Ethereum Watch

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, […]

Parity Technologies issued a statement Thursday stating it has no plans to move forward with a code change that would result in an ethereum blockchain split. Advertisements Named EIP-999, the contentious code change would recover the $264 million lost due to a code fault in Parity wallets in November 2017. Signed by co-founder of the […]

Ethereum may be on the brink of a blockchain split. Advertisements At least, that was the mood at a meeting of top ethereum developers late last week where a discussion around a code proposal called EIP-999 led some to speculate that the creation of two competing blockchains is now a possibility. Indeed, it’s now believed the […]

“The least evil.” Advertisements That’s how one ethereum user described the latest effort to recover $264 million in cryptocurrency lost due to a code fault in a popular ethereum wallet. But while the recovery efforts that have proliferated since the November incident have been so far shunned, a new effort, now documented in code, aims for […]

Ethereum is once again at a familiar crossroads. Advertisements As the price of its cryptocurrency ether has soared (and then corrected) in 2018, one thing has remained constant – users continue to lose money due to hacks, faulty code and human error. It’s an issue that in the past has split the platform into rivaling […]

When life gives you lemons to the tune of nearly $160 million, it’s not so easy to make lemonade. Advertisements But that’s just what ethereum startup Parity Technologies is seeking to do after a rough 2017, a year in which it suffered one of the most high-profile breaches in the history of blockchain. Far from […]

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 […]

With Bitcoin Futures grabbing all the limelight, the number two cryptocurrency is not far behind. Ethereum is trading near all-time high, and ETH prices are hovering around $550.00. With more banks opting for the platform to meet stricter regulations, the currency shall keep grabbing headlines in future. Advertisements At present, ethereum hard fork news has […]

Embattled wallet Parity’s co-founders have said the Ethereum ‘missing’ since a codebase delete could return “within the next four to six months.” Advertisements In an interview with TechCrunch Editor At Large Mike Butcher, Gavin Wood and Jutta Steiner confirmed they hoped scheduled upgrades to the platform would enable the funds to be recovered. Since a […]