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Ethereum messaging for the masses (including fathers) - via infographic
When I started evangelizing bitcoin and blockchain tech back in 2012 my Dad was a hard sell. There was the common skepticism and typical counters of “what’s backing it?”, “what can be done with it?” and “what the heck is cryptography?" Back then my pitch wasn’t refined and the learning...
Published on: June 21, 2015 | Source:
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Another Ethereum ÐΞV Update
Been a while, I know, but then these are rather busy days. I'm writing this from a Starbucks in Shanghai sitting behind the Great Firewall, able to peep out only occasionally. I've been in Asia with Marek for the last couple of weeks, mainly for meetups, workshops and technical...
Published on: June 15, 2015 | Source:The Problem of Censorship
One of the interesting problems in designing effective blockchain technologies is, how can we ensure that the systems remain censorship-proof? Although lots of work has been done in cryptoeconomics in order to ensure that blockchains continue pumping out new blocks, and particularly to prevent blocks from being reverted, substantially less...
Published on: June 06, 2015 | Source:The Business Imperative Behind the Ethereum Vision
Special thanks to Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood and Jeffrey Wilcke for countless revisions feedback, picks at their brains, and helpingme read their tea leaves....
Published on: May 24, 2015 | Source:Announcing eπ: Ethereum on Raspberry Pi Programme
As part of our drive to introduce Ethereum to the far corners of the world, not to mention demonstrate the potential for embedded blockchain technology (even without light-nodes) I'm happy to announce the roll-out of our "eπ" Ethereum-on-Raspberry Pi programme. As part of our programme, we're offering a full-kit...
Published on: May 14, 2015 | Source:Olympic: Frontier Pre-Release
What began all the way back on midnight of February 1st 2014, is coming to a close: we are happy to announce the release of the ninth and last in the Ethereum Proof-of-Concept series. We invite the community to participate in the ongoing Proof-of-Concept IX testnet in our present...
Published on: May 09, 2015 | Source:The end of the beginning…
As part of our tiered release process, we will soon be beginning the final phase prior to our Frontier release. So far our ongoing Proof-of-Concept IX testnet has been running smoothly for around a month with dozens of nodes around the world, well over 200,000 blocks and including clients on...
Published on: May 02, 2015 | Source:Visions, Part 2: The Problem of Trust
Special thanks to: Robert Sams, Gavin Wood, Mark Karpeles and countless cryptocurrency critics on online forums for helping to develop the thoughts behind this article If you were to ask the average cryptocurrency or blockchain enthusiast what the key single fundamental advantage of the technology is, there is a...
Published on: April 27, 2015 | Source:Visions, Part 1: The Value of Blockchain Technology
One of the questions that has perhaps been central to my own research in blockchain technology is: ultimately, what is it even useful for? Why do we need blockchains for anything, what kinds of services should be run on blockchain-like architectures, and why specifically should services be run on blockchains...
Published on: April 13, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Foundation Open Call re: Board Selection
With Ethereum getting close to its first official launch with Frontier, we have spent the last week of February at our holon in Switzerland discussing what the future of the Ethereum Foundation is going to look like. Since the start of the project, one of our primary dreams has been...
Published on: April 10, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Foundation is hiring an Executive Director
Stiftung Ethereum, the Zug, Switzerland-based Ethereum Foundation --ethereum.org, is seeking to immediately fill the Executive Director position within the Foundation. The role involves defining and discharging the day-to-day business of the Foundation and leading the organization at the executive level. The successful candidate will have significant experience in corporate...
Published on: April 08, 2015 | Source:DEVgrants: Here to Help
Few would argue against the fact that Ethereum has been gifted with one of the most diverse and thoughtful communities ever gathered around any open source project. Fueled by what can only be described as impassioned determination, developers from all walks of life have risked their time and credibility to...
Published on: April 07, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Builders: Tapping Into The Collaborative Potential
Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year I’ve served as the vice president of the Ethereum Foundation and as director of Ethereum Switzerland. During the last few months I’ve been researching and testing a number of collaborative tools, constantly...
Published on: April 06, 2015 | Source:Blockchain Scalability: Chain-Fibers Redux
History I came up with the first seed of this idea while chatting to Janislav Malahov in Berlin in Spring 2014. Unfortunately, the original article I wrote was lost along with my laptop when it was stolen in Vienna. After chatting over the principles with Vitalik more recently, we...
Published on: April 05, 2015 | Source:Bazaar Services
I'm a great believer in judging the present through the knowledge of the past. In the past 25 or so years one of the biggest trends in business and technology was what might loosely be termed as the open source revolution. The notion of it being good business to share...
Published on: April 05, 2015 | Source:Implementing Vitalik’s vision
Although the core concept was proven last summer when lead developers Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood, and Jeffrey Wilcke initiated the PoC (proof-of-concept) series in Python, C++, and Go, a lot of engineering effort has gone to solidifying these implementations. We're all anxious to release a stable command line client and...
Published on: April 02, 2015 | Source:Ethereum’s unexpected future direction
Ethereum has been preparing what we consider to be the most exciting digital alliance since IBM and Microsoft partnered so successfully on the IBM PC. We know that you’ve been anticipating great things from Ethereum and we are delighted to present you with this exciting and unexpected news. As...
