Mike Cagney, SoFi’s CEO backed Ethereum over bitcoin as it offers better infrastructure applications. He said that if the dollar did not exist then bitcoin would have been fine but since the value of bitcoin fluctuates so much, it makes it nearly impossible to be used as a currency. While bitcoin is the original blockchain and has the maximum share of attention, it is not a very practical one, Mike added.
Waves Lite has a new addition – Ethereum gateway which means you can now use waves to hold and trade your ether. You can also send ETH to anyone.
Coindash is a startup that focuses on the crypto currency social trading and it has just announced on twitter that their website has been hacked. It has also sent out warning to its investors that there has been a massive cyber security breach.
OkCoin International is a Hong Kong based crypto currency exchange which has announced that starting July 15th, 2017, they will start offering Ethereum Classic services. ETC has been maintained as original ethereum blockchain without any changes to its history of transactions. The company listed ethereum in may and now that the demand for Ethereum Classic is increasing, the company will be enabling that as well.
Changelly is a very popular crypto currency exchange website and today, it has announced its partnership with Jaxx which is one of the most popular multi currency crypto coin wallet. With their partnership, Jaxx users will now be able to change between coins using Changelly service. This was one of the most asked features by users and Changelly is perfect for this job.
Solidity, a popular contract oriented programming language has just received an update. It includes bugfixes that fixes many trivial yet annoying bugs that popped up on 0.4.12 version. The developers have also depreciated some old features in order to prepare for 0.5.0. The most notable is the remove of throw() and some people on twitter said that were emotional about its removal – in a good way, of course.
Vitalik recently defended Ethereum on bitcoin’s reddit page where the CTO of blockstream said that the long term value of Ethereum is still around zero. The thread was brimming with hateredness from both bitcoin and ethereum fans but when Vitalik Buterin stepped in, everyone was surprised.
