Toward Metropolis: After Blockchain Repairs, Ethereum Looks Ahead
Ethereum's developers are shifting focus. Following efforts to make the blockchain-based distributed application network more resistant to attacks, two planned hard forks and one unintentional split, ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, at least, is turning his attention to a new milestone. In a blog post this week, Buterin revealed he's now focusing his efforts on Metropolis, the next "stage" of the project (loosely scheduled for release in Q1 or Q2 2017). The upcoming changes will clear the way for what Buterin calls "abstraction", or moving most of ethereum’s complex....
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