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Will Ethereum 2.0 be vulnerable to censorship? Industry professional explains

31.8.2022
Ryan Berckmans, Ethereum community member and investor, discussed the potential consequences that the Tornado Cash ban could have on the future of the network

Ethereum miner balance reaches four-year high weeks before the Merge

31.8.2022
Experts believe that miners are hoarding more ETH in anticipation of price surges and forked PoW tokens

Is It Time To Begin Talking Seriously About Bitcoin Tail Emissions?

28.8.2022
It’s almost a truism that Bitcoin (BTC)’s major selling point is its hard supply cap, limiting its total possible circulation to BTC 21 million. However, contrary to this received wisdom, there seems to be a growing chorus of people who worry that a hard cap isn’t without its problems, and that...

Millions of dollars in ETH lie unclaimed in presale wallets — but there's a way to get them back

26.8.2022
Did you know that over 500 Ethereum presale wallets are yet to be recovered… and collectively, they have a value of several billion dollars?

End-of-Week Ethereum: Merge News Fails to Hold Price Up, Traders Discuss Merge-Related Sell-Off, Binance Joins Exchanges Preparing for Possible Fork

26.8.2022
The price of Ethereum’s native token ETH fell over the past 24 hours, while developers identified several bugs and traders started fearing the Merge could become a ‘sell the news’-type of event. On Friday at 09:10 UTC, ETH was down by 2.8% for the past 24 hours to a price of USD 1,661. The drop...

Ethereum dev addresses node centralization concerns in runup to the Merge

26.8.2022
A majority of 4,653 active Ethereum nodes are being run through centralized web providers like Amazon Web Services, which experts believe could become a central point of failure

ETH whales move holdings onto exchanges before Merge

25.8.2022
The top-10 Ethereum non-exchange addresses have seen an 11% decline in their holdings while on-exchange whale addresses have seen a 78% increase over the past three months

Bug bounty quadruples for Ethereum network — up to $1M payouts ahead of Merge

24.8.2022
According to the Ethereum Foundation, identifying “critical bugs” — those that have a high impact or likelihood of a high impact on the blockchain — will be worth up to $1 million

Japan’s bitFlyer Will ‘Pay Close Attention’ to Any Ethereum Proof-of-Work Hard Fork

24.8.2022
The Japanese crypto exchange bitFlyer has said it will “pay close attention” to any hard forks that may happen as a result of Ethereum’s (ETH) transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS), and that forked tokens that continue to rely on PoW could be supported. Writing in a blog post...

Bitcoin mining to cost less than 0.5% of global energy if BTC hits $2M: Arcane

23.8.2022
Bitcoin may be a significant energy consumer in 2040, but only if its price reaches several million dollars, according to new estimates by Arcane Research

DeFi Platforms See Broad Weekly TVL Decline, One Protocol Stands Out

22.8.2022
Major decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms have seen a broad decline in the total value locked (TVL) over the past week, with only one top 10 protocol seeing growth. The fall in TVL came as prices of popular smart contract tokens like ethereum (ETH), solana (SOL), and BNB also fell...

Data Validation and the Problem of Standards: Why it is Difficult and How to Fix it in a Decentralized Way

19.8.2022
Fabian Riewe is the Co-founder of Web3 data lake solution KYVE.__________ Data validation has always been a key factor in analyzing and clarifying data. From financial transactions completed online to approvals across computer programs, having the correct data is key. Conducting transactions...

End-of-Week Ethereum: Developers Firm Up Merge Date, Hedge Fund Investor Says Merge is ‘Not Priced In’, Aave Proposes Strongly Signaling Support for PoS

19.8.2022
Ethereum (ETH) developers firmed up September 15 as the date when the highly anticipated Merge is estimated to happen, while Aave (AAVE) seeks to "strongly signal" its support for the PoS chain instead of PoW. Meanwhile, a crypto hedge fund manager says the Merge is not yet priced in by...

Coinbase would rather shut down staking than enable on-chain censorship — Brian Armstrong

18.8.2022
With a ban on Tornado Cash, many DeFi proponents were worried that crypto exchanges, which are also key validators of Ethereum, would succumb to pressure and impose protocol-level censorship

EthereumPoW team plans to freeze selected contracts, community pushes back

17.8.2022
The PoW hard fork of Ethereum is being propagated by a set of miners, but many experts believe that the chances of it succeeding is very less

Ethereum Developers Looking for Potential Merge Dates

12.8.2022
During a call on Thursday, Ethereum (ETH) developers mentioned potential dates for the Merge – the massive and much-anticipated event when Ethereum moves from the proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to proof-of-stake (PoS). The dates mentioned in the document shared during the call include...

No ‘Black and White’ Answer to the Proof-of-Work vs. Proof-of-Stake Question, Says Kraken

11.8.2022
The proof-of-work versus proof-of-stake face-off does not need to be a fight to the death, a new report has suggested – and a more nuanced approach could pay off for crypto players now fretting about which side of the fence they should be on. The claims were made in a report on PoW and PoS from...