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Crypto markets have started the week on a positive note with a $5 billion rally that has resulted in most tokens posting solid gains. The top performer at the moment however is Ethereum has it surges 12% and increases its lead over XRP in third. Ethereum Beating Bitcoin...
Just 48 hours before the planned Constantinople hard fork for Ethereum the brakes were anchored on as a network code vulnerability was discovered. The price of Ethereum took a dive and the upgrade was postponed until the end of this month. As we approach the new date for...
Ethereum Core developers announced on Tuesday that they would postpone their much-awaited Constantinople hard fork. The team, which has previously settled January 16 as the official date for the Ethereum blockchain upgrade, decided to delay it after ChainSecurity found potential vulnerabilities in the code. The Switzerland-based blockchain audit...
Although Ethereum is currently seeing a price drop due to its highly-anticipated Constantinople hard fork being delayed, it will still likely prove to be a positive event for the cryptocurrency’s price once the security flaws are smoothed out and it is implemented. Investors will not know until Friday...
Over the past several weeks, Ethereum has seen consistent price gains that can be largely attributed to investors anticipating its Constantinople hard fork. This fork was widely viewed as being bullish due to it reducing the future supply of ETH by 33%. Now, Ethereum’s price is plunging due...
Ethereum will migrate it’s blockchain from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake in a hard forking event dubbed as Constantinople by January 16. But only 16% of its nodes are ready for the upgrade so far. The message that is going out in the community is that miners are not ready...
Ethereum’s long awaited Constantinople hard fork and network upgrade is due this Wednesday but last week’s crypto crash, followed by further losses yesterday, have resulted in ETH wiping out most of its recent gains. Hard Fork Expected Wednesday According to a recent post on the Ethereum blog the...
Another major cryptocurrency exchange has announced that they deem recent the recently created Bitcoin ABC to be the true Bitcoin Cash. Hong Kong-based OKEx will relist the digital currency under the original Bitcoin Cash ticker, BCH. The announcement is the latest example of a large trading venue deciding similarly....
The Bitcoin Cash price continues to record new yearly lows, currently trading within its fifth consecutive session in the red. The BCH/USD rate has dropped below $120 in the latest sell-off, noting more than 97% depreciation since its all-time high. Since November 7, when the pair was trading...
When a blockchain forks, the new chain is often seen as an improvement over the existing one. The loyalties of the developers and crypto communities may be divided, but failure to come to consensus will result in a forked chain. Stress Test Breaks BSV This is exactly what...
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