The Ethereum Foundation has introduced a new Geth client version (1.4.9) that rolls back the changes made in the previous soft-fork-enabled software. A security alert was issued by Ethereum Foundation. In the announcement, the developer Felix Lange explained: An attack vector has been identified in the freshly released implementation of the DAO soft fork. The fork enactment […]
The price of ether remains volatile following the loss of investor funds by one of the blockchain platform’s signature projects.
Paris politician Bernard Debré, the deputy of the National Assembly of France and a member of the Union for a Popular Movement in Paris, has stated that Bitcoin should be banned in the city, according to a local report. Recently, the bureaucrat participated in a French-based survey, conducted by the magazine Current Values, where he […]
Ethereum entrepreneur Daniel Cawrey discusses the recent demise of The DAO and how that impacts the future of smart contracts.
The Ethereum community is in emergency mode as showstoping findings from the Cornell team sent the soft-fork option out. The only choice now available is whether to hard-fork or not, a decision that must be made in just 16 days. DDos vulnerabilities were found in Ethereum’s softfork which allows an attacker to exploit the gas […]
Bitcoin price continues trading into a narrowing range and the market seems to have foregone decline in favor of consolidation. The consolidation floor and expectations going forward are discussed below. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 discount […]
Things are drawing to close in the European session, and it’s time to perform our second analysis of the day in our bitcoin price watch strategy. In this morning’s analysis, we noted that price had been pretty volatile across the last couple of weeks, but has since slowed down a little bit, and that range bound […]
The second-ever Bitcoin block reward halving is estimated to take place in a little under two weeks, and the overall effects of this event are still somewhat of an unknown. There has been a runup in the Bitcoin price over the past month, and many claim this is due to the upcoming halving, where the […]
The Bitcoin price has stabilized on news of Britain leaving the European Union in a historically unprecedented move. The currency, which had corrected after a considerable price increase in recent weeks, has settled around the $650 range as global markets react to the news. If you recall the currency crisis in Cyprus, you might agree […]
Updated at 1:40pm EST: Segregated Witness has been merged into Bitcoin Core. Original article: During a Bitcoin Core development meeting on Thursday, it was decided that the code for Segregated Witness (SegWit) is ready to be merged into the master branch. According to Bitcoin Core contributor Eric Lombrozo, the merge is expected to take place […]