Ethereum Watch

Advertisements Source: CoinDesk

Advertisements Source: CoinDesk

Do you believe in God? Would you put your cryptocurrency holdings on it? Advertisements Augur, an ethereum-based platform for betting on the outcome of real-world events, aims to be a repository of crowd-sourced knowledge for journalists, investors and policymakers, as well as an effective tool for hedging against adverse outcomes. But it’s also become one […]

A group of crypto startups and organizations are sponsoring a new blockchain research center headquartered at Stanford University. Advertisements The Center for Blockchain Research is being led by Dan Boneh and David Mazières, two professors who have specialties in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The research outfit plans to “develop best practices” for blockchain by bringing the university […]

When people think of ethereum, they generally think also of the protocol’s developer Vitalik Buterin, now – off his creation – a multi-millionaire. Advertisements No doubt, Buterin is a leader of sorts for the community, even if decision-making is somewhat decentralized. And above that, ethereum’s most active developers have a significant amount of say in […]

1,500 ether. Advertisements That’s how much cryptocurrency users will need to participate in testing ethereum‘s upcoming consensus protocol, Casper, at least according to the blockchain’s creator Vitalik Buterin. During the final day of an ethereum conference in Toronto last week, Buterin took the stage to discuss his version of the software designed to change the way […]

“Sleep? What’s this word you talk about?” Advertisements It’s safe to say ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin‘s joke during the first day of EDCON, an ethereum developer conference now taking place in Toronto, had some truth to it, both for himself and the developers who took the stage with him to discuss one of the $76 […]

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said yesterday that ethereum’s in-house scaling solution, sharding, is moving closer to completion. Advertisements Tweeting that “sharding is coming,” Buterin shared a new code repository that documents a partial proof-of-concept for what is called the “fork choice rule,” the code for how ethereum shards interact with the main blockchain. As detailed by […]

It turns out, Vitalik wasn’t exactly joking. Advertisements Sure, that might be what most people thought when ethereum’s creator published a controversial proposal on April Fool’s Day, but the post has prompted a very real, very serious conversation about whether the underlying economics of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency should be altered. In fact, in the weeks […]

Vitalik Buterin is coming out against a proposal that would find the blockchain he created changing its software to limit the performance of mining hardware designed to yield a greater cut of the network’s rewards. Advertisements Buterin’s comments, issued in a biweekly developer meeting Friday, come in response to the launch of a new product […]