Ethereum
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The Xbox and Ethereum’s Dual Mandate
The Necessity to Build and Launch an Ecosystem on Genesis Day Imagine if Microsoft released the Xbox and there were…
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Long-Range Attacks: The Serious Problem With Adaptive Proof of Work
Our current proof of work design, blockchain-based proof of work, is the second iteration of our attempt to create a…
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On Long-Term Cryptocurrency Distribution Models
One of the challenges when creating a new cryptocurrency is figuring out what the distribution model is going to be.…
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What If Ethereum Lived on a Treap? Or, Blockchains Charging Rent
Although truly solving blockchain scalability fundamentally, that is to say figuring out a solution to the problem that every node…
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Ethereum Project Update | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Development of the Ethereum project has gone very well over the months since inception. The core activity — development of…
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On Mining | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Decentralization, n. The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK,…
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Advanced Contract Programming Example: SchellingCoin
Writing effective decentralized applications in Ethereum is at the same time easy and hard. The easy part we all know:…
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On Stake | Ethereum Foundation Blog
The topic of mining centralization has been a very important one over the past few weeks. GHASH.io, the Bitcoin network’s…
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Background on the mechanics of the ether pre-sale
During the run-up to the ether sale we will be releasing a series of blog posts regarding our development plans…
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Toward a 12-second Block Time
One of the annoyances of the blockchain as a decentralized platform is the sheer length of delay before a transaction…
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