MasterCard and Cisco just joined the EEA (the "Enterprise Ethereum Alliance"--this is the reason why ETH is pumping hard right now)
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NEW YORK, NY, USA – July 18, 2017 – Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) announced today that 34 organizations have joined the blockchain industry group since late May. This brings total membership to over 150 organizations added since the group’s launch in February of this year. EEA is now the world’s largest open-source blockchain initiative. EEA’s newest members represent a wide variety of business sectors, including technology, banking, government, healthcare, energy, pharmaceuticals, marketing, and insurance, as well as a number of fast-growing Ethereum startups.
Composed of forward-looking enterprises and blockchain innovators, EEA is an industry-supported, non-profit established to build, promote, and broadly support Ethereum-based technology best practices, open standards, and open source reference architectures.
New EEA members include: 2Advise; Amalto Technologies; Antibiotic Research UK (ANTRUK); Aquilon Energy Services, Inc.; ASSETH; BLOCKO Inc.; Bloq; Cisco Systems; Cybersoft Digital Services Corp.; Enter Corporation Co., Ltd.; Equities.com, Inc.; Finclusion Labs, Inc. (WeTrust.io); Government of Andhra Pradesh; HashCash Consultants; HEAL Alliance; iEx.ec; Lazarski University; Loyyal Corporation; MadHive; Mattr; NetObjex Inc.; OTP Bank Plc.; QIWI Blockchain Technologies LLC.; Revelry; RISKebiz; Scotiabank; Streami Inc.; Talkcrypto.org; Technical University of Munich; Texcent Asia Pte Ltd; TIS R&D Center, Inc.; TokenCard / Monolith; Ventured and Ypse IT Solutions.
Originally Posted by MahiMike:
Since you guys are way ahead of me on this topic, I'm attending a seminar on this tonight at 8:00 EST. Would be curious to hear your opinion on this.
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I'm not endorsing anything here. Just an interested newbie.
I have moneys on Coinbase, Blockchain.com, Yobit, Mycelium, and Xapo. Do I need to do anything to be safe from this split?
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Rule #1 - Get your money off of exchanges into a wallet only you control the private keys for. Of your list, Mycelium is your safest bet. If any one of these exchanges become insolvent you will lose everything (Mt. Gox Lesson).
Substantial value should be secured with industry standard hard wallets (Eg. Trezor or Ledger S) [Reply]
Originally Posted by ChiefRocka:
Rule #1 - Get your money off of exchanges into a wallet only you control the private keys for. Of your list, Mycelium is your safest bet. If any one of these exchanges become insolvent you will lose everything (Mt. Gox Lesson).
Substantial value should be secured with industry standard hard wallets (Eg. Trezor or Ledger S)
I was just posting this question. I read to not keep it on the exchange in case of hacking.
So are you able to transfer from your exchange over to your wallet anytime you want? [Reply]
Originally Posted by ChiefRocka:
Rule #1 - Get your money off of exchanges into a wallet only you control the private keys for. Of your list, Mycelium is your safest bet. If any one of these exchanges become insolvent you will lose everything (Mt. Gox Lesson).
Substantial value should be secured with industry standard hard wallets (Eg. Trezor or Ledger S)
Whats a good cheaper but reliable hardware wallet I can buy in the week or so? Trezor, Ledger etc? Would like to buy locally if possible
When I go to look for a Ledger Nano S, I can't get one before September. I want to get this all figured out before the Aug 1 possible fork. I guess I could just use Mycelium for free, seems reasonable safe. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BWillie:
Whats a good cheaper but reliable hardware wallet I can buy in the week or so? Trezor, Ledger etc? Would like to buy locally if possible
When I go to look for a Ledger Nano S, I can't get one before September. I want to get this all figured out before the Aug 1 possible fork. I guess I could just use Mycelium for free, seems reasonable safe.
Don't let the 8/1 deadline scare you, odds are nothing will happen but a price rise. You're good with trezor or ledger honestly. If you have an iPhone, breadwallet is a good app option, mycelium for android. [Reply]