Vitalik Buterin Wears Dinosaur Costume and Outlines His Visions for Ethereum After the Merge
De University of Ethereum (UETH), the co-host of “Ethereum a New Era,” is delighted to share that one of the last monumental Ethereum events prior to the Merge has been a roaring success. Over 1,400 attendees signed up to gather in San Francisco to gain insights from the all-star lineup at Chase Center. Vitalik Buterin, […]
ETH Calm A Day After Constantinople Delay
It is official, Constantinople is off. However, how the Ethereum Foundation and other developers failed to spot a weakness allowing Chain Security, to successfully split open the underlying code and expose potentially catastrophic errors begs more questions than answers. A level deeper and did it take Smart Security five hours to run analysis and publish […]
Hackers Ramp up Attacks on Mining Rigs Before Ethereum Price Crashes Into the Gutter
Hackers have set off in motion a massive campaign that scans for Internet-exposed Ethereum wallets and mining equipment, ZDNet has learned today. Attackers are scanning for devices with port 8545 exposed online. This is the standard port for the JSON-RPC interface of many Ethereum wallets and mining equipment. This interface is a programmatic API that […]
Vitalik Buterin Says IBM’s Corporate Blockchain is Missing the Point
Devcon, the annual Ethereum developers conference, was fairly subdued this year. Compared to its previous installment in the resort town of Cancún, the gathering—held in Prague from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, 2018—reflected tempered exuberance as cryptocurrency prices have returned to earth this year. Gone were the insufferable ICO promoters and hangers-on. Sadly, this year, […]
Vitalik Buterin Says Zk-Snarks Could Scale Ethereum
A form of cryptography pioneered by zcash might help scale ethereum, the founder of the platform Vitalik Buterin said on a research forum Saturday. Named zk-snarks, Buterin wrote that by using the tech, ethereum can potentially scale “by a huge amount,” up to 500 transactions per second, without relying on layer-two scaling solutions, such as […]
Ethereum’s Constantinople Hard Fork to Activate on Testnet in October
Ethereum’s upcoming hard fork, Constantinople, will activate in a testing environment next month, core developers agreed on Friday. Speaking in a bi-weekly video call, developers said the upgrade will activate around October 9 on a cross-client testnet, named Ropsten, which mimics the conditions of the ethereum network itself. However, due to the unpredictability of block confirmation times […]
Crypto Growth Nears `Ceiling,’ Ethereum Co-Founder Buterin Says
There is no chance that the cryptocurrency and blockchain space will see “1,000-times growth” again, Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated in an interview with Bloomberg September 8. At an Ethereum and blockchain conference in Hong Kong, Buterin told Bloomberg that the rapid growth of crypto and blockchain industry is now reaching a “ceiling,” and […]
Vitalik Buterin: Decentralized Exchanges Should Lead The Way
During an interview at Tech Crunch Sessions: Blockchain 2018, Ethereum Founder, Vitalik Buterin hoped “centralized exchanges burn in hell as much as possible” as he strongly advocated for the use of decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges. Vitalik’s fiery comments stemmed from his annoyance towards centralized exchanges wielding “stupid king-like power” as they have the power to dictate […]