(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

• Banks can't deal with crypto traders, says Reserve Bank of India
• Chile’s Countrywide Energy Commission To Use Ethereum For Energy Facts Pilot
• SEC Halts Fraudulent Scheme Involving Unregistered ICO.
• Twitter suspended the "@Bitcoin" account for violating its rules.

Ethereum News

• Vitalik proposed an EIP 960 suggesting the introduction of a hard cap on the total supply of ETH at 120,204,432; twice the amount of ETH sold in the original sale. Reddit discussion

• ASIC RESISTANCE discussed before core dev meeting

  • Discuss the ASIC problem in Ethereum Reddit

• Vitalik Buterin Calling Craig Wright a Fraud in Public

• Ethereum Community Fund - Official Presentation March 2018

Other Blockchain news

• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey invests $2.5 million into Bitcoin's Lightning Network.
• Monero Upgrade
  On April 6, 2018 occured a scheduled upgrade on the Monero network that introduces two major changes:
  • A PoW tweak to curb any potential threat of ASICs and preserve ASIC resistance.
  • The minimum ring size is bumped to 7 (mixin 6).
    XMR network hash rate is significantly decreased after the fork.
    Monero Network Hashrate Distribution Before/After v0.12.0.0 Upgrade
    What is the Ethereum teams reaction to the results of the XMR fork?
• Lisk Core 1.0.0 Open Beta Launch
• Sia Community Update — March 2018

Technology

Developer's Update

• Ethereum Core Developer Meeting #36 [04/06/18]

  • Agenda
  • Video

• EIP 958: Ethash for ASIC RESISTANCE. Reddit

• ERC928: ETHAvatar - Like Gravatar, but for ETH Addresses, not Emails. Reddit

• ERC948 - Subscription Revenue on Ethereum. Reddit

• EIP 908: Reward for clients and full nodes validating transactions

Good Reads on Blockchain

• Part 1 of a comparative analysis between Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric and R3 Corda - ConsenSys
• Airdrops: Key Themes and Design Considerations

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Vitalik at Deconomy 2018
• The Corner Case, Episode 1 - Nick Johnson from Ethereum helps you debug your difficult smart contract problems and design issues.
• Hashing It Out #1: Nick Johnson
• Ethereum Governance with Hudson Jameson
• Blockchaingers Hackathon 2018 - interview with Vinay Gupta
• Plasma White Paper in audiobook.

Projects

New Projects and White Paper

• Peepeth - a decentralized Twitter powered by the Ethereum blockchain.
• FOAM: Token Curated Registries for Geographic Points of Interest

Project updates and Press Release

• Omise and OmiseGO sign MoU with ShinhanCard a major player in South Korea’s banking and payments arena, to explore opportunities for fintech and blockchain initiatives
• O-M-forking-G - OMG and Cosmos have decided to start f̵o̵r̵k̵i̵n̵g spooning…hard.
• DigixGlobal (DGX) Marketplace is now LIVE.
• Status Alpha 0.9.16 Release Notes
• Announcing DAI Integration
• Golem to launch mainnet very soon
• Aragon DAO Workshop ? (Testnet)
• Grid+ is Looking for Round 2 & 3 Beta Testers in Texas.
• Ethereum Sharding Development Update
• BSIC Launches Incubator to Tackle Global Issues with Blockchain
• Zeppelin - US Dollar Audit
• Kleros Early Juror Program: Token Airdrop Development Update — March
• ChronoBank Community Update: March 2018
  • ChronoBank’s DMT: Distributed blockchain Middleware Tracker
• OpenLaw Development Update
• The Bancor Wallet is now LIVE

Trading

• Introducing Coinbase Ventures
• CoinMarketCap tracking over 10,000 markets
• Ethfinex announce the launch of Nectar.community — a governance platform through which Nectar holders can monitor balances, redeem fees and vote on community governance proposals.
• TREZOR Password Manager now compatible with Model T
• Ripple Has Tried to Buy Its Way Onto Major Exchanges for Cryptocurrency - Bloomberg

Miscellaneous

Hackathon

• Fintech hackathon in Haïti from April 13-14, 2018.
• MedCredits $10,000 App Competition. Submissions will be accepted beginning now until April 24, 2018.
• Hackital 36-Hour Ethereum Hackathon in Washington, DC from April 27-29, 2018.
• EthMemphis hackathon. Apply before MAY 19TH - 7 PM.
• EthBuenosAires hackathon from May 25-28, 2018.

Events

• Apr 11, 2018: BlockFin Summit at the LendIt Fintech in San Francisco, USA

• April 17, 2018: DappDev in Kiev

• April 18-19, 2018: Blockchain Expo World Series, London

• April 19, 2018: Synchronize 2018

• Apr 25-26, 2018: Crypto World Journal

• May 3-5, 2018: EDCON in Toronto

• May 10, 2018: Fluidity Summit 2018

• May 11-12, 2018: Ethereal Summit at the Knockdown Center in NYC.

• MAY 14-18, 2018: Boulder Startup Week

• May 16-17, 2018: Token Summit III (NYC)

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