Ethereum Enthusiasm at DevCon: An Interview with Hudson Jameson
Smart contracts represent all the buzz for cryptography and Blockchain protocols. Ethereum has been chugging along since its release last July. Developers have been working around the clock to make the Turing-complete Ethereum system as innovative and functional as possible. The end-goal of the project has been, in part, to anonymize the web, and create....
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The Ethereum platform came under DOS attack yesterday, hours before the launch of Ethereum DevCon 2 conference in Shanghai. The Ethereum community had a small scare yesterday after a bug was discovered on the platform. The bug affecting geth nodes built on Go Programming Language was reported as a security alert of high severity on Ethereum blog earlier yesterday. The bug in Ethereum protocol resulted in the crash of geth nodes following memory issues. The issue surfaced hours before the launch of Ethereum DevCon 2 in Shanghai. The issue was determined to be a DOS attack on the platform,....
At around 2 PM London time, ethereum underwent a network upgrade with no apparent technical problems whatsoever following a number of dos attacks that have had some effect on eth transactions. The successful fork occurred at block 2,463,000 with the entire network seemingly upgrading in the past few days without any controversy on a social level as the entire ecosystem seems to be in agreement that the network upgrade is desirable. This is to be followed by another hardfork of less urgency at an undetermined time. According to Hudson Jameson, Ethereum Developer, the second hardfork, [I]s....
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Ethereum’s annual developer conference, ETHOnline, kicks off Friday afternoon, standing in for the regular Devcon in-person event.