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In late May, Ethereum Classic developers decided to delay the network’s upgrade, dubbed Atlantis. Now developers have considered launching the upgrade and the Ethereum Classic testnet within the next two weeks, before preparing for a full upgrade in August on the mainnet.
Blockchain analysis startup AnChain.AI has found that the transaction fee-less EOS network may have created the perfect breeding ground for bots to make thousands of transactions quickly.
While speaking about his new book, “Cryptocurrency 3.0,” former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles opened up about why he believes Bitcoin’s current encryption technology will have to improve if the network wants to stay safe.
In a deal to help “fast-forward” Blockchains’ plans to bring blockchain tech to the mainstream, the acquisition of slock.it brings with it the company’s Incubed product, which works to connect devices to the Ethereum network with minimal bandwidth and power.
Vitalik Buterin has introduced beacon chain contracts that will set up all of the rules for smart contract execution, including transaction fees and gas fees.
In a post published on HackMD, the Ethereum founder suggested using anonymity sets, which pool a selection of possible payers and/or payees to easily and quickly implement private transactions on the Ethereum network.
With $19 million to be doled out over the next 12 months for Ethereum 2.0 scaling projects, the Ethereum Foundation also plans to fund development on the current network and work to promote developer growth and awareness.
While voting on whether the loan fee should be raised on the Dai stablecoin, Maker token holders failed to stake enough coins in the vote to fulfill the contract, leaving the vote undecided.
In his keynote speech, Buterin outlined key factors regarding incentives and collusion-resistant solutions to promote the creation of positive and helpful blockchain content.
According to Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov, the decentralized oracle provider will launch on the Ethereum mainnet on May 30, with plans to deploy on additional networks that “hold value.”
On top of announcing that Devcon5 will be held in Osaka, Japan, the Ethereum Foundation outlined its next 12-month funding plan, including performance and security improvements, as well as a push for academic involvement in the Ethereum community.
Some of crypto’s elite assembled in Chicago to discuss different ways of kicking out scammers and thieves from the cryptopool. Some of the solutions were to create a blacklist of known entities who go back on trades and engage in malicious activities or creating a standard way of verifying customer identities and sources of revenue.
From being tweeted by Elon Musk to being added to Microsoft Azure and considered by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the last two weeks have been good to the Ethereum community.
Collin Myers, a global token strategist for ConsenSys, and Eric Conner, founder of Ethereum information site EthHub, discuss why staking on the Ethereum blockchain may not be as profitable as initially thought.
While gathering at Fidelity’s Mining Summit, bitcoin miners worked to dispel common mining beliefs and promote clean energy adoption, within the mining industry and beyond.
A new website called gotsatoshi.com says it will later reveal the identity of Bitcoin’s creator. However, it could simply be a publicity stunt.
During the latest core devs call, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake claimed the code specifications for Ethereum’s upgrade to proof of stake are “on track” and will most likely be finalized by June 30.
BREAKERMAG was a star in the cryptojournalism space for about a year. Cryptojournalist Matthew de Silva and Ben Schiller, BREAKERMAG’s editor-in-chief, talk about some of the reasons for the magazine’s closure.
After a one-word tweet from Elon Musk, Vitalik Buterin extends him an invitation to Devcon and schools Musk on some of his favorite uses for the Ethereum platform.
During a weekend vote, participants in the Ethereum community used Aragon tokens to vote down a proposal to fund the development of the interoperable blockchain platform Polkadot.
