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Ethereum
On Inflation, Transaction Fees and Cryptocurrency Monetary Policy
The primary expense that must be paid by a blockchain is that of security. The blockchain must pay miners or…
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Dev Update: Formal Methods | Ethereum Foundation Blog
I’m joining Ethereum as a formal verification engineer. My reasoning: formal verification makes sense as a profession only in a…
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Security alert – All geth nodes crash due to an out of memory bug
Security Alert Affected configurations: Geth Likelihood: High Severity: High Summary: geth nodes running out of memory and crashing on block…
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The Ethereum network is currently undergoing a DoS attack
URGENT ALL MINERS: The network is under attack. The attack is a computational DDoS, ie. miners and nodes need to…
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Transaction spam attack: Next Steps
Today the network was attacked by a transaction spam attack that repeatedly called the EXTCODESIZE opcode (see trace sample here),…
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Announcement of imminent hard fork for EIP150 gas cost changes
During the last couple of weeks, the Ethereum network has been the target of a sustained attack. The attacker(s) have…
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FAQ: Upcoming Ethereum Hard Fork
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 2463000, which will likely occur between 12:00 and…
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Security Alert – Mist can be vulnerable when navigating to malicious DApps
Mist leaks some low level APIs, which Dapps could use to gain access to the computer’s file system and read/delete…
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Uncle Rate and Transaction Fee Analysis
One of the important indicators of how much load the Ethereum blockchain can safely handle is how the uncle rate…
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Security Alert – Solidity – Variables can be overwritten in storage
Summary: In some situations, variables can overwrite other variables in storage. Affected Solidity compiler versions: 0.1.6 to 0.4.3 (including 0.4.4…
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