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PortuguêsIt would seem that five years is a relatively short time for an information technology company, but Ethereum has made colossal progress during this time, growing from its own initial…
Continue ReadingEthereum’s perception in the media has been on a roller-coaster ride since its inception in 2015, but the blockchain and its native Ether (ETH) cryptocurrency are clearly still seen as…
Continue ReadingThe biggest crypto narrative of the past few months has been the growth of Ethereum’s “decentralized finance” (DeFi). Tokens pertaining to this segment of the cryptocurrency market have surged literally…
Continue ReadingEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has warned of the dangers of ‘smart contract risk’ in DeFi protocols in an interview to mark Ethereum’s fifth birthday. Buterin also warned users not to…
Continue ReadingThe lights were dimmed during the last day of Devcon in October 2019. A hush fell over the auditorium in Osaka, Japan. A haunting melody rippled through the crowd of…
Continue ReadingIn the American epic, Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, there are two characters who can see much further than the other members of their gang: Captain Gus McCrae and Joshua…
Continue ReadingRenters Threaten US Real Estate Market, 20 Million Americans Face Eviction The aftermath of the coronavirus-provoked business shutdowns in the United States caused a number of market observers to focus…
Continue ReadingEthereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has called for reform to the cryptocurrency’s fee system, warning that rising transaction fees could undermine the security of the network. The idea is based…
Continue ReadingThe five-day Unitize virtual blockchain conference organized by BlockShow and San Francisco Blockchain Week ended with the final session on Friday. The event saw appearances from Heath Tarbert, the chairman…
Continue ReadingOn July 8, 2020, some members of the cryptocurrency community were prepared to leverage the AVA Labs Avalanche (AVAX) token sale, in order to acquire some of the highly anticipated…
Continue ReadingTorus, a Singaporean crypto key management platform, now allows users to send cryptocurrencies through social media platforms such as Twitter. With Torus’ latest update, v1.7.2, users can now send tokens to…
Continue ReadingThe Hashing It Out podcast recently hosted Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin. During the show, he explained how he would handle Ethereum’s creation differently if he were building it now. Buterin…
Continue ReadingIf you’re one to focus on transaction fees, it’s been a tough past few weeks for Ethereum. The network has been subject to an influx of adoption over recent weeks.…
Continue ReadingEthereum expects boosted transactions per second, or TPS, as the network shifts toward the long-awaited Ethereum 2.0, or ETH 2.0, according to Etheruem co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Vitalik says the transition…
Continue ReadingOn June 19, 2020, the massive industrial firm Honeywell told the public the company is now running a quantum computer that effectively leverages six effective quantum bits, or qubits. Honeywell’s…
Continue ReadingEthereum (ETH) miners are currently voting to expand the block gas limit from 10,000,000 to 12,500,000 gas, according to a recent tweet from Bitfly, the parent company of Ethermine pool.…
Continue ReadingVitalik Buterin tweeted today that the Ether (ETH) supply is 40 million less today than what was estimated in the original whitepaper. He believes this refutes the theory that Ethereum is run…
Continue ReadingLast week, the crypto community spotted transaction fees of up to $2.6 million featured in several transactions on the Ether (ETH) network. Vitalik Buterin has since suggested that the abnormous…
Continue Reading2 Swiss Banks Launch Cryptocurrency Trading and Custody After Gaining Regulatory Approval Switzerland‘s financial regulator, FINMA, has approved two Zurich-based banks to offer a range of cryptocurrency services, including trading…
Continue ReadingScalability is becoming the albatross around Ethereum’s neck. In a recent tweet thread, Vitalik Buterin went out on a limb to state that the initial deployment of Ethereum’s second-layer scaling…
Continue ReadingMultiple transactions recently incurred millions in transaction fees on the Etheruem network, which creator Vitalik Buterin thinks could have been blackmail. “So the million-dollar txfees *may* actually be blackmail,” Buterin…
Continue Reading2 Swiss Banks Launch Cryptocurrency Trading and Custody After Gaining Regulatory Approval Switzerland‘s financial regulator, FINMA, has approved two Zurich-based banks to offer a range of cryptocurrency services, including trading…
Continue ReadingNew York congressional candidate Jonathan Herzog hosted a live YouTube broadcast with Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin on Monday, along with author and activist Glen Weyl. Herzog is a Democrat who…
Continue ReadingDuring the bull run of 2017, the top blockchains, Bitcoin and Ethereum, were subject to extremely high transaction fees. At one time, it cost $50 to send BTC from wallet…
Continue ReadingEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the current financial crisis is very different to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis that Bitcoin emerged from — and that the crypto community needs to…
Continue ReadingCharles Hoskinson does not know why his fellow Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin will not acknowledge the existence of Cardano (ADA) while speaking enthusiastically about other blockchain projects. Ignore fetish…
Continue ReadingUri Kolodny, co-founder and CEO of blockchain firm StarkWare, told Cointelegraph that Ethereum second-layer scalability solutions still need some work. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin claimed on June 1 that the…
Continue ReadingEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that the blockchain’s layer-two scaling initial deployment has “basically” succeeded. In a June 1 tweet, Buterin claimed that most of the initial work on Ethereum’s…
Continue ReadingEthereum creator, Vitalik Buterin, and Gemini exchange founders, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, expressed their opinions on recent efforts at social media censorship. “I’ve talked before about the rise of corporations…
Continue ReadingThe Ethereum network now has more bitcoin held in reserves than the Lightning Network, according to onchain statistics. At the time of publication, Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) has close to 4,000…
Continue ReadingThe Ethereum developer community is nearing the launch of Ethereum 2.0, a major multiyear milestone for the blockchain network. Ethereum 2.0 will mark the start of a shift from the…
Continue ReadingEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin thinks that the stablecoin industry is missing a valuable opportunity to improve interoperability between different blockchains. In a lengthy Twitter thread on May 20, Buterin suggested…
Continue ReadingSeveral other large blockchains are already running a proof-of-stake consensus, including Tezos, Algorand and Qtum. Tezos runs a staking program under its “Liquid Proof-of-Stake” algorithm, a hybrid between pure PoS…
Continue ReadingIn a recently published paper, Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin along with Harvard faculty Thibault Schrepel argued that blockchain is positioned to help antitrust laws in areas where regulations are difficult…
Continue ReadingVitalik Buterin has called for lawmakers to be more accommodating to blockchain protocols, saying they can actually help antitrust agencies fight monopolies and anti-competitive behavior. Together with Thibault Schrepel, an…
Continue ReadingIn a recent series of tweets, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin gave a nod of approval to competing blockchain EOS with regard to the niche they are trying to carve out. “If I were…
Continue ReadingWith anticipation growing for Ethereum’s long-awaited ETH 2.0 revamp, Ether long positions have gone parabolic on Bitfinex since February. But with short positions also growing, and co-founder Vitalik Buterin withdrawing…
Continue ReadingThe long-awaited release of ETH 2.0 has had the Ethereum community in a state of expectancy for well over a year at this point. Originally, developers had set a January…
Continue ReadingEthereum founder Vitalik Buterin has clarified his remarks on the expected launch date of Eth 2.0. CoinDesk chief content officer Michael J. Casey asked if the overhaul to the world’s…
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