Ethereum Enters Last Phase of Development Process
Ethereum has released the ninth and final phase in the Ethereum Proof-of-Concept series, and the project has asked the Bitcoin community to take part in the "ongoing" Proof-of-Concept IX testnet in their most recent release, Olympic, which is now available here. As Vitalik Buterin details on the Ethereum blog: The purpose of Olympic is to reward people who try to test the limits of the Ethereum blockchain during the pre-release period, spamming the network with transactions and doing crazy things with the state, so that we can see how the network holds up under high levels of load. At the....
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