Web 3.0 - A Chat With Ethereum's Gavin Wood
Six months ago Ethereum was an ambitious white paper committed to a thorough re-imagining of the 'Bitcoin 2.0' space. With a sincere desire to mould the blockchain in his own image Vitalik Buterin, our resident tech. wizz, penned the concept. Since inception the project has benefited from some key strategic partnerships and an unparalleled press....
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In a recent Realvision interview, the developer Gavin Wood explains how Polkadot reimagines the innovation ecosystem from the ground up. Wood also discusses how the Polkadot protocol is both similar but also different than Ethereum, the second-largest crypto asset by market valuation. Polkadot: A Bet Against Maximalism Innovation involves the pioneering and actualization of a creative new way of doing something. For famed blockchain programmer Gavin Wood, Polkadot is the platform that unlocks the potential of swifter blockchain innovation. By building a platform of platforms, or 0-layer....
CoinTelegraph got a chance to catch up with Vitalik Buterin at CEBE 2014 in Vienna and Dr. Gavin Wood at Bitcoin2014 in Amsterdam. Buterin and Wood are both from Ethereum, which recently raised over 3,700 BTC in the first 12 hours of its Ether crowdsale. Ethereum is certainly one of the most exciting and highly-anticipated Crypto 2.0 projects right now, so we had to get the latest news and developments on the Ethereum platform, crypto 2.0, and their thoughts in general on everything from Bitcoin to Web 3.0. For the creators and leading lights of such an influential part of cryptocurrency....
The latest episode of Cointelegraph's YouTube series tells the story of Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Polkadot and Kusama networks. Among the original founding fathers of Ethereum (ETH) is Gavin Wood, who joined a group led by Vitalik Buterin that set out to build Bitcoin's competition. Wood is the computer scientist who wrote the first smart contracts for the Ethereum blockchain back in 2014. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Wood admitted that at the time, he just needed a job. A self-described "technologist at heart," he knew coding was his calling and....
Gavin Wood, founder of Ethcore, maintainers of Parity, Ethereum’s second most used client, has called for a hardfork stating that it would instantly fix “the underlying flaws that the attacker is exploiting.” For more than two weeks Ethereum has been undergoing a number of Dos attacks which exploit an underlying flaw: “EVM operations are grossly underpriced compared to the rest” – says Wood. The attacker has exploited this “with an inventive array of DoS contracts, all revolving around making clients do more work or consume more memory than the gas the transactions spent pays for,”....
Wood will remain the company’s majority shareholder and take on the title of chief architect, where his focus will shift to developing and promoting the mass adoption of Web3 technology. Gavin Wood, the co-founder of Polkadot, is stepping down as the CEO of blockchain infrastructure company Parity Technologies. Parity is the development company behind the Polkadot ecosystem. In a statement released on Oct 21, Wood shared that he never desired the CEO role. Although he could act as one for an interim period, it was not a position where he saw himself finding “eternal happiness.” Wood....