Last week was one of the most exciting weeks in 2020 for the crypto community, with an abundance of bullish news for Bitcoin and the achievement of a huge milestone for the Ethereum Foundation. Bitcoin’s new all-time high is $19,911, and this price was reached at 11:00 UTC on December Read more…
Ethereum continues to be the poster child for why you shouldn’t fundamentally change your protocol if you want serious users. The long anticipated (and delayed) rollout of “Ethereum 2.0” is set to begin at the start of December, but there are signs there could be further setbacks, due to the complex Read more…
Ethereum 2.0 developer, Ben Edgington, gave an update on the progress of the key components. According to his post, version v1.0.0 of candidate 0 has been released for phase 0 of the Eth2 or Beacon Chain. In that sense, he mentioned some changes made with respect to the previous version. The new version is Read more…
“Base-layer scalability for applications is only coming as the last major phase of eth2, which is still years away,” wrote Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in the Ethereum roadmap update. But Buterin doesn’t like that crypto media is putting it out there. Buterin’s saying that the media “selectively sound-bites” him and he’s just Read more…
The Ethereum Foundation has released its staking launchpad, which helps users set up their own validator node in preparations for ETH 2.0. By staking ETH, users will eventually be able to earn interest on their holdings and contribute to the security of the Ethereum network. Last Step Before Mainnet Ethereum’s new launchpad Read more…
Ethereum 2.0 launch draws nigh as the final testnet is set to go live on August 4. ETH 2.0 has been running successfully on multiple testnets since April. The much-anticipated Ethereum 2.0 has kept investors on the edge for the longest time. However, the good news is that its final testnet is Read more…
The cryptocurrency world has moved past the largest crypto, Bitcoin, and has been recently paying attention to other important projects. Ethereum has been witnessing strong growth in its ecosystem despite a stalled price. The value of Ether at press time was $244.83, but the anticipation of ETH 2.0 has brought an increased Read more…
An unknown person has paid approximately $2.5 million just to transfer a token of $133. The information available on Etherscan shows that the someone, more than an 2 hours ago, transferred 0.55 Ether ($133.85) with a transaction fee of 10,668.73185 Ether ($2,596,342.58). The man, with an address starting with 0xcDd6a2b9DD*****, Read more…
In a Twitter exchange with Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said that he was looking forward to decentralized exchanges that would run on Ethereum 2.0. He encouraged Buterin to keep his ‘good work’ to show that there was no bad blood between the two cryptocurrency leaders. Moreover, CZ acknowledged that he Read more…
Bitfinex’s latest move was put into action in order to diminish confirmation times while making sure that users engage in faster payments with more economical transaction costs. The platform assures all of this with security kindred to that of Ethereum. The OMG Network sure does sound like an incipient company, however, Read more…