Ethereum (ETH)

Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx announced it decided to launch Bitcoin options trading by the end of this year.According to the announcement, the Malta-based exchange currently offers spot trading meaning purchase or sale of foreign currency, financial instrument or commodity for instant delivery on a specified spot date. It also offers futures trading and both of it in cryptocurrencies, A per the company, starting cash-settled options trading in BTC/USD pair begins on December 27 due to...

Jérôme de Tychey, président de l’association Ethereum France (anciennement ASSETH) revient sur la cinquième édition de la conférence annuelle des développeurs Ethereum qui s’est tenue du 8 au 11 octobre à Osaka dans la région du Kansai au Japon.

Great news for the Ethereum community: the network’s Istanbul improvement has been successfully completed. Expected to increase the speed of the Ethereum network and its gas efficiency, the hard fork was activated at block number 9,069,000. #Ethereum's #Istanbul network upgrade is now live! Congratulations to everyone who worked to make it happen. Want to learn more? Check out details on Istanbul's included changes here: https://t.co/KIMLb0ujce — Ethereum (@ethereum) December 8, 2019...

Ethereum, one of the world’s most popular networks for the deployment of smart contracts and development of decentralized applications (DApps), has undergone a hard fork. Dubbed ‘Istanbul,’ the system update adds new features and improvements to the existing solution.Ethereum’s Istanbul Hard Fork Goes LiveEthereum’s network underwent its long-awaited hard fork called Istanbul. It took place at block number 9,069,000, and it represents the third network-wide upgrade in 2019. Interestingly...

Ein neues Feature des Nightfall Projekts hat Ethereum eine Anonymität verschafft, allerdings nur für Transaktionen unterhalb von einem US-Dollar. ZK-Snarks hat über Nightfall eine Transaktionsverschleierung erstellt, die mit Ethereum kompatibel ist, während gleichzeitig über das Batching die Gas Kosten gesenkt werden.Ethereum News: Ethereum anonym versendenEs sieht zunächst nur wie ein kleiner Schritt aus, doch das Feature könnte die Tür für eine komplette Anonymisierung des ETH öffnen. Das...

This week Bitcoin attempted to halt the previous bearish trend but failed to advance above the resistance at $7,800. The cryptocurrency has lost a total of 21% over the past month after it plummeted beneath the 100-days and 200-days EMAs in November.To break higher, we must see Bitcoin rising above the resistance at $7,800. If the bulls are successful in this, further resistance lies at $8,000 and $8,265. Alternatively, if the sellers bring the price below $7,400 and start to push the market...

Bitcoin’s price action has been mind-numbingly boring as of late.A prominent trader believes that this will change once we turn the calendar.Other analysts also agree that 2020 would be the year of bitcoin.With the exception of a brutal pump and dump on Wednesday, the price action of bitcoin has been far from exciting over the last few weeks. Since the end of October, the number one cryptocurrency has lost nearly 30% of its value. The slow bleed with a couple of dead cat bounces have...

Premier cryptocurrency lending service BlockFi has introduced a new feature. It is trading at no fees for Bitcoin, Ethereum and the stablecoin GUSD. The startup has been known to allow users access to returns on their cryptocurrency holdings by offering loans to borrowers against users’ cryptocurrency holdings and then passing across the returns in terms of interest on the loans while securing the crypto assets that were used as security for the loans.  While this model is known to have been...

Virgil Griffith, the 36-year-old Singapore resident (and U.S. citizen) who was recently arrested for giving a seminar about blockchain and cryptocurrency in North Korea, allegedly said once that it would be really “cool” if the country learned how to mine ether tokens, according to an unnamed source who boasts “deep knowledge” of the matter.Did Griffith Want to Help North Korea Mine ETH?Griffith was arrested over the Thanksgiving holiday at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) after he had...

As per its earlier schedule, the Ethereum network shall be releasing its Istanbul hard fork three days from now on December 8. However, the interesting thing is that a majority of the nodes on Ethereum are unprepared for this.Frankly, this news is a bit shocking to the Ethereum community. It is found that nearly 60% of the Ethereum clients have not been moved to the latest version that is compatible with the Istanbul Hard Fork. As per the Ethernodes analytical tool, just 40% of the active...