Ethereum has had a couple of miserable years in terms of price but development on the world’s largest smart contract and dApp platform has continued. Speed and scalability are the keys for mass adoption and a solution is already being developed. Ethereum Evolution Ethereum’s infighting in 2016 and 2017 has been replaced by co-operation and Read more…
Bitcoin celebrates the 11 year anniversary of its first clear use case, a peer-to-peer trustless transaction. The first transfer happened between the wallets of now-legendary Satoshi Nakamoto and cryptographer Hal Finney. Bitcoin Transactions Picked Up Between Early Adopters Transactions were relatively slow to pick up in the early days, as bitcoin initially had to accrue Read more…
The year is coming to an end, and a lot of people have started thinking about minimizing their tax burden. If you’re a bitcoin investor, things get even more complex. The IRS recently sent out 10,000 letters to cryptocurrency investors, and this is an indication of how serious they are when it comes to cryptocurrency Read more…
The Bitcoin network keeps improving in multiple parameters, and this time, mean block size peaked, carrying the heaviest set of transactions on record. Block Size Growth Remains Organic A Bitcoin block has a variable size, though relatively small blocks usually propagate. There is no target or limitation, and the Bitcoin network has not set out Read more…
The Korean government is preparing legal tools to tax capital gains from the sale of crypto assets. Specialized legislation to target digital asset deals is expected to arrive from the tax season for 2020. Korean Authorities Hope to Tax Crypto Capital Gains Until recently, Korea was one of the most active markets for crypto speculation. Read more…
The Weiss Crypto Ratings chart saw EOS slide down the ranks. Weiss downgraded the project, pointing centralization as the chief reason. Weiss Moved EOS Down Straight to C- Weiss Ratings downgraded EOS from B to C-, despite the favorable estimations in the past. The chief reason was the influence of big token holders, which could Read more…
The Ethereum hard fork was completed successfully, as the target block 9069000 arrived on schedule, at 0:25 UTC. Ethereum Hard Fork Set to Improve Speed, Gas Efficiency The Istanbul hard fork improves the speed of the Ethereum network and prevents the spamming of blocks. Most big clients are in synch with the update officially on Read more…
Litecoin (LTC) has a limited potential, and will most probably fail to fulfill its promise of being silver to Bitcoin’s gold. Recent points made by entrepreneur and blogger Sylvain Saurel show that LTC has lost its momentum and is becoming irrelevant. Litecoin Rode on the Back of Bitcoin’s Rally Litecoin caught the price momentum at Read more…
The EY Blockchain team published the open-source code for its latest addition to the Nightfall project, which brings the potential for batching anonymous transactions on the Ethereum (ETH) network. Ethereum Transaction Batching Brings Gas Cost Down The Nightfall project brings usage of ZK-Snarks, the Ethereum-compatible technology for transaction veiling. Additionally, the team has worked on Read more…
The government of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) is about to announce the details of its own digital currency. The project is developed in partnership with blockchain-oriented startup LIFElabs.io. BVI’s Digital Currency to Replace USD More governments are turning to proprietary digital currencies over the last year than ever before. China and the Marshall Islands Read more…