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As with many top blockchain projects, sustainable open-source funding — and how best to achieve it — has lately been a growing point of discussion in the Ethereum ecosystem.

While the Ethereum ecosystem is still fledgling, one common complaint against its decentralized apps, or dapps, is that they’ve proven to be unfamiliar to mainstream users accustomed to regular apps not underpinned by blockchain tech.

Adult content platform SpankChain has launched SpankPay, a cryptocurrency payments platform. As a result, customers will now be able to pay using several cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. The platform also accepts privacy-focused coins such as Zcash and Monero. SpankPay is launching with two partners, which have already integrated the solution: SkyPrivate, Skype-based web...

Intrigue around the Libra Association, the proposed governing body for Facebook’s coming Libra stablecoin, continues to grow.

Several Ethereum developers voiced concerns about Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP) 2025, which recommends creating more Ether per block for the next 18 months. Authored by James Hancock, a Berlin-based developer, the proposal suggests adding an extra 0.044 Ether per block in order to broadly fund Ethereum’s ongoing development.

An Ethereum Improvement Proposal put forth last month that would back Eth1.x development via block reward funding flew under the radar until this past weekend, when Ethereum stakeholders took to publicly debating the EIP.

The Ethereum team is reportedly considering EIP-2025 as an enhancement during Istanbul. This move has already cause considerable controversy among developers because of the corresponding increase in inflation rate. Accordingly, the proposal has sparked both debate and backlash from a contingent of developers.

The law is built on definitions. And “blockchain” may soon be getting formally defined by the U.S. federal government.

Like Bitcoin, Ethereum has become public infrastructure. And like the genesis blockchain, Ethereum doesn’t have privacy measures baked into its first layer.

Ethereum’s proof-of-work (POW) era is almost over.

Back in the spring and before Libra was formally announced, reports circulated that Facebook’s blockchain team had reached out to unnamed cryptocurrency exchanges to talk about listing the forthcoming stablecoin.

Revealed recently, crypto giant Binance may join hands with Facebook’s Libra project. Speaking to Bitcoin-friendly business news outlet Finance Magnates, Binance’s Gin Chao, the Strategy Officer of the renowned platform, revealed interesting details about the conversations the two entities have had.

When Facebook formally unveiled its Libra cryptocurrency last week, cryptoverse stakeholders instantly took to debating whether the coin — envisioned as a basketcoin in a dual-token ecosystem — would compete against or rather boost the adoption prospects of top digital assets like bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH).

When you sign up for an announcement, be it Google, Twitter, or even some crypto asset exchanges, the service providers often prompt you to input your personal phone number as a way to add an extra layer of security.

Stormy Daniels enters the room Cleopatra-style, on a golden litter carried by six shirtless men. In front march several figures wearing long, red capes and white headpieces. They look kind of like the handmaids from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel turned Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale. The procession brings Daniels, clad in a royal blue gown, up to the stage, where she assumes her position as r...

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has released a broad update, detailing its role in the ecosystem and its specific plans for resource allocation over the next 12 months.

As Ethereum’s shift to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) security is still in the works, its blockchain relies on the Ethash Proof-of-Work (PoW) mining algorithm. But, per the Ethereum Core developer call on April 26th, funding has now been secured to audit the ProgPoW code — an algorithm that is expressly resistant to extremely efficient ASIC miners.

In recent weeks, Ethereum’s various stakeholders have faced the rising specter of possible competition from the Polkadot Network, the forthcoming interoperability-focused blockchain play backed by the Web3 Foundation and being built by Parity Technologies.

This week, Gitcoin co-founder Kevin Owocki gave a presentation at CoinFund’s monthly Rabbithole Talks on open source sustainability efforts. Therein, he surveyed a series of development funding possibilities whose profiles have surged in the Ethereum community over the last month as builders have grappled with finding the best funding paths forward.

Amid a bearish cryptoeconomy since 2018, Ethereum’s march toward proof of stake (PoS), and rising ProgPoW debates, the Ethereum hashrate has fallen by 50 percent since the network’s all-time high hashrate of nearly 296 TH/s last August.

Vitalik Buterin, wearing his traditional whimsical garb (a celestial T-shirt with some kind of animal on it), stands on stage next to Laura Shin, crypto journalist and host of the Unchained podcast. She’s wearing a tasteful, wide-legged red pantsuit. They both look great. They sit down.

One of the most interesting conversations in cryptocurrencies emerged from a tweet by Vlad Zamfir, noted Ethereum researcher and, err, abstract thinker on topics as wide as political governance, social norms, and how we should update the legal system.

How much should you care about the price of Ether?

by Josh Stark, Evan Van Ness, and Daniel Zakrisson

The cryptocurrency panel at this year’s XBIZ event (the adult-industry Golden Globes to AVN’s Oscars) in West Hollywood is smaller than past years’ crypto panels. Blame the bear market, blame the fact that concurrent panels feature “name” performers, or blame the fact that one of the panelists failed to show up. Either way, that doesn’t stop the 20 or so attendees from laughing at SpankChain CEO A...

Core protocol development currently suffers from the Tragedy of the Commons, an age-old ailment in which participants benefit from a shared resource but, through self-interest, are disincentivized from contributing to its maintenance and growth.

Vitalik Buterin surprised the crypto community after a seemingly sudden decision to make several $100K worth of ETH donations to various projects focused on the development of software solutions for the Ethereum network.

The hacker who stole nearly $40,000 in ethereum from adult entertainment startup SpankChain has returned the stolen cryptocurrency, the company announced last night. According to messages posted on the company’s official Twitter account, SpankChain CEO Ameen Soleimani reached an agreement with the anonymous hacker after speaking to them on the phone. Following that conversation, the