Today’s Ethereum developer call lasted three hours, during which a tentative decision to reintroduce ProgPow as Ethash 2.0 was made despite lacking unanimous consensus. The Ethereum (ETH) All Core Devs call to decide on the fate of ProgPow was held on March 6. Despite a tentative decision to reformulate the mining algorithm as “Ethash 2.0,” […]
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Tesla CEO Elon Musk want Jack Dorsey to stay as chief executive officer of Twitter. While Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey could potentially be ousted by investors, at least two major figures in the crypto industry have already voiced support for the exec. Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of major cryptocurrency project Ethereum, […]
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In what seems as one of the biggest crypto dramas of 2020, community seems to have the upper hand. The scandal surrounding the Steem blockchain continues to unfold. After juggernaut exchanges Binance, Huobi and Poloniex were heavily criticized by community members for allegedly mobilizing customer deposits to take over the network, two of those firms […]
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The Ethereum community is still engaged in bitter debates on ProgPoW and ASIC resistance, which some believe exposed the ‘suboptimal’ nature of its governance. The Ethereum (ETH) community has recently been engaged in a bitter debate sparked by a proposed mining algorithm change. Dubbed ProgPoW, the proposal would invalidate all currently existing ASICs to only […]
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Vitalik Buterin says that currency digitization is inevitable and believes decentralized privacy currency would be more appealing to people than state-controlled digital currencies. With governments increasingly looking at launching their own digital currencies, you might worry that crypto just can’t compete with national financial infrastructures. Not so, says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Buterin spoke with […]
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Shortly after delivering sceptical remarks on Bitcoin, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has praised major altcoin Dogecoin once more. Just over a month after delivering sceptical remarks on Bitcoin (BTC), SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is apparently rooting for major altcoin Dogecoin (DOGE) again. Already known as a big fan of DOGE, Musk […]
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Binance has reversed its vote in what appeared to comprise a coordinated move to take over the Steem blockchain to the benefit of Tron’s Justin Sun. On March 3, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced that the exchange had removed its votes that contributed to a sudden shift of control over the Steem blockchain. Earlier today, […]
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In a debate about whether specific events move Bitcoin up or down, the Ethereum co-founder revealed a distaste for the stock-to-flow model. Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin does not believe that the popular stock-to-flow model is useful for predicting the Bitcoin (BTC) price. In a Twitter debate on Feb. 27, Buterin became the second well-known […]
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Supersonic is a trustless zero-knowledge proof system that could help DeFi platforms, as third-party trust isn’t required to ensure privacy. In an interview with Cointelegraph at the Stanford Blockchain Conference on Feb. 19, Stanford University cryptography Ph.D. student Ben Fisch described Supersonic as a trustless zero-knowledge proof system, also referred to as a zk-SNARK. Fisch […]
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Once the “world’s most powerful” hardware for mining Ether, Antminer E3 will allegedly stop mining the coin in about 45 days, 2Miners says. While the Ethereum network is preparing to start shifting to proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus, some mining devices might soon stop supporting ETH mining at all. Bitmain’s Antminer E3, once the “world’s most powerful” […]
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