Ethereum News and Links
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- Ethereum Name Service auctions are live. Here’s Nick Johnson’s collection of explanatory links.
- ENSbot announces the start of auctions on Twitter. It’s surprisingly hilarious; half of them make me laugh out loud.
- Codetract’s ENS Dashboard
- If you used MyEtherWallet to bid, make sure to check this out just in case. Also say thank you to MEW.
- EthTools releases end to end ENS integration
- ETH Gas Station published Safe Low Gas Price to encourage a functioning gas market. To help do that, ETH GasStation has a great tool to see how much hashpower is at each gas price. At the moment ~12% of mining hash power supports a 2 gwei gas price, so if you’re willing to wait about 13 blocks at the moment, you can lower your gas fees by ~10x. Etherchain’s gas price tool says optimal gas price is about 16 gwei, but that current price is about 23 gwei.
- MetaMask will enforce the Safe Low gas price
Protocol and releases
- Ethereum Wallet / Mist 0.8.10
- Geth v 1.6.1
- Solidity, v 0.4.11, including a fix of an optimizer bug that Christoph Jentzsch reported
- There’s accidentally no recording of last Friday’s dev call
- Yoichi: What I do for Ethereum when I’m not writing blog posts
Stuff for developers
- Coding dividend-bearing tokens by Nick Johnson
- Random Number Generation on Rouleth and Blockjack (and Reddit debate thread)
- Slock.it’s code running Share&Charge
- Interesting discussion on how to save on gas storage fees
- Getting data on and then off the blockchain with Truebit
- EthSlurp re-released as part of QuickBlocks – fast and decentralized EVM data
Ecosystem
- ZCoin (using Zerocoin, not Zerocash) to implement an Ether coinmixer, possibly with Metropolis
- ConsenSys is building a Bay Area team
- WALLΞTH, an alpha release of an Android Ethereum light client wallet
- 0x announces investors and its first token integrations
- Slock.it shares more details on Share&Charge
- Register.eth connects Ethereum addresses to Reddit, Twitter, etc
- Some great data viz on the Gnosis sale
- FT blogger sensationalizes TokenCard mildly overstating their network. #journalism
- How Userfeeds aims to bring “skin in the game” to discovery algorithms (and got funded)
Interviews and Talks
- Jarrad and Carl from Status on Epicenter
- Tayvano from Myetherwallet on GetCryp.to’s debut episode
- Event Horizon talks: Gavin Wood and Vitalik Buterin
- Maciej Ołpiński from Userfeeds talk on Reputation and trust in token based economies
Project Updates
- Latest issue of The Etherian
- What they want to grow into.
- What they want to grow into.
- Swarm City to release Boardwalk on June 15th
- Melonport: Hedge Fund Scandals & How Smart Contracts Could Help Prevent Them
- SingularDTV teases an announcement at Ethereal.
- Mihai Alisie: An AKASHA retrospective after a year
Token Sales
- The Cofound.it token model and sale details
- Driving User Adoption and Extending the BAT Platform
- Storj token sale details
- Nice tutorial videos from Aragon on participating in their token sale
- I doubt simple capped token sales will be the long-term norm, because of stuff like this
General
- Andrew Keys with a travelogue of his China trip: Ethereum is Growing Exponentially in China
- Michael Wuehler’s slide on transaction growth
- Interesting discussion of how to pass on Ether when you die
- Vinay Gupta got lots of attention for “What does $100 Ether mean?”
- Korea is the only place where Ether hit $100
- Korea is the only place where Ether hit $100
- Wipro joins the EEA
- 49ers QB Matt Barkley hodls Ether.
- Vitalik sold another 1/12 of his pre-sale allocation
- Fortune’s Term Sheet daily newsletter talks Ethereum token sales.
- This newsletter gets translated into Chinese. And Jeremiah Nichol is producing an audio version. Both of those make my day.
Dates of note
[For ongoing sales, check previous week]
- May 17 – Aragon sale begins
- May 19 – Storj sale begins
- May 19 – ConsenSys Ethereal Summit in Brooklyn
- May 24 – Cofound.it sale begins
- May 25 – William Mougayar’s Token Summit at NYU
- May 30 – Bancor Network sale begins
- June 1 – Mysterium sale begins
Bias transparency: if you host a blockchain conference and don’t use Ticketleap, I’m much less likely to include your conference, unless you have a good reason as to why we’re not a good fit. But I doubt there is one, because we’re likely a great fit. /shamelessplug
[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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