John Smith
DAOs Are Not Scary, Part 1: Self-Enforcing Contracts And Factum Law
Many of the concepts that we promote over in Ethereum land may seem incredibly futuristic, and perhaps even frightening, at times. We talk...
DAOs Are Not Scary, Part 2: Reducing Barriers
In the last installment of this series, we talked about what “smart contracts” (or, perhaps more accurately, “self-enforcing contracts”) are, and discussed in...
The Question of Mining | Ethereum Foundation Blog
There are a lot of interesting changes to the Ethereum protocol that are in the works, which will hopefully improve the power of...
The Latest EVM: “Ethereum Is A Trust-Free Closure System”
In the past two weeks our lead C++ developer, Gavin Wood, and myself have been spending a lot of time meeting the local...
SchellingCoin: A Minimal-Trust Universal Data Feed
One of the main applications of Ethereum that people have been interested in is financial contracts and derivatives. Although financial derivatives have acquired...
Pyethereum and Serpent Programming Guide
The content of this tutorial is intended to apply to PoC5. Most of the instructions given below will not work in the older...
The Issuance Model in Ethereum
Ether (ETH), the cryptofuel that powers distributed applications on the Ethereum platform, will be issued at a constant annual linear rate via the...
Decentralized Protocol Monetization and Forks
The idea of releasing a new currency as a mechanism for funding protocol development is perhaps one of the most interesting economic innovations...
Serpent upgrades: More Fun Stuff
Over the past two weeks our primary focus has been getting all of the clients updated to PoC5 compatibility, and it definitely has...
DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide
One of the most popular topics in the digital consensus space (a new term for cryptocurrency 2.0 that I’m beta-testing) is the concept...
