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London, United Kingdom, October 22nd – The Ethereum Foundation is pleased to announce the Keynote Speaker of Ethereum’s annual conference DΞVCON1, Nick Szabo. Nick’s keynote will focus on the history of the blockchain, smart contracts and assets on the…
Summary: Erroneous implementation of BLOCKHASH can trigger a chain reorganisation leading to consensus problems Affected configurations: All geth versions up to 1.1.3 and 1.2.2. All eth versions prior to 1.0.0. Likelihood: Low Severity: Medium Impa…
Over the last five days, myself, our executive director Ming Chan, and several others from the Ethereum team and Ethereum-based projects and businesses including Maker, String/Dfinity and Consensys have been visiting China and Hong Kong, where there ha…
Highlighted Quotes from Dr. Alex Cahana’s Interview: “Today, everything in healthcare is better because of genetics…” Dr. Alex Cahana is the Director…
In an effort to bring the community more information about the going-ons at Ethereum, we’re planning to release semi-weekly updates of project progress. I hope this provides some high-level information without having to live on GitHub 😉 The Go and C+…
Affected configurations: Issue reported for eth (cpp-ethereum).Likelihood: Medium
Many of you know that the Ethereum platform grew out of the realization that blockchains can go far beyond currency, together with a frustration with the limitations of previous projects. The core idea was simple: a blockchain with a built-in Turing-co…
The following are some interesting results on the performance of different miners over the course of the first 280,000 blocks of the Ethereum blockchain. For this timespan I have collected the list of block and uncle coinbase addresses; raw data can be…
DevCon 1 will be happening in London on November 9-13, a little over one hundred days since the Ethereum network launched. Over the last months, we’ve seen the network grow from a few hundred nodes starting on that one exciting and special night to a v…
‘Bitcoin As A Currency’ is part of a research series asking: What would be the best use cases and how might the market for bitcoin scale?
This article is investigating bitcoin. To satisfy the third and final property of money, bitcoin must become a “measuring stick” for assets and liabilities
The foundation is currently in the phase of restructuring its communications activities. Several members of our current communications team in London are soon leaving or reducing their involvement in the Foundation in order to pursue for-profit venture…
Bitcoin: Store of value – If bitcoin is to function as a reliable store of value, owners must be able to hold them for months or years, trusting they…
We are happy to announce our very first developer-preview of the Ethereum Wallet ÐApp. The point of this release is to gather feedback, squash bugs and, most importantly, get the code audited. Please note that this is a developer-preview and not the f…
Solvadi’s approval by the FDA should have been a triumphant moment for the whole healthcare community. Sovaldi did irreversibly change the HCV landscape.
One of the largest sources of confusion in the question of blockchain security is the precise effect of the block time. If one blockchain has a block time of 10 minutes, and the other has an estimated block time of 17 seconds, then what exactly does th…
Summary: Implementation bug in the go client may lead to invalid state Affected client versions: Latest (unpatched) versions of Go client; v1.1.2, v1.0.4 tags and develop, master branches before September 9. Likelihood: Low Severity: High I…
Bitcoin: A Means of Exchange | A Goldman Sachs survey found that 2% of US merchants already accept bitcoin, and 23% plan to start accepting it by 2017
Advancements in mechanical systems, sensors, wireless communication, cameras, and other technologies have enabled advanced robotics and automation systems.
Few innovations have generated as much controversy and potential for worldwide economic transformation as have Bitcoin and bitcoin.