item: #1 of 267
          id: blog-a-few-last-minute-notes
      author: blog
       title: blog-a-few-last-minute-notes
        date: None
       words: 366
      flesch: 57
     summary: Genesis is 4 hours away. All clients are functional on all platforms and build to completion. It will take 10-1000 blocks before the network stabilises. Don't reuse keys from Olympic, especially if you are expecting Olympic rewards. If you have 'won' something, it will get sent to B on Frontier. Difficulty will start at 2.34.
    keywords: protocol
       cache: blog-a-few-last-minute-notes.html
  plain text: blog-a-few-last-minute-notes.txt

        item: #2 of 267
          id: blog-a-message-from-stephan-tual
      author: blog
       title: blog-a-message-from-stephan-tual
        date: None
       words: 312
      flesch: 41
     summary: Stephan Tual and Eth/Dev have decided to part ways. He will continue to promote the ideas of the Ethereum Foundation and build a world-class platform for decentralized applications. He thanks the community for their support over the last year.
    keywords: ethereum
       cache: blog-a-message-from-stephan-tual.html
  plain text: blog-a-message-from-stephan-tual.txt

        item: #3 of 267
          id: blog-advanced-contract-programming-example-schellingcoin
      author: blog
       title: blog-advanced-contract-programming-example-schellingcoin
        date: None
       words: 3879
      flesch: 59
     summary: In this article Vitalik Buterin goes through a contract that is an important component of a fully decentralized cryptoeconomic ecosystem: a decentralized oracle. The contract is written in a high-level programming language like Serpent or Mutan and backed by a full blockchain.
    keywords: code; contract; hash; value
       cache: blog-advanced-contract-programming-example-schellingcoin.html
  plain text: blog-advanced-contract-programming-example-schellingcoin.txt

        item: #4 of 267
          id: blog-announcement-on-planned-exodus-withdrawal
      author: blog
       title: blog-announcement-on-planned-exodus-withdrawal
        date: None
       words: 754
      flesch: 34
     summary: The first two weeks of the ether sale are over. Over 50 million ETH has been sold. Vitalik Buterin will withdraw 4150 BTC from the exodus address within the next 48 hours. The rest of the money will be used to pay for loans for prior expenses.
    keywords: btc; development
       cache: blog-announcement-on-planned-exodus-withdrawal.html
  plain text: blog-announcement-on-planned-exodus-withdrawal.txt

        item: #5 of 267
          id: blog-announcing-eπ-ethereum-on-raspberry-pi-programme
      author: blog
       title: blog-announcing-eπ-ethereum-on-raspberry-pi-programme
        date: None
       words: 411
      flesch: 55
     summary: Gavin Wood announces the roll-out of the "eπ" Ethereum-on-Raspberry Pi programme. The kit includes a Raspberry Pi, power connector and SD card preloaded with all software required to run an Ethereum Frontier node. Gavin has set up an Ether Faucet on Olympic.
    keywords: ethereum; programme
       cache: blog-announcing-eπ-ethereum-on-raspberry-pi-programme.html
  plain text: blog-announcing-eπ-ethereum-on-raspberry-pi-programme.txt

        item: #6 of 267
          id: blog-announcing-new-foundation-board-executive-director
      author: blog
       title: blog-announcing-new-foundation-board-executive-director
        date: None
       words: 747
      flesch: 35
     summary: After an intensive recruitment period, the Ethereum Foundation has selected an Executive Director and named three members to the Board of Directors. The new organizational structure will allow them to focus on their next phase of development. The Board is currently comprised of Lars Klawitter, Vadim Levitin, Wayne Hennessy-Barrett and Vitalik Buterin (President of the Board).
    keywords: board; ethereum; foundation; technology
       cache: blog-announcing-new-foundation-board-executive-director.html
  plain text: blog-announcing-new-foundation-board-executive-director.txt

