Tag: Ethereum
Smart Contracts and Decentralized Trading Exchanges
In recent years, topics related to the blockchain have been reported on virtually non-stop, and with good reason. There are hundreds of new companies now working to develop both products and services which are centered on the decentralized technologies. With...
What is NEO (Antshares)?
You may have heard quite a bit about “China’s Ethereuem” and how an interesting new token was being used in Chinese ICOs. You may also have been interested in the extreme volatility that NEO has exhibited recently. Yet, what is...
Why Responsible ICO Regulations Are Welcome
There has been a great deal of unease surrounding Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) in recent weeks and much of it is amply justified. When China moved to ban them outright back in early September many saw the move as typically...
Get Ready for the Ethereum Byzantium Hard Fork
The hardfork on the Ethereum network called Byzantium has now officially been set. It will occur at block number 4.37m which is likely to be at between 12:00 and 13:00 UTC on Monday the 16th of October. This is on...
CFTC investigating Coinbase for Ether Flash Crash
Back in June, the price of Ethereum crashed falling from $317 to 10 cents for a few milliseconds on Coinbase. It managed to recover quickly and the exchange offered to reimburse those traders who were impacted by it. Now, the...
What are Ethereum Smart Contracts
One of the fundamental technologies that underpins the Ethereum network is the development of “Smart Contracts”. Whereas Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were developed for the sole purpose of being a Peer-to-Peer digital currency, Ethereum was developed as a concept for...
Vitalik Buterin on ICO flaws and Ethereum’s Scaling Issues
The founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, gave an interview with two of the largest newspapers in South Korea. He discussed many topics and was open about some of the contentious of those at the moment. He talked about the potential...
Byzantium Ethereum Upgrade verifies first ZK-Snark Proof
The eager wait for the first Ethereum upgrade is now over. As we previously reported, the Byzantium stage of the upgrade is now running on the test net and it has just verified its first ZK-Snark proof. For those who...
Ethereum is Testing Hard Fork in TestNet
One of the first stages of the Ethereum Metropolis upgrade (Byzantium) is now being tested on Ropsten, the Ethereum testing environment. We previously covered the Byzantium upgrade in an update on the Metropolis hard fork a few days ago. The...
Update on the Ethereum Metropolis Upgrade
We recently covered some of the updates that were taken place on the Ethereum network. Known as the Metropolis hard fork, the upgrade has been long awaited and there have constantly been revisions to the roll out in both timeline...