Topic: [ANN] Ethereum: Welcome to the Beginning - page 1189. (Read 2007101 times)

Mayorschain is something I'm very proud of. The idea came to me in a vision.

Breaking news.

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http://1drv.ms/1C9FfbK

(For those who might not know yet, The Blocknet is both Ethereum-powered and enables Ethereum-based Dapps to deliver services to nodes on any other chain.)

 I was just wondering, what has Vitalik Buterin actually programed an taken to market fruition to date or lead a team to do the same.

I understand he has made the Bitcoin Mag, but what else?

I kinda found this info hard to track down.

I am sort of wondering if he has a RDF like Steve Jobs. Not saying this is bad or great things can't be achieved.

Same question actually (found answer), Frontier is in testing stages and the testnet is showing progress.
https://stats.ethdev.com

Blog post from the 15th
https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/06/15/another-ethereum-d%CE%BEv-update/

We continue our preparations for the Frontier release. While we’re still uncertain of the precise release date, we are becoming increasingly happy at the resilience of the Olympic testnet. As the Olympic testnet’s failure was ongoing, the adversity caused some reflection over how we might mitigate such problems in the future. The depth and duration of the consensus failure can, roughly speaking, be put down to two problems: firstly that there was a bug in the Go codebase causing it to accept invalid blocks (in this case, blocks with an invalid proof-of-work nonce); secondly that there was a huge problem with upgrading the network since miners continued to mine on the ‘bad’ chain and were slow to upgrade their nodes so that they mined on the correct chain. Essentially, the first was a forensic problem and the second an problem of organisation.

To make sure this is never so deep nor broad in the future, I designed two new protocols: the Bad Chain Canary and the Bad Block Reporting API. The bad chain canary is a simple contract. It is controlled by a single key (though there may be several of them) and sits quietly until poked by its owner. I will be one such owner, Vitalik and Jeff two others and there will likely be fourth, Christoph. When poked, it is given a blockhash and block number pair; this pair refers to a recent block on a bad chain. If they match the chain that the contract thinks it is sitting on, it puts itself in the “bad chain” state. This allows the Ethereum core devs to inform everyone who is running a client on a bad chain (i.e. one that does not conform to the Yellow Paper due to a bug) that it is such. The default in clients (easily overridden) is not to mine on such chains (since to do so would be a waste of energy), but rather to inform the user that they should upgrade at their earliest opportunity.

The Bad Block Reporting API is a simple JSON RPC that allows a number of our nodes to run in a ‘sentinel’ mode. In this mode, if they come across a bad block, they automatically compile a standardised report of what went wrong including expected transaction receipts, VM traces, proof-of-work and block error information. This report is then instantly sent to a ÐΞV server where it can trigger an early warning system and, should the release tzar (that’d be Taylor) deem it necessary, alert the core devs. Through standardisation and usage of a simple format, it’s designed so that we can easily code up a JSON-comparison engine to quickly diagnose where the consensus issue lies.

One future job is to combine the two so that the JSON-RPC can also manage the reporting of canary information – in this case, a user may set up a sentinel server to give them an email whenever the contract reports that mining has ceased and/or they should upgrade their node to continue mining.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdvfZibhuQLr4104vicHtJ4RMP8uCmHIuvcEnq3QL4U/edit?pli=1

There is no "escrow" for Ether since the Ether is tied to your Bitcoin private key and no one can guarantee transfer of a private key without copies etc.

When wil be relise on Frontier?
So, the second question, why when i mining with ethminer my hard was load 100%?

vaporware

This is taking to long!!

We'll see. If they can't get the show stopper bug fixed soon they might get the GUI up and running in time for launch.

They intend to release the first version without a GUI. You will have to use a command line windows instead. The network will also be run at a very slow throttled back rate to begin with. I don't know if it will be initially possible to trade it if it's first version is getting released half finished.

The first version might not be very popular even if some exchanges do start an Ethereum market. Why would anyone buy something half finished?

I am interested. Are the coins still available? If so, please message me a price via pm.

From their webpage:

What was the Ether Sale?
In order to raise funds for development of Ethereum to the release of the genesis block and beyond, the Ethereum foundation conducted a sale of Ether to the public, during which anyone could buy Ether in exchange for Bitcoin at a rate of 1337 to 2000 ETH per BTC, with earlier purchasers getting better rates.

The sale lasted 42 days, starting on July 22nd and ending at 23:59 Zug time September 2, and collected a total of 31531 BTC, worth $18,439,086 at the time of the sale, in exchange for about 60102216 ETH.

https://www.ethereum.org/ether

What was the ico / crowdfunding price in btc?

Escrow?

I for one am perfectly happy that the fly by night investors sell of their Ether. Long holders will be amply rewarded.