News and Links
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- Hard Fork 2 timing hasn’t been officially announced yet, but Gavin Wood says it is likely to be block 2,642,462. That is, in Two Weeks.
- HF2 may include EIP 170 for a code size limit.
- How developers reach protocol consensus in Ethereum.
- The Foundation won’t become the “formal governance body” for the protocol
- Another 15 or so Devcon2 videos have been released.
- Consensys releases BHP Billiton – Tyler Smith and a bunch of other International BlockChain Week videos. I’m particularly interested in Virtue Poker.
- Consensys releases BHP Billiton – Tyler Smith and a bunch of other International BlockChain Week videos. I’m particularly interested in Virtue Poker.
- Solidity Security Alert: variables can be overwritten in storage.
- Christian Reitwiessner: “this bug is so hard to exploit although it looks quite serious on the first glance.”
- Christian Reitwiessner: “this bug is so hard to exploit although it looks quite serious on the first glance.”
Tech
- Hardware Signing for Ethereum?
- VB: “One of the important indicators of how much load the Ethereum blockchain can safely handle is how the uncle rate responds to the gas usage of a transaction”
- Lefteris Karapetsas on Raiden and Yoichi Hirai on Smart Contract Formal Verification at Berlin Meetup.
- Smart Contracts in Java – video of David Roon talk.
- Browser-Solidity IDE
- “All accounts are contracts” proposal for Metropolis release.
- Avsa’s multi-sig variation: “any single account can schedule a delayed transaction, but more signatures make the delay smaller”
- Call for papers on trusted smart contracts.
- Video of Vitalik dev talk at Taipei Meetup. The audience got some high praise.
Ecosystem
- Alex Felix on Investment in Blockchain Cryptoassets. Unsubtle hint: it’s a profitable read.
- Fred Ehrsam developed his Meetup talk into a Coinbase blog post: How to Raise Money on a Blockchain with a Token
- Faster Event Resolution in Augur
- Augur wants to hire an amazing trading UI dev
- Augur wants to hire an amazing trading UI dev
- Ethereum USA conference tickets on sale. Refundable for any reason until Feb 2017.
- AuctionHouse: dapp for auctioning on-chain goods.
Token Sales
- Gnosis publishes its code. Bug bounty program starts. This means the ICO is less than 30 days away now – it will be a Dutch auction.
- Golem ICO begins 11/11
- Understanding the Technology Behind the iEx.ec Distributed Cloud
- Daniel Zakrisson doesn’t hold back in his Crowdsale Analyses, like this one on Inchain.
- The payday loan industry and how Branche plans to change it. It will be interesting to see how much Branche raises, given my estimation how few people in the ETH community understand payday loans.
- Beyond the Void hit their ICO cap in 12 mins.
General Blockchain / non-Ethereum
- Jutta Steiner doesn’t do many interviews, but she did a 20 min podcast on how Ethereum can remake society.
- SEC press release on Nov 14 Fintech/Blockchain forum.
- South African Reserve Bank sets up a test blockchain for its banks.
- Microsoft’s Project Bletchley, now called Ethereum Consortium Blockchain Network – start a private chain with one click.
Dates of note
- Nov 11 – Golem crowdsale begins [not yet officially announced]
- Nov 14 – SEC has a fintech/blockchain meeting
- Nov 15 – vDice crowdsale begins
- Dec 1 – approximate (not yet announced) beginning of Gnosis crowdsale
- Dec 7 – Inchain crowdsale ends
- Dec 15 – vDice crowdsale ends
[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; I charge heavily for that.]
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