Published on: April 01, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Builders: A Proposed Experiment
Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year I’ve served as the vice president of the Ethereum Foundation and as director of Ethereum Switzerland. In the early days of the project I concentrated my attention on the community side and...
Published on: March 20, 2015 | Source:Jutta’s update on bug bounty program and security audit
Hi, Jutta writing again – I initially introduced myself when we started the bounty program earlier this year and I’m happy to provide you with an update on what’s happening on the security side prior and throughout launch. We have had some high quality submissions by bounty hunters –...
Published on: March 20, 2015 | Source:Mihai’s Ethereum Project Update. The First Year.
Into the ether Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year I’ve served as the Vice President of the Ethereum Foundation and Director of Ethereum Switzerland. In the early days of the project I concentrated my attention on the...
Published on: March 14, 2015 | Source:Getting to the Frontier
So first some background. We’ve already covered a little about what to expect from Frontier in the Ethereum Launch Process blog postand Gav has given us a comprehensive overview of the state of the development effort. You can also read about some of the ongoing security work, including the bug...
Published on: March 12, 2015 | Source:The Ethereum Development Process
So I'm not sure if this kind of development methodology has ever been applied to such an extreme before so I figured I'd document it. In a nutshell, it's sort of like test-driven triplet-programming development. While speed-developing our alpha codebase, four of us sat around a table in the...
Published on: March 05, 2015 | Source:The Ethereum Launch Process
I’m Vinay Gupta, the newly minted release coordinator for Ethereum. I’ve been working with the comms team on strategy, and have now comeaboard to help smooth the release process (some of the content in this blog is out of date, please see this link for the most up to date...
Published on: March 03, 2015 | Source:Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update V
I was woken by Vitalik's call at 5:55 this morning; pitch black outside, nighttime was still upon us. Nonetheless, it was time to leave and this week had best start on the right foot. The 25-minute walk in darkness from the Zug-based headquarters to the train station was wet....
Published on: March 02, 2015 | Source:The Subjectivity / Exploitability Tradeoff
One of the issues inherent in many kinds of consensus architectures is that although they can be made to be robust against attackers or collusions up to a certain size, if an attacker gets large enough they are still, fundamentally, exploitable. If attackers in a proof of work system have...
Published on: February 14, 2015 | Source:The P + epsilon Attack
Special thanks to Andrew Miller for coming up with this attack, and to Zack Hess, Vlad Zamfir and Paul Sztorc for discussion and responses One of the more interesting surprises in cryptoeconomics in recent weeks came from an attack on SchellingCoin conceived by Andrew Miller earlier this month. Although...
Published on: January 28, 2015 | Source:Superrationality and DAOs
Warning: this post contains crazy ideas. Myself describing a crazy idea should NOT be construed as implying that (i) I am certain that the idea is correct/viable, (ii) I have an even >50% probability estimate that the idea is correct/viable, or that (iii) "Ethereum" endorses any of this in any...
Published on: January 23, 2015 | Source:Light Clients and Proof of Stake
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir and Jae Kwon for many of the ideas described in this post Aside from the primary debate around weak subjectivity, one of the important secondary arguments raised against proof of stake is the issue that proof of stake algorithms are much harder to make...
Published on: January 10, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Community Survey
Back in November, we created a quick survey for the Ethereum community to help us gauge how we're doing, what can be improved, and how best we can engage with you all as we move forward towards the genesis block release in March. We feel it's very important to enable...
Published on: January 09, 2015 | Source:Jeff’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update II
Firstof all, happy new year! What a year it has been. With a little luck we'll surpass last year with an even more awesome year.It's been too long since I've given an update on my side of things and that of the Go team and mostly due to a lack...
Published on: January 06, 2015 | Source:On Silos
One of the criticisms that many people have made about the current direction of the cryptocurrency space is the increasing amount of fragmentation that we are seeing. What was earlier perhaps a more tightly bound community centered around developing the common infrastructure of Bitcoin is now increasingly a collection of...
Published on: December 31, 2014 | Source:Secret Sharing DAOs: The Other Crypto 2.0
The crypto 2.0 industry has been making strong progress in the past year developing blockchain technology, including the formalization and in some cases realization of proof of stake designs like Slasher and DPOS, various forms of
Published on: December 26, 2014 | Source:A call to all the bug bounty hunters out there…
Hi, I’m Jutta! As some of you might have read in earlier posts, I’ve recently been busy setting up a security audit prior to the Ethereum genesis block release. Ethereum will launch following a world-class review by experts in IT security, cryptography and blockchain technology.Prior to the launch, we will...
Published on: December 18, 2014 | Source:Ethereum ÐΞV: What are we doing?
OK so a minor update about what we are (and are not) doing here at Ethereum DEV. We are, first and foremost, developing a robust quasi-Turing-complete blockchain. This is known as Ethereum. Aside from having quasi-Turing-completeness, it delivers on a number of other important considerations, stemming from the fact...
Published on: December 17, 2014 | Source:Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update IV
Time for another update! So quite a bit has happened following ÐΞVcon-0, our internal developer's conference. The conference itself was a great time to get all the developers together and really get to know each other, dissipate a lot of information (back to back presentations for 5 days!) and chat...
Published on: December 15, 2014 | Source: