Articles tagged Ethereum
3 articles tagged Ethereum, newest first, on technology, money and the internet.
- Investing12 min read
What crypto to buy in September 2026: the boring half and the lottery half
Bitcoin at $78,300, Ethereum at $2,470, and Zcash up more than twentyfold on the year after the first US spot ETF for a privacy coin. What belongs in the boring half of a crypto allocation, what belongs in the lottery half, and how much of each before three catalysts land in one week.
- Investing8 min read
Which crypto benefits from the CLARITY Act? Not Bitcoin
The CLARITY Act faces its Senate test on 15 September. It answers "is this a security" with a four-part maturity test and a 20% control threshold — so the assets it helps most are the contested middle, not Bitcoin.
- Engineering4 min read
Crypto amounts are integers: 1 ETH is 1000000000000000000 wei
A balance of 1 ETH is not 1.0 — it is 1000000000000000000 wei, an exact whole number. Every protocol that matters works this way, and the bugs appear the moment a decimal point gets involved. Why the integer representation exists and what breaks without it.