Summary: Erroneous implementation of BLOCKHASH can trigger a chain reorganisation leading to consensus problems Affected configurations: All geth versions up to 1.1.3 and 1.2.2. All eth versions prior to 1.0.0. …
London, United Kingdom, October 22nd – The Ethereum Foundation is pleased to announce the Keynote Speaker of Ethereum’s annual conference DΞVCON1, Nick Szabo. Nick’s keynote will focus on the history …
London, United Kingdom, October 28th – Ethereum is happy to announce that Microsoft will sponsor and attend DΞVCON1, the premier Ethereum developer conference. Marley Gray, Director of Technology Strategy US …
With DEVCON1 a mere week away, the teams are excited and preparing to share all the great tools and technology the ecosystem has to offer. There will be hundreds of …
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 now, users have accounts …
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 creating giant block headers …
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 have been searching to …
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Ethereum in practice part 1: how to build your own cryptocurrency without touching a line of code
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 to understand where we …
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 latest version of 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 post we detailed how …