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Issue 164
Bumpy landing for iOS 8, using vectors for @3x images and accidental iPad apps!
Published on: September 19, 2014 | Source:
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Scalability, Part 1: Building on Top
Over the next few weeks, I am going to make a series of posts that is going to be a large overview of the possibilities for scalability of Ethereum, intending to create a precise understanding of the problems at bay in implementing a scalable cryptocurrency infrastructure, and where the least-bad...
Published on: September 17, 2014 | Source:Getting Started with CSS Shapes: Wrapping content around custom paths
Using CSS Shapes we can create experiences that we have never been able to create on the web before.
Published on: September 16, 2014 | Source:Issue 163
@2x? @3x? Maybe? Not quite? Automatic build numbering, getting started with Metal and so much more.
Published on: September 12, 2014 | Source:Built-in Browser Support for Responsive Images
Take advantage of the new element and new features of in your next responsive website.
Published on: September 11, 2014 | Source:Issue 162
4 days to go! New iTunes Connect and the spiritual successor to Quartz Composer for prototyping iOS apps.
Published on: September 05, 2014 | Source:crypto renaissance
βThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.β Alan Kay January 3rd 2009 marked the beginning of a new era. The invention of the blockchain is a milestone in technology -- the string of characters 36PrZ1KHYMpqSyAQXSG8VwbUiq2EogxLo2 being justone of the side effects triggered by it. Thanks...
Published on: September 02, 2014 | Source:Software and Bounded Rationality
One of the key properties that is usually sought for in a cryptoeconomic algorithm, whether a blockchain consensus algorithm such a proof of work or proof of stake, a reputation system or a trading process for something like data transmission or file storage, is the ideal of incentive-compatibility - the...
Published on: September 02, 2014 | Source:Issue 161
WKWebView, Swift unit testing tips, Auto Layout best practices and the true meaning of the 9.9.2014 numbers.
Published on: August 29, 2014 | Source:State of Ethereum: August Edition
Development of Ethereum has been progressing increasingly quickly this past month. The release of PoC5 ("proof of concept five") last month the day before the sale marked an important event for the project, as for the first time we had two clients, one written in C++ and one in Go,...
Published on: August 27, 2014 | Source:Issue 160
Bringing the swiftness to Swift and why you should consider open source contributions!
Published on: August 22, 2014 | Source:An Introduction to Futarchy
One of the more interesting long-term practical benefits of the technology and concept behind decentralized autonomous organizations is that DAOs allow us to very quickly prototype and experiment with an aspect of our social interactions that is so far arguably falling behind our rapid advancements in information and social technology...
Published on: August 21, 2014 | Source:Secret Sharing and Erasure Coding: A Guide for the Aspiring Dropbox Decentralizer
One of the more exciting applications of decentralized computing that have aroused a considerable amount of interest in the past year is the concept of an incentivized decentralized online file storage system. Currently, if you want your files or data securely backed up "in the cloud", you have three choices...
Published on: August 16, 2014 | Source:Announcement on planned withdrawal from exodus
Now that the first two weeks of the ether sale are over, and over 50 million ETH has been sold, we intend to soon make a transaction to begin using the funds to repay loans and kickstart the process of setting up our development hubs and expanding our staff. We...
Published on: August 08, 2014 | Source:Ether Sale: A Statistical Overview
The first two weeks of the ether sale are over, and we have to date received over 25000 BTC from selling over 50 million ETH. This marks the largest cryptographic token sale to date, and with the two endowments places ETH as being the token with the 8th highest total...
Published on: August 08, 2014 | Source:Programming Society with Asm: Gavin Wood at Assembly 2014
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Published on: August 06, 2014 | Source:Ether Purchase Troubleshooting
Although we hope that the ether purchasing experience goes smoothly for everyone, we recognize that there will always be situations where things do not quite go as planned. Perhaps your internet connection dies in the middle of your purchase. Perhaps you accidentally click a back button or some link or...
Published on: July 23, 2014 | Source:Launching the Ether Sale
First of all, I would like to thank the community, and especially those close to the project who have in many cases abandoned their jobs to dedicate their time to it, for their extreme patience regarding the launch of the ether sale. We have been promising that the sale would...
Published on: July 22, 2014 | Source:Ethereum and Oracles
One of the more popular proposals for implementing smart contracts differently from the way they are typically presented in Ethereum is through the concept of oracles. Essentially, instead of a long-running contract being run directly on the blockchain, all funds that are intended to go into the contract would instead...
Published on: July 22, 2014 | Source:the ethereum project: learning to dream with open minds
βAnd those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.β Friedrich Nietzsche Ethereum as a project is more than just a technology, even if technology is at its core. In the rush of creating, co-creating and debugging everything you sometimes...
Published on: July 14, 2014 | Source:Toward a 12-second Block Time
One of the annoyances of the blockchain as a decentralized platform is the sheer length of delay before a transaction gets finalized. One confirmation in the Bitcoin network takes ten minutes on average, but in reality due to statistical effects when one sends a transaction one can only expect a...
Published on: July 11, 2014 | Source:Background on the mechanics of the ether pre-sale
During the run-up to the ether sale we will be releasing a series of blog posts regarding our development plans and intended organizational structure. Today we describe some of the background details of the ether sale module. The sale module will be displayed on our website at https://www.ethereum.org for the...
Published on: July 09, 2014 | Source:On Stake
The topic of mining centralization has been a very important one over the past few weeks. GHASH.io, the Bitcoin network's largest mining pool, has for the past month directed over 40% of the Bitcoin network's hashpower, and two weeks ago briefly spiked over 50%, theoretically giving it monopoly control over...
Published on: July 05, 2014 | Source:Advanced Contract Programming Example: SchellingCoin
Writing effective decentralized applications in Ethereum is at the same time easy and hard. The easy part we all know: rather than needing to create your own blockchain, manage complicated database code, deal with networking and NAT traversal, or any of the other complexities involving writing a peer-to-peer app from...
Published on: June 30, 2014 | Source:DevTools Digest - Chrome 35: Updates to the Developer Tools in Chrome 35
Updates to the Chrome Developer Tools: CSS property quick search, memory stats for heap snapshots, CodeMirror upgrade and more.
Published on: June 26, 2014 | Source: