Cartesi Integrates Optimistic Rollups To Scale Ethereum DApps

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Can BCH Help Ethereum Scale?

ETH 2. 0 is just around the corner — or at least that’s what many imagined. But waiting for Ethereum to scale is a bit like waiting for Godot, and Vitalik Buterin has an idea to scale network capabilities right now.

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Don’t Believe the FUD: Ethereum Can Scale

The narrative that ethereum can't scale is being actively disproved in production environments on a daily basis.

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Ethereum Classic’s 51 Percent Attack Highlights the Challenges of Proof-of-Work Coins

On Jan. 5th, Ethereum Classic (ETC) suffered a 51% attack losing a total of more than US$1 million spread over 15 different transactions. The scale of this attack can offer some lessons to the challenges faced by blockchains secured by Proof of Work (PoW).

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MIT Professor Thinks Blockchain Can Lead to Borderless Economy

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency–Silvio Micali, the Ford Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claims that development of blockchain on a global scale could lead to the creation of a truly borderless economy.

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Analyst: 2019 Will be the Year of 2nd Layer Ethereum Scaling

According to an Ethereum (ETH) network and community analyst, this year’s major trend for the decentralised smart contract platform will be layer two scaling technologies. Proposed upgrades to the network include Plasma and the Raiden Network, amongst others.

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Ethereum (ETH) price analysis: could trade above 50-day EMA for first time since May

Ethereum bulls will be smiling today as the price threatens to scale the 50-day exponential moving average (50EMA) for the first time since rejection on 6 November. ETH last traded above the 50EMA on the 1-day chart in May.

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Video: EOS Introduction And Analysis

In today’s Video Briefing, Kiana takes a look at one of 2018’s hottest offerings. EOS made headlines around the world with a year-long token sale, which raised about $4 bn. The project was widely dubbed an “Ethereum Killer,” promising thousands of transactions per second for zero fees.

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Ethereum Wallets, Mining Rigs Still Targeted by Hackers at Low Prices

Ethereum has been one of the hardest hit cryptocurrencies during this year’s bear market. Its woes are nowhere near over as mining hardware has been targeted by hackers looking to cash in before prices plummet even further.

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Crypto Price Watch: Another Rough Day Forces Top 10 Altcoins to See Red

It seems as if though the cryptocurrency market just can’t catch a break right now. Following some bullish momentum that saw the price of Bitcoin scale up above the $4,300 mark, the market at large has once again dipped, causing BTC to float just above the $4,000 threshold.

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Rent, Pruning, 10x Scaling and Six Stages, Ethereum 1.0 Might be the Biggest Upgrade Yet

Ethereum is transforming from a dumb blockchain which does not scale to one that might allow our grandchildren to still run a node while performing millions or billions of transactions. . . . The post Rent, Pruning, 10x Scaling and Six Stages, Ethereum 1.

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Bloomberg: Institutional Interest in Cryptocurrency is Low

Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC), Wall Street–While excitement is beginning to bubble again over the possibility of a Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund, thereby providing the avenue for more large scale investing than what the current landscape affords, Bloomberg reports that the overall sentiment from institutional investors is disinterest.

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Plasma Halted as Ethereum Seeks Alternative Scaling in zk-SNARKs

Ethereum’s Achilles heel has always been scaling. Since its inception, developers have been researching different ways to scale the blockchain in order to increase network capacity and speed. Back in August 2017 Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, released an initial draft of the Plasma project which provided an off-chain layer 2 scaling solution.

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Ethereum Scaling Solution Might be Related to SNARKs Rather than Plasma

Ethereum developers are trying to find the best way to scale the network. However, this has proven to be a difficult task. The possible solutions to solve these issues do not seem so obvious as it was previously thought.

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Ethereum Price Watch: Currency Witnesses Steady Gains Over the Past 5 Days

At press time, Bitcoin’s closest competitor and the world’s second largest crypto asset by market capitalization, Ethereum, is trading at a respectable price point of $216.12. Additionally, as can be observed from the chart below, the premier currency has been able to scale up to around the $225 mark (twice) within the span of the past […] The post Ethereum Price Watch: Currency Witnesses Steady Gains Over the Past 5 Days appeared first on NullTX.

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New Ranking Puts Binance At The Top Spot Among Crypto Exchanges, Huobi And OKex Fall Behind

A recent report by a blockchain research firm is stirring the crypto market. The report focuses mainly on crypto exchanges and their ranking on a global scale. There are several metrics used to gauge the exchanges against each other.

