When will Pos be implemented at mainnet level? Is there a set timeline or is it a work in progress. How would that impact the price of ETH when fully implemented?

All 10 startups will benefit from the accelerator program, which includes meetings and lectures from “prominent” entrepreneurs, ethereum developers and venture capitalists, as well as access to ConsenSys’ network, according to the firm. The incubation efforts will take place in Berlin and San Francisco.

ConsenSys added that the German Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, is holding a session today featuring talks on the different areas covered by ConsenSys, including early-stage startup incubation, legal, and marketing. It will also feature introductions from each of the teams in the accelerator.

German member of parliament Alexander Kulitz said in the announcement:

    “The best support a government can give to innovative entrepreneurs and startups is to avoid unnecessary and unneeded regulations. It is not up to the politicians to decide if a product or an entrepreneurial idea should be successful or not. The decision has to be made by the demand of the people on free economic markets. Politicians are only to guarantee a level playing field on free and fair markets.”

Hsiao-Wei's beautiful slides on the Life of An Ethereum Beacon Chain Validator just missed inclusion in the last edition. It's a terrific overview — take a look.

 

maybe an 'opportunity' to ask them(SEC) ?  ->

The tour will start March 26 in San Francisco and continue across the US.

 - On March 6, the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub) announced it will be traveling the country and conducting face-to-face meetings with FinTech startups and entrepreneurs.
According to the SEC's announcement, the first meetings will be held in the SEC offices in San Francisco. After this, the FinHub staff will travel nationwide to facilitate "local peer-to-peer" meetings in which members of the FinTech community will have the chance to ask SEC representatives questions about regulations, projects, or any concerns. Participants can also discuss wide-ranging issues or even provide the SEC with a presentation about the projects they are working on.
The meetings will begin on March 26, 2019.

 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that its staff will host a public forum focusing on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and digital assets on May 31, 2019.

The US SEC Wants to Hire a ‘Crypto Specialist’ Legal Advisor

According to a job posting on USAJobs, an official government jobs portal, the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets plans to hire the new legal expert in order to help develop a “comprehensive plan” to address crypto and digital asset securities.

The job posting appears a notable one, marking a likely further step by the SEC toward clearing regulatory gray areas for the cryptocurrency industry in the U.S.

Moment to breathe after another hectic week. Spring has come. Ethereum has come. Sakura is a symbol of the beginning of a beautiful future in Japan. Sakura and Kabosu, the original Doge shiba with the eth family

Louis Vuitton Owner LVMH Is Launching a Blockchain to Track Luxury Goods

To avoid the sort of problems experienced by the blockchain venture between IBM and Maersk, LVMH will donate all intellectual property (IP) to a separate entity and that entity, in turn, will be owned by the participating brands, said the source, who added,

    “So Gucci, for example, could decide to join the platform and be a shareholder – in which case their claim to the IP would be as great as Louis Vuitton’s claim to the IP. That is the main difference between this project and the IBM Maersk project, which hopefully makes it much more comparable to Komgo, the trade finance consortium.”...................
Another fundamental reason LVMH chose ethereum is that the group sees today’s permissioned version as merely an intermediate step to a grander vision, once the technology matures, said the source ...

Ethereum transactions have risen to a seven months high of about 650,000 transactions a day and have sort of remained in that range.

That means they’re not far off from doubling since February’s low of 380,000 transactions a day, with a constant rise seen this month

 

Wu added that the ethereum network is already centralized to some extent, pointing to statistics that two major ethereum mining pools – Sparkpool and Ethermine – control over half of the network’s computing power.
He further cited rumors, without providing any evidence, that certain individuals involved in the ProgPow proposal directly report to the CEO of NVIDIA, a major maker of GPU hardware with a dominant market share.

According to the online post, INATBA will be set up as an independent association in Brussels, Belgium and will operate on a global scale. It is expected to be officially launched on April 03, 2019.

Tokenization is the new buzz word in the payment system at the moment. It is the process of adding an extra level of security to sensitive payment data

A VC backed startup, Universal Market Access (UMA), has just launched a smart contract with the project stating:

“USStocks is an ERC20 token representing synthetic ownership of an index of the 500 largest exchange-listed US stocks.

This means that anybody with access to the internet and digital money can participate in the US stock market.”

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), global blockchain community with over 500 members, will launch a “token task force” in 2019, EEA confirmed to Cointelegraph in correspondence on Feb. 13.

Currently, both Bitcoin and Ether rely on a proof of work consensus mechanism to validate their respective ledgers.  However, the Ethereum Foundation has announced its plans to shift to a proof of stake consensus mechanism at some point in the future, in part to reduce energy consumption.  The transition from proof of work to proof of stake consensus mechanisms raises important questions for both market participants and regulators, including how the use of either mechanism affects the likelihood that a bad actor could manipulate or falsify the ledger.  These issues are also among the many topics on which the Commission recently sought comment in a Request for Information about the evolution of the cryptocurrency market and potential new virtual currency-based futures and derivatives products.

I also don't understand why people are comparing ETH with other projects. ETH is more established and have very strong support than any other project I think we must stay strong with this side because this is most important coin after Bitcoin.

Legacy Trust group CEO and founder Vincent Chok told CoinDesk:

    “There is huge interest in ERC-20 custody services and it’s only growing bigger. Every STO [security token offering] that is planning to take place will need to have custody for ERC-20 tokens.”

“Since the beginning of 2019, we’ve basically received around five requests for ERC20 custody, per week,” he added.

CEDEX said its mission is to turn diamonds into a tradeable asset class, and it aims to enable customers to trade on its inventory and generate liquidity in the market.

The exchange – which launched in beta in November 2018 – will use tokens to allow customers to trade in diamonds of different sizes and values with “low” carrying cost, according to the announcement.

The platform has its own ERC-20 token too, CEDEX Coin, which CEDEX says on its website is compliant and can be used for trading and investment on the exchange

It was very very old news about donation of Vitalik to startups, so why did repost it today?
The link shown that it posted 3 months ago, but I guess the original article published much more than three months ago, maybe around one year.

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