Bitcoin: A Significantly Investable Asset
Bitcoin investable asset? ARK Invest and Coinbase explore in the first of a series of articles arguing bitcoin as a new asset class—cryptocurrency.
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Thinking About Smart Contract Security
Over the last day with the community’s help we have crowdsourced a list 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. T…
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,
The Ethereum Foundation welcomes Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, Shanghai 19-21 September, 2016
London, United Kingdom, June 14, 2016 – 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…
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 decision…
Security Alert – cpp-ethereum’s account unlocking problem not yet fixed [Now fixed]
Affected configurations: cpp-ethereum (eth, AlethZero, …) version 1.2.0 up to 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. …
Go Ethereum’s JIT-EVM
The Ethereum Virtual machine is kind of different than most other Virtual Machines out there. In my previous post I already explained how it’s used and described some of its characteristics. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is a simple but powe…
Bitcoin: Ringing the Bell for a New Asset Class
ARK Invest and Coinbase explore the merit of bitcoin as the first of its kind in a new asset class —cryptocurrency—distinct from all other asset classes.
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 account…
Bitcoin and Ethereum: How Smart Contracts Work
Blockchain-based smart contracts work with higher efficiency, transparency and economic value offering entirely autonomous management and peer-to-peer …
Security Alert – Geth suffers from a very low probable DoS attack vector – Update immediately
Affected configurations: All Go 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…
3D Printing: Innovation Case Studies
3D Printed: Innovation Case Studies – 3D printing is still a young industry. Today, the technology is mainly used to make prototypes but…
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 proponen…
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 Paweł Bylica (@chfast), Greg Colvin (@gcol…
Machine Learning Opens Up Cloud Opportunity for GPUs
Servers built for machine learning will need graphic processing units (GPUs) to improve performance, cost, and energy efficiency.
The Future of Automation
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Illumina Is the Bedrock of the Genomic Revolution
Illumina [ILMN] is the cornerstone of our Genomic Revolution theme, and one of our highest conviction stocks. Illumina’s declining cost curve will…
3D Printing Market: Analysts Are Underestimating the Future
The size of the 3D printing market will grow in the next decade due to revolutionized manufacturing of low volume, highly customizable parts.
Netflix Will Be the Largest US, If Not Global, “TV Network” By 2019
TV executives are right to feel paranoid about the rise of Netflix—at its current trajectory, Netflix will become the largest U.S video network by 2019.
Ethereum Foundation and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs announce a blockbuster event combining Devcon2 and the 2nd Global Blockchain Summit in Shanghai, September 19–24, 2016
[Last update: July 5, 2016] The Ethereum Foundation and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs are excited to jointly announce the International Blockchain Week in Shanghai, which will take place at Hyatt on the Bund, September 19–24, 2016. Both Ethereum’s Devcon a…