        item: #7 of 267
          id: blog-another-ethereum-dev-update
      author: blog
       title: blog-another-ethereum-dev-update
        date: None
       words: 1683
      flesch: 53
     summary: Gavin Wood is in Shanghai. He's been in Asia with Marek for the last couple of weeks. They've seen the release, struggle and survival of the Olympic testnet and the beginning of the second external Go audit. Marek and Konstantin both provide substantial technical support for exchanges. 
    keywords: c++; chain; core; ethereum; protocol
       cache: blog-another-ethereum-dev-update.html
  plain text: blog-another-ethereum-dev-update.txt

        item: #8 of 267
          id: blog-applications-of-security-deposits-and-prediction-markets-you-might-not-have-thought-about
      author: blog
       title: blog-applications-of-security-deposits-and-prediction-markets-you-might-not-have-thought-about
        date: None
       words: 2086
      flesch: 44
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has written a blog post about smart contracts and smart money. Vlad Zamfir developed many of the ideas behind prediction markets for content curation. Proof of work and proof of stake are two different types of smart contracts. 
    keywords: deposit; email; markets; prediction
       cache: blog-applications-of-security-deposits-and-prediction-markets-you-might-not-have-thought-about.html
  plain text: blog-applications-of-security-deposits-and-prediction-markets-you-might-not-have-thought-about.txt

        item: #9 of 267
          id: blog-bazaar-services
      author: blog
       title: blog-bazaar-services
        date: None
       words: 1627
      flesch: 51
     summary: In the past 25 years one of the biggest trends in business and technology was what might loosely be termed as the open source revolution. Gavin Wood was writing his degree dissertation "open source software in the business environment" shortly after ESR wrote "the Cathedral and the Bazaar". Microsoft and its gigantic closed source codebase was the undisputed leader.
    keywords: bazaar; development; services; software; source
       cache: blog-bazaar-services.html
  plain text: blog-bazaar-services.txt

        item: #10 of 267
          id: blog-bitcoin-maximalism-currency-platform-network-effects
      author: blog
       title: blog-bitcoin-maximalism-currency-platform-network-effects
        date: None
       words: 5264
      flesch: 43
     summary: Vitalik Buterin explains "Bitcoin dominance maximalism" and "network effects" in the context of the Bitcoin community. Vitalik also explains the technical strategies to create a new crypto protocol and the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches.
    keywords: bitcoin; blockchain; currencies; currency; effect; network; platform; protocol
       cache: blog-bitcoin-maximalism-currency-platform-network-effects.html
  plain text: blog-bitcoin-maximalism-currency-platform-network-effects.txt

        item: #11 of 267
          id: blog-blockchain-scalability-chain-fibers-redux
      author: blog
       title: blog-blockchain-scalability-chain-fibers-redux
        date: None
       words: 1992
      flesch: 51
     summary: Gavin Wood came up with the idea of Chain-Fibers in Berlin in Spring 2014, but the original article was stolen in Vienna. Gavin and Vitalik have made some changes and formalisations to the idea recently. The GitHub Wiki page will track the progress on the idea.
    keywords: block; fiber; state; transaction; validators
       cache: blog-blockchain-scalability-chain-fibers-redux.html
  plain text: blog-blockchain-scalability-chain-fibers-redux.txt

        item: #12 of 267
          id: blog-bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-3-identity-corp
      author: blog
       title: blog-bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-3-identity-corp
        date: None
       words: 3157
      flesch: 43
     summary: Bootstrapping a Decentralized Autonomous Corporation, Part 3: Identity Corp, is a blog series by Vitalik Buterin. Jeff Garzik suggested that a decentralized Dropbox might be useful for some applications. The first two parts of the series talked about the basic workings of a decentralized autonomous corporation. 
    keywords: corporation; government; identity; network; system; world
       cache: blog-bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-3-identity-corp.html
  plain text: blog-bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-3-identity-corp.txt

        item: #13 of 267
          id: blog-bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-i
      author: blog
       title: blog-bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-i
        date: None
       words: 2105
      flesch: 49
     summary: Bootstrapping A Decentralized Autonomous Corporation: Part I was written by Vitalik Buterin on December 31, 2013. It is a discussion of the difference between a corporation and a human being. It also raises the question whether we really need people.
    keywords: bitcoin; computation; corporation; key
       cache: blog-bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-i.html
  plain text: blog-bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-i.txt

