News and Links
Top
- Vitalik: Parametrizing Casper: the decentralization/finality time/overhead tradeoff
- VB: “I am leaning toward a cap on the number of validators with a growing minimum deposit size as you go toward the cap, and regulating deposited ETH with an interest rate that decreases slowly as the total amount of deposited ETH increases (eg. decreasing with the square or cube root).”
- VB: “I am leaning toward a cap on the number of validators with a growing minimum deposit size as you go toward the cap, and regulating deposited ETH with an interest rate that decreases slowly as the total amount of deposited ETH increases (eg. decreasing with the square or cube root).”
- Consensys statement on Enterprise Ethereum
- AKASHA Alpha release getting solid reviews so far.
Stuff for Dapp developers
- EthARMbian full Ethereum node for 45 devices, plus EthRaspbian update.
- Truffle passed 30k downloads and is now available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace
- Ethereum smart-contract describer for Ruby
- Two way linking of Keybase and Ethereum addresses
- Embark v2.2 with IPFS and Swarm
Clients and releases
- Solidity v0.4.8 released
- compilation time reduced five fold.
- compilation time reduced five fold.
- Geth 1.5.6 – Peach (refactoring and API changes) and Geth 1.5.7 – Peacher (mostly bug fixes)
Protocol
- Reverse resolution now on (testnet) Ethereum Name Service
- EIP 190: Smart Contract Packaging Specification
- Vitalik: Explaining Elliptic Curve Pairings
- Hoare Logics for Ethereum Virtual Machine
Ecosystem
- Status.Im DevCon2 interviews with Han Verstraete from Otonomous, Aron Fischer, and Joe Lubin.
- Meet the top Status Contributors
- Meet the top Status Contributors
- New Etherplay game is running with a new enemy and weapon.
- Polychain Capital’s proposal to MakerDAO
- How to get started with Maker
- How to get started with Maker
- Using Secure Hardware to Harden Casper
- Roland Kofler talks to Christoph Jentzsch
- EthNews Interview With Project Oaken
- Imagine if local politicians had no excuse for not filling potholes because sensor data told them exactly where potholes are.
- Imagine if local politicians had no excuse for not filling potholes because sensor data told them exactly where potholes are.
Project Updates
- Colony Q1 Update
- Community (reddit-like site on Ethereum) launches alpha
- FirstBlood begins pre-alpha testing
- Blackjack on Ethereum – currently deployed on testnet
- Chronobank Development Status Update
- SingularDTV January video update
- SwarmCity’s product roadmap
- An online meme exchange on Ethereum
- Too meta for me
- Too meta for me
- Chronicled releases iOS app that “allows users to discover, purchase and insure, and verify the provenance and information of objects [using Ethereum]”
Token Sales
- The Rudimental white paper
- Contingency gambling network Q&A
- How can Melonport solve hedge fund problems?
- Melonport Jan update and explainer video
- Melonport Jan update and explainer video
General
- Polychain Capital’s Olaf Carlson-Wee: The future is a decentralized internet
- Coinfund’s Aleksandr Bulkin: Cryptoeconomics Is Hard
- If Code Should Be Law, Then We Need Better Development Standards
- One can imagine a future where Ethereum is PoS but the mining pools for PoW chains are run on Ethereum. Credit to /u/Savage_X
- Coinbase on why they are fighting the IRS fishing expedition
- An amusing timeline of the times Ethereum has been declared dead.
- Thomas Clowes’ EthTools – making Ethereum easier for non-geeks.
Dates of note
- Jan 23 – Intellisys private equity “Mainstreet fund” sale begins
- Jan 27-29 – Thomson Reuters “Hack the Valley” hackathon
- Feb 1 – Contingency sale begins
- Feb 6 – FundRequest sale begins
- Feb 14 – Chronobank sale ends
- Feb 15 – Melonport sale begins (must check a box that you aren’t US Citizen)
- Feb 17-18 – Ethereum Euro Dev Conference in Paris
- Feb – Cosmos token sale begins
- “Feb/Mar” – iEx.ec token sale begins
[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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