Virgil Griffith spoke at a blockchain conference in Pyongyang in or about April 2019. Image: Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us / gettyimages ...

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OmiseGo is one of the more interesting cryptocurrency projects that is trying to become a decentralized bank, exchange, and asset-backed blockchain gateway. Developed on...

Augur is perhaps the most promising prediction based blockchain currently on the market. It is also one of the most established Ethereum based...

Ethereum is set to implement its proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus algorithm and as part of the process, co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed that the community adopts higher staking rewards. Buterin made his proposal regarding the dapp and smart contract platform on GitHub on Friday, April 20. According to him, the blockchain should have 2,097,152 ether issued […]

Source link: Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Proposes Higher Staking Rewards For Upcoming PoS Implementation

Ethereum (ETH) is the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization and recently upgraded its network via the Constantinople hard fork. The successful upgrades reportedly saw the network block count more than double following the activation of the “difficulty bomb” update. Now, another report is out, ostensibly showing that Ethereum the number of core developers working […]

Source link: Ethereum Core Devs Outnumber Those Working On Bitcoin Per Month Claims New Report

Ethereum could see a number of changes in the coming year, after revelations that senior developers have held quite discussions on undisclosed upgrade. Implemented, the changes are expected to significantly improve the platform’s performance, ostensibly earmarked for release by June 2019. The changes are attributed to four meetings held in private during Devcon4 in October, […]

During his appearance on the Conversations with Tyler show hosted by the economist Tyler Cowen,  Google co-founder Eric Schmidt stated that Ethereum could be a powerful platform whose unresearched potential is off-the-charts.

Where flexible thinking is preferable to dogmatism “The highest good, than which there is no higher, is the blockchain, and consequently it is immutably...

Why private blockchains should not be eager to run codeI’m not a fan of the term “smart contracts”. For a start, it has been used...