John Smith
Cryptographic Code Obfuscation: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Are About to Take a...
There have been a number of very interesting developments in cryptography in the past few years. Satoshi’s blockchain notwithstanding, perhaps the first major...
Why Not Just Use X? An Instructive Example from Bitcoin
Bitcoin developer Gregory Maxwell writes the following on Reddit:
There is a design flaw in the Bitcoin protocol where its possible for a third...
Important Statement regarding the Ether pre-sale
The Ethereum Project has had the incredible privilege to launch its PoC testnet and engage the crypto-currency community over the past two months....
Ethereum Scalability and Decentralization Updates
Scalability is now at the forefront of the technical discussion in the cryptocurrency scene. The Bitcoin blockchain is currently over 12 GB in...
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...
