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 responds to the gas usage of a transaction. In all…
Read More »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 pre-release versions) Detailed description: Storage variables that are smaller than…
Read More »The Great Awakening: Ancient Ethereum Wallets Get Activated After Staying Dormant for more than 7 Years
Three Ethereum crypto wallets have been activated after being inactive for over 7 years. According to the Whale Alert blockchain tracker, all three wallets were created during the period of…
Read More »Swarm alpha public pilot and the basics of Swarm
With the long awaited geth 1.5 (“let there bee light”) release, Swarm made it into the official go-ethereum release as an experimental feature. The current version of the code is…
Read More »Ethereum JS Ecosystem Updates
It’s been a fairly busy for the last couple of months for the Ethereum javascripters. To start with, there was a really great hackathon with IPFS. You can read Dan Finlay’s excellent…
Read More »Ethereum Dev Roundup: Q1
The last one and a half months have seen great progress for Ethereum research, and we are excited that the protocol is moving closer and closer to the point where…
Read More »Solidity optimizer bug
A bug in the Solidity optimizer was reported through the Ethereum Foundation Bounty program, by Christoph Jentzsch. This bug is patched as of 2017-05-03, with the release of Solidity 0.4.11….
Read More »Statement Objecting To EME as a W3C Recommendation
The Foundation believes Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) should not be published as a W3C Recommendation, and we are now making public the formal objection the Ethereum Foundation submitted to the W3C opposing…
Read More »Ethereum scalability research and development subsidy programs
The Ethereum community, key developers and researchers and others have always recognized scalability as perhaps the single most important key technical challenge that needs to be solved in order for…
Read More »Q4 Roundup
Ethereum has grown very rapidly in the last few months. Transaction volume on the blockchain has more than doubled, surpassing 10 transactions per second for days at a time. The…
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