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Litecoin
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Sinks to $11.6K as Ether’s Gas Keeps Rising
As bitcoin’s price falls, Ethereum’s fees rise.
CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price Index
By Daniel Cawrey
Aug 19, 2020 at 8:21 p.m. UTC
Aug 19, 2020
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Ethereum
Ethereum Developers Consider New Fee Model as Gas Costs Climb
With EIP 1559, Ethereum developers are proposing a dynamic pricing system to lower the blockchain network's current high gas fees.
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By William Foxley
Jun 29, 2020 at 5:10 p.m. UTC
Jun 29, 2020
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Daily gas usage on Ethereum and ether prices since June 19, 2019. (CoinMetrics)
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Ethereum
Ethereum Logged Its Busiest Week on Record
It’s costing more to use Ethereum and that may be because more users are flocking to the platform than ever before, according to one key on-chain metric.
Daily gas usage on Ethereum and ether prices since June 19, 2019. (CoinMetrics)
By Omkar Godbole
Jun 16, 2020 at 6:05 p.m. UTC
Jun 16, 2020
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Oil rig (Credit: Moritz Kindler / Unsplash)
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Blockchain technology
Nonprofit Energy Consortium Trials Blockchain Management for Wastewater Tracking
A U.S. oil and gas consortium says a blockchain-based automated platform tracking wastewater reduced transportation costs.
Oil rig (Credit: Moritz Kindler / Unsplash)
By Sebastian Sinclair
Jun 3, 2020 at 8:06 p.m. UTC
Jun 3, 2020
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Russia
Russian Gas Giant Gazprom to Execute Business Contracts on a Blockchain
Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom may soon begin using blockchain to execute and monitor contracts as part of its digitization plans.
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By Yogita Khatri
Apr 5, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. UTC
Apr 5, 2019
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Vitalik Buterin at DEVCON 2018
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Ethereum
Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin Proposes Wallet Fee to Fund Developers
The creator of the world's second largest blockchain proposed today on Twitter a new norm for the ecosystem – a flat wallet fee of 1 gwei.
Vitalik Buterin at DEVCON 2018
By Christine Kim
Mar 8, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. UTC
Mar 8, 2019
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Markets
Ethereum
Ethereum's Growing Gas Crisis (And What's Being Done to Stop It)
The ethereum network is seeing new levels of congestion with rising use, a development that is spurring proposals for technical improvements.
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By Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Jul 6, 2018 at 8:00 a.m. UTC
Jul 6, 2018
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