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Bitcoin and Altcoins Surging, Ethereum Jumps Above USD 400
22.10.2020
Bitcoin price corrected from the USD 13,250 zone, but it remained well bid above the USD 12,650 level. BTC is currently rising (13:00 UTC) and it might continue to rise above USD 13,000 and USD 13,100. The main hurdle on the upside is near USD 13,250, followed by USD 13,400.
After bitcoin rally...
Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract May Come in Days & Phase 0 in December
20.10.2020
First of Ethereum (ETH) 2.0 phases - Phase 0 - seems to be nearing, possibly arriving at the end of this year, as the protocol’s deposit contract is said to be ready for launch any day now.
The upcoming deposit contract is a much-anticipated, one of the final steps towards the Phase 0 rollout,...
Alchemy Reveals its Ethereum Gas Price Notification Tool
16.10.2020
There is a new tool out that notifies its users when the Ethereum (ETH) gas falls within the set price range.
Blockchain developer platform Alchemy has announced their new tool called Gas Price Notifications, which "developers can use to alert their users when gas price is optimal...
Breitling Boards the Blockchain Bus with ‘Digital Passport’ on Ethereum
15.10.2020
Luxury watchmaker Breitling has taken the blockchain plunge, teaming up with blockchain firm Arianee to create what it has called “digital passports” for its products – calling the development a “game-changer for watch ownership.”
Arianee makes use of a non-fungible token (NFT) solution built...
Ethereum Trust Earns More Trust, McAfee In 'Hilton' With 'Murderers' + More News
12.10.2020
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Investments news
Grayscale Ethereum Trust is now a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting company, announced Managing Director...
Kaspersky Leaves Ethereum For Bitfury, Kuna.io Defends Protesters + More News
7.10.2020
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Blockchain news
The Russian software giant Kaspersky Lab said that it has migrated its Polys blockchain-powered voting solution to a private...
Coinbase-backed Dapp Wallet Authereum Goes Live
7.10.2020
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Coinbase Ventures and other investors-backed Authereum, a new Ethereum (ETH) wallet focused on improving the user experience for decentralized applications (dapps), has come out of its Beta phase, the team behind the wallet announced today.
According to Authereum’s...
Metamask Amasses 1M Active Monthly Users & Enters Altcoin Swaping Market
6.10.2020
Source: a screenshot, Instagram/metamask.io
Major Ethereum (ETH) wallet and Web 3.0 browser MetaMask has announced a new token swap feature as the wallet just surpassed the 1 million monthly active users milestone.
The ConsenSys-owned wallet/browser has revealed their MetaMask Swaps, a feature...
Vitalik Buterin Says High Ethereum Fees Might Be Gone Even Before ETH 2.0
5.10.2020
Ethereum (ETH) Co-founder Vitalik Buterin brought his new proposal to the table that could make high fees on the network a thing of the past sooner than initially expected.
Summarising his ETHOnline Kickoff Summit presentation last Friday, Buterin wrote in a Twitter thread today that his proposal...
Ethereum Miners Collected 6 Times More Fees Than Bitcoin Miners + More News
1.10.2020
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Mining news
Ethereum (ETH) miners made a total of USD 166m from transaction fees in September, which is a new all-time high, as well as an increase...
Reddit's Moon Moons & Dumps as Subreddit With 1m Members Goes 'Yield Farming'
29.9.2020
As the news spread that there is a way to turn Reddit crypto points into altcoins, and further into cash, Moon tokens have been the hottest topic on a subreddit with over a million members - touching on topics such as spiking price, low number of holders with top 3 holding 45% of tokens, and...
Chinese Judges Begin Sentencing PlusToken Bitcoin, Ethereum Scam Chiefs
29.9.2020
Judges in China have been handing out penalties to some of the individuals charged with masterminding the PlusToken crypto scam – a Ponzi scheme that reportedly sucked in some 2 million investors.
Per the Chinese prosecution service’s news outlet, via Xinhuanet, 16 individuals of varying seniority...
Ethereum Fees, CBDC In Bahamas, Filecoin's Liftoff, Ebang's Crypto Bang + More News
28.9.2020
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DeFi/Ethereum news
Long-suffering ethereum (ETH) users have cause to celebrate, while DeFi enthusiasts will be dismayed to hear that the craze...
Crypto Exchange Bithumb ‘Not Liable’ for Customer’s USD 401,000 Losses
28.9.2020
The Supreme Court of Korea. The South Korean market-leading crypto exchange Bithumb has won its legal struggle against an investor who accused it of negligence, claiming he lost USD 401,000 in cash after a 2017 data breach.
Per news agency Yonhap, a man identified only as “Mr. A” for legal reasons...
Rescuing USD 9.6 Million in Ethereum: The Fellowship of a Smart Contract
25.9.2020
"On September 15, 2020, a small group of people worked through the night to rescue over USD 9.6m from a vulnerable smart contract," the author of a recently published blog wrote, starting the story.
Sam's discovery
While looking at some smart contracts, expecting to find nothing...
Crypto.com Rolls Back ‘Illegitimate Trades’ After System Maintenance
23.9.2020
Volatility Expected Ahead of Major Bitcoin and Ethereum Options Expiry Day
22.9.2020
Both the bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH) markets could be in for some extra volatility as options contracts worth more than BTC 88,000 (USD 923m) and ETH 460,000 (USD 157.6m) are set to expire this Friday, analysts warned once again, while the previous large expiration failed to move...
Coinbase Pro Introduces Withdrawal Fee as Ethereum Fees Rise Further
18.9.2020
After previously absorbing the cost of users making withdrawals of cryptoassets from Coinbase Pro, the US-based exchange has now told its customers that a withdrawal fee has been introduced for all cryptoassets. The move follows a large spike in transaction fees on the Ethereum (ETH) network, which...
Ethereum Fees Spike as Uniswap Launches Token
17.9.2020
Today, the Ethereum (ETH) network got busier than usual as thousands of the Uniswap decentralized exchange users rushed to claim their share the DeFi protocol’s new governance token UNI.
As announced on Uniswap’s blog, the UNI token went live yesterday, with 1 billion tokens minted at genesis....
Ethereum Devs in "Dress Rehearsal" as 2.0 Mainnet Launch Edges Closer
15.9.2020
Developers preparing the highly anticipated Ethereum 2.0 network for takeoff said they recognize the community has a need to embark on “one more public testnet launch before mainnet to run through the motions,” per a blog post.
They stated that in response to demand, they have unveiled the source...