Web3 provides some very useful APIs by which you can subscribe to the events on Ethereum blockchain. Web3 is a JavaScript library which interact with Ethereum node over RPC. Let's walk through a couple of subscription APIs. Watching Events Web3 can be used on browser as well as server side. This example is going to use Nodejs on server side. Also, I've used Ubuntu to do this example but it should be valid for Windows...
Blockchain and AI, two of the most common buzzwords that abound today in the industry, have their own scientific potentials that can be explored. Though few people understand the gravity of these concepts, it is sure to generate interest among the entrepreneurial masses. AI or Artificial Intelligence has been around for quite some time. It is basically an intelligent machine that feeds on the troves of data stored online. AI has helped revolutionized several sectors...
ConsenSys announced a collaboration with AMD; Tesla Stock on a Blockchain; TurboTax partnered with a crypto tax company to bring crypto tax automation; ETH dev team is going forward with progPOW in upcoming HF; 10 years of Bitcoin Genesis and more......
FedEx with XYO is building Location-Based Technology Capabilities; Amazon Managed Blockchain; Tax paying through crypto in Ohio; Vitalik Buterin recieved an honorary doctorate from University of Basel; Coinbase Announces Support for Zcash and more......
IMF Explores Evolving Forms of Money; US Election Commission Allows Mining of Cryptocurrency for Political Campaigns; Overstock could be sold for crypto; EEA Opens Regional Office in Korea and more......
Ethereum blockchain is going for another fork - Constantinople, in January 2019....
Siacoin is all set for the hardfork scheduled for block 179,000 expected to be on Wednesday, October 31st. The core developers hope to improve the performance of Sia network, and give the power of mining back to the community. Sia Tech - An Introduction Sia is one of the leading decentralized cloud storage platform to rent and host. Based on blockchain technology it creates a data storage marketplace that is more robust and more...
While looking at transaction details of Bitcoin, you see a few other transactions than the one you made. For example on blockchain.info, you might have came across different type of Bitcoin transactions. Lets have look at them one by one. Before we take a look closely on each type, it's worth noting that Bitcoin transfer from one account to another follow Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO) model. I will considering all the transactions form Block...
When talking about ethereum mining, most of the individuals think that they need supercomputers having large multitudes of computational power to pull it off. Well, it is not completely erroneous; unlike a couple of years back, mining cryptocurrency has become quite easier. This has become possible because of the rapid advancement of both cryptocurrency, and the blockchain technologies have experienced over the time. Those days are gone when you needed a mainframe with the processing...
Press Release World Blockchain Hackathon presents a $12,000 blockchain hackathon in San Francisco on the 16th-17th June, 2018. The aim of World Blockchain Hackathon is to create, nurture and support a growing decentralized community of blockchain developers. World Blockchain Hackathon organizes hackathons globally. The last event was held in Saint Petersburg Russia with 150+ participants. The San Francisco Hackathon will cover the latest Blockchain technologies, research, applications, and development. Our partners and sponsors include...
Cryptocurrencies have changed the ways of transactions whether they be business or personal. Below is a graph which shows the number of ethereum transactions per month over years. Image source: Etherscan.io It is impressive that cryptocurrencies such as Ether have grown so much over years. But the problem is that cryptocurrencies were not designed for such a widespread use. And as the virtual currencies have grown, many problems have surfaced. The most important and...
Ether is the fundamental cryptocurrency for operation on Ethereum blockchain. It is used to pay GAS , a unit of computation used in transactions and other state transitions....
What is Ethereum light node? Ethereum light node protocol is big step towards bringing the Ethereum client to small devices with limited hardware resources. Details of light client protocol can be found at GitHub. Go-Ethereum or Geth 1.8.1 has an experimental implementation of light protocol. Lets have a look in detail. Installing Geth First you need to install geth. You can follow the instruction here about geth installation. $geth version Geth Version: 1....
A blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of records called blocks which are secured from tampering and revision using cryptography....
With Constantinople fork coming closer, listing all EIPs to be included is a priority for the Ethereum Core Developers. In latest Core Devs meeting, the discussion was more focused on streamlining the process of merging of EIPs and about the EIPs proposed to be included in the fork....
