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Surprise! Vitalik Buterin Tried to be an Intern at Ripple

Imagine an alternate universe in which Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin never started working on Ethereum because he was way too busy with his internship at gross settlement system Ripple. At the very least, the rankings of coins by market capitalization would be vastly different, but how many...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Binance Pump Chain: Tokens Skyrocket After Ditching Ethereum

And it has begun. First blockchain-based project that moved its native token from the Ethereum blockchain on the Binance Chain, the native blockchain of major crypto exchange Binance, saw its token price rise more than 50% in the past 24 hours. As Binance CEO expects more projects to migrate on the...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

51% Attacks on Crypto Becoming More Expensive Again (Not For Everyone)

A so-called 51% attack, in which a villain gains control over the majority of the computing power on a cryptocurrency network, is a real threat in many smaller networks that rely on the Proof of Work (PoW) consensus algorithm. Now, along with the new market rally, the theoretical costs of going...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Token2049: Security Tokens, Bottom Calling and Avocados

At the Token2049 event in Hong Kong, which ended today, things were far from boring: Estonian crypto exchange DX.Exchange has announced their own security token, while other panelists were looking for the Bitcoin bottom, and the team behind smart contract platform Tron has reportedly sent someone...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

SEC Chairman Clarifies His Position on Crypto, Not Everyone Convinced

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton just confirmed "Commission staff analysis that found Ethereum (and cryptos like it) are not securities", Jerry Brito, executive director of Coin Center, a Washington based crypto-focused research and advocacy center, announced referring to a letter from Clayton, who doesn't...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

New Bancor Wallet Enables Cross Chain Swaps for Ethereum and EOS

A new, non-custodial wallet announced by decentralized liquidity network Bancor will offer on-chain conversions between tokens based on the Ethereum and EOS smart contract platforms. According to the company, this includes more than 9,700 token pairs - meaning, all tokens made on either of these...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

New Research Reveals Ethereum’s Chicken or The Egg Problem

Ethereum’s upcoming economic model might not be lucrative enough to sustain a secure, diverse and solvent validator network, according to digital asset research firm Delphi Digital. In their new report concerning the biggest dapp (decentralized application) and smart contract platform,...

, by Eimantas Žemaitis

A New Hope to Unfreeze USD 64 Million in Ether Arises

Parity’s co-founder and CEO Jutta Steiner hinted about a possibility to restore 500,000 frozen ETH (USD 63,6 million). According to her, the latest Ethereum Constantinople upgrade made this even more possible to accomplish.Parity is a blockchain developer building decentralized web...

, by Eimantas Žemaitis

Ether Remained Stable After Reaching Constantinople

The ether price remains (UTC 05:50 AM) almost unchanged after the Ethereum platform has successfully activated the Constantinople and St. Petersburg network upgrades at block number 7,280,000 ten hours ago.Ether price chart:Meanwhile, history suggests that the price could drop following the hard...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

Block by Block Ethereum Approaches Constantinople Upgrade

Ethereum’s next two network upgrades, called Constantinople and St. Petersburg, are scheduled to take place this week at block height 7,280,000, which is expected to be mined on February 28th. Still, given the unpredictable nature of mining, the implementation could happen one or two days...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Buterin Discloses Another 8 Tokens in His Crypto Portfolio

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has revealed key details about his cryptocurrency holdings. As part of an ask-me-anything session on Reddit, Buterin revealed that some 10% of his non Ethereum-based crypto holdings are in the Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin and ZCash cryptocurrencies.He also...

, by Tim Alper

The Cryptopia Hack Is Not Over, Another 17K Wallets Drained – Report

Only a week ago, it surfaced that an additional 2,000 wallets were at risk following the infamous Cryptopia hack earlier this month. Now, another 17,000 Cryptopia wallets were drained of 1,675 ETH (around USD 180,000 as of the time of writing), according to blockchain analysis protocol and platform...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Crypto VR: Bitcoin is Under Marketed, EOS is Over Marketed

“If you are a blockchain startup, open source project or decentralized protocol and believe that you don’t need the right kind of marketing to succeed, think again,” writes William Mougayar, entrepreneur, investor, blockchain researcher, and advisor, in a blog post. He has additionally classified...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Crypto in 2019: Main Challenges and Solutions for Ethereum

The Constantinople hard fork But what about Casper, Sharding, and Plasma? Will ICO regulations bring down Ethereum? Dapps might rescue Ethereum yet Adoption is imminent, ConsenSys believes Ethereum and macro trendsThroughout the year 2018, the price of Ethereum (ETH) slumped by more than 80%, and...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Ethereum’s Constantinople Upgrade Postponed to Late February

Ethereum’s long awaited Constantinople upgrade, which was planned for January 16th, will be coming on February 27th. This was decided at today’s core developers phone call.The upgrade was postponed due to a vulnerability which was discovered by smart contract auditor ChainSecurity....

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Ethereum ‘Hard Fork Won’t Happen this Week’, ETH Drops

Ethereum’s developers have decided to postpone the network’s much-anticipated hard fork after a smart contract auditor flagged a potential vulnerability in the upgrade.Per the auditor, ChainSecurity, the upcoming Constantinople Upgrade for the Ethereum network, “introduces cheaper...

, by Tim Alper

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