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ForkLog 16 28.07.2020

Ethereum gas limit climbs to 12.5 million Gwei

Ethereum miners raised the network gas limit by 4%, approaching 12.5 million Gwei. Data from Etherscan show this.

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ForkLog 24 28.07.2020

Vitalik Buterin urges faster development of Ethereum 2.0 Phase 1.

The Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin urged developers to accelerate the preparation of ETH 2.0 clients for Phase 1 to test their operability in practice.

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Ana Alexandre 1075 24.07.2020

Whales Transfer Over 700K ETH in ‘Pre-Pump Positioning’

Ethereum’s (ETH) top 100 holders have moved more than 700,000 ETH ($191.1 million, at press time) to exchanges, over the past three days. Analysts at crypto analytics platform Santiment believe that this might suggest that the leading altcoin is on the verge of another pump.

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Krzysztof Shpak 1124 24.07.2020

Report: Hackers Took Advantage of ETH Mempool Congestion to Steal $8.3M MakerDAO

During the market crash in March, bad actors stole $8.3 million from DeFi protocol Maker DAO. Latest research from analytical company Blocknative suggested that it was made possible by manipulating the Ethereum (ETH) mempool.

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Krzysztof Shpak 977 10.07.2020

Creating Token In 5 Minutes. Enecuum Example

Creating your own token has become much simpler over the past decade, but still, you have to know how to write a smart contract to launch an Ethereum (ETH) token or purchase some RAM to do it on EOS.

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Krzysztof Shpak 828 01.07.2020

Will Bitcoin Always Be #1?

The king of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin has the largest market capitalization, the highest price, and the most famous name of the 2000+ coins that have followed in its wake.

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ForkLog 42 16.05.2020

What is Ethereum 2.0?

An explainer of Ethereum 2.0’s phased rollout — Beacon Chain, sharding, PoS mechanics, issuance and inflation, penalties and finality — and how Eth1 and Eth2 may eventually merge. It outlines staking requirements, the one-way deposit from Eth1, and potential market effects, while noting the design’s complexity and the article’s outdated status.

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Krzysztof Shpak 901 14.05.2020

Cryptocurrency Documentary Review: Should You Watch It and Why

Writing about crypto-themed documentaries is a relatively rare occasion. Most of them, however, obviously focus on Bitcoin, which is arguably the easiest target for research. Still, if you compare the number of documentaries on Bitcoin with the number of documentaries on the Nazis, it will become very clear that even 80 years later the ominous […]

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Krzysztof Shpak 981 20.04.2020

Token Ecosystem Nobody Has to Pay For: Will It Work?

Crypto-projects have been facing some skepticism before the hype of 2017–2018. As money started flowing into the nascent industry, so did people aiming to exploit the liberties and naivety there. That period has passed and some of the former liberties aren’t there any more thanks to regulations.

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ForkLog 39 07.04.2020

What is ProgPoW?

ProgPoW—short for Programmatic Proof‑of‑Work—is an updated Ethash variant designed to improve CPU/GPU mining and blunt ASIC dominance. Created in 2018 by the ifdefelse team, it randomises workloads to favour GPUs; the proposal has sparked years of debate, audits and shifting decisions within Ethereum, including polls, petitions and concerns over governance.

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Krzysztof Shpak 709 31.03.2020

Ethereum May Not Be Able To Handle DeFi Workload: What It Could Mean for Decentralized Finance

The growth of decentralized finance may be choking other types of transactions in the Ethereum network. As the DeFi sector is highly reliant on Ethereum, this means a lot for both the blockchain network and the very near future of decentralized finance.

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Krzysztof Shpak 585 22.02.2020

Resurrection of Altcoins Presumed Dead Is No Zombie Apocalypse but Something Else

Bloomberg’s recent article noted the rapid growth of certain altcoins which were long considered dead and gone. But due to cryptocurrency’s decentralized nature, no altcoin is truly dead.

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