Hours to Go: How to Watch Ethereum’s Fork as It Happens
Hard forks have become a kind of spectator sport in the cryptocurrency community. Here's how to watch the latest: ethereum's Byzantium upgrade.
Hard forks have become a kind of spectator sport in the cryptocurrency community. Here's how to watch the latest: ethereum's Byzantium upgrade.
Ethereum's Geth has re-released its Byzantium hard fork software after spotting a bug. But low adoption is concerning with the fork so close.
One of the main providers of software underlying the ethereum protocol has faced delays with its preparations for an upcoming fork.
About three days before the Byzantium hard fork, developers are by and large optimistic, even though small protest movements continue.
With only around three days to go before ethereum launches into Byzantium, the second largest client is struggling to meet the deadline.
Bitcoin developers are making progress on Schnorr, a function for aggregating signatures and in turn, a way to increase the capacity of the network.
With only days remaining before ethereum's next hard fork, CoinDesk outlines how stakeholders are moving forward to prepare.
Developers have directly traded bitcoin for ethereum using an in-progress technology that aims to replace cryptocurrency exchanges with code.
The recent trend of websites installing cryptocurrency miners to harness visitors' processing power has taken a more positive twist, a report says.
Ethereum's core development team have taken part in one last meeting ahead of a network hard fork expected to happen on October 16.
The Lightning Network isn't yet live on bitcoin, but that doesn't mean developers aren't theorizing the kinds of ambitious apps that it could enable.
With a lull in activity, what's really going on under the Segwit2x hood? According to many developers, now is the calm before the storm.
New reports indicate that Internet domain provider Cloudflare has begun to crack down on websites running hidden cryptocurrency miners.
Two employees of the Council of Ministers in Crimea have been fired after getting caught mining bitcoins on official computers.
A soon-to-be-launched cryptocurrency based on an acclaimed white paper is considering a novel strategy for future blockchain upgrades.
The Geth implementation of ethereum has new code that enshrines an upgrade hard fork for later this month.
A version of the ethereum blockchain being used by developers to test a forthcoming network upgrade is under an ongoing spam attack.
Three major Asian banks and a regulator in Singapore have teamed up for a new blockchain trial focused on customer identification.
While in its earliest stages of development, a new form of cryptography is winning developers for its potential to power truly private blockchains.
Noted whistleblower Edward Snowden has said that the privacy oriented cryptocurrency zcash is the "most interesting alternative" to bitcoin.
The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission is worried about the risk of "pump-and-dump schemes" in the ICO space.
Professional services firm Accenture has been awarded a patent tied to its work on an "editable blockchain."
A new proposal considers how bitcoin sidechains might be secured using a system similar to those being discussed in experimental proof-of-stake models.
TV network Showtime has reportedly removed code from two of its websites that secretly used visitors' computing power to mine monero.
A plan to hard fork the bitcoin blockchain, and change its mining algorithm, is emerging. Still in its early stages, what does the new coin offer?
A new white paper, co-authored by ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, seeks to tackle challenges in the fast-moving market for initial coin offerings.
One of the more theoretical attempts at scaling blockchain networks is taking steps toward launching it's own network for further testing.
The question of how ethereum is incentivizing miners is developing ahead of an expected hard fork on the platform this month.
A popular ICO token launched in China is showing signs of recovery, weeks after the country took moves to limit similar domestic activities.
Early bitcoin entrepreneur Alex Waters reviews the latest book in the bitcoin canon – arguing Brian Eha's "How Money Got Free" is one of the best.