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Revolutions and Counter Revolutions: Andreas Antonopoulos Reflects on 10 Years of Bitcoin

As Bitcoin approaches its 10th anniversary, its community, old and new, has begun taking stock of how a decade has come to alter or define the cryptocurrency — and what Bitcoin has done to alter or define the decade.

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Draft paper of Ethereum’s (ETH) Casper has been published

On November 4, Vlad Zamfir announced via Twitter that four Ethereum (ETH) developers and he among them published a draft paper covering CBC Casper technology which intended to scale the Ethereum blockchain using the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism.

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OmiseGo and Quantstamp are Partnering to Scale the Ethereum Network Through Plasma

Congestion is an issue faced by nearly every notable blockchain in existence. Despite the benefits of decentralization, the more people utilizing a blockchain, the more the network congests and slows down.

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IOTA (MIOTA) Adoption Rate will Increase on a Scale Never Seen Before: Founder

Founder of IOTA Foundation – David Sonstebo, has pressed-on and highlighted out the previous IOTA Foundation advise of learning programming because according to him there are many corporations that need ‘you’.

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Amberdata adds support for automated Ethereum smart contract security audits

CryptoNinjas Amberdata, a provider of enterprise-grade solutions for blockchain monitoring and operational intelligence, has announced it has added automated security audits at scale for Ethereum smart contracts to its platform.

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BlockFi Now Offers Litecoin and Gemini Stablecoin-Backed Loan Options

Crypto-to-USD lender BlockFi has announced that it will support loans backed by both Litecoin and Gemini’s recent stablecoin token GUSD. This is the first time the company is expanding to accept collateral in one of the crypto industry’s top-10 assets besides bitcoin and ether.

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Blockchain’s Report Examines Benefits (and Failures) of Today’s Stablecoins

Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.

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Third Generation Blockchain Projects In South Korea Aim to Fix Ethereum’s Shortcomings

Blockchain has come a long way since Satoshi’s 2008 Bitcoin proposal. Since then, we’ve gotten large-scale development platforms like Ethereum and smaller scale privacy tokens such as Verge.

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Vitalik Buterin co-authors research showing how Ethereum can scale securely

Ethereum devs are edging closer to scaling Ethereum. A new paper, co-authored by Vitalik Buterin, claims to have eliminated certain security trade-offs plaguing its new ‘sharding‘ tech. Researchers Mustafa Al-Bassam and Alberto Sonnino from University College London teamed up with Buterin to publish, what they say, is the key to fixing Ethereum’s scalability problems.

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Vitalik Buterin Thinks zk-SNARKs Could Help Ethereum Scale to 500 Transactions Per Second

Ethereum, widely regarded as the second generation of blockchains, has had some problems with scalability and controversy around the value of its native ETH coin. Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin is set to end the scalability debate by using cryptography pioneered by Zcash.

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Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum can easily scale up to 500 transactions per second

Co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin found a way to increase the speed of transactions in the system by 3200% without using second-level solutions, such as Plasma.

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Vitalik: Ethereum (ETH) Can Scale to 500 tps Using ZCash’s ZK-SNARKs

The ability for the Ethereum (ETH) network to scale and provide a greater throughput than the current 15 – 25 transactions per second (tps), has been the subject of debate for quite sometime now.

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How Zcash Could Help Scale Ethereum Up To 500 Transactions Per Second

Scalability problems plague Ethereum. Often, the Ethereum blockchain is clogged and slow, hardly a surprise given how many projects exist on the Ethereum blockchain though. There could be a new solution within some new practices that have been pioneered within the Zcash network, according to Coindesk: “A form of cryptography pioneered by zcash might help scale ethereum, founder of the platform Vitalik Buterin said on a research forum Saturday.

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'500 Transactions a Second': Vitalik Says Zk-Snarks Could Scale Ethereum

A form of cryptography pioneered by zcash might help scale ethereum "by a huge amount," says founder Vitalik Buterin.

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Qtum Unveils 0.16 Update on First Birthday, Targets 50,000 Tx/S

Qtum celebrated its first birthday with a bang, doubling down on the ambitions of its 2019 roadmap and releasing its “game-changer” 0. 16 update, designed to scale the network to 50,000 transactions per second through lightning networks.

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eCash Founder David Chaum Makes Bold Promises with Elixxir Blockchain

Over 30 years after creating eCash, a predecessor of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies which spawned the Cypherpunk movement of the 1980s, Dr. David Chaum is back in the public eye with a claim of having invented “the world’s fastest cryptocurrency.

