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- Drama: An open letter to Gavin and EthCore by Piper Merriam
- tl;dr – There’s been long simmering tension between many non-Parity core devs and Gavin. Much of the community doesn’t know; Piper decided to inform us.
- Play by play: Digix announced the Kovan testnet using Parity, a couple days after the dev call where they had discussed testnet solutions. Parity was already working on a solution, but did not inform the others during the call. Gavin says Digix, et al, wanted to keep it quiet.
- Digix says Parity was only tangentially involved.
- Digix says Parity was only tangentially involved.
- Péter Szilágyi’s EIP: Rinkeby – Cross client PoA testnet
- This was the first time I could foresee even the remotest possibility of Ethereum politics breaking down into the irreparable dysfunction of Bitcoin politics. Let’s cross our fingers and swallow our egos to avoid that.
- Joe Lubin thinks Parity will join the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. and Gavin will have “a significant role on the technical side.”
- Joe Lubin thinks Parity will join the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. and Gavin will have “a significant role on the technical side.”
- EntEthAlliance Technical Vision
- Worth reading: Joe Lubin echoes Tyler Smith on how the EEA benefits Ethereum at large.
Protocol
- Formal methods on Vlad’s Casper
- Yoichi: “Vitalik’s Casper looks implementable. It is a direct construction that solves a simple problem first and puts on more and more sophistication to match the real requirements. Vlad’s Casper is more like an effort to find fundamental difficulties. It leaves not-so-fundamental problems open and focuses on the essence.”In other words: Vitalik’s Casper is short-term and Vlad’s is long-term
- Yoichi: “Vitalik’s Casper looks implementable. It is a direct construction that solves a simple problem first and puts on more and more sophistication to match the real requirements. Vlad’s Casper is more like an effort to find fundamental difficulties. It leaves not-so-fundamental problems open and focuses on the essence.”In other words: Vitalik’s Casper is short-term and Vlad’s is long-term
- Metropolis timeline: ”couple of months from now.“ Probably end of June, per dev call.
- The tentative current plan for the transition from PoW to PoS
- How Vitalik views Ethereum governance.
Stuff for Dapp developers
- Proxy Libraries in Solidity by Zeppelin and Aragon
- The state of the Python ethereum client
- Embark, v 2.4.0
- Solidity for eclipse
- The bounty for a Doge <–> Ether relay got reduced, but it still about $35k USD at the moment
- Bug bounty for Cosmos
- Simple Storage Patterns in Solidity for newcomers
- Tim Coulter: Why Ethereum Needs Package Management
- Jeff Wilcke: “After geth 1.6 has been released I’d really like to look in to dual licensing geth so people can get their apps on the AppStore”
- Some joker sent in a fake comment from Jeff to the SEC.
- Some joker sent in a fake comment from Jeff to the SEC.
- Etherchain Light – An open source explorer for private chains and testnets
Ecosystem
- Etherplay has a new game.
- Mediachain unveils CCcoin, their content creation token
- Open University building a badges system on Ethereum
- Vitalik proposes a sticker standard as a way of encouraging charity through price discrimination
- Status interviews Melonport’s Mona El Isa and Nick from etherRe.al
- Two fantastic podcast interviews from Polychain’s Olaf Carlson-Wee: Epicenter and Laura Shin’s Unchained
- 500MHz MIPS router running on the public chain
- Etherian covers an increasing number of Eth projects
- Commiteth: a code bounty platform
- Quickblocks: gas price in USD has tripled in the last 75 days.
Project Updates
- New Status UI
- The Mysterium VPN roadmap
- Codetractio: What goes on in our token auction
- AKASHA, v 0.5.2 release
- REX talks roadmap
- Livepeer – live video hosting platform using Ethereum/Swarm
Token Sales
- Lunyr – Wikpedia on Ethereum
- Joberr – decentralized marketplace for tasks
General
- Google’s DeepMind is working on healthcare records on a blockchain. This is probably the first non-Microsoft BigTech project in the news
- Circle is building a new platform on Ethereum.
- Mougayar: The Ethereum Ecosystem is Strong and Getting Stronger
- Steven McKie’s beginner’s guide to Ethereum
- Take a look at Slock.it’s car charging stations
- The SEC rejection of the Bitcoin ETF was pretty definitive.
- Fred Ehrsam: Blockchains are a data buffet for AIs
- My view is the opposite, and I was already drafting a post on why blockchains are a Big Data hedge when I saw Fred’s post. Look for that this week.
- My view is the opposite, and I was already drafting a post on why blockchains are a Big Data hedge when I saw Fred’s post. Look for that this week.
- Why Ethereum is great for payments
- Vitalik on what we should build to make privacy better.
Dates of note
- Mar 12 – Joberr sale begins
- Mar 14 – Ethereum Name Service (ENS) released on public chain
- Mar 16 – Qtum sale begins
- Mar 16 –WeTrust price change
- Mar 20 – Ethereum Movie Venture sale begins
- Mar 24 – Matchpool sale begins
- Mar 26 – SuperDAO sale begins
- Mar 29 – Lunyr sale begins
- April 6 – Humaniq sale begins
- April 17 – Boscoin sale begins
- April 24 – Rice Blockchain for Business conference
[I aim for a relatively comprehensive list of Ethereum sales, but make no warranty as to even whether they are legit; as such, I thus likewise warrant nothing about whether any will produce a satisfactory return. I have passed the CFA exams, but this is not investment advice. If you’re interested in what I do, you can find my investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous newsletters.]
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