Topic: [ANN] Ethereum: Welcome to the Beginning - page 678. (Read 2006413 times)

Our team has done extensive research into Ethereum as an investment vehicle and have found numerous security threats that cannot be quickly resolved.

Anyone can suggest good tutorials for beginner solidity devs?

A creation of Warrior Developments Limited, XOTTO is the blockchain version of the popular Hong Kong Mark Six lottery.
The rules on XOTTO is similar to the ones followed by the Hong Kong Mark Six Lottery (HKM6), except for the fact that it is on the blockchain. Even the draw dates and jackpot winning numbers on XOTTO are same as the ones on the HKM6 lottery. The first draw of the blockchain lottery took place on February 21, 2017, at 6:15 PM (Hong Kong time).
According to the lottery platform’s press release, XOTTO is designed keeping the user’s perspective in mind. It maintains a simple, easy to use interface while solving the usual problems of money withdrawals among others, commonly faced by the online gambling community. Read more

Why would anyone use ethereum when they forked chain to steal from the dao user who followed the rules of both ethereum and the dao contract? Ethereum classic is much better. Poop on floor has more security than ethereum. Anything is better than ethereum including being burned alive (hopefully every ethereum scam supporter is). Ethereum supporters are all thieves and belong in jail. Please make a doxxing list so they can be hunted like animals.


https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereumfraud/

Ethereum Project NEWS 09-03-2017


$20 Bln German Energy Company Brings Blockchain to Cars for US Drivers  
https://cointelegraph.com/news/20-bln-german-energy-company-brings-blockchain-to-cars-for-us-drivers

• A San Francisco startup Oxygen Initiative in partnership with the $20 bln German energy company Innogy SE is introducing a Blockchain-based platform for drivers in the US. Essentially, the Oxygen Initiative-Innogy SE joint Blockchain platform “Share&Charge” enables drivers to process virtually every operation related to clean energy-based automobiles. These include allowing drivers to share their charging stations, pay for tolls and charge electric cars.
• “Share&Charge leverages the Blockchain and has chosen Ethereum in particular because of its support for smart contracts. On this chain, we create a token, to which we assign a mobility value denominated in EUR. This creates a decentralized marketplace that couldn’t exist as part of a traditional model: third party services from partners synchronize around a shared state, without having to ask permission or make use of cumbersome APIs.”
• @Slockit TwitterGetting ready for go-live! Now in the end-to-end testing phase of blockchain-enabled electric vehicle charging stations, https://twitter.com/slockitproject/status/839444142497366016/photo/1

Reputation on ethereum  
https://github.com/James-Sangalli/OpenRep

• A solidity smart contract based reputation system with UI
• http://openrep.azurewebsites.net/

Building a Decentralized Value Exchange into a Decentralized VPN  
https://medium.com/mysterium-network/building-decentralized-value-exchange-into-decentralized-vpn-382e6a2cc7#.rclvmfgq5

• For the last month we have been examining existing technology and its potential, to perform POC (Proof Of Concept) experiments — with the goal of understanding how to build a decentralized VPN service and how to provide monetization to people running this network — VPN node operators.
• After extensive research we believe we found a way to first build a centralized CORE and then decentralize it — providing decentralized value exchange to decentralized network of node operators and their customers. Let me show you what we found.

Building a Lottery  
https://medium.com/@deviatefish/building-a-lottery-b0d716709297#.4y640sm0s

• A couple weeks ago, I decided I’d take a crack at building a very simple Ethereum contract, one that allows user to play a lottery-like game. I did this because I’m honestly not impressed with the developer landscape, I felt I could prove a point about how easy it is to write good, secure, effective code in Solidity — and build something some people might actually be interested in using.

LUNYR - The next generation world knowledge base on Ethereum  
https://lunyr.com/

• We'll be releasing more technical details over time since the white paper was intended for a non-technical audience. It's already over 22 pages and that's really around the limit we thought most were willing to read. Check out our github for updates including a layout of the peer matching and advertising engines. For the actual mechanics of each component of the system, we intend to release blog posts about that, so stay tuned.
• The main app is made for users to view in Google Chrome. A much simple viewer, for just viewing the content, will be a separate app that IS fully decentralized. Since the content is stored on IPFS, the simple viewer app only requires fetching the content and reorganizing it in a clean and visually satisfying way, however, most users will be viewing through Chrome

The Dapp Daily — March 8th, 2017  
https://dappdaily.com/the-dapp-daily-march-8th-2017-300eaea5abf1#.kcu4334u2

• Updates from the Ethereum ecosystem by sourcerers.io

commiteth: Earn ETH by committing to open source projects (aka: a code bounty platform)
https://commiteth.com

• RommelTJ @reddit: Love the name! Why did I even bother fixing my lisp?
  