        item: #14 of 267
          id: blog-bootstrapping-an-autonomous-decentralized-corporation-part-2-interacting-with-the-world
      author: blog
       title: blog-bootstrapping-an-autonomous-decentralized-corporation-part-2-interacting-with-the-world
        date: None
       words: 3309
      flesch: 52
     summary: Bootstrapping An Autonomous Decentralized Corporation, Part 2: Interacting With the World is a blog post by Vitalik Buterin. In the first part of this series, Vitalik talked about how the internet allows us to create decentralized corporations. In practice, the challenge is how to interact with the world around them.
    keywords: api; bitcoin; corporation; decentralized; network; price
       cache: blog-bootstrapping-an-autonomous-decentralized-corporation-part-2-interacting-with-the-world.html
  plain text: blog-bootstrapping-an-autonomous-decentralized-corporation-part-2-interacting-with-the-world.txt

        item: #15 of 267
          id: blog-building-decentralized-web
      author: blog
       title: blog-building-decentralized-web
        date: None
       words: 1369
      flesch: 40
     summary: Taylor Gerring has written a blog post about building the decentralized web 3.0 on the foundation blog of the E.E.F.C. and E.T.A.R.P. Foundation. Taylor Gerring predicts that the interaction and integration of crypto into the fabric of a decentralized web will be the refined third implementation of PGP and Bitcoin.
    keywords: content; ethereum; internet; protocol; web
       cache: blog-building-decentralized-web.html
  plain text: blog-building-decentralized-web.txt

        item: #16 of 267
          id: blog-call-bug-bounty-hunters
      author: blog
       title: blog-call-bug-bounty-hunters
        date: None
       words: 348
      flesch: 53
     summary: Jutta Steiner has been setting up a security audit prior to the launch of the Ethereum genesis block release. Before the launch, the foundation will complete a bug bounty program. The program will rely on the community and motivated bug bounty hunters.
    keywords: bounty; program
       cache: blog-call-bug-bounty-hunters.html
  plain text: blog-call-bug-bounty-hunters.txt

        item: #17 of 267
          id: blog-chain-reorganisation-depth-expectations
      author: blog
       title: blog-chain-reorganisation-depth-expectations
        date: None
       words: 950
      flesch: 49
     summary: Chain Reorganisation Depth Expectations are based on theoretical considerations, ongoing empirical data, human factors in contingency planning and the past experience of the security team. They do not consider transactions within this depth to have an exceptionally high chance of being permanent. They will be monitoring the chain for any signs of protocol-level issues. The updates will be posted in the forums and on the official blog.
    keywords: chain; reorganisation
       cache: blog-chain-reorganisation-depth-expectations.html
  plain text: blog-chain-reorganisation-depth-expectations.txt

        item: #18 of 267
          id: blog-conference-alpha-testnet-and-ether-pre-sale-updates
      author: blog
       title: blog-conference-alpha-testnet-and-ether-pre-sale-updates
        date: None
       words: 519
      flesch: 43
     summary: Ether pre-sale has been postponed to February 1st, and the alpha release of the open source testnet client will be announced at the beginning of February. The testnet will include full support for sending and receiving transactions. 
    keywords: ethereum; sale
       cache: blog-conference-alpha-testnet-and-ether-pre-sale-updates.html
  plain text: blog-conference-alpha-testnet-and-ether-pre-sale-updates.txt

        item: #19 of 267
          id: blog-crypto-renaissance
      author: blog
       title: blog-crypto-renaissance
        date: None
       words: 2367
      flesch: 45
     summary: The invention of the blockchain is a milestone in technology. More than 30,000 bitcoins will go towards spawning an entire new digital realm. Mesopotamia introduced cuneiform script 5000 years ago, which marked the beginning of the information revolution within human society.
    keywords: information; innovation; internet; invention; society; technology
       cache: blog-crypto-renaissance.html
  plain text: blog-crypto-renaissance.txt

