Bitcoin Price Jumped 4% to Trade Above $12K Despite Most Altcoins Lagging Behind
Bitcoin price has performed rather well during the pandemic in comparison to the Dow Jones that was down 0.80% year to date.
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Ethereum 2.0 Developer Gives More Hint about Possible Launch Date, Progress Made
Ethereum has made considerable progress particularly with the success of the Zinkel Testnet launched last week.
Weekly Recap: Bitcoin Remains Dormant While Ethereum Incurs Losses
By Konstantin Anissimov
The pioneer cryptocurrency remained stagnant during the third week of October.
Near-Doji Day for Bitcoin, Modest Correction in Ethereum
By Konstantin Anissimov
On Wednesday, 14th October, BTC/USD was trading in the price range between $11,430 and $11,568.
Vitalik Buterin Asks Ethereum Users to Start Moving to Layer-2 Scaling Solutions Like Rollups
The Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin noted that the sharding implementation can take time. Meanwhile, he advised users to move to other layer-2 scaling solutions like rollups that offer 100x transaction throughput.
Ripple CTO David Schwartz Says His Crypto Investment Is All in XRP
According to Schwartz, project founders are not bound to have complete faith in their abilities and ideas. He indicated that by not having complete faith, they can make better decisions.
Ethereum 2.0 Zinkel TestNet Gives Reassurance for Launch in 2020
The progress made with the Ethereum 2.0 testnet Zinkel, Medalla as well as others, gives a renewed hope of the migration of the network before the end of this year.
As Ethereum Starts to Choke, Will DeFi Move to New Platforms?
By Andy Watson
Just as Bitcoin was a spark for the cryptocurrency movement, it seems that Ethereum is likely to take a similar role in the history of DeFi.
RSK Infrastructure Framework (RIF) BTC-ETH Bridge to Open DeFi Products to Bitcoin Community
The RIF BTC-ETH bridge was developed by the RSK team and it serves as an interoperability bridge that locks the original token such as DAI on the Ethereum blockchain while minting an ERC777 ‘side token’ that can move freely on the RSK network.
Vitalik Buterin Briefs Ethereum 2.0 Updated Roadmap, Hints 100x Scalability with Rollups
Using rollups, Vitalik Buterin promises a massive 100x in transaction throughput for the Ethereum network. When combined with Sharding the output can multiple to 6400x.
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Ethereum is a public blockchain network that gave rise to the most popular altcoin; ether (ETH). The Ethereum platform was developed by Russian programmer Vitalik Buterin in July 2015 and it features smart contracts as well as an open-source nature that avails its users the choice of designing their programs without the interference of third parties or middlemen.
Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) was built on the ERC-20 protocol and it is ranked the 2nd digital currency based on market capitalization which currently stands at over 18.8 trillion USD. The coin serves as the network fees to miners on the Ethereum platform.
On its launch in 2015, there were 72 million ETH tokens pre-mined after its ICO raised over 16 million dollars in 2014. On 13th January 2018, ETH reached an all-time high of over 1,432 USD. Few months after its launch in 2015, ETH’s price dropped to its all-time low of 0.4209 USD on 21 October 2015.
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Interestingly, users can also create their custom tokens on the Ethereum blockchain network. This unique feature as seen the platform often referred to as the leading decentralized Apps (dApps) and smart contracts platform. Decentralized Apps are run and implemented precisely as programmed after it is set out on the Ethereum network; this makes it hard to censor and reduces their vulnerability to attacks. Ethereum emphases on running software design codes of dApps.
When it comes to decentralized finance in the dApps industry, Ethereum boasts of leading all other blockchain platforms in the number of applications developed. Ethereum has made significant attempts to solve the scalability issues in the crypto space in recent years and appears to be making progress in that regard.
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