John Smith
What is Ethereum? Project, Platform, Fuel, Stack.
What is Ethereum, the Project?
The Ethereum Project is an open source, community-driven effort designed to create a next-generation distributed application platform intended to...
The Xbox and Ethereum’s Dual Mandate
The Necessity to Build and Launch an Ecosystem on Genesis Day
Imagine if Microsoft released the Xbox and there were no games.
On the day...
Long-Range Attacks: The Serious Problem With Adaptive Proof of Work
Our current proof of work design, blockchain-based proof of work, is the second iteration of our attempt to create a mining algorithm that...
On Long-Term Cryptocurrency Distribution Models
One of the challenges when creating a new cryptocurrency is figuring out what the distribution model is going to be. Who is going...
What If Ethereum Lived on a Treap? Or, Blockchains Charging Rent
Although truly solving blockchain scalability fundamentally, that is to say figuring out a solution to the problem that every node must process every...
Ethereum Project Update | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Development of the Ethereum project has gone very well over the months since inception. The core activity — development of the software platform...
On Mining | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Decentralization, n. The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK, and maybe not,...
Advanced Contract Programming Example: SchellingCoin
Writing effective decentralized applications in Ethereum is at the same time easy and hard. The easy part we all know: rather than needing...
On Stake | Ethereum Foundation Blog
The topic of mining centralization has been a very important one over the past few weeks. GHASH.io, the Bitcoin network's largest mining pool,...
Background on the mechanics of the ether pre-sale
During the run-up to the ether sale we will be releasing a series of blog posts regarding our development plans and intended organizational...
