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- “If you understood how many companies, large and small, and developers are jumping into the Ethereum space, you would consider 2016 to be an enormous growth year. All of this will soon surface.” – Joe Lubin
- Brianne Rivlin’s 2016 Retrospective for EthNews
- Brianne Rivlin’s 2016 Retrospective for EthNews
- Christoph Jentzsch on public vs private chains for enterprise
- Get a RaspberryPi node running in 30 minutes … now with Swarm!
Protocol
- Vlad Zamfir has gone on a writing (and tweeting!) binge to end 2016:
- Against Economic Abstraction (& Reddit comment thread)
- Vitalik agrees for mandatory fees and deposits, but is ok with abstraction for voluntary fees.
- Plus: Against Economic Abstraction Round 2! (& very interesting cryptoeconomic Reddit thread)
- The History of Casper, Chapter 5
- Against Economic Abstraction (& Reddit comment thread)
- Vitalik’s Design Philosophy for Proof of Stake
- Part of the point of PoS is that “many orders of magnitude more economic value can be cleared by the consensus than is staked in the consensus.” – Vlad
- Interest rate likely to be variable
- Interest rate likely to be variable
- Explain Like I’m Five Years Old: Casper Proof of Stake.
- There’s a community proposal to significantly lower block rewards for mining.
- That would likely lead to Zcash having 3x the hashpower of Ethereum.
- That would likely lead to Zcash having 3x the hashpower of Ethereum.
- PoS will likely launch like Ethereum did with Olympic: an incentivized testnet first
- Vitalik believes the chances of Proof of Stake in 2017 are between 50 and 80%.
- Viktor Tron believes we’ll get Swarm’s incentive systems due in PoC 0.4 during 2017.
- Viktor Tron believes we’ll get Swarm’s incentive systems due in PoC 0.4 during 2017.
Swarm
- Demo video on how to use Swarm
- Will Swarm be used to store the blockchain?
- What’s the difference between IPFS and Swarm?
Stuff for Dapp developers
- Avsa’s Time Lock multisig tutorial
- Solidity 4.7 compiler may give different code for different spacing
- Consensys’ Igor Lilic: A round of Open Source Ethereum tools from banking.
- Raine Revere on the state of the Eth developer community
- Looking for Dapp ideas? /u/Dunning_Krugerrands has a list for you.
- Also worth reading: DK on Ethereum dapp low-hanging fruit.
- Also worth reading: DK on Ethereum dapp low-hanging fruit.
Ecosystem
- Confirmed beyond a Joe Lubin hint: Overstock’s TØ is using Ethereum
- Lots of controversy over Ether.Camp Hackathon results, much like in the first one.
- Final day voters: 80% for the winner, 20% everyone else.
- A few days of work a few months ago creating real-looking FB accounts could’ve won you $50,000.
- Project Oaken won the vote among the judges
- Final day voters: 80% for the winner, 20% everyone else.
- Stephan Tual published a blog post “What’s with the price of Ether?” … yet didn’t mention the DAO?
- Vitalik’s roundup of December publications on PoS, Casper, Swarm, privacy, monetary policy, and more
- Vitalik apparently wrote an unpublished report for R3 in September entitled “Chain Interoperability.”
- Vitalik apparently wrote an unpublished report for R3 in September entitled “Chain Interoperability.”
Project Updates
- Status.im on the long-term privacy vision of their Ethereum mobile interface
- Bernd Lapp: Arcade City changes name to Swarm City
- Rouleth reaches 10k bets and launches Rock-Paper Scissors alpha
- CypherPoker update
- Digix releases alpha demo of Spectrum – its “lightsuite”
- Testnet launch: Ethmail.tech client that stores email on the blockchain
- All about the Etherplay game platform
- Create invoice smart contract via Telegram bot
Selected podcast interviews
General
- Jeffrey Berns continues to fight the absurdly broad IRS subpoena of Coinbase customer info. The IRS is now cynically trying to remove his standing by excluding just him from the subpoena.
- Berns: “[IRS’s move] makes it clear that the IRS does not have a legitimate purpose in seeking substantial personal and financial information concerning approximately 3 million Americans.”
- America’s tax dollars at work!
- TechCrunch talks iEx.ec and Golem computing on the blockchain
- Harvard Business Review: The Truth About Blockchain
- FastCo: This Blockchain Thing Is Really Happening, Time To Learn What It Is
- Vitalik on Bitcoin scaling
Dates of note
- Jan 15 – Intellisys private equity “Mainstreet fund” sale begins
- Jan 17 – iEx.ec token sale begins
- Jan 27-29 – Thomson Reuters “Hack the Valley” hackathon
- Feb 6 – FundRequest sale begins
- Feb 15 – Chronobank sale ends
- Feb 17-18 – Ethereum Euro Dev Conference in Paris
[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. This is not investment advice.]
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