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GrayScale Investment moves to sell all ETHPOW tokens

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Posted on September 17, 2022

GrayScale Investment has announced plans to sell ETHPoW tokens it received from the PoW hard-fork following Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake (PoS). Shortly after the Merge on Sept. 15, miners hard-forked Ethereum to launch the Ethereum PoW network. As proposed, ETHPoW tokens were distributed to eligible ETH holders. Two funds owned by GrayScale Investment received a cumulative sum

Possession of Bitcoin still legal in China despite the ban, lawyer says

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Posted on September 16, 2022

Despite enforcing a major cryptocurrency ban one year ago, the Chinese government still protects local crypto investors as crypto is recognized as virtual property protected by the law. One of the world’s most hostile countries toward Bitcoin (BTC), China has not yet banned the possession of cryptocurrencies, according to David Lesperance, founder of Lesperance &

Powers On… Insider trading with crypto is targeted — Finally! Part 2 – Cointelegraph Magazine

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Posted on September 15, 2022

This is the second part of my column about the crackdown on insider trading involving crypto. In the first part, I discussed the criminal indictment of Nathaniel Chastain, a former product manager at the OpenSea NFT marketplace. I also discussed the SEC’s allegations against former Coinbase employee Ishan Wahi, his brother and his friend, based

Ethereum Classic hashrate surges to over 200 TH/s post-Merge

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Posted on September 15, 2022

Ethereum Classic is getting a fair share of the miners who can no longer mine Ethereum after its consensus mechanism was changed to proof-of-stake following completion of the Merge. The surge of PoW miners into Ethereum Classic post-Merge has increased its hashrate by over 250% in the last 24 hours, according to 2Miners data. As

Ripple vs. SEC: New Lawsuit Filings Will Impact Crypto Space for Years To Come, Says Legal Expert

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Posted on September 15, 2022

A legal expert who is closely following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) crypto case against Ripple says the outcome of the lawsuit could impact “the entire space for years to come.” Attorney Jeremy Hogan, an XRP proponent, tells his 226,500 Twitter followers that it’s a “huge week” in crypto law for two reasons.

Ripple Executive Addresses Bug Fix in New Amendment for NFTs on the XRP Ledger

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Posted on September 14, 2022

Ripple’s new non-fungible token (NFT) amendment to the XRP Ledger (XRPL) is on hold pending a fix to a problem that was discovered at the last minute. Nik Bougalis, the director of engineering at Ripple, says an engineering problem was discovered by a third party hours before the amendment, XLS-20, was set to be activated.

Guide to real-life crypto OGs you’d meet at a party (Part 2) – Cointelegraph Magazine

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Posted on September 14, 2022

In Part 1, we detailed three of the different kinds of crypto OGs you might meet at an industry party. They were: (1) shadowy super coders and/or anon founders, (2) “reputable” and respected OG industry leaders like Vitalik Buterin and Brian Armstrong, and (3) the comeback OGs, who were trying to shake off the stink

Bitcoin mining difficulty expected to reach new all time high

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Posted on September 13, 2022

Bitcoin’s (BTC) mining difficulty will reach a new all-time high by 8:21 PM GMT on Sept. 13, as Glassnode data analyzed by CryptoSlate predicts a 3.5% increase within the next few hours. Bitcoin: Mining Difficulty (Source: Glassnode) The mining difficulty refers to how difficult it gets for miners to validate transactions on the network. The

Ethereum is eating the world — ‘You only need one internet’ – Cointelegraph Magazine

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Posted on September 13, 2022

There’s a version of the future that’s tantalizingly possible in which Ethereum becomes the base layer for pretty much everything. Recent advances in a technology called zero-knowledge Rollups — from StarkWare, Polygon and zkSync — enable the blockchain to move from fewer than 20 transactions per second to… well, an infinite number of TPS. In

Ethereum Proof-of-Work fork set to launch 24 hours post-Merge

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Posted on September 13, 2022

Ethereum proof-of-work hard fork will launch 24 hours following the Merge on September 15, according to a Twitter thread published by ETHW. ETHW Core Announced the Plan for Mainnet#ethereum #ethw #ethereummerge #ethereumfork $ethw $eth #ethpow 1/n pic.twitter.com/cnYOW6l1iU — EthereumPoW (ETHW) Official #ETHW #ETHPoW (@EthereumPoW) September 12, 2022 ETHW is the team behind the Ethereum PoW

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