Extreme Tech Challenge Highlights Ethereum At CES Las Vegas
CES, formerly an acronym for “Consumer Electronics Show,” is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association and held annually in Las Vegas. The event has established a global reputation for itself among innovators, serving as both stage and proving ground for the introduction of breakthrough technologies to the consumer marketplace for over 50 years. This year, on January 8, a significant block of time will be dedicated to presentations on The Future of Blockchain.
On January 11, CES will provide a live stage for the ten semifinalist teams from the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) to present their startup ideas to a panel of judges lead by Sir Richard Branson, in hopes of being chosen among the three finalists that will continue onto XTC’s final round on Necker Island. Branson, has a history of supporting projects centered around blockchains, and his private island also hosts the Annual Blockchain Summit.
XTC is organized by Branson in conjunction with MaiTai Global with the mission of “empowering entrepreneurs and their companies with visibility, resources and a rolodex that together, bring a company more visibility, the ability to scale at low to incremental cost, and to surround entrepreneurs with mentors that can help them build on product success with business success.”
The ten semifinalists are taken from an international group of applicants hailing from Rwanda to Los Angeles. They include Abra (Mountain View, CA), AirSwap (Brooklyn, NY), Revl (San Francisco, CA), Chooose (Oslo, Norway), Neurotrack (Redwood, CA), Owlet Baby Care, Inc. (Lehi, UT), Power Ledger (Perth, Australia), Rayton Solar (Los Angeles, CA) SafeMotos (Kigali, Rwanda) and Tissue Analytics (Philadelphia, PA). In addition to the ten semifinalists, XTC has also awarded a wild card slot to Piaggio Fast Forward (Boston, MA), bringing the XTC semifinal competition at CES to eleven teams.
XTC co-founder Bill Tai stated: “We are incredibly proud of this year’s group as they exhibit variety and are poised to disrupt current technology trends, and tackling the most pressing issues of our generation.”
Three of the ten semifinalists, Powerledger, Airswap, and Abra, have chosen to build their startups around the Ethereum platform.
Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, will lead a panel of experts in judging the XTC semifinalists from the Bellini Ballroom at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.
With global exposure and the backing of invaluable resources at stake, the competition to move onto Branson’s private Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands is sure to be fierce. The XTC finals are due to take place in late February 2018. ETHNews will be following developments at both XTC and CES.
Jordan Daniell is a writer living in Los Angeles. He brings a decade of business intelligence experience, researching emerging technologies, to bear in reporting on blockchain and Ethereum developments. He is passionate about blockchain technologies and believes they will fundamentally shape the future. Jordan is a full-time staff writer for ETHNews.
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Evitar a los estafadores de criptomonedas es posible con Ethereum Scam Database
La reciente popularidad y crecimiento de las criptomonedas y la tecnología Blockchain ha abierto camino a una serie de hackeos, actividades maliciosas y trampas que llevan a la suplantación de identidad, pero por suerte para muchos, hay una nueva idea que puede ayudar a despistar estos problemas.
El Ethereum Scam Database (EtherscamDB) es una herramienta para la web que se encarga de recolectar información sobre estafas, fraudes y otras actividades relacionadas a manera de orientar a cualquier novato que esté iniciándose en el tema de las criptomonedas. De esa forma se puede desviar a la posible víctima de los actos maliciosos que buscan pescar a personas desinformadas.
EtherscamDB fue lanzado el año pasado, y desde entonces su página web ya ha registrado 2614 posibles portales fraudulentos, que a su vez, se vinculan con 223 direcciones que los ladrones usan para almacenar los fondos robados. Por suerte, la mayoría de estos portales ya han sido deshabilitados, y por ahora sólo hay registro de 253 páginas maliciosas en actividad.
La característica más útil que presenta EtherScamDB es que puede indicar cuál es la naturaleza del ataque malicioso, así como la URL original donde el ataque fue visto por primera vez y cualquier tipo de información adicional que pueda describir el ataque.
Asimismo, la página web de EtherScamDB tiene una sección dedicada a mostrar qué tipo de compañía/servicio el link malicioso está buscando atacar, eso ayuda pues se pueden aplicar filtros al momento de buscar y así ver aquellos que tengan que ver con los servicios de preferencia de cada usuario.
