Blockchain technology news

July 29, Ethereum Classic is actively trading on leading cryptocurrency exchanges under the ticker: ETC. Support for the pre-forked Ethereum network demonstrates that the community is visibly divided over the DAO hard-fork. The emergence of ETC is causing controversy among exchanges that support ETH (hard-fork) trading but not yet ETC (non-forked) trading.

Charna Coin, a cryptocurrency company, and Ubiquity Energy to invest $700,000,000 into solar stations in the Philippines, Peru, Brazil, Panama and Puerto Rico. The first solar station that will cost about $1,000,000 will be installed in Cotabato, Philippines.

As of 12:00pm GMT yesterday, a majority of Ethereum Network miners agreed to fork the Ethereum blockchain in order to refund Ether that was hacked from the DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization). Now the Ethereum community must choose their DAO (“a way” in Chinese) with which coin they will support.

Tigo CTM added Dash to the roster of currencies available for purchase and sale over its network.

A month since The DAO exploit, the Ethereum Foundation proposes a hard fork to the Ethereum software that refunds the lost Ether. The decision process of whether to accept or reject the hard fork that is being presented begins on block number 1,920,000 which is at approximately July 20, 12:00pm GMT.  

CEO of Steemit Ned Scott promised that any Steem or Steem Dollars stolen from compromised accounts will be fully refunded by Steemit.

Blockchain-powered social network Steemit was subjected to a cyber attack on July 14, 2016. Security team is busy working on the investigation and developing an immediate solution to protect users.

There are dynamics in Bitcoin that regulate the available supply which affect pricing. In this article we will focus in on the Bitcoin Halving and its historical pattern and relevance.

IBM announced its plans to work in collaboration with the government of Singapore to establish the first IBM Center for Blockchain Innovation.