Bootstrapping a Decentralized Autonomous Corporation, Part 3: Identity Corp
In the first two parts of this series, we talked about what the basic workings of a decentralized autonomous corporation might look like, and what kinds of challenges it might…
Read More »Bootstrapping A Decentralized Autonomous Corporation: Part I
Corporations, US presidential candidate Mitt Romney reminds us, are people. Whether or not you agree with the conclusions that his partisans draw from that claim, the statement certainly carries a…
Read More »Bootstrapping An Autonomous Decentralized Corporation, Part 2: Interacting With the World
In the first part of this series, we talked about how the internet allows us to create decentralized corporations, automatons that exist entirely as decentralized networks over the internet, carrying…
Read More »Slasher: A Punitive Proof-of-Stake Algorithm
The purpose of this post is not to say that Ethereum will be using Slasher in place of Dagger as its main mining function. Rather, Slasher is a useful construct…
Read More »Ethereum: Now Going Public
I first wrote the initial draft of the Ethereum whitepaper on a cold day in San Francisco in November, as a culmination of months of thought and often frustrating work…
Read More »Conference, Alpha Testnet and Ether Pre-sale Updates
Important notice: any information from this post regarding the ether sale is highly outdated and probably inaccurate. Please only consult the latest blog posts and official materials at ethereum.org for…
Read More »On Transaction Fees, And The Fallacy of Market-Based Solutions
Of all the parts of the Ethereum protocol, aside from the mining function the fee structure is perhaps the least set in stone. The current values, with one crypto operation…
Read More »Introducing Ethereum Script 2.0
This post will provide the groundwork for a major rework of the Ethereum scripting language, which will substantially modify the way ES works although still keeping many of the core…
Read More »More Thoughts on Scripting and Future-Compatibility
My previous post introducing Ethereum Script 2.0 was met with a number of responses, some highly supportive, others suggesting that we switch to their own preferred stack-based / assembly-based /…
Read More »Cryptographic Code Obfuscation: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Are About to Take a Huge Leap Forward
There have been a number of very interesting developments in cryptography in the past few years. Satoshi’s blockchain notwithstanding, perhaps the first major breakthrough after blinding and zero-knowledge proofs is…
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