Vitalik Buterin. Ethereum (ETH) has a plan to fix its well-known scaling issue, and co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the solutions will start rolling out soon. In an interview with BLOCKTV this week, he said that scaling, a major Ethereum problem that’s been pointed out many times, is something the team will be dealing with in…
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Major professional services firm EY has launched the Baseline protocol, a package of public domain blockchain tools for enterprises, which may contribute to greater enterprise adoption of the Ethereum network. Announced Wednesday, this new protocol claims to bring significant benefits to the enterprises using it – and these are also the features that may fuel…
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The Ethereum programmatic proof-of-work (ProgPoW) opposition is not settling down. If anything, it seems to be rising, with an open letter and a Twitter hashtag dedicated to it now. "NoProgPow," say many developers and ETH supporters, adding: "I do not support the inclusion of ProgPoW." With this declaration, they’re signing an open letter Read more…
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Source: iStock/Photographer, Filmmaker, Designer Ethereum core developers have announced rather suddenly that the long-discussed programmatic proof-of-work (ProgPoW) will be implemented as a part of the hard fork scheduled to follow the planned Berlin upgrade. This has once again split the community into different camps of opinion. Two years after its proposal, criticized even by many…
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If you’re a DeFi (decentralized finance) user, do you actually know who can access your tokens? Are you sure that the dapps (decentralized apps) and smart contracts you use can’t access an unlimited amount of your tokens? Most importantly, how can you check that? Numerous dapps and their smart contracts require you to grant access…
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Following Sunday’s bitcoin (BTC) breakout above USD 10,000, other major cryptoassets are also making moves. However, both ethereum (ETH) and Ripple-affiliated XRP are seeing lackluster performance compared to bitcoin (BTC). However, both coins still outperform the most popular cryptocurrency in the past week. As of pixel time on Monday (12:52 PM UTC), both ETH and…
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Ethereum 2.0 developers are sure that the Phase 0 of the network’s upgrade will be launched this year. Ethereum’s major network upgrade, Ethereum 2.0 (a.k.a. Serenity), should be rolled out in phases, the first of which is Phase 0. The upgrade will bring, among other things, sharding, proof-of-stake (PoS), and a new virtual machine. On…
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Ethereum Classic (ETC), continues to surge in price after already seeing strong gains this year. Thursday morning, ETC once again got a spot among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, surpassing cardano (ADA), which has also been on fire as of late, but dropped by more than 3% today and left the top 10…
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Significant financial bets in the form of ethereum (ETH) call options have been seemingly placed by a trader or group of traders who are going in big in the hopes that ETH will exceed USD 600 before the end of March, just two months from now. As of pixel time (12:21 PM UTC), ETH is…
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Ethereum (ETH), the second-most valuable digital asset by market capitalization, has become the “most relevant benchmark of the crypto market” in 2019, a new research from Binance Research claims. According to them, ETH displayed the “highest median correlation” with other digital assets over the course of last year, with an average correlation coefficient of 0.69.…
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