Tag: Ethereum News
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Catalonia Considers Separate Digital Currency and E-Residency Program
Catalonia, which is fighting for independence from Spain, is considering an e-residency program similar to the one in Estonia. Catalonia is also considering adopting its own digital token or cryptocurrency. The Government of Catalonia, the Generalitat de Catalunya, has sent representatives to Estonia to learn about the e-residency program, which offers a government-issued digital identity card that…
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Speculators Jump On New Gold Rush Called Ethereum Name Service
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) launched on mainnet on May 4, 2017. At launch, ENS featured an automated registrar process allowing anyone to easily and cheaply register names ending in “.eth” using an auction process. The auction system enabled anyone to purchase a .eth addresses of at least seven characters in length. Since its launch over 618,000 auctions have…
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Ethereum, Bitcoin Prices Stabilize After Day of Sideways Trading
Traders restored a bit of stability to the crypto markets on Friday following a day of sideways trading. The bitcoin price and ethereum price each declined a bit less than 1% for the day, and most major altcoins experienced similar minor declines. However, no top 10 cryptocurrency moved more than 3%, providing the market with…
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Bitcoin Price Cracks $5,700 but Ethereum Wanes after Byzantium
The crypto markets have exhibited mixed performance during the early portion of the week. The bitcoin price continued to hover near its all-time high on Tuesday, climbing just enough to crack the $5,700 barrier. The ethereum price, meanwhile, lost ground following the successful deployment of its much-anticipated Byzantium hard fork. Chart from CoinMarketCap Altogether, the…
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Ethereum Executes Byzantium Blockchain Software Upgrade
Ethereum has officially updated. At 05.22 UTC, the fifth hard fork to occur on ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap, enacted a batch of ethereum improvement protocols (EIPs) designed to enhance the platform. The price per dollar of ether oscillated wildly in the run up, before rising over 2 percent following activation to $348, according…
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History Repeated? Confidence High Ethereum Will Avoid Blockchain Split
“There is no reason to believe that this one will be controversial.” Just days away from making one of its biggest-ever upgrades, confidence is high among ethereum supporters that the world’s second-largest blockchain will avoid past mistakes and successfully navigate a coming change to its codebase, projected for Sunday night. “I expect that nothing will happen,” Ethereum Foundation…
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Recent Ethereum Upgrade May Make Wall Street Fall in Love With Blockchain
Wall Street continues to have a tenuous relationship with Blockchain technology. Large banks have recently made statements both for and against the new technology, with some companies like Bank of America already pursuing patents. Problem with privacy Part of the struggle these financial platforms are having with Blockchain technology is the issue of privacy. The key issue for traders…
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Ethereum, Bitcoin Prices Dip as Market Contracts to $143 Billion
The bitcoin price pulled back on Tuesday, dipping nearly $200 to put a pause on its week-long rally. The ethereum price retreated by a similar degree, causing the wider markets to contract by more than $6 billion. Chart from CoinMarketCap On Monday, the combined value of all cryptocurrency market caps surpassed $150 billion for the first time…
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Following Ether Flash Crash, US Watchdog Investigating Coinbase for Margin Trading
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has set in motion an investigation into a flash crash of Ethereum on Coinbase’s exchange to determine what role leveraging might have played in the plunge. This past June, on Coinbase’s GDAX exchange, Ethereum suffered a precipitous drop, falling to 10 cents from $317.81 in milliseconds before quickly recovering. The agency…
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Germany’s Biggest Bitcoin Marketplace to Integrate Ethereum Trading
Bitcoin.de, the largest German bitcoin marketplace, will soon integrate support for Ethereum traders on its platform. On September 27, the Bitcoin.de development team revealed in an email to its clients that it is set to add Ethereum trading in the upcoming weeks. In an interview with BitcoinBlog.de, a local bitcoin-focused news publication, an employee of…