Category: News
Digital currencies show potential to be new asset class as demand for Bitcoin rival Ethereum rises
For the past year or so, “blockchain, not Bitcoin” has been a common refrain among the financial services set — meant to imply both that the technology behind Bitcoin is […]
The DAO: How the autonomous corporation is already here
A new paradigm of economic cooperation is underway — a digital democratization of business. Over the past couple of weeks a project with no mainstream press has become the biggest crowdfunding […]
Goldman Sachs and other global banks research on Ethereum
Goldman Sachs, UBS, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and 38 further major banks have meanwhile joined the club. Basically every major global bank is part of the consortium of […]
Bitcoin’s Rival: Ethereum’s Rapid Rise
Since I began my occasional musings on all things Bitcoin around a year and a half ago I have touched on many aspects of digital currency, but there is one […]
Ethereum, a virtual currency, enables transactions that rival bitcoin’s
The New York Times covered Ethereum for the first time in a large article on 27 March 2016 and introduced the technology to a wide audience of readers. The article gives […]
Ethereum Blockchain as a Service now on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft and ConsenSys are partnering to offer Ethereum Blockchain as a Service (EBaaS) on Microsoft Azure so Enterprise clients and developers can have a single click cloud based blockchain developer […]
Ethereum to move into the next phase: Homestead Release
From the Ethereum.org blog: When January 2015 came around, we all knew this would be the year we’d have to launch our beta version of Ethereum. Our Proof of Concept (“PoC”) series […]
Is Ethereum about to topple Bitcoin?
Currently ranked next to Bitcoin in price, Ethereum is a cryptocurrency that challenges Bitcoin. Several altcoins have come and gone, a lot of others are still in existence. Bitcoin however still […]
German utility company RWE testing Ethereum
Amidst an evolution in the German utility industry, one power company is looking to blockchain technology as a means to cut costs and improve its customer experience. Five years ago, […]
Microsoft brings Ethereum blockchain tech to the mainstream
Blockchain technology is slowly making its way into the mainstream. It took a big step this week, when Microsoft certified a development environment for Ethereum, running on its own Azure cloud service. Ethereum […]