John Smith
Security alert [consensus issue] | Ethereum Foundation Blog
This alert is related to a consensus issue that occurred on the Frontier network at block 116,522, mined on 2015-08-20 at 14:59:16+02:00 –...
Olympic Rewards Announced | Ethereum Foundation Blog
ETH DEV would like to thank everyone for their participation in the Olympic test network, which helped us greatly in stress testing, optimization,...
On Anti-Pre-Revelation Games | Ethereum Foundation Blog
An increasing number of proposed applications on top of Ethereum rely on some kind of incentivized, multi-party data provision - whether voting, random...
Security Advisory [Insecurely configured geth can make funds remotely accessible]
Insecurely configured Ethereum clients with no firewall and unlocked accounts can lead to funds being accessed remotely by attackers.
Affected configurations: Issue reported...
devcon one postponed until further notice
Unfortunately we were not able to secure the venue for devcon one in London on the dates desired (October 5th-8th). As a consequence...
Security Advisory [Implementation bugs in Go and Python clients can cause...
State transition and consensus issue in geth client causes panic (crash) when processing a (valid) block with a specific combination of transactions, which...
Security Alert – [Implementation bug in Go clients causing increase in...
Implementation bug in the go client leads to steady increase of difficulty independent of hashing power.
Affected configurations: All Go client versions v1.0.x, v1.1.x,...
A message from Stephan Tual
To the wonderful Ethereum Community,
You often heard me say at conferences that Ethereum was not a company, a foundation, an implementation, or an...
Security Alert – [Previous security patch can lead to invalid state...
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...
On Slow and Fast Block Times
One of the largest sources of confusion in the question of blockchain security is the precise effect of the block time. If one...
