“No one knows what the fuck is going on.” That’s according to Ronny Chieng, senior correspondent on the satirical news program The Daily Show, who took the stage at Ethereal Summit on Saturday with ConsenSys founder and CEO Joseph Lubin…
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The Age of Endless Blockchain Forks Is Coming to an End
Paul Brody is the global innovation blockchain Leader at EY. When we sit down inside of EY and discuss what the biggest risks are to the future of the blockchain industry, one topic that comes up again and again is the…
When Not If: For Ethereum Believers, Scaling Is Just a Matter of Time
“Sleep? What’s this word you talk about?” It’s safe to say ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin‘s joke during the first day of EDCON, an ethereum developer conference now taking place in Toronto, had some truth to it, both for himself and…
The Blockchain Data Problem Is Bigger Than You Think
A straightforward data point – the total supply of bitcoin hit 17 million. But as with most things in crypto, it wasn’t so simple. Every 10 minutes or so, miners find a block of transactions and the network adds 12.5…
The Crypto Community Must Use the Blockchain to Self-Police
Yaya J. Fanusie is the director of analysis at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance. He tweets at @signcurve. Self-policing illicit activity on the blockchain may soon be a necessity for the cryptocurrency space.…
New Ethereum Tech Brings Security to Scalable State Channels
The Slavic god of lightning, Perun, is entering the ethereum ecosystem (in spirit at least). Inspired by bitcoin’s lightning network, a group of researchers hailing from Warsaw have unveiled a new white paper entitled “Foundations of State Channel Networks,” which outlines…
The New Last-Ditch Effort to Unfreeze a $260 Million Ethereum Fortune
“The least evil.” That’s how one ethereum user described the latest effort to recover $264 million in cryptocurrency lost due to a code fault in a popular ethereum wallet. But while the recovery efforts that have proliferated since the November incident…
HODL On: In Defense of Bitcoin’s Best Investment Strategy
Steven Hopkins is chief operating officer and general counsel of Medici Ventures, an Overstock.com subsidiary focused on the advancement of blockchain technology. In 1987’s Black Monday stock market crash, Sam Walton, the world’s richest man, lost more than half a…
A Tangled Web: Will Coinbase Ventures Lead to Conflicts of Interest?
Coinbase always seemed destined to add litecoin. Even amidst an early sea of competing cryptocurrencies cloned from the bitcoin codebase, litecoin had secured a special place. Early adopters used it as a way to extend bitcoin gains and test out the…
Kindred Spirits: Why Hardcore Early Adopters Are Dead-Set on Kik’s ICO
“I’m long-term bullish and short term I have no idea.” That’s how Fred Wilson, a partner at Union Square Ventures and one of the most widely respected VCs working today, answered a question about the crypto market in general and…