(ETC) is set to hard fork some time today, Tuesday, May 29. But rather than create a ‘sister’ currency to this offshoot of the original (ETH) platform, today’s fork will remove the ‘difficulty bomb’ from the Ethereum Classic Mainnet at block 5,900,000, which developers say should solve issues related to mining profitability which could otherwise…

Follow Ethereum Classic (ETC) is set to hard fork some time today, Tuesday, May 29. But rather than create a ‘sister’ currency to this offshoot of the original Ethereum (ETH) platform, today’s fork will remove the ‘difficulty bomb’ from the Ethereum Classic Mainnet at block 5,900,000, which developers say should solve issues related to mining…

Posted by Jennifer Salazar on May 29th, 2018 // No Comments Decred (CURRENCY:DCR) traded 2% lower against the US dollar during the 1-day period ending at 0:00 AM Eastern on May 28th. One Decred coin can now be purchased for approximately $87.37 or 0.01227470 BTC on major exchanges including YoBit, Tux Exchange, OOOBTC and Nanex.…

Amid Chaos, Our Decentralized Future Is Being Built OPINION Michael J Casey May 28, 2018 at 12:00 UTC | Updated May 29, 2018 at 10:52 UTC Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor of blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in Consensus…

A group of developers have embraced the Bitcoin Core monicker perpetuated by Bitcoin Cash’s Roger Ver and have launched a cryptocurrency under the same name calling it the real open source, peer-to-peer electronic cash. Bitcoin Core Becomes a Thing When Bitcoin Cash was first hard-forked back in November 2017, it resulted in two coins: Bitcoin…

24 Copyright on text and image: Bitcoinist.com A group of developers have embraced the Bitcoin Core monicker perpetuated by Bitcoin Cash’s Roger Ver and have launched a cryptocurrency under the same name calling it the real open source, peer-to-peer electronic cash. Bitcoin Core Becomes a Thing When Bitcoin Cash was first hard-forked back in November…

Bookmark EOS: the dawn is here. This post marks the first in a new EOS series I am starting in an effort to provide some easy to read instructions covering topics I found online, particularly vast and hard to get started. In this post, we are going to cover a basic overview of EOS. But…

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