Ethereum Builders: A Proposed Experiment

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…

Jutta’s update on bug bounty program and security audit

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…

Is Elon Musk Giving Up on Battery Swaps?

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.

Internet Balloons: A Looney Idea?

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.

Internet Balloons: A Looney Idea?

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.

Mihai’s Ethereum Project Update. The First Year.

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…

Getting to the Frontier

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…

PaaS: The Goldilocks of IaaS and SaaS

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.

PaaS: The Goldilocks of IaaS and SaaS

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.

The Ethereum Development Process

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…

The Ethereum Launch Process

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…

Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update V

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…

Gaining Share in a Big Data Tsunami

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…

Gaining Share in a Big Data Tsunami

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…

The Subjectivity / Exploitability Tradeoff

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…

Zafgen Offers Hope For The Obese

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.