Browsing: Ethereum

One of the major security challenges of the internet over the last twenty years has consistently been the rather simple problem of securing user accounts. Right…

Merkle trees are a fundamental part of what makes blockchains tick. Although it is definitely theoretically possible to make a blockchain without Merkle trees, simply by…

Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for his work in developing many of the ideas behind prediction markets for content curation. For the past six years, people…

A lot of things have happened in the past few weeks in the Ethereum ecosystem, so many that it might be hard for a casual observer…

This is a second post on a series on how to use the current Ethereum tools to build smart contracts without needing programming experience. Download the…

This is the third and final post on a series on how to use the Ethereum Wallet to create your own autonomous organisations. On the first…

Special thanks to Gavin Wood for prompting my interest into abstraction improvements, and Martin Becze, Vlad Zamfir and Dominic Williams for ongoing discussions. For a long…

Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for introducing the idea of by-block consensus and convincing me of its merits, alongside many of the other core ideas of…

Now that Ethereum has launched and is rapidly nearing its Homestead phase, over the last few months we at the Ethereum Foundation have finally had the…

If DEVCON1 proved anything in spades, it was certainly the enthusiasm, creativity, and momentum of the Ethereum developer community. Utilizing the never-before-seen potential unleashed by the…