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The Cryptopia Hack Is Not Over, Another 17K Wallets Drained – Report

Only a week ago, it surfaced that an additional 2,000 wallets were at risk following the infamous Cryptopia hack earlier this month. Now, another 17,000 Cryptopia wallets were drained of 1,675 ETH (around USD 180,000 as of the time of writing), according to blockchain analysis protocol and platform...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Crypto VR: Bitcoin is Under Marketed, EOS is Over Marketed

“If you are a blockchain startup, open source project or decentralized protocol and believe that you don’t need the right kind of marketing to succeed, think again,” writes William Mougayar, entrepreneur, investor, blockchain researcher, and advisor, in a blog post. He has additionally classified...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Crypto in 2019: Main Challenges and Solutions for Ethereum

The Constantinople hard fork But what about Casper, Sharding, and Plasma? Will ICO regulations bring down Ethereum? Dapps might rescue Ethereum yet Adoption is imminent, ConsenSys believes Ethereum and macro trendsThroughout the year 2018, the price of Ethereum (ETH) slumped by more than 80%, and...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Ethereum’s Constantinople Upgrade Postponed to Late February

Ethereum’s long awaited Constantinople upgrade, which was planned for January 16th, will be coming on February 27th. This was decided at today’s core developers phone call.The upgrade was postponed due to a vulnerability which was discovered by smart contract auditor ChainSecurity....

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Ethereum ‘Hard Fork Won’t Happen this Week’, ETH Drops

Ethereum’s developers have decided to postpone the network’s much-anticipated hard fork after a smart contract auditor flagged a potential vulnerability in the upgrade.Per the auditor, ChainSecurity, the upcoming Constantinople Upgrade for the Ethereum network, “introduces cheaper...

, by Tim Alper

Ethereum Constantinople Upgrade: What is it All About?

Ether will not be getting a new coin. The upgrade is made up of five Ethereum Improvement Proposals. The upgrade makes miners' work harder, less profitable, and reduces the influx of new ether. What about the price? The short answer is, nobody knows.Updated on January 18th: New date for the upgrade...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

CryptoKitties and Gods Unchained Team Up to Lure Users

In an effort to attract more attention to the market which has seen a significant slump in activity, popular dapp (decentralized application) on the Ethereum blockchain, CryptoKitties, is partnering up with Gods Unchained, a competitive e-sport that also found its home on the Ethereum network. The...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

History Suggests Ethereum Might Drop After the Imminent Hard Fork

The market behaves in a similar way whenever there is an Ethereum hard fork incoming, a research by cryptocurrency exchange Gate.io showed. Generally, the time before the fork will see ETH price increasing, peaking at the time of the fork, and then correcting “to restore rationality after a...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Ethereum Overtakes XRP Following Impressive Rally

Although the second half of December and beginning of January has been a good period for most cryptocurrencies, Ethereum stands out as one of the biggest winners during the period. Having gained close to 90% since its bottom in mid-December, the price of ether is currently trading north of USD 150,...

, by Fredrik Vold

Top 10 Crypto Projects by Tech Development

A project called CoinCodeCap (C3) tracks the development activity of dozens of crypto projects, and according to their data, the top 10 projects by market capitalization of their tokens are far from the most actively developed. The clear winner in the list is Cardano, currently ranked 11th by...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Christmas Fights: Vitalik Buterin vs. Proof of Work Camp

The holiday season would not be the same without people within the family fighting over something - or in the case of crypto, people within the community fought over consensus mechanism Proof of Stake (PoS) and its merits over Proof of Work (PoW.) As is tradition, in the end nobody really won and...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Vitalik Does Give ETH – But Who Receives It?

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, donated 1,000 ETH each to three different startups, as a response to a Twitter thread yesterday. Let's take a quick look at these lucky startups.The giveaway came after members of the Ethereum community discussed ways in which the project could be improved,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Crypto Adoption Surges Even as Prices Plunge!

Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. ____Some people think that, to divine the destiny of crypto, all they have to...

, by Juan M. Villaverde

Good News: Major Stock Exchange Operator to Offer BTC, ETH in 2019

Boerse Stuttgart Group, the operator of Germany’s second largest stock exchange, announced they will launch their end-to-end infrastructure for digital assets in the first half of 2019 in partnership with solarisBank, a Berlin-based fintech company that offers Banking as a Platform services...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

A New Wave of Attacks on Ethereum Mining Rigs

Another massive campaign targeting Ethereum mining rigs has been going on for at least a week, since December 3rd, ZDNet reported, citing Troy Mursch, co-founder of Bad Packets LLC, a cybersecurity company. Attackers are scanning for devices with port 8545 exposed online - which has cost careless...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Bitcoin and Ethereum Fundamentals Are Tougher than Prices, Expert Says

The fundamentals of Bitcoin and Ethereum networks have not fallen as much as prices have, author of the popular book Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond, Chris Burniske, writes in a blog post. In his research, he found that the fundamentals are outperforming the...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

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