John Smith
Bootstrapping A Decentralized Autonomous Corporation: Part I
Corporations, US presidential candidate Mitt Romney reminds us, are people. Whether or not you agree with the conclusions that his partisans draw from...
Bootstrapping An Autonomous Decentralized Corporation, Part 2: Interacting With the World
In the first part of this series, we talked about how the internet allows us to create decentralized corporations, automatons that exist entirely...
Bootstrapping a Decentralized Autonomous Corporation, Part 3: Identity Corp
In the first two parts of this series, we talked about what the basic workings of a decentralized autonomous corporation might look like,...
Slasher: A Punitive Proof-of-Stake Algorithm
The purpose of this post is not to say that Ethereum will be using Slasher in place of Dagger as its main mining...
Ethereum: Now Going Public | Ethereum Foundation Blog
I first wrote the initial draft of the Ethereum whitepaper on a cold day in San Francisco in November, as a culmination of...
Conference, Alpha Testnet and Ether Pre-sale Updates
Important notice: any information from this post regarding the ether sale is highly outdated and probably inaccurate. Please only consult the latest blog...
On Transaction Fees, And The Fallacy of Market-Based Solutions
Of all the parts of the Ethereum protocol, aside from the mining function the fee structure is perhaps the least set in stone....
Introducing Ethereum Script 2.0 | Ethereum Foundation Blog
This post will provide the groundwork for a major rework of the Ethereum scripting language, which will substantially modify the way ES works...
More Thoughts on Scripting and Future-Compatibility
My previous post introducing Ethereum Script 2.0 was met with a number of responses, some highly supportive, others suggesting that we switch to...
