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On Anti-Pre-Revelation Games
An increasing number of proposed applications on top of Ethereum rely on some kind of incentivized, multi-party data provision - whether voting, random number collection, or other use cases where getting information from multiple parties to increase decentralization is highly desirable, but also where there is a strong risk of...
Published on: August 28, 2015 | Source:
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Olympic Rewards Announced
ETH DEV would like to thank everyone for their participation in the Olympic test network, which helped us greatly in stress testing, optimization, and finding bugs in the Ethereum clients, as well as determining what the limits of the current Ethereum system are. To that end, we are pleased to...
Published on: August 26, 2015 | Source:Security alert [consensus issue]
This alert is related to a consensus issue that occurred on the Frontier network at block 116,522, mined on 2015-08-20 at 14:59:16+02:00 β Issue has been fixed, see "Fix" below. Impact:High Issue description: State database consensus issue in geth with deletion of account data, which could happen during...
Published on: August 20, 2015 | Source:An Analysis of the First 100000 Blocks
After a successful launch, Frontier passed it's 100000th block earlier this week. Here are some interesting stats from these first blocks. The first 50 block times (in seconds): Right after genesis, it took 29 seconds for the second block to appear, then 31 and 29 seconds for...
Published on: August 18, 2015 | Source:Chain Reorganisation Depth Expectations
This following shows our current and planned expectations concerning maximum likely chain-reorganisation depth. We would not consider transactions within this depth to have an exceptionally high chance of being permanent. These are our own expectations only and do not constitute any sort of guarantee. They are derived from theoretical considerations,...
Published on: August 08, 2015 | Source:Security Alert 1 [windows+alethzero]
This affects users of Alethzero GUI client on Windows. Users of eth CLI client or not on the Windows platform are unlikely to be affected but should take action detailed below.Users of Frontier command line interface geth are unaffected. Issue description: While setting privacy permissions on the keys directory,...
Published on: August 07, 2015 | Source:On Public and Private Blockchains
Over the last year the concept of "private blockchains" has become very popular in the broader blockchain technology discussion. Essentially, instead of having a fully public and uncontrolled network and state machine secured by cryptoeconomics (eg. proof of work, proof of stake), it is also possible to create a system...
Published on: August 07, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Protocol Update 1
Here comes the first Frontier patch, and this is a big one! Before you go further, if your keys date back from Go 1.0 rc or C++ 0.9.36, note that you should regenerate all of your keys NOW. Though some releases of the pre-alpha and alpha clients are secure,...
Published on: August 04, 2015 | Source:The Thawing Frontier
After a smooth launch, please find a few updates of note below. These probably will be of interest only to the more advanced users amongst you - if youβre not a miner, there is nothing to action....
Published on: August 04, 2015 | Source:Introducing Casper βthe Friendly Ghostβ
Hi everyone β Vlad here. Iβve been working on the analysis and specification of βproof-of-stakeβ blockchain architecture since September 2014. While Vitalik and I havenβt agreed on all of the details of the spec, we do have consensus on many properties of the proof-of-stake protocol that will likely be implemented...
Published on: August 01, 2015 | Source:Announcing the New Foundation Board and Executive Director
After an intensive recruitment period, the Ethereum Foundation has selected an Executive Director and named three members to the Board of Directors. This is a new organizational structure, which will allow us to focus on our next phase of development. The Ethereum Foundation is a not for profit (βStiftungβ)...
Published on: July 30, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Launches
A few minutes ago, many of you generated and loaded the Ethereum Genesis block, marking the inception of Frontier, the first Live release of the Ethereum project. The Dev team joins me in thanking each and everyone of you for your support during the past year and half. Itβs...
Published on: July 30, 2015 | Source:A few last minute notesβ¦
Genesis is roughly 4 hours away, here are a few last minute pointers for those preparing: All clients are functional on all platforms and build to completion: http://ethereum-buildboard.meteor.com/ Please note that it will take a little while (10-1000 blocks) before the network stabilises. This is a marathon, not...
Published on: July 30, 2015 | Source:Final Steps
An update as promised: all systems are now βGoβ on the technical side (pun intended) and we intend to release Frontier this week. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on my previous blog post. What became apparent is that prior to the big day, many of you wanted...
Published on: July 27, 2015 | Source:Frontier is coming - what to expect, and how to prepare
We are only days away from launching 'Frontier', the first milestone in the release of the Ethereum project. Frontier will be followed by 'Homestead', 'Metropolis' and 'Serenity' throughout the coming year, each adding new features and improving the user friendliness and security of the platform....
Published on: July 22, 2015 | Source:How do you know Ethereum is secure?
As I'm writing this, Iβm sitting in the London office and pondering how to give you a good overview about the work weβve been doing to secure Ethereumβs protocols, clients and p2p-network. As you might remember, I joined the Ethereum team at the end of last year to manage the...
Published on: July 07, 2015 | Source:On Abstraction
Special thanks to Gavin Wood, Vlad Zamfir, our security auditors and others for some of the thoughts that led to the conclusions described in this post One of Ethereum's goals from the start, and arguably its entire raison d'Γͺtre, is the high degree of abstraction that the platform offers....
Published on: July 05, 2015 | Source:State Tree Pruning
One of the important issues that has been brought up over the course of the Olympic stress-net release is the large amount of data that clients are required to store; over little more than three months of operation, and particularly during the last month, the amount of data in each...
Published on: June 26, 2015 | Source: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 βwhatβs backing it?β, βwhat can be done with it?β and βwhat the heck is cryptography?" Back then my pitch wasnβt refined and the learning...
Published on: June 21, 2015 | Source:Another Ethereum ΓΞV 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 eΟ: 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 "eΟ" 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 beginningβ¦
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 Iβve served as the vice president of the Ethereum Foundation and as director of Ethereum Switzerland. During the last few months Iβve 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 Vitalikβs 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:Ethereumβs 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 youβve 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: