Frontier and the Evolution of Ethereum
Ethereum Logo. Readers of CCN may be wondering what's been going on with Ethereum, the much-hyped project of Vitalik Buterin which aims to take smart contracts, block chains, and cryptocurrency to the next level. The project has recently received multiple endorsements by Nick Szabo, a long-time cipherpunk who many consider to be the most likely candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto. Szabo spoke highly of Ethereum on Let's Talk Bitcoin and then again in an interview with the International Business Times. Szabo told the publication that he believed Ethereum could post more of a challenge to....
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Homestead, Ethereum’s second release, has moved the cryptocurrency beyond Beta. Experts told Cointelegraph that as a result it has improved its overall performance and encouraged more adoption by exchanges and developers. A step further from the Frontier. Ethereum has shown a pronounced growth within the world of Crypto. The first release of Ethereum named Frontier proved to become a formidable player within the industry, “Probably they will announce lower recommended confirmations for transactions. This is huge!" The release of Homestead has resulted in some significant shake-up. As we....
The first live release of the Ethereum project has been finally released. Last Thursday, August 30, users have generated and loaded the Ethereum Genesis block, marking the launch of Frontier the newest Ethereum application. Since the first commit on Christmas Eve 2013, the Development team has been working hard and is now very pleased to announce their newest release, Ethereum Frontier. The vision of a decentralized censorship-proof World Wide Web application that anyone could program, and use by paying exclusively for what they use and nothing more, is now a reality. Ethereum takes....
Counterparty, the technology for decentralized financial tools on the Bitcoin blockchain, has started running Ethereum smart contracts by porting the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to its codebase. In late 2014, Counterparty added their support to execute the Ethereum smart contracts platform on Bitcoin; however, at that time, Ethereum was in its pre-alpha stage of development, with its first major release, Frontier, not yet being announced. Of course, with both Frontier, and later, the release of Homestead in late February, the developers at Counterparty have witnessed the EVM growing....
You could hear a pin drop at the recent Toronto DEC_TECH conference as Vitalik Buterin told a standing-room-only crowd about his remarkable journey to build Ethereum - a decentralized open source peer-to-peer web-based platform - that he calls "the foundational platform for everything." Buterin has been called a "crypto-anarchist visionary," and at the age of 21 he has already beat out Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to win the World Technology Prize for software development and invented the Ethereum blockchain. At the DEC_TECH event, Buterin shared his "Launch Roadmap" for the release of....
Ethereum, which is a blockchain virtual machine project, is gearing up to launch Frontier. This will be considered the first milestone for the project, which is intended for use for developers, and will be followed by other releases namely Homestead, Metropolis, and Serenity. Although Ethereum is also based on blockchain, it is different from bitcoin or any other kind of cryptocurrency. Instead of providing monetary value for transactions, it consists of a censorship-proof network which can provide user-defined services. Ethereum Blockchain Approach. Ethereum makes use of the underlying....