John Smith
An Introduction to Futarchy | Ethereum Foundation Blog
One of the more interesting long-term practical benefits of the technology and concept behind decentralized autonomous organizations is that DAOs allow us to...
State of Ethereum: August Edition
Development of Ethereum has been progressing increasingly quickly this past month. The release of PoC5 ("proof of concept five") last month the day...
Software and Bounded Rationality | Ethereum Foundation Blog
One of the key properties that is usually sought for in a cryptoeconomic algorithm, whether a blockchain consensus algorithm such a proof of...
crypto renaissance | Ethereum Foundation Blog
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay
January 3rd 2009 marked the beginning of a new era. The...
Scalability, Part 1: Building on Top
Over the next few weeks, I am going to make a series of posts that is going to be a large overview of...
Slasher Ghost, and Other Developments in Proof of Stake
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir and Zack Hess for ongoing research and discussions on proof-of-stake algorithms and their own input into Slasher-like proposals
One...
Gav’s ÐΞV Update I: Where Ethereum’s at
Who are you?
I'm Gav - together with Jeffrey Wilcke and Vitalik Buterin, I'm one third of the ultimate leadership of Ethereum ÐΞV. ÐΞV...
Scalability, Part 2: Hypercubes | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir, Chris Barnett and Dominic Williams for ideas and inspiration
In a recent blog post I outlined some partial solutions...
An Information-Theoretic Account of Secure Brainwallets
An important and controversial topic in the area of personal wallet security is the concept of "brainwallets" - storing funds using a private...
Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update II
Well... what a busy two weeks. I thought it about time to make another update for any of you who might be interested...