Ethereum Co-Founder Taylor Gerring: Hard Fork Will Make Network More Resilient
On the eve of the hard fork scheduled for 20-21 July, we interviewed Taylor Gerring, one of co-founders of Ethereum Foundation. He has also served on the Board of Directors for Ethereum Foundation and is currently an International Speaker and Blockchain Consultant CT: Why Ethereum? Taylor Gerring: The name Ethereum comes from the game World of Warcraft. In that game, there is a zone called Netherstorm with several references to "Ethereum". You can see this reflected on Google Trends, where a search for Ethereum shows a bump around 2007. By comparison, today's search volume for....
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