News from the largest cryptocurrency project since Bitcoin. In this section, you'll find Ethereum news, information about Ethereum 2.0 staking, how the Ethereum blockchain works, and the current ETH price. Read the latest Ethereum cryptocurrency news on ForkNews.
Parity Technologies has warned users that a vulnerability discovered in the testnet network could spread to the Ethereum network if an update is not installed. In this case, user transactions will no longer be synchronized with the Ethereum network and will be blocked.
At the OmiseGO AMA session, Vitaly Buterin announced that he had found a completely new solution to scalability problems. The creator of Ethereum has announced an improvement that will take it from processing 15 transactions per second now to processing 1 million transactions per second in the future.
Ethereum has taken another important step towards the final transition from PoW to PoS; the developers have already published the first release of the long-awaited Casper network update.
US federal regulators are currently studying whether Ethereum can be considered a security. According to the Wall Street Journal, regulators at the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are examining whether many cryptocurrencies - not just ICOs - should be regulated under federal securities laws.
Ethereum developers decided to go even further, this time directly into space. The National Astronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has teamed up with the University of Akron to explore the possibilities of Ethereum blockchain technologies to improve space communications and navigation.
Ethereum is the cryptocurrency with the second largest capitalization. It is preferred by ICO organizers and software developers, but, nevertheless, at the end of the first quarter, its price in percentage terms dropped significantly more than the price of competing cryptocurrencies.
Vitalik Buterin has written a new proposal that could solve the most basic question of the ethereum network: whether there will be a maximum number of Ether coins that can be created. In a new proposal to improve the Ethereum network, the creator of the cryptocurrency shared his thoughts with developers and users of the software on setting the maximum number of coins at 120,204,432. This is exactly twice as many as were sold during the ICO process in 2014.
The price of Ether, the cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network, fell below $500 for the first time this year. This comes days after an SEC commissioner reported dozens of open investigations into ICOs.
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