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• Hard Fork 2 Spurious Dragon is near.  At block 2675000, EIP 155 (relay attack protect), 160 (EXP price increase), 161 (adios DoS spam), and 170 (contract code size limit) take effect, then coding begins for the Metropolis release.
• Latest HF2-ready clients:  Geth 1.5.2  (stable: Geth 1.4.19) and Parity 1.4.4 (stable: 1.3.12).  New Mist will be here on Monday, when the Mist devs decide on stable or beta.
  • Why might you want the latest beta instead of the stable?  
    
    • Geth:  Upgraded APIs. Light client. Swarm. RPC Subscriptions. “first experimental attempt at providing true Android and iOS library reusability of our codebase”
    • We discussed Parity’s new features last week, but click the link again for a reminder.
      
• Out: The DAO.  In: Charity DAO.  I don’t see the point of Charity DAO, just like I didn’t with The DAO.  Why would I want others to choose my profit and non-profit investments?  But hey, YMMV.

Tech

• Ruby-ethereum 0.11.0
• Christian Reitwiessner: the first self-referential smart contract
• The test network has been reset.  Adios Morden, hola Ropsten.
• David Burela: How to install Truffle & TestRPC on Windows and Configuring Visual Studio code for Ethereum
• Consensys published Ethereum Contract Security Techniques and Tips
• Video: Péter Szilágyi on Immutability in Go at the Go conference
• Ethereum on Raspberry Pi update

Ecosystem

• Explaining the Ethereum Namespace Auction
• Ujo: What Does Blockchain Mean for the Music Industry?
• Ether Cards holiday designs now available – somebody at Ticketleap’s holiday party is going to get some Ether Cards in our gift exchange.  
• 100 migrant workers in Thailand test remittance system.  Nice work by Everex, a better remittance system does wonders for both economic efficiency and equality.
• MillionDollarHomepage.com on Ethereum: Pixelmap.io
• EtherPlay second beta coming Nov 30th, with real prize money.  
• Part 3 of Colony’s Token-weighted voting implementation series
• A bit of a kerfuffle as Ether.Camp suspends one of its prize winners for….vote manipulation?
• Piper Merriam’s Devcon2 Token gets an upgrade with a view to using it as a social trust graph.

Token Sales

• Branche releases a white paper
• u/gorillalaa found Polkadot crowd sale details

General

• Vitalik’s Proof of Stake FAQ hit the rounds again, leading VC Fred Wilson to comment.
• VButerin: Prediction markets to vote on hard forks?  It could be done.
• Tendermint announced Ethermint to use Tendermint as the consensus method in consortium chains.
• The IRS wants transaction data on all of Coinbase’s users for the last 3 years.  Coinbase is fighting that in court.
• Full page Ether and Bitcoin Kraken ad in the Economist.
• Joe Lubin on Futurism.com: You Can Start Your Own Country

Dates of note

• Nov 22 – Price change for vDice crowdsale
  
• Nov 25 – 27 – Canadian regulator hackathon
• Nov 29 – Arcade.City crowdsale ends
• Dec 7 – Inchain crowdsale ends
• Dec 15 – vDice crowdsale ends
• Dec 15 – approximate (not yet announced) beginning of Gnosis crowdsale

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