Who Pays For Ethereum’s Complexity? A Lead Developer Speaks Up

The past year has brought many innovations to the altcoin market. As Bitcoin has encountered potential future roadblocks-such as regulation and government opposition-altcoin developers have sought to provide alternatives to the privacy-conscious. One recent altcoin to attempt to provide user anonymity is ShadowCoin. ShadowCoin uses stealth addresses to provide anonymous transactions, but they also offer a secure messaging system accessible from within the desktop wallet. ShadowCoin also recently debuted a mobile wallet that allows user staking. CCN recently spoke with ShadowCoin's lead....

SyncCoin has definitely become an altcoin to watch in the past months due to the many things being done to bring real world use to the coin. Now, a problem has risen towards the lead developer of sync. Most people should be aware of the conflict in Gaza, and unfortunately, the lead developer, Iyad Elkfarna happens to be living there. Iyad has worked in other coin project, but as of right now, he is the lead developer for Sync. Not to mention, he is highly regarded in freelancer through which his identity is verified. It should also be mentioned that other websites have verified the....

Former Monero lead maintainer, Riccardo Spagni, faces over 370 counts of fraud, forgery, and uttering. The charges against the developer stem from fraudulent activities he allegedly committed when he was still employed by Cape Cookies. Fluffypony Pleads Not Guilty The so-called crypto mogul and former Monero lead developer, Riccardo Spagni, has been charged with 378 counts of fraud by the South African government, a report has said. The charges follow allegations that Spagni defrauded his former employer of more than $93,500 (R1,453,561). The crimes are alleged to have taken....

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,”....

Bitcoin's new lead developer Wladimir van der Laan tells CoinDesk via email he was "surprised" to be offered the role and hadn't expected Gavin Andresen to step down: "I had noticed that Gavin had been much less active in the Github project lately, but I did not expect him to step down as lead developer. But it makes sense, there is a lot more theoretical work with regard to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general making it a full-time job just to keep up with that (and giving talks, travelling, and such). On the other hand, I have been effectively the maintainer of the code for quite a....