Bitcoin's 24-hour performance has seen less volatility than in recent days, with BTC/USD moving in a corridor between $10,900 and $11,140.
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Markets Report: Bitcoin price reclaims $9,500 on U.S. stimulus news as Ethereum hits 5-month high
A new uptick in step with the U.S. announcing even more financial stimulus over coronavirus sees $9,500 return, but will it hold?
Data from price tickers including CoinMarketCap tracked BTC/USD as it completed 2.5% daily gains to hit local highs of $9,550. That level marks Bitcoin’s highest since June 25, and contrasts with the cautious behavior which has characterized the market over the past few weeks.
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SKALE Network’s token sale announced
The Aug. 17 Dutch auction will make the Ethereum layer-2 blockchain platform the first to launch on ConsenSys Codefi’s Activate platform
An Ethereum layer-two blockchain platform, the SKALE network allows developers to easily build highly configurable, completely decentralized, cloud-based blockchains capable of running 2,000 transactions per second, complete with sub-second block times.
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Bison Trails Co-founder Aaron Henshaw (l.) says with millions of users and tens of thousands of DApps, ETH's upgrade might not be easy (Photo: Bison Trails)Bison Trails rolls out support for Ethereum 2.0
Platform co-founder Aaron Henshaw said he believes the first iteration of ETH 2.0 will launch this year, as Vitalik Buterin’s blockchain moves from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake
ETH 2.0 will see the network transition from an energy-draining, expensive proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to proof-of-stake (PoS). This will effectively make miners obsolete, as blocks will instead be verified by validators who stake 32 ETH in order to run a node.
