Will XRP price rebound after Ripple’s partnership with NYSE-listed DXC?
XRP price jumped by over 4.6% at last check on January 21 as investors bought the recent dip after Ripple Labs scored a major partnership with DXC, an NYSE-listed company valued at over $2.6 billion. ...
To fork or not to fork
The DAO, though not a product developed by the Ethereum Foundation, has been a hot topic as of late, both internally in the organisation as well as within our community. The Hard Fork is a delicate topic and the way we see it, no decision is the right one. As this is not a decision that can be made...
$665,000,000 in Bitcoin and Crypto Liquidated As BTC Gives Leveraged Traders Whiplash
Crypto traders using leverage to bet on Bitcoin’s price trajectory are getting whiplash. In the last 24 hours, $655 million in leveraged crypto bets have been liquidated, according to the market data tracker CoinGlass. The liquidations coincided with rapid updates on President Trump’s push to acquire Greenland and impose new tariffs on EU countries that failed to go along with...
Crypto bill jilted as US Senate turns to housing: report
It’s safe to say that housing — most Americans’ biggest monthly expense — is now crowding crypto off the legislative calendar. Summary ...
Hard Fork Completed | Ethereum Foundation Blog
We would like to congratulate the Ethereum community on a successfully completed hard fork. Block 1920000 contained the execution of an irregular state change which transferred ~12 million ETH from the "Dark DAO" and "Whitehat DAO" contracts into the WithdrawDAO recovery contract. The fork itself took place smoothly, with roughly 85% of miners mining on the fork: You can...
Wall Street tests tokenization with a T-Bill ETF
One of Wall Street’s safest and most tightly regulated assets is inching onto the blockchain, as an ETF issuer seeks approval to tokenize part of the U.S. Treasury market without changing how investors trade or hold the fund. ...
Hive: How we strived for a clean fork
The DAO soft-fork attempt was difficult. Not only did it turn out that we underestimated the side effects on the consensus protocol (i.e. DoS vulnerability), but we also managed to introduce a data race into the rushed implementation that was a ticking time bomb. It was not ideal, and even though averted at the last instance, the fast...
Steak ’n Shake serves Bitcoin bonuses—Internet delivers side eye
Steak ’n Shake is taking its crypto experiment to the pay window, announcing it will begin paying hourly workers a small Bitcoin bonus tied to hours worked—a move that quickly drew skepticism and ridicule online. ...
Onward from the Hard Fork
The foundation has committed to support the community consensus on the admittedly difficult hard fork decision. Seeing the results of various metrics, including carbonvote, dapp and ecosystem infrastructure adoption, this means that we will focus our resources and attention on the chain which is now called ETH (ie. the fork chain). That said, we recognize that the Ethereum...
Supreme Court signals stop to Trump, Fed shake-up
The Supreme Court on Wednesday signaled it is unlikely to let President Trump immediately remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, with justices across the ideological spectrum warning that such a move could shatter the central bank’s long-standing independence. ...
