Ethereum Watch

Advertisements Ethereum News Update Given the ongoing slide in cryptocurrencies, it seems a terrible time for optimism. But I can’t help it. Ethereum prices are holding up better than some of the others, making it a safe-haven crypto asset during these troubled times. This could lead to the fabled “flippening,” whereby Ethereum replaces Bitcoin as […]

Advertisements Credits: istock.com/lightboxx Ethereum News Update Ethereum prices are proving more resilient than BTC or BCH, but that doesn’t mean they are untouched by this week’s crypto market crash. Ethereum too was affected by the tidal wave of pessimism. As a result, ETH is trading 4.66% lower against the U.S. dollar. Advertisements This puts the […]

Advertisements Ethereum News Update Yesterday, I said Ethereum is starting to front-run Bitcoin in terms of institutional support. And what happened the same day? A major pension fund launched a $50.0-million cryptocurrency investment fund—and it is based around Ethereum. The new fund comes courtesy of OMERS, one of Canada’s biggest pension funds. (Source: “Ethereum Capital […]

One of Canada’s largest investment funds is hoping to leverage the ethereum ecosystem through a new venture. Advertisements Ethereum Capital, a recently incorporated entity formed primarily by Canadian investment group OMERS, is raising $50 million and preparing for a reverse-takeover procedure. When the funding round is completed on Feb. 16, the company will invest the […]

Advertisements Ethereum News Update Last week didn’t feel bullish for Ethereum. Nonetheless, ETH prices advanced nearly 16% in the past seven days. The lesson? Markets don’t care what we feel. Sentiment only matters insofar as it reveals the buying intentions of other investors. Look at the numbers instead. They show that Ethereum is outperforming other […]

Ethereum is getting closer to deploying new technology that would allow the network to scale, its founder said. Advertisements “It seems like part one of phase one is getting something like being already done,” Vitalik Buterin said in a developer meeting. The technology, known as sharding, attempts to split the ethereum blockchain’s data into more manageable […]

Advertisements Credits: istock.com/BackyardProduction Ethereum News Update As predicted, the folks at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland hedged their bets on cryptocurrencies. On one hand, they don’t think Bitcoin is a stable currency; on the other, blockchain is a super-useful technology…for anything other than money. If you’re wondering why this matters, remember that […]

Tech buzzwords come and go faster than we have time to fully comprehend what they mean. ‘Blockchain’ and ‘IoT’ have quickly become a couple of 2018’s hottest buzzwords — and they’ll probably sticking around for a while. Advertisements The term “the Internet of Things (IoT)” was coined by Kevin Ashton, the Executive Director of Auto-ID Labs at […]

Advertisements Ethereum News Update In 2017, investors treated Ethereum and Bitcoin as if they were identical. They painted both with the same brush, meaning that when Bitcoin did well, so did Ethereum. But this relationship is starting to fray… Advertisements In an excellent post for Bloomberg View, Leonid Bershidsky shows that “It’s not just mindless […]

On the Weiss Ratings homepage, there is a live countdown to its upcoming release of “…the First Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Grades by Any Rating Agency in the World.” Dramatic, much? Advertisements Although impartial ratings are a crucial step for investment credibility, I want to remind readers that it is incredibly hard to price cryptocurrencies, much less assign […]