Matchpool FAQ — short answers for the community  
https://medium.com/@matchpool/faq-short-answers-for-the-community-422fad4a81d#.ic5h0w2jw

• hey guys, after i saw there are questions that keep repeating on itself i decided to sum it up and answer it here.

Swarm City Boardwalk Overview  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iit3XwAr1SM&feature=youtu.be

• Bernd @Youtube: Thanks Crypto for this review of our latest medium post on Boardwalk and your positive view on Swarm City. If anyone wants to comment directly, you are all welcome to our slack channel https://slackinvite.swarm.city/.
  In slack you can also see the progress of the product directly in #devteam.

REX: Real estate on the blockchain  
https://medium.com/@cryptojudgement/rex-real-estate-on-the-blockchain-26c40a537fb9#.gf77ge92f

• REX is an application that is developed to fix major flaws and inefficiencies in todays process of buying, selling, sharing or choosing real estate
• Rex Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfK91P3sfd4

First Ethereum funded movie goes into phase 2 of its radical ICO  
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-generation-ico-three-ways-bring-blockchains-toni-caradonna?trk=mp-reader-card

• oh and here is the website of the ICO: http://emovieventure.com and here is the website of the movie: http://the-pitts-circus.com Basically the finance of the movie is done, we have already shot half of the movie. The money we gerenate in phase 2 is for marketing of the movie to mainstream users

How Prediction Markets Can Save Democracy From Itself  
https://blog.gnosis.pm/how-prediction-markets-can-save-democracy-from-itself-a813a87cf9bd#.bwajbm76j

• “Most voters are systematically misinformed about the basic facts relevant to elections, and many advocate policies they would reject if they were better informed.”
• Prediction markets, which are fundamentally tools for aggregating the best and most unbiased information possible, provide several direct and indirect solutions to these problems.

JAAK - Building a Decentralized Marketplace for Media  
https://blog.ethlance.com/jaak-building-a-decentralized-marketplace-for-media-c3ca1cbd89a3#.so28z0xgj

• A Look Behind the Curtains
• Selected for Techstars Accelerator
• What’s Next?
• About The Team
• Open PositionsOpen Positions
  

Ethereum The World Computer 09-03-2017


Open Blockchain – The Open University on Ethereum  
https://www.reddheads.com/en/open-blockchain-the-open-university-on-ethereum/

• On 23 February Reddheads.com published an article on upcoming DApps in the Ethereum ecosystem. Attendees at the EDCON Ethereum Conference in Paris (17-18 February 2017) were asked two questions:What is your project?, Why are you building it with Ethereum?
• The Open University (OU) is the largest academic institution in the UK, with over 250,000 students (including more than 50,000 overseas students). The OU is based on an distance-learning model. Over 1.5 million students have studied at the OU, which qualifies as one of the largest universities in the world.

Ethereum vanity address generator- Nodejs based tool to generate vanity ethereum addresses  
https://www.npmjs.com/package/vanity-eth

• Generate multiple addresses
• Supports Multi-core processors
• vanity contract address
• log to file
• checksum based vanity address

Etherplay has been selected for the elevatoruk accelerator program!  
http://www.elevatoruk.com/accelerator/global-domination-accelerator-application/

• Etherplay has been selected to be part of the elevatoruk accelerator program. You can see more info here : http://www.elevatoruk.com/accelerator/global-domination-accelerator-application/ This is a really great opportunity for us and we look forward to start working with them. This will hopefuly help us to grow and reach a more mature state. For those we do not know what Etherplay is about, have a look at our website : http://etherplay.io and play our game. More is coming soon!
  

Bitcoin & Ethereum Outlook 2017  
https://magnr.com/blog/bitcoin/bitcoin-ethereum-outlook-2017/

• Ethereum’s potential as the platform for new applications should continue to grow in 2017
• Is Bitcoin more likely to hit $500 or $1500 this year? Or both? We don’t know, which is why our outlook does not include a price projection. We are not examining technical analysis in this outlook, only fundamentals. The fundamentals for Bitcoin and Ethereum both look good going into 2017 and could continue for a couple years.

imToken 1.2.0 fully supports the offline signing of transactions  
https://medium.com/consenlabs/imtoken-1-2-0-fully-supports-the-offline-signing-of-transactions-d385899d3350#.bd55z1o9k

• Wallet apps have continued to develop and evolve since Ethereum released in 2014. More and more good-designed and user-friendly wallets have been created, like imToken, Mist, Parity, etc. It’s easier for users to utilize wallet apps than before. But few people keep secure concerns in mind, such as the offline signing of transactions, as it always means hard and tedious operations.
• For now, we are proud to announce that imToken 1.2.0 fully supports the offline signing of transactions with just three steps.
• Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoIF2_OoKAM

Video excerpt of Dev discussion on Metropolis release date, difficulty bomb and switch to PoS
https://youtu.be/EiXwg9vjGdY?t=3467

• Vitalik's preference is to release Metropolis end of june. Maybe even kick out a feature or two to avoid a later release (longer block time). But: Ethereum is so far ahead of other cryptocurrencies "in terms of $/sec" that the risc of hashpower migrating to a more profitabele chain is low.
• Vitaliks latest thinking on transition to PoS: PoW -> PoW with PoS "on top" -> Hybrid PoW/PoS -> PoS
• Earlier stages of this transition may be ahead of schedule.

