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Learn how to buy Ethereum safely by choosing a trusted platform, checking fees, and protecting your account before and after purchase.

Ether (Ether, ETH) is the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain platform, the second most important in the industry. In traders' jargon there are playful distortions of the name — "kefir," "efir," "zemfir" — but they always refer to one asset.

Gas is a unit measuring the computing resources needed to perform operations in the Ethereum network. The more complex a transaction, the more gas it consumes and the higher the resulting fee for processing it.

On February 28, the Constantinople hard fork took place at block #7280000 on the network of the second-largest cryptocurrency by capitalization, Ethereum. Simultaneously with Constantinople, the St. Petersburg hard fork was activated on the Ethereum network. Its task is to disable the EIP-1283 protocol, in which

The implementation of the ProgPow algorithm in Ethereum has been postponed; it was supposed to reduce the efficiency of Bitmain's ASIC miners when mining Ethereum , which, in turn, would have made graphics processors more competitive. This decision was made by the Ethereum developers during a conference call this

The confrontation between the crypto giants Tron and Ethereum arose as a result of Tron's aggressive promotion in the crypto space, when it moved from operating on the Ethereum platform to its own platform. This confrontation continues to this day...

On Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, the ability to buy cryptocurrency using Visa and MasterCard credit cards has been opened to users. Initially, the direct purchase of the Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple cryptocurrencies is available. In the future, it is planned to

The transaction volume in the Ethereum network in December 2018 reached $115 million, which according to specialists of the analytics company Diar is the maximum value over the entire existence of the Ethereum project...

The Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum network will probably be activated at the end of February. This decision was made during a conference call on the morning of January 18. The Ethereum developers proposed carrying out the transition of the Ethereum network to the new software between February 26 and 28...

On January 14, HTC finally began the shipments of the long-awaited "blockchain smartphone" Exodus 1, which had been planned back in December. The main difference between the Exodus 1 and ordinary smartphones is that it runs on the Exodus blockchain and has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet...