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On Inflation, Transaction Fees and Cryptocurrency Monetary Policy
The primary expense that must be paid by a blockchain is that of security. The blockchain must pay miners or validators to economically participate in its consensus protocol, whether proof of work or proof of stake, and this inevitably incurs some cost. There are two ways to pay for this...
Published on: July 27, 2016 | Source:
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Onward from the Hard Fork
The foundation has committed to support the community consensus on the admittedly difficult hard fork decision. Seeing the results of various metrics, including carbonvote, dapp and ecosystem infrastructure adoption, this means that we will focus our resources and attention on the chain which is now called ETH (ie. the fork...
Published on: July 26, 2016 | Source:Hive: How we strived for a clean fork
The DAO soft-fork attempt was difficult. Not only did it turn out that we underestimated the side effects on the consensus protocol (i.e. DoS vulnerability), but we also managed to introduce a data race into the rushed implementation that was a ticking time bomb. It was not ideal, and even...
Published on: July 22, 2016 | Source:Issue 260
Final by default? Or not? Designing a walkthrough that your users will find useful and can you work around the limitations of the Siri API?
Published on: July 22, 2016 | Source:Hard Fork Completed
We would like to congratulate the Ethereum community on a successfully completed hard fork. Block 1920000 contained the execution of an irregular state change which transferred ~12 million ETH from the "Dark DAO" and "Whitehat DAO" contracts into the WithdrawDAO recovery contract. The fork itself took place smoothly, with roughly...
Published on: July 20, 2016 | Source:To fork or not to fork
The DAO, though not a product developed by the Ethereum Foundation, has been a hot topic as of late, both internally in the organisation as well as within our community.The Hard Fork is a delicate topic and the way we see it, no decision is the right one. As this...
Published on: July 15, 2016 | Source:Issue 259
Is Swift adoption rising in larger and more popular apps? It appears to be!
Published on: July 15, 2016 | Source:How to build server less applications for Mist
Ethereum is not meant to be a platform to build esoteric smart contract applications that require a STEM degree to understand, but it aims to be one pillar of a different architecture for applications on the world wide web. With this post we will try to elucidate how this can...
Published on: July 12, 2016 | Source:Taylorβs Summer Update
Hey everyone, I spent some time with our Canadian friends in Toronto after presenting "Ethereum: The World Computer" at Blockchain Training Conference last month and I wanted to provide a quick update on some of the exciting happenings in the Ethereum dev ecosystem. Lots of things are brewing behinds the...
Published on: July 11, 2016 | Source:C++ DEV Update - July edition
Since the last C++ DEV Update, a lot of things happened in the engine room which were not really visible to the outside. This post wants to give an overview about what we are currently working on. Apart from the features side, Bob has been working on a proposed...
Published on: July 08, 2016 | Source:The Devcon2 site is now live!
The Devcon2 web site is officially live now! You can find it athttps://ethereumfoundation.org/devcon/ Thanks foreveryone's interest, proposals, support and enthusiasm. We have an amazing community and areexcited to present the first Ethereum Foundation event in Asia. This year, Devcon2 (September 19, 20, 21) will be a featured conference...
Published on: July 08, 2016 | Source:Issue 258
All the beta 2 bits! Playground support for minor Swift versions and a new alternative to Auto Layout if you need more speed!
Published on: July 08, 2016 | Source:Issue 257
iCloud Core Data has finally been deprecated? How to interactively animate a blur radius and more conference videos than you'll have time to watch!
Published on: July 01, 2016 | Source:Security Alert - DoS Vulnerability in the Soft Fork
Affected configurations: geth 1.4.8 Likelihood: High Severity: High Details: An attack vector has been identified in the freshly released implementation of the DAOsoft fork. The fork enactment code in geth (and other clients) allows execution ofEVM code up to the block gas limit without paying for...
Published on: June 28, 2016 | Source:DAO Wars: Your voice on the soft-fork dilemma
The last week was quite hectic for all of us in the Ethereum ecosystem. The DAO has shown us that it takes much more effort to write smart contracts than we originally anticipated; but also that it takes a surprising amount ofdebateto reach a consensus onissues of this scale. ...
Published on: June 24, 2016 | Source:Security Alert β Smart Contract Wallets created in frontier are vulnerable to phishing attacks
Affected configurations: All smart contract wallets created using Ethereum Wallet Frontier, version 0.4.0 (Beta 7) or earlier. Wallets created with Ethereum Wallet 0.5.0 and all later versions released after March 3, 2016, are not affected. Likelihood: Low Severity: High...
Published on: June 24, 2016 | Source:Issue 256
WWDC is done for another year, but it's going to take a while to get through all of the new content!
Published on: June 24, 2016 | Source:Thinking About Smart Contract Security
Over the last day with the community's help we have crowdsourced alist of all of the major bugs with smart contracts on Ethereum so far, including both the DAO as well as various smaller 100-10000 ETH thefts and losses in games and token contracts. This list (original source here)...
Published on: June 19, 2016 | Source:CRITICAL UPDATE Re: DAO Vulnerability
An attack has been found and exploited in the DAO, and the attacker is currently in the process of draining the ether contained in the DAO into a child DAO. The attack is a recursive calling vulnerability,
Published on: June 17, 2016 | Source:Issue 255
WWDC is over! Swift playgrounds are wonderful, and Xcode finally gets extensibility!
Published on: June 17, 2016 | Source:The Ethereum Foundation welcomes Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, Shanghai 19-21 September, 2016
London, United Kingdom, June 14, 2016 β The Ethereum Foundation is pleased to announce Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, the Ethereum developer conference in Shanghai, 19-21 September, 2016. Devcon2, which will showcase the most up-to-date research and development work supported by the Foundation, also represents the most...
Published on: June 14, 2016 | Source:Smart Contract Security
Solidity was started in October 2014 when neither the Ethereum network nor the virtual machine had any real-world testing, the gas costs at that time were even drastically different from what they are now. Furthermore, some of the early design decisions were taken over from Serpent. During the last couple...
Published on: June 10, 2016 | Source:Issue 254
Huge App Store changes, finally! See you in San Francisco, I'm halfway there already!
Published on: June 10, 2016 | Source:Security Alert - cpp-ethereumβs account unlocking problem not yet fixed [Now fixed]
Affected configurations: cpp-ethereum (eth, AlethZero, β¦) version 1.2.0 up to 1.2.6 Note: Neither βgethβ nor βMistβ nor the βEthereum Walletβ (unless explicitly used together with cpp-ethereum) are affected by this, they lock accounts correctly again. This is just a quick head's up that cpp-ethereum's security issue around account security...
Published on: June 03, 2016 | Source:Issue 253
Just over a week until WWDC! Swift previews, here one minute and gone the next and can using Objective C++ make your app more Swifty?
Published on: June 03, 2016 | Source:Go Ethereumβs JIT-EVM
The Ethereum Virtual machine is kind of different than most other Virtual Machines out there. In myprevious postI already explained how itβs used and described some of its characteristics. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is a simple but powe...
Published on: June 02, 2016 | Source:Security Alert - cpp-ethereum keeps accounts unlocked
Affected configurations: cpp-ethereum (eth, AlethZero, ...) version 1.2.0 up to 1.2.5 (fixed in 1.2.6) Note: Neither "geth" nor "Mist" nor the "Ethereum Wallet" (unless explicitly used together with cpp-ethereum) are affected by this, they lock accounts correctly again.Severity: HighPossible Attacks:
Published on: May 31, 2016 | Source:Issue 252
More on the Swift development process. How to detect a low battery in your app and why your iOS app's design won't translate well to Android.
Published on: May 27, 2016 | Source:Issue 251
The Swift Stable ABI has been pushed to Swift 4. How is the package manager doing? and how to write sustainable code.
Published on: May 20, 2016 | Source:Security Alert β Geth suffers from a very low probable DoS attack vector - Update immediately
Affected configurations:AllGo client versions Likelihood:Very low Severity:High Details:A bug in Geth (and potentially other clients) may suffer from a DoS attack and allows remote attackers to stall synchronisation process almost indefinitely by supplying a valid, lighter...
Published on: May 17, 2016 | Source:Issue 250
What's happening with App Store review times? CocoaPods 1.0 is here and when it's OK to clash your fonts.
Published on: May 13, 2016 | Source:On Settlement Finality
Special thanks to Tim Swanson for reviewing, and for further discussions on the arguments in his original paper on settlement finality. Recently one of the major disputes in ongoing debate between public blockchain and permissioned blockchain proponents is the issue of settlement finality. One of the simple properties that...
Published on: May 09, 2016 | Source:Issue 249
Don't forget to test with IPv6. Speeding up the Swift compiler and should you drop support for iOS 8?
Published on: May 06, 2016 | Source:C++ DEV Update: Announcing Remix
After almost three months into the "reboot" of the C++ team, I would like to give an update about the team itself, what we did and what we plan to do. Team update The so-called C++ team currently consists of PaweΕ Bylica (@chfast), Greg Colvin (@gcolvin), Liana Husikyan...
Published on: May 04, 2016 | Source:Issue 248
Speed up your UI tests with fast animations. Taming background fetch and how do designers debug their designs?
Published on: April 29, 2016 | Source: