John Smith
Security Alert – Solidity – Variables can be overwritten in storage
Summary: In some situations, variables can overwrite other variables in storage.
Affected Solidity compiler versions: 0.1.6 to 0.4.3 (including 0.4.4 pre-release versions)
Detailed description:
Storage variables...
Analysis of Storage Corruption Bug
This blog post provides an update on our findings following the discovery of the storage corruption bug last week. In summary, the bug was much less severe than...
Whoa… Geth 1.5 | Ethereum Foundation Blog
The Go Ethereum team is very proud to finally release Geth 1.5, which can almost be called a complete internal rewrite of the Go...
Hard Fork No. 4: Spurious Dragon
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 2,675,000, which will likely occur between 15:00 and 16:00 UTC on...
From Morden to Ropsten | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Testing a fork
The Spurious Dragon hardfork is scheduled for the coming week; block 2675000 is likely to occur Tuesday evening (CET). The block...
Security alert [11/24/2016]: Consensus bug in geth v1.4.19 and v1.5.2
Security Alert
Affected configurations: Geth
Severity: High
Summary: An issue has been identified with Geth's journaling mechanism. This caused a network fork at block #2686351 (Nov-24-2016...
Ethereum Research Update | Ethereum Foundation Blog
This week marks the completion of our fourth hard fork, Spurious Dragon, and the subsequent state clearing process, the final steps in the two-hard-fork solution...
zkSNARKs in a nutshell | Ethereum Foundation Blog
The possibilities of zkSNARKs are impressive, you can verify the correctness of computations without having to execute them and you will not even...
The History of Casper – Chapter 1
Vitalik suggested last week that I share my basic research and design philosophy in a blog post, I agreed but complained that it...
The History of Casper – Chapter 2
This chapter describes the game theory and economic security modelling we were doing in the Fall of 2014. It recounts how the "bribing...
