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“We look at ethereum like AOL or Myspace.” Advertisements That’s how Mobius Network co-founder and CEO David Gobaud explains why his startup ran its initial coin offering (ICO) on the Stellar network instead of ethereum, the most popular blockchain for token sales. The comment underscores the growing interest in some corners of the crypto community […]

You can’t have your cake and eat it too, the old saying goes. In the cryptocurrency space, the big question is whether you can have decentralization and scale it too. Advertisements The struggle between these two goals has become more noticeable as a rush of new enthusiasts have entered the space, lured by the technology […]

The price of ether, ethereum’s native token, is likely to head south unless the bulls can quickly pull the price back over $1,160 levels, price chart analysis indicates. Advertisements On Coinbase’s GDAX exchange, ether hit a one-week low of $905 at 11:50 UTC today. A sharp recovery from the last week’s low of $757 ran […]

Ajit Tripathi is a EMEA partner at Consensys Enterprise, and a former director of fintech and digital banking at PwC, where he co-founded its UK blockchain and smart contracts practice. Advertisements The following article is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2017 in Review. I have come to trust Vitalik Buterin to ask the most important questions […]

24,270 tokens. 27,358 pending transactions. 463,713 digital kittens. Advertisements Ethereum has hosted a lot of activity recently, and while many crypto enthusiasts see that as a positive sign, as the network’s usage soars, its history gets longer and its blockchain more unruly. And although network congestion leading to transaction backlogs and rising fees has taken […]

Roger Boodoo, MD, is a radiologist and clinical informatics fellow actively seeking opportunities where blockchain technology might be applied to challenges in healthcare. Advertisements The following article is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2017 in Review. Let’s start with the problematic scenario. Advertisements A medical researcher stands behind the podium at a prestigious healthcare conference […]

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 […]

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 […]

The price of ether, the native token of the ethereum platform, is bucking the bearish trend seen in top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. Advertisements As per data source OnChainFX, ether (ETH) has appreciated by 7.44 percent in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, bitcoin, litecoin, stellar lumens and dash are down at least 3 percent […]

The price of ether is shattering all-time highs. Advertisements Rising to more than $1,000 for the first time ever last week, the cryptocurrency has reclaimed its place as the second-largest blockchain by total value, days after being temporarily surpassed by Ripple’s XRP token. However, as with that controversial market move, the massive uptick in value […]