The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — one week on Cointelegraph in one link! Coming every Saturday, Hodlers Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much […]
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Joseph Lubin believes Eth2’s development will move quicker than many are expecting, predicting the new protocol will “absorb” Ethereum in “the not too distant future” Speaking during the Ethereum in the Enterprise — Asia Pacific 2020 conference on Dec. 3, ConsenSys founder and Ethereum contributor, Joseph Lubin, predicted that Eth2 will devour Ethereum in “the […]
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Ethereum developer Danny Ryan’s new proposal would unlock 80% of withdrawal use cases and allow decentralized staking service Rocket Pool to launch within months. Withdrawal contracts for Ether staked on Ethereum 2.0 could become available as early as Q1 2021 allowing decentralized Eth2 staking service Rocket Pool to launch. While Phase 0 of Eth2’s roll-out […]
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Ether price declined sharply alongside Bitcoin even as the long-awaited Eth2 mainnet launched successfully. The price of Ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum, plunged harder than Bitcoin (BTC) in the recent pullback. After reaching an all-time high on Coinbase, the price of Bitcoin fell steeply by over 9% within several hours. In the same […]
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Teams representing the maths and science departments of the universities of Cambridge and Oxford are competing to design cryptocurrency trading algorithms. More than one dozen teams representing the mathematics and computer science departments of Oxford and Cambridge universities are competing to build crypto trading algorithms on major exchanges Coinbase Pro and FTX. According to a […]
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Despite the uncertainty around the launch of Ethereum 2.0, Bitcoin Suisse expects to make its ETH staking service available before the holidays. Crypto service provider Bitcoin Suisse expects to offer its Ethereum (ETH) staking services before Christmas, underscoring the firm’s expectations of an imminent launch of Ethereum 2.0. In a statement released Wednesday via Trustnodes, […]
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The Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract is open. How are things progressing, and what comes next? On Nov. 4, Ethereum (ETH) core developers hit a significant milestone. In a “quick update” on the Ethereum Foundation blog, developer Danny Ryan confirmed the release of the v1.0 specs for the hotly anticipated Ethereum 2.0 upgrade, which includes the […]
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As access to crypto spreads across Africa, blockchain could be crucial in improving cross-border payments and settlement systems. As technological innovations continue to spread across Africa, the continent could provide some unique use cases for blockchain technology. African has been continually driving innovation in a number of spaces, with mobile payments a prime example of […]
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The solution is centralized, but time is pressing. As the launch date of Ethereum 2.0 approaches, an important issue in the staking mechanism is starting to be discussed in the community: the one-way nature of stake deposits. Prospective stakers in Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 will not be able to withdraw or transfer their stake until […]
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Traditional real estate processes are being disrupted by blockchain as the world starts to rebuild amid a pandemic. A number of industries are being negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, including the United States housing market, which is valued at $33.6 trillion. Recent findings from Zillow, an American online real-estate database company, show that despite low […]
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