The Thawing Frontier
After a smooth launch, please find a few updates of note below. These probably will be of interest only to the more advanced users amongst you – if you’re not…
Read More »On Public and Private Blockchains
Over the last year the concept of “private blockchains” has become very popular in the broader blockchain technology discussion. Essentially, instead of having a fully public and uncontrolled network and…
Read More »Security Alert 1 [windows+alethzero]
This affects users of Alethzero GUI client on Windows. Users of eth CLI client or not on the Windows platform are unlikely to be affected but should take action detailed…
Read More »KZG Ceremony Grant Round
The Protocol Support team is organizing a grant round to support the upcoming Ethereum KZG Ceremony. The KZG Ceremony is a coordinated public ritual that will provide a cryptographic foundation…
Read More »Chain Reorganisation Depth Expectations
This following shows our current and planned expectations concerning maximum likely chain-reorganisation depth. We would not consider transactions within this depth to have an exceptionally high chance of being permanent….
Read More »An Analysis of the First 100000 Blocks
After a successful launch, Frontier passed it’s 100000th block earlier this week. Here are some interesting stats from these first blocks. The first 50 block times (in seconds): Right after…
Read More »Security alert [consensus issue]
This alert is related to a consensus issue that occurred on the Frontier network at block 116,522, mined on 2015-08-20 at 14:59:16+02:00 – Issue has been fixed, see “Fix” below….
Read More »Olympic Rewards Announced
ETH DEV would like to thank everyone for their participation in the Olympic test network, which helped us greatly in stress testing, optimization, and finding bugs in the Ethereum clients,…
Read More »On Anti-Pre-Revelation Games
An increasing number of proposed applications on top of Ethereum rely on some kind of incentivized, multi-party data provision – whether voting, random number collection, or other use cases where…
Read More »Security Advisory [Insecurely configured geth can make funds remotely accessible]
Insecurely configured Ethereum clients with no firewall and unlocked accounts can lead to funds being accessed remotely by attackers. Affected configurations: Issue reported for Geth, though all implementations incl. C++…
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