Our current proof of work design, blockchain-based proof of work, is the second iteration of our attempt to create a mining algorithm that is guaranteed to…
Author: Olivia Martinez
One of the challenges when creating a new cryptocurrency is figuring out what the distribution model is going to be. Who is going to receive the…
Although truly solving blockchain scalability fundamentally, that is to say figuring out a solution to the problem that every node must process every transaction, is a…
Development of the Ethereum project has gone very well over the months since inception. The core activity — development of the software platform — is on…
Decentralization, n. The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK, and maybe not, have not yet…
Writing effective decentralized applications in Ethereum is at the same time easy and hard. The easy part we all know: rather than needing to create your…
The topic of mining centralization has been a very important one over the past few weeks. GHASH.io, the Bitcoin network’s largest mining pool, has for the…
During the run-up to the ether sale we will be releasing a series of blog posts regarding our development plans and intended organizational structure. Today we…
One of the annoyances of the blockchain as a decentralized platform is the sheer length of delay before a transaction gets finalized. One confirmation in the…
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” Friedrich Nietzsche Ethereum as a project is…