Andrew Quentson

Counterparty is to launch Ethereum’s Virtual Machine on testnet in two weeks, bringing Ethereum’s smart contract functionality to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin reached a low of $550 Wednesday night, after 24500 BTC had been auctioned off in Australia.

Griff Green, a spokesman for Slock.it, the team which founded the DAO, says in an interview with Cointelegraph that he is privy to some of the pool operator’s discussions and they “very much back the soft fork.”

The Ethereum community has a monumental and historical decision to make after the shocking theft of $50 million held on the DAO smart contract. The proposed solutions by the Ethereum’s developer community to the on-going hack is a fork, according to a Critical Update by Vitalik Buterin.

As Bitcoin sees a stratospheric rise, users have noted a corresponding increase in transaction confirmation delays.

The DAO is being attacked for some hours, according to Griff Green, a spokesperson for Slockit.

A new poll by the Independent puts Brexit at a 10% lead over remain, sending the British pound tumbling down. At the same time, Bitcoin is seeing a stratospheric rise past $600 in a bull run.

The DAO is considered to be a decentralized, autonomous, organization, but some say it is neither. It certainly is not an organization in the traditional sense of the word.

One of the greater experiments of the decade finds itself in limbo as the DAO token holders weigh solutions to a number of attack vectors exposed by Emin Gün Sirer, Vlad Zamfir and others.

A recent Princeton University study finds that a cap on max block size is necessary in a situation where mining rewards are entirely made of transaction fees.