The latest release of Geth, which is the main client in Ethereum, “optimizes the processing of “dirty” object during the processing of the blocks and this in turn has led to the fact that processing speed increased by 40%”. This is the normal update that is not accompanied by any fork. However, optimization of the… More
Ethereum has published specifications for the first phase of Friendly Finality Gadget Casper (Casper FFG), which is also known as the first version of the hybrid Protocol, which combines two algorithms: proof of work (Proof of Work PoW) and proof of rate (Proof of Stake PoS). In this specification finally, there is evidence that the… More
Just trolling – but perhaps it’s still worth doing. As stated acne Buterin about his proposal to limit emissions Ethereum, which was conceived as a “meta-joke”. He stated that he initially just wanted people discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the proposal but now believes that this idea is worth more serious consideration. Offer 960… More
The second largest capitalization of cryptocurrency in the world, which was trading at about $ 740 a week ago, fell to $ 460 on Sunday. This is the lowest level since December 11. Of 37.8 percent drop seems due to negative news on the Ether, and the overall situation on the market. The reasons for… More
The new York startup ConsenSys, today announced its partnership with TrueDigital, a subsidiary of TrueEx – marketplace operating on the market for interest rate swaps, in an attempt to formulate underlying (index), the price of Ethereum. According to the statement, the companies plan to develop a reference price index for Ethereum (ETH), the second largest… More
Representatives of the ethereum community began to actively speak out against the recent proposals for improvement, which describes a mechanism for the return of funds after the loss or theft. After leaving one of the developers, Yoichi Hirai, the community members literally stormed Github leaving negative comments under the proposal EIP 867. Over the last… More
Famous investors and community members ethereum announced the creation of a new Fund called Ethereum Community Fund (ECF). This initiative is a joint effort of the Cosmos, Golem, Global Blockchain Labs, Maker OmiseGo, Raiden and Tendermint. Participants believe that the time has come when you must associate Ethereum with real businesses that can benefit from… More
Ethereum developer Yoshie Hirai worked on Ethereum as one of the editors of the code. He was one of six developers of Ethereum, which had enough rights to make changes to the code of the project. According to GitHub, Hirai was very productive in this role for the last year he made a 5219 changes…. More
It seems we are at the beginning of this boom in card games on the blockchain. According to some estimates, the turnover of games on the basis of ethereum is $ 10 million a day. Although the vast majority of these games are similar to each other, this does not mean that they are uninteresting…. More
New technologies that will allow Ethereum to scale effectively becoming more real. Acne Buterin, at the next meeting of the developers, commented on it: It seems that the first part of the first phase is almost ready. The technology, known as Sharding (shards) – this is an attempt to divide the data of blockchain ethereum… More