Ethereum

Vitalik Buterin's comments about Lean Ethereum have renewed attention on ETH's future position. Here is the core claim, what it implies, and why the rollout matters.

Ethereum co-founders Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Lubin, have made a donation of 1,000 ETH (each) to the Moloch decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Moloch DAO has Received up to $1 Million So Far This donation brings the total amount of money received by the Moloch DAO to around $1 million. At currency price, the 2,000 ether [...]

BitMEX's research team has posted on its blog on Wednesday, March 13, that the Ethereum Parity might feature "potential bug." The supposed bug was found when BitMEX researched its new website designed to gather significant metrics on Ethereum nodes- Nodestats. The exchange also reveals in the blog post that Nodestats' launch is today. The new [...]

The much-awaited Ethereum upgrade Constantinople has finally been released. The upgrade was delayed multiple times due to security vulnerabilities being discovered in its underlying code. The Constantinople upgrade was activated simultaneously with the St. Petersburg upgrade at block peak 7,280,000 on February 28. Currently, not all Ethereum users have switched to the network upgrade. At [...]

Ethereum (ETH), the world's biggest altcoin and dapp platform, will undergo a hard fork upgrade (or backwards incompatible update) today on February 28th. The two hard fork updates, Constantinople and St. Petersburg, will be activated today, meaning that Ethereum's full-node validators will have to update their client software to the latest version. The set of [...]

Cryptocurrency market has had one of the toughest years since the birth of Bitcoin in 2009. However, it is not too late for a comeback, according to a venture capitalist Tom Lee. Bitcoin and Ethereum were the star cryptocurrencies in 2017, but this year has been a different story. The industry lost nearly $70 billion [...]

The founder of ConSensys and co-founder of Ethereum Joseph Lubin said that despite the decline in the price of ETH, the Ethereum platform is growing rapidly. He said the drop in the value of the third largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is a non-issue so long as the open source developers continue to demonstrate progress [...]

The world's largest blockchain software development company ConsenSys is looking forward to rewarding Manila residents with Ethereum's native token Ether for cleaning up polluted beaches in the country's capital city. The head of ConsenSys and also Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin tweeted that people in Manila will be paid in ETH for cleaning filthy city beaches. [...]

The Swiss Federal Railway (SBB) has announced that it has finished exploring a blockchain-based worker's identity solution to address safety issues in railway tracks, according to a press release. A blockchain company Linum Labs developed the solution using an Uport technology. A US-based software development studio Consensys is also part of the project. From the [...]