Update: We’ve released version 1.3.5<\/a> including networking hotfix for homestead 1.3.4.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Development of Ethereum started in December 2013 when two developers and a college dropout researcher decided to put their\u00a0heads together and develop this amazing piece of technology. We were later<\/span> joined<\/span><\/a> by many like-minded individuals. Our first Proof of Concept (PoC) came on February 1, 2014. By the time we started our crowdsale on July 23, we were up to PoC 5 with a protocol that was almost finished, and had achieved compatibility between multiple clients. The team was psyched when we got our first million and our second and our third and so on. It was crazy! Believing that we could deliver the Ethereum platform was one thing, but seeing others believe and want to participate it was incredibly inspiring.<\/span><\/p>\n Somewhat later in October of 2014, Gav and I were sitting on the train to the Zurich airport when we figured that an Ethereum conference would be absolutely awesome, and settled on doing it in November that same year. It was a bit hectic for those who organised it (thanks Aeron, Christian & Jason!), but we managed to pull it off as we were determined to host our first internal developers conference, <\/span>DEV<\/b>con0<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n When January 2015 came around, we all knew this would be the year we’d have to launch our beta version of Ethereum. Our PoC series was closed off with the PoC 9 hackathon on March 5th and on July 30, 2015 we successfully launched Frontier. Miners from all over the globe booted up their mining rigs, users fired up their nodes and the network came to life. It worked; no hiccups, no issues and from a developer’s perspective the release couldn’t have gone smoother. In the following months, our team and community demonstrated its potential and true awesomeness in dealing with issues on the network and together solving two consensus bugs.<\/span><\/p>\n We felt it was extremely important to clearly communicate to our users how we felt about the security of the network. Today, we\u2019re incredibly proud to announce that\u00a0we are finally ready to remove the scratched out word \u201csafe\u201d from our website as move into a new phase: Homestead. The Homestead block will be 1.150.000<\/strong> for the main network\u00a0which means the Homestead transition will be roughly around midday on Pi day and the Homestead block for the Morden network will be 494.000<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"CRUGRsgWoAAAgSQ\"](\"https:\/\/blog.ethereum.org\/images\/posts\/2016\/02\/CRUGRsgWoAAAgSQ.jpg\")
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