Buterin reveals future plans for Ethereum
The 23-year-old Ethereum project creator revealed his future plans for the cryptocurrency.
Central Bank of Swaziland considers deploying digital currencies
Different countries’ governments have different policies regarding the use and trade of digital currencies. Some are making efforts to regulate them, few intend to issue a complete ban on them, and others recognize virtual currencies as an innovative technology and plan on making use of them after thorough research. South African country, Swaziland appears, to be one of the latter.
R3 plans a DLT-based instant international payments platform
Enterprise software firm, R3, claims to have put forward a solution that utilizes distributed ledger technology (DLT) to introduce a faster, quicker, and cheaper way of facilitating international payments. In collaboration with the company’s 22 member banks, the product is developed on top of R3’s Corda platform, which enables direct, secure transactions via smart contracts.
Hackers use SSH credentials to hijack Ethereum mining scripts
Attackers have been using Ethereum’s default SSH Credentials to search the internet for all Ethereum mining software.
US senate open to amendments in bill S.1241
This May, bill S.1241 was introduced to the US Senate. The purpose of this bill was to combat money laundering and the requirement of this bill arose from the increasing use of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and others in this field.
Upcoming Bitcoin hard fork expected around November 16th
After the Bitcoin Cash hard fork took place in August, another hard fork, SegWit2x, is expected to take place on November 16th. Bitcoin has gone through forks before, but it is the first time that a split will create two competing versions of Bitcoin which will replace the original currency.
Cryptocurrencies’ market cap hits record $200 billion
The Cryptocurrency market capitalization reached a new record-breaking high of $200 billion this Friday, with the biggest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, contributing 60%.
Cryptocurrencies’ market cap breaks $200 billion barrier
With Bitcoin’s new historic prices, the market value and demand is still lunging upward.
Nasdaq Clearing exec: Blockchain activation will take small steps
Blockchain, first employed by the digital currency Bitcoin, has found potential uses in all kinds of industries and has been accepted as a valuable technology in the stock market as well. It has several improvements to offer to the financial systems, however its integration into the framework is not an easy task.
Blockchain project, Tezos, faces class-action lawsuit
On October 25, a class-action lawsuit was filed with the Superior Court of the state of California by Andrew Baker, a Tezos ICO contributor. The lawsuit lists multiple defendants, including the Tezos co-founders, Kathleen and Andrew Breitman, as well as Johan Gevers of the Zug-based Tezos Foundation.
