Mindfully Curated
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 you’ve been anticipating great things from Ethereum and we are delighted to present you …
How does Netflix’s (NFLX) streaming distribution work?… These content delivery networks (CDNs) are servers on the edges of the networ
Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year I’ve served as the vice president of the Ethereum Foundation and as director of Ethereum Switzerland. In the early days of the project I concentrated my at…
Hi, Jutta writing again – I initially introduced myself when we started the bounty program earlier this year and I’m happy to provide you with an update on what’s happening on the security side prior and throughout launch. We have had some high qualit…
Elon Musk tweeted cryptically an update about the Tesla battery swaps program, which typically takes 3 minutes and is quicker than a 20 minute supercharge.
Google’s Project Loon plans to deliver Internet access to those lacking it via internet loon balloons, but it is not alone in this venture.
Into the ether Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year I’ve served as the Vice President of the Ethereum Foundation and Director of Ethereum Switzerland. In the early days of the project I conce…
So first some background. We’ve already covered a little about what to expect from Frontier in the Ethereum Launch Process blog post and Gav has given us a comprehensive overview of the state of the development effort. You can also read about some of t…
The IDC projects the global public cloud computing market comprised of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, will be $127B in 2018, more than double $56.6B in 2014.
So I’m not sure if this kind of development methodology has ever been applied to such an extreme before so I figured I’d document it. In a nutshell, it’s sort of like test-driven triplet-programming development. While speed-developing our alpha codeba…
I’m Vinay Gupta, the newly minted release coordinator for Ethereum. I’ve been working with the comms team on strategy, and have now come aboard to help smooth the release process (some of the content in this blog is out of date, please see this link fo…
I was woken by Vitalik’s call at 5:55 this morning; pitch black outside, nighttime was still upon us. Nonetheless, it was time to leave and this week had best start on the right foot. The 25-minute walk in darkness from the Zug-based headquarters to t…
Useful data is just a subset of the digital universe. Companies have had the way paved for them by the likes of Splunk (SPLK), which made headlines in…
Oil and gasoline prices have declined roughly 50% in the past eight months, calling into question the future demand for electric vehicles, such as Teslas.
One of the issues inherent in many kinds of consensus architectures is that although they can be made to be robust against attackers or collusions up to a certain size, if an attacker gets large enough they are still, fundamentally, exploitable. If att…
It is no secret that obesity is linked to health risks. Zafgen is currently testing a compound, beloranib, which could be a cure for all types of obesity.
Should players like Stratasys and 3D Systems be worried about Hewlett-Packard’s new 3D printing suite entering the 3D printing space?
Special thanks to Andrew Miller for coming up with this attack, and to Zack Hess, Vlad Zamfir and Paul Sztorc for discussion and responses One of the more interesting surprises in cryptoeconomics in recent weeks came from an attack on SchellingCoin co…
In 2006 the digital universe was 1.7 times greater than annual storage production. Big data analytics and visualization companies provide solutions for…
Warning: this post contains crazy ideas. Myself describing a crazy idea should NOT be construed as implying that (i) I am certain that the idea is correct/viable, (ii) I have an even >50% probability estimate that the idea is correct/viable, or that (i…