Deep dive into smart contracts security and best practices with @LefterisJP #merkleweek #ethereum  
https://twitter.com/tomconte/status/839838144203743232

• Merkle Weeks: Training and keynotes to understand the Distributed Autonomous Consensus behind Bitcoin and Ethereum protocols.

Lefteris, our Team #Raiden lead, is in Paris for #MerkleWeek these days to talk about #Ethereum, #smartcontracts and the future of humankind
https://twitter.com/brainbot_tech/status/839734549710049280

• Join @gavofyork and myself in #Paris for #MerkleWeek to learn about #ethereum,#smartcontracts and more @EurekaCertif http://www.merkleweek.com/conference

niceeee 

revamped/rebranded wbb will > ETH
 

What a great day today!!!! How are u guys!!!??? 

Very interesting:

The Revamped Monetary Policy

A revamped monetary policy has been high up on Ethereum Classic’s priority list for some time.

The project started increasingly differentiating itself from Ethereum since the split. Ethereum Classic is in no rush to move to proof of stake, for example, and it recently diffused the “difficulty bomb” that would have forced its developers’ hands. Part of the distinguishing effort, some suggested that a change in monetary policy would help investors properly evaluate the classic ether token (ETC).

“Ethereum will adopt a new monetary policy when they move to proof of stake mining,” Ethereum Classic’s pseudonymous project coordinator, “arvicco,” told Bitcoin Magazine. “We won’t switch to proof of stake anytime soon. But in order for a platform token to be viable, the monetary policy could not be ‘undefined.’”

The upcoming monetary policy is formalized in ECIP 1017 (Ethereum Classic Improvement Proposal 1017), drafted by Matthew “snaproll” Mazur. Resembling Bitcoin’s gold-like properties, ECIP 1017 places a hard cap on the total amount of tokens to be issued on the Ethereum Classic blockchain. Specifically, it is “tithing” a 20 percent reward reduction about every two years, meaning the supply will be capped around 210 million ETC. The vast majority of coins should be mined around 2070.

While ECIP 1017 was not the only contender for a monetary policy change, it did take an early lead. And now, it’s the only concrete proposal left, arvicco said:

“No competing technical proposals were adopted by any teams, and the key stakeholders in the ecosystem expressed their support for ECIP 1017.”

LOL! Very entertaining read, thanks for sharing.

ETC sees another hf? And again, some minority doesn't like, so they'll likely split the chain again!  This is another prime example why I dumped my etc long long ago.

Not to mention...changing the monetary policy of a coin after it's launched a deal of investors have already come in?  What a shitty move.  I'd feel cheated not knowing something like that was coming.

 

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/can-ethereum-classic-classic-become-ethereum-classics-ethereum-classic/

ETh is a great community
and many poeple support of this etheruem.

 

10 months to develop...just a wallet. 

https://www.etcdevteam.com/blog/devupdate/2017-03-06.html

and nothing else in sight 

 

 

Me too!

Ethereum Troll Coin (ETC) for the win!

https://medium.com/@classicether/an-analysis-of-charles-hoskinsons-apology-letter-22f6fdceb796#.5ae8z12g4

Well done, bitpop!

 


 Ethereum Classic  $1.32  -3.30%

Ha-ha so true Bitpop
I do enjoy the US humor ^^.

Ethereum’s Ropsten testnet was suffering from a spam attack that was slowing down block times significantly. This led to the birth of the Parity-only Kovan testnet and the proposal of the cross-client Rinkeby testnet.
Ethereum’s Morden testnet ran from July 2015 to November 2016. While anyone using Ethereum can create a testnet, Morden was the first official public testnet. Due to long sync times stemming from a bloated blockchain, and consensus issues between the Geth and Parity clients, the testnet was rebooted and reborn as Ropsten.
Ropsten ran smoothly as the public testnet until the end of February 2017. According to Péter Szilágyi, a core developer for Ethereum, the end of February is when “malicious actors decided to abuse the low PoW and gradually inflate the block gas limits to 9 billion (from the normal 4.7 million), at which point sending in gigantic transactions crippling the entire network. Even before that, attackers attempted multiple extremely long reorgs, causing network splits between different clients, and even different versions.”