Por ahora, la única desventaja que se le encuentra a EtherscamDB es la inestabilidad de su plataforma., pues la misma aún presenta fallas y deja de trabajar momentáneamente. Pero dejando eso de lado, es una herramienta que brinda una gran ayuda. Finalmente, es importante resaltar que EtherscamDB trabaja recolectando información de los usuarios de la web, así que si alguno se cruza con una nueva amenaza o actividad sospechosa puede reportarlo en este enlace.
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Ethereum, Ripple and Bitcoin arrived at the Bloomberg terminals
The financial data firm Bloomberg added three new cryptocurrencies: Ethereum (ether), Ripple(XRP) and Litecoin , along with bitcoin in its terminal service.
According to a Fortune report, sources said that the addition of the new price data is aimed at forex traders looking to explore the new instruments.
They also suggested that data from the Bloomberg terminal for the new cryptocurrencies are being provided by the Bitstamp exchange, based in Luxembourg.
In April 2014, Bloomberg opened the prices of bitcoins to its Bloomberg Professional service, and in June of that year it was revealed that the data came from the itBit exchange.
The move comes amid sharp rises in the prices of many alternative cryptocurrencies, or Altcoins, along with the increase in bitcoin prices. Just yesterday, Ripple’s XRP token hit a record close to 90 cents, while Ether and Litecoin also reached new highs last week.
Bloomberg Terminal provides subscribers with real-time financial data and allows them to place trades on an e-commerce platform. The system also presents news and message options.
Will it impact the price of the Ripple?
There should not be an impact really, if we take into account that Bloomberg only adds financial data, although if it gives more credibility to the project and therefore indirectly there may be greater public confidence.
At this moment the Ripple has a price of $ 0.77 even on the way to reach $ 1, although it has been close to the goal, we would expect this weekend to have an increase in the price – although after having been in the $ 0.81 low to $ 0.77 is something that tells us that it would hardly reach $ 1 today.
In my personal opinion Ethereum will hit $10,000 soon. I mean it's already surpassed $1,040 as we speak and this video was recorded earlier today at around $950. On my other channel I was laughed at when I made a video saying it'd hit $5K!
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Ethereum Tokens Now Account for 90% Market Share at $70 Billion
Ethereum is rising as the indisputable platform of choice for new tokens, with some 300 already launched on the platform according to data we’ve compiled from Coinmarketcap.
The combined market cap of all ethereum tokens is now at an incredible $70 billion, with EOS the biggest at near $10 billion, followed by Tron at $7 billion.
There are 12 eth based tokens in total with a market cap above $1 billion, including OmiseGo, Populous, Status, Augur and 0x.
While ICON, a new entrant trying to build a Blockchain ID and a decentralized exchange, has quickly risen to $3.6 billion since the token launched in November 2017.
In combination, ethereum powers an economy of more than $70 billion, all of it running on top of its public blockchain and platform.
The other platforms are no where close, with NEO, Waves, Nxt, Omni, Counterpary and the rest standing at $2 billion or less. While Ethereum Classic has just one token at around $2 million.
Ethereum’s top tokens.
Ethereum’s combined market cap is now at $200 billion, $130 billion for eth tokens and $70 billion for all the other tokens running on top of eth.
Which means the platform might not be that far off from a flippening with bitcoin, which currently stands at a market cap of $240 billion.
Making eth’s combined market cap just $40 billion away from top position, while its plain market cap has still some way to go, requiring a doubling to flip.
Will it do so? It came close last year, but that did not last long as bitcoin’s feelings got hurt, with the currency going onto a bull run to an all-time high of $20,000 as its brand went mainstream in USA.
It now seems to have cooled off a bit, potentially giving way to eth as we await Spring 2018, a season when ethereum usually blossoms.
It remains to be seen whether history will repeat itself again, but there does seem to be a general feeling of anticipation as ethereum comes out from its short bear summer and winter months to continue its bull run with this space so continuing to be spared a black swan event.
Yet, there is also a general numbness to the recent price rise. There are no celebratory memes. Nothing like the over 9,000 euphoria or the 420 of last May. So perhaps it has all just but begun, or not. Time will say.
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