News and Links
Top
- Status.im alpha is out and getting rave reviews
- It’s still buggy: blog post on known bugs (also: they’re hiring!)
- To understand how huge this could be, I recommend this FastCo article on WeChat in China
- RELATED: Introduction of the Light Client for Dapp developers
- It’s still buggy: blog post on known bugs (also: they’re hiring!)
- Etherplay also went live on the mainchain, and people are talking about how they can’t stop playing.
Stuff for Dapp developers
- EVM formalization for interactive theorem provers, v 0.0.1
- More Yoichi Hirai: Measuring the VM Test’s Coverage with the Lem Model
- More Yoichi Hirai: Measuring the VM Test’s Coverage with the Lem Model
- Developers guide: Mobile account management by Péter Szilágyi
- EthOn – organized Ethereum knowledge. Very cool visual aids.
- Hosting a DNS domain on Ethereum – also worth reading the comment thread
- Fully decentralized ENS tracking Dapp from the RexMLS team
- Fully decentralized ENS tracking Dapp from the RexMLS team
- Open Zeppelin v1.0.1 secure Solidity framework released
Ecosystem
- Announcing MyEtherWallet v3.4: The Node Switcher
- uPort is hiring 9 people – looks like they closed a fundraising round?
- Taylor Gerring’s Windows Installer for Mist: test release 1
- Shopping carts without servers on Ethereum
- Ethereum is “the most likely candidate” to become the global payment network – Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong
- Coindesk published an article about ‘Enterprise Ethereum’
- Joe Lubin: Meeting was of a “bunch of companies, large and small … [who want to] ensur[e] that core public Ethereum is strong and well resourced and that the roadmap towards 2.0 and beyond has the best talent available to execute it.”
- I feel like if you read this newsletter, you probably had a decent idea already that this was true.
- Go read the whole comment thread – at least a couple of folks working on private chain corporate projects attesting to the fact that the long-term future will be public chains
Project Updates
- “We put a Tesla on the Ethereum Block chain” – Project Oaken put one of their ACORNs in a Tesla for a prototype of a toll road system that runs on Ethereum. As they say, the use cases go far beyond tolls
- If I were a VC, I’d be pretty much begging them to take my money (and let me lead the round too?)
- If I were a VC, I’d be pretty much begging them to take my money (and let me lead the round too?)
- uPort has sent out the first invites to its alpha
- Tendermint: why we’re building Cosmos, the Internet of Blockchains
- Arthur Falls talks to post-Christopher David Arcade City
- FundRequest: The road to a self-sustaining platform
- HackerGold’s HKG token has a bug. It will need a reissue
- OpenZeppelin’s security review recommended changes that would’ve prevented the bug
Stuff for Beginners and Non-experts
- How to explain Ethereum to web developers
- Here’s the video of the talk at TicketLeap I gave on Ethereum. Slides are in the video description.
- If you’ve wondered how Ethereum’s block time is so low, /u/doloto gave a fantastic explanation of GHOST and uncles
- Jez San had some interesting comments about PoW in this thread.
- Nate Rush on gas accounting.
General
- Building payroll system in Ethereum blockchain, what did we learn?
- Pretty good overview of how to think about blockchains
- Pretty good overview of how to think about blockchains
- VentureBeat: Blockchain could completely transform the music industry
- Podcast interview of Cornell’s Ari Juels: Using Hardware Enclaves to Provide Trusted Data to Smart Contracts
- Jeffrey Berns files his response to legal chicanery by the IRS in the Coinbase case
- Someone screwed up and paid nearly $8k to make a transfer in early December. Dwarfpool did the charitable thing and refunded.
Dates of note
- Jan 17 – iEx.ec token sale begins
- Jan 23 – Intellisys private equity “Mainstreet fund” sale begins
- Jan 27-29 – Thomson Reuters “Hack the Valley” hackathon
- Feb 6 – FundRequest sale begins
- Feb 15 – 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
[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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