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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 p…
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 (10-100…
An update as promised: all systems are now ‘Go’ 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, …
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 us…
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Social Networks—Six Charts That Explain the Rise of the 3 most popular social networks, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, have grown from upstarts…
As I’m writing this, I’m sitting in the London office and pondering how to give you a good overview about the work we’ve been doing to secure Ethereum’s protocols, clients and p2p-network. As you might remember, I joined the Ethereum team at the end of…
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’être, is the high degree o…
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 mon…
If Uber uses shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs), it could charge as little as $0.25 per mile much less than the $0.75 per mile that individuals pay today.
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 pit…
If IoT ecosystem can overcome its challenges, as ARK Invest believes it will, it will enjoy network effects likely to dwarf any of those before it.
The cost of Tesla’s battery pack system is poised to decline rapidly, allowing the range of a Model S equivalent vehicle to hit 430 miles by 2019.
On-site Cancer Tests – Patients with pancreatic cancer have a 35% chance of dying before their molecular diagnostic test results return.
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 meetu…
Advancements of machine vision systems will play a key role as robots permeate, infiltrate, and integrate into the new world.
With Retail Robots, in-store experiences will be quicker, sales staff interactions more helpful, and prices lower as robots increase operational efficiency.
Content is moving inexorably online and disrupting traditional media. According to Nielsen, TV viewership peaked in 2012 at 5 hours 37 minutes per person
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 o…
Barring a change in business model, however, residential energy storage is unlikely to contribute meaningfully to Tesla’s revenue.