Bitcoin cash now has 32 MB blocks and smart contracts. The controversial hard fork of bitcoin hard forked again several days ago in an effort to add new functionality to the cryptocurrency protocol and further differentiate it from its predecessor.…
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First Bitcoin Smart Contracts Sidechain Now Secured By 1 in 10 Miners
The first bitcoin smart contracts sidechain just reached an early milestone. To be revealed Monday at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2018 conference, RSK, the startup that built the long-anticipated technology, touted as a way to bring ethereum-style smart contracts to the world’s…
A Daily Show Comedian Showed Up to Roast an Ethereum Conference
“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…
Ethereum Futures Go Live on UK Trading Platform
Digital asset trading service Crypto Facilities is launching ethereum futures contracts. Announced Friday, the U.K. startup claims the news marks the first time futures for ether – the cryptocurrency that powers the ethereum blockchain – will be traded on a regulated platform.…
BMW Test Drives Blockchain for Car Mileage Tracking
Global auto giant BMW is piloting a blockchain platform to track mileage in leased vehicles through its startup innovation program. DOVU was one of five startups to work with BMW Group UK as part of the company’s Innovation Lab, first…
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…
$10K Test? Bitcoin Price Hits 4-Week High As Altcoins Shine
Bitcoin hit four-week highs in Asian hours but continues to underperform when compared to alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins). Having scaled a long-term bearish trendline, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization rose to $9,021 at 07:30 UTC – the highest level…
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…
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…
How to Defend Yourself Against Pump-and-Dump Crypto Scams
Tanzeel Akhtar is an independent British journalist whose work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, FT Alphaville, Investing.com, Forbes, Euromoney and Citywire. “Pump and dump” schemes have been around since long before cryptocurrency was invented. What’s striking…