Ethereum Watch

Etheruem’s Muir Glacier hard fork activated at block 9,200,000 and introduced a code change, EIP 2384, in order to delay the ‘difficulty bomb’ for another 4,000,000 blocks. This was the third instance in two years where Ethereum developers called to push back the ‘difficulty bomb’ which was a part of the original Ethereum code to […]

Cryptocurrency data platform, Satiment, recently reported that Ethereum retail holders (with 0.001 to 10 ETH in their addresses) increased their cumulative balance by 195,490 ETH (6.63%), since 1 January 2019. In a post on Twitter, Santiment explained that this rise in cumulative holdings went hand-in-hand with the rise of DeFi DApps on the platform. Advertisements […]

Bitwala, the Berlin-based Bitcoin wallet, has announced its latest step forward in the world of cryptos by adding support for the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum [ETH]. Being the only banking service for cryptocurrencies in Europe, Bitwala will allow users to trade Ethereum in 31 European countries with individual private keys, the wallet revealed in an […]

Ethereum’s latest hard fork, Muir glacier, has successfully decreased the block time by nearly 25%. The hard fork was mainly scheduled to decrease the mining difficulty or the “difficulty bomb,” enabling the production of more blocks in lesser time, while also helping resolve the scaling problem of Ethereum. As per data provided by Etherscan, the […]

On 6 January, Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin led a discussion on the Ethereum Research forum, a discussion where he outlined a model for scalable data chains without committees through fraud-proof-free data availability proofs. According to Buterin, fraud-proof-free data availability checking schemes preserve more of the properties of a traditional non-sharded blockchain. Advertisements “If a block […]

Ethereum Foundation, the non-profit organization that promotes and supports the development of Ethereum, has constantly been criticized for its transparency policy by both members of the ecosystem and outsiders. One of the most prominent figures who has been quite vocal about the policy, or lack thereof, is Bob Summerwill, the Executive Director of ETC Cooperative. […]

“Ether absolutely can be money if the community wants it to be,” remarked Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, at the Ethereal Summit that took place in October 2019. The statement was made after Buterin was asked whether he believed if Ether could be a “global permissionless store of value asset that would be most functional.” […]

2019 has been crucial to the emergence of the crypto-derivatives market. Many industry experts believe that this sector would soon replicate “positive figures exhibited by the traditional market” as crypto-derivatives become more and more popular with institutional traders and investors continue to jump into the bandwagon. Advertisements For a long time, the derivatives space was […]

Etheruem, one of the largest smart contract platforms, will be seeing a transition to Ethereum 2.0 phase 0 in Q1 of 2020. The shift from a Proof-of-Work network to Proof-of-Stake has undoubtedly been one of the most awaited upgrades in the community as it aims to solve one of the main pain points – scalability. […]

Bitcoin and Ethereum recorded a lucrative first half in 2019, with many in the crypto-community attributing the performance of the market to the performance of these cryptos. Advertisements The second half of 2019 was far less exciting for the market, however, as both cryptos registered massive losses. In fact, Ethereum ended the year with a […]