John Smith
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...
Swarm alpha public pilot and the basics of Swarm
With the long awaited geth 1.5 ("let there bee light") release, Swarm made it into the official go-ethereum release as an experimental feature....
Security alert [12/19/2016]: Ethereum.org Forums Database Compromised
On December 16, we were made aware that someone had recently gained unauthorized access to a database from forum.ethereum.org. We immediately launched a...
December Roundup | Ethereum Foundation Blog
December marks a month of continued progress in the Ethereum ecosystem. Research on proof of stake and sharding continues after the research team's workshop...
