Ethereum (ETH)

The fate of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is pretty much hanging in the balance and has somewhat been so since it was first announced a few months ago. There has been so much backlash from authorities, with Congress specifically asking Facebook to halt the development progress until further notice. Now according to Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, the biggest problem that the Libra faces is Facebook itself.Lubin recently spoke to CNBC’s Squawk Box, and specifically mentioned Facebook’s...

Some think it’s interesting while others consider it spooky but regardless of whether or not there’s a general consensus, everyone agrees that there’s something interesting or fishy happening on Reddit.  A very ominous post published a few years ago has now been edited by an unknown user and edited that’s generally supposed to be impossible.Six years ago, a Redditor simply going by u/Luka_Magnotta, published on the Bitcoin subreddit r/Bitcoin, what is probably the most gloomy Bitcoin future...

Auch mit der Einführung der Blockchain-Technologie sind, wie bei sonstigen Risikotechnologien – sei es Bio-, Nuklear- oder auch KI-Technologie – diverse, ungeklärte ethische Fragen verbunden. Bitcoin selber ist kein Betrug, aber viele dubiose Gestalten nutzen die Unwissenheit der Menschen über diese neue Technologie für ihre zwielichtigen Angebote aus. Das soll jetzt aufhören: So forderte ein Zusammenschluss von Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern, Juristen und Wissenschaftlern...

Laut Analysten befindet sich Ethereum in der Kaufzone: Die Entwicklung von Ethereum war in den vergangenen Monaten nicht gerade vorzeigbar. Durch den Beginn der Bitcoin-Rallye zu Beginn des Jahres, mussten Altcoins drastische Verluste gegen den Marktführer hinnehmen. Wie einige Analysten nun behaupten, befinde sich Ethereum jedoch in der Mitte einer Kaufzone und in den kommenden Monaten noch höher...

In a move that has seen Big Tech enter the crypto space on a whole new level, Microsoft has launched a platform on its Azure cloud infrastructure to make token deployment to become as easy as possible.Referred to as the Azure Blockchain Tokens platform, the platform aims to make the issuance and existence of blockchain tokens to become cloud-based and to also enable the operating environment of such blockchain projects to become seamless and as easy as possible.This was revealed at the...

Die Kritik an Ethereum nimmt nicht ab. Und wieder geht es um den Einfluss, den User tatsächlich auf den ETH und das Netzwerk haben können. Besonders Bitcoin Entwickler Tuur Demeester gilt als intensiver Kritiker von Ethereum, und genau dieser meldete sich nun auf Twitter erneut zu Wort.Ethereum News: Kritiker sieht Ethereum auf Weg zur ZentralisierungDemeester zitierte Tweets, unter anderem auch von Ethereum Gründer Vitalik Buterin, die andeuten, dass es beim Ethereum Projekt immer mehr in...

Ethereum price is currently consolidating gains above the $180 support against the US Dollar.ETH price is facing hurdles near the $190 and $200 resistance levels.There is a breakout pattern forming with resistance near the $188 level on the 4-hours chart (data feed from Coinbase).The price is likely setting up for an upside break above the $190 and $200 levels in the near term.Ethereum price is trading above key supports near $180 against the US Dollar. ETH price could rally significantly if...

Photo: ARPA OfficialARPA – the layer two privacy-preserving computation protocol – is set to square off against Carry Protocol, a data purchase platform on Ethereum, in Binance’s second round of the Community Coin Vote (CCV). Voting will begin at 4 AM 5 November (UTC) and will incorporate Binance’s new rules for the CCV that allocates a BNB rewards pool to the runner-up and reduces the BNB holding period of 9 to 7 days. ARPA winning voters will split a rewards pool of 15 million ARPA tokens,...

Today the next chapter of a long-running and closely watched lawsuit against Ripple will happen. The plaintiff, Bradley Sostack, has time until the end of this Monday to file a response to the startup’s September 20 motion to dismiss. If the case won’t be entirely dismissed, it will probably go into discovery next year.As we already reported, the main point of this dispute is the question of whether Ripple’s cryptocurrency XRP is a security or not.If it is, that means that it should have been...

Google’s parent company Alphabet has revealed that it will be purchasing popular wearables giant and smartwatch maker Fitbit, in a deal that will be closed soon. Worth $2.1 billion, many analysts agree that this deal has all the makings of a blow-up and could very seriously cement Google’s position as a strong contender in the smartwatch market, a market already largely dominated by Apple. While this is very interesting and important news, the market is starting to wonder whether or not...