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'Turbo Geth' Seeks to Scale Ethereum – And It's Already in Beta

Instead of tackling ethereum's transaction costs, developer Alexey Akhunov focused on the blockchain's state, and the software is ready.

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Hong Kong–Based Blockchain Fund Makes Its Case for Yen-Backed Stablecoin

Grandshores Technology Group, a Hong Kong–listed investment holding company, is seeking to raise around $12. 7 million through a digital token fund, according to reports from the South China Morning Post (SCMP).

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Berkeley Professor Questions Stablecoin Viability in Unflattering Op-Ed

University of Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen has taken a swipe at the viability of stablecoins in an op-ed published on Project Syndicate. The critique, entitled “The Stable-Coin Myth,” argues stablecoins are not automatically "viable" just because they are pegged to an asset, though Eichengreen does believe they have an advantage over "conventional cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin which he says "is highly unstable" and "unattractive as units of account.

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Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin’s Twitter Spree Tells All About Casper

Vitalik Buterin issued a series of 75 tweets today to discuss Ethereum’s Casper project. Casper is the upcoming consensus mechanism that will be used to transition Ethereum from proof of work to proof of stake.

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Status New Sharding Client Nimbus Could Push Ethereum To 1 Million Transactions Per Second

Status. im has recently released a lightweight Sharding client, Nimbus. This client is supposed to scale the Ethereum protocol and to help in the creation of a better ecosystem that will be faster and scalable for decentralized applications.

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Vitalik Buterin’s Seven Deadly Crypto Sins: Large Scale Applications

In the following series, BTCManager will be walking through, in detail, seven questions posed by the co-creator of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin. These seven questions are some of the most relevant features of this booming ecosystem.

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Status Releases Sharding Client: One Step Closer Toward 1 Million TX/S on Ethereum

Status, also known as Status. im, released a lightweight Sharding client, called Nimbus, to scale the Ethereum protocol and create a better ecosystem for decentralized applications (dApps) in processing information.

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ConsenSys Ventures Kavita Gupta Talks Tachyon and India

ConsenSys, the Ethereum production studio based in the U. S. , launched ConsenSys Ventures last year selecting Kavita Gupta to run two funds of $50 million and $100 million.

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Bodhi Bets on the Decentralized Prediction Marketplace

As with brick-and-mortar industries that are slowly fading away to the globalism of the online world, so too will the traditional prediction market industry have to innovate to keep up with the sheer efficiency, reliability and security that the decentralized prediction markets promise to bring.

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An Australian Blockchain Experiment: Tracking Global Almond Shipments

Following a successful 2016 trial of blockchain technology in an interbank open account transaction, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has partnered with five international and Australian companies to ship 17 tonnes of almonds from Melbourne, Australia, to Hamburg, Germany, using a new distributed ledger platform built on the Ethereum blockchain.

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Australian bank used blockchain to ship 17,000 kilos of almonds to Germany

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced it has successfully completed a new blockchain-powered trade experiment at a global scale, as spotted by CoinDesk. The bank confirmed it tracked a batch of 17,000 kilograms (approximately 37,000 pounds) of almonds using a private blockchain built on the Ethereum network.

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Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and other coins to be protected better with the new bill, says South Korean official

On 25th July, South Korean officials made it clear that the country’s governing bodies must come together to enforce cryptocurrency regulations. This comes in the wake of major hacks that has threatened to destabilize the financial markets as well as dissuade people from adopting cryptocurrencies on a larger scale. South Korea is making a steady progress […]

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Crypto Funds Short Ethereum on Overvaluation Concerns

Some major digital asset investors are shorting Ethereum due to their lack of strong conviction in its potential to scale and increase its network capacity.

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This Silicon Valley-Backed Blockchain Startup Wants to Become the Wikipedia of Data

DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others.

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This Silicon Valley Backs Blockchain Startup Wants to Become the Wikipedia of Data

DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others.

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Achieving Truly Useful Proof of Work: Toby Simpson of Fetch.ai

What’s the best that can happen? That’s the focus of Fetch. ai in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). Episode 025 of the What Bitcoin Did podcast featured a wide-ranging conversation between host Peter McCormack and Fetch co-founder/CTO Toby Simpson about both best-case and worst-case outcomes for AI.

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Ethereum Scaling Solution Raiden Releases Last Testnet Before Launch

The team behind the Raiden, which creates payment channels to help ethereum scale, has launched the final testnet before the tech goes live.

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