an April software release that saw the idea formalized in code, the upgrade looks to transition the world’s second largest blockchain to a new […]

Three years ago, Augur, a prediction market system that runs on the ethereum blockchain, held one of the first initial coin offerings (ICOs), long before the funding mechanism gained mainstream momentum. Advertisements Between August 7 and September 5, 2015, the project issued 8.8 million reputation (REP) tokens from a maximum circulating supply of 11 million […]

“Make blockchain stylish again, that’s my motto.” Advertisements So quipped the emcee of the third Ethereal Summit in Queens, NY, during one of the final talks of the two-day event. He’d been asking attendees to ask embarrassing questions they might have about the technology. Joseph Lubin, founder and CEO of event host ConsenSys, had touted the occasion […]

As JP Morgan Chase’s new blockchain lead, Christine Moy has big shoes to fill. And a quandary to resolve. Advertisements Moy took over last month from Amber Baldet, one of the most prominent figures in blockchain, after she left to form an as-yet-unnamed startup. Around the same time, Baldet announced her departure, word leaked out […]

1,500 ether. Advertisements That’s how much cryptocurrency users will need to participate in testing ethereum‘s upcoming consensus protocol, Casper, at least according to the blockchain’s creator Vitalik Buterin. During the final day of an ethereum conference in Toronto last week, Buterin took the stage to discuss his version of the software designed to change the way […]

The line between crypto education and self-promotion has blurred. Advertisements And nowhere is this more evident than on social media, where imposters are everywhere and scams are rampant. But as crypto Twitter devolves into all-out chaos, a similar deterioration of discourse is playing out on another popular site for crypto enthusiasts – Meetup.com, the startup acquired by […]

There is “no right answer” to ethereum’s fund recovery debate. Advertisements The words were spoken by Preethi Kasireddy, a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz and former software engineer at Coinbase, during the ethereum community conference EDCON on May 4. As the debate rages over whether ethereum should hard fork to return funds lost on the platform, […]

“Sleep? What’s this word you talk about?” Advertisements It’s safe to say ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin‘s joke during the first day of EDCON, an ethereum developer conference now taking place in Toronto, had some truth to it, both for himself and the developers who took the stage with him to discuss one of the $76 […]

Put enough heads together and you might just solve governance. Advertisements At least, that was the idea behind a private, two-day meeting of top researchers, who met in Toronto this week to discuss how decisions should be made on ethereum, the world’s second most valuable blockchain network. Named “EIP:0,” a nod to the platform’s process for […]

As ethereum, now the world’s second most valuable blockchain, grows larger and more diverse, it’s becoming clear its mechanisms for getting input from its constituency are proving problematic. Advertisements Indeed, a series of proposals targeted at controversial topics – lost fund recovery, the ether supply rate and the emergence of new mining hardware – have […]