        item: #20 of 267
          id: blog-cryptographic-code-obfuscation-decentralized-autonomous-organizations-are-about-to-take-a-huge-leap-forward
      author: blog
       title: blog-cryptographic-code-obfuscation-decentralized-autonomous-organizations-are-about-to-take-a-huge-leap-forward
        date: None
       words: 2116
      flesch: 47
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has written a blog post about the development of obfuscation in the field of cryptography. It has applications in the cryptocurrency space and for software as a whole. The idea behind obfuscation is an old one and cryptographers have been trying to crack the problem for years.
    keywords: ethereum; key; obfuscation; organizations; program
       cache: blog-cryptographic-code-obfuscation-decentralized-autonomous-organizations-are-about-to-take-a-huge-leap-forward.html
  plain text: blog-cryptographic-code-obfuscation-decentralized-autonomous-organizations-are-about-to-take-a-huge-leap-forward.txt

        item: #21 of 267
          id: blog-daos-are-not-scary-part-1-self-enforcing-contracts-and-factum-law
      author: blog
       title: blog-daos-are-not-scary-part-1-self-enforcing-contracts-and-factum-law
        date: None
       words: 2756
      flesch: 58
     summary: DAOs Are Not Scary, Part 1: Self-Enforcing Contracts And Factum Law is a blog post by Vitalik Buterin from the R&D blog of the Ethereum Foundation. It's about smart contracts and their advantages and limitations.
    keywords: contract; example; factum; job; judge; money
       cache: blog-daos-are-not-scary-part-1-self-enforcing-contracts-and-factum-law.html
  plain text: blog-daos-are-not-scary-part-1-self-enforcing-contracts-and-factum-law.txt

        item: #22 of 267
          id: blog-daos-are-not-scary-part-2-reducing-barriers
      author: blog
       title: blog-daos-are-not-scary-part-2-reducing-barriers
        date: None
       words: 1837
      flesch: 53
     summary: DAOs Are Not Scary, Part 2: Reducing Barriers is a blog post from the R&D blog of Vitalik Buterin. In the last installment of this series, Vitalik talked about what smart contracts are and the two main mechanisms through which they can have “force”: smart property and “factum” currencies. He also discussed the limits of smart contracts and how a smart contract-enabled legal system might use a combination of human judgement and automatic execution to achieve the best possible outcomes. This article and the next will tackle the tough questions that this article intends to tackle.
    keywords: agent; contracts; escrow; money
       cache: blog-daos-are-not-scary-part-2-reducing-barriers.html
  plain text: blog-daos-are-not-scary-part-2-reducing-barriers.txt

        item: #23 of 267
          id: blog-daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide
      author: blog
       title: blog-daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide
        date: None
       words: 3644
      flesch: 49
     summary: Vitalik Buterin is beta-testing a new term for the concept of decentralized autonomous entities (DAOs) in the digital consensus space. There are a number of groups getting involved in the space, including Bitshares, Invictus Innovations, BitAngels and David Johnston. There is a lack of clear terminology in the field. 
    keywords: bitcoin; contract; dao; example; parties; property
       cache: blog-daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide.html
  plain text: blog-daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide.txt

        item: #24 of 267
          id: blog-decentralized-protocol-monetization-and-forks
      author: blog
       title: blog-decentralized-protocol-monetization-and-forks
        date: None
       words: 3470
      flesch: 42
     summary: Decentralized Protocol Monetization and Forks is a blog post written by Vitalik Buterin from the R&D department of the Ethereum Foundation. It explains how to create internal assets and sell them to pay for the development of the protocol.
    keywords: bitcoin; ethereum; fork; network; people; protocol; system
       cache: blog-decentralized-protocol-monetization-and-forks.html
  plain text: blog-decentralized-protocol-monetization-and-forks.txt

        item: #25 of 267
          id: blog-devcon-0-recap
      author: blog
       title: blog-devcon-0-recap
        date: None
       words: 2426
      flesch: 55
     summary: ÐΞVcon-0 kicked off on Monday 24th November in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Gavin Wood delivered the first presentation on the mission of the organization: "Welcome! Our mission: ÐApps". Stephan Tual gave a talk on the important role of the UK based communications team in building the community. 
    keywords: client; day; ethereum; network; presentation; protocol; team
       cache: blog-devcon-0-recap.html
  plain text: blog-devcon-0-recap.txt

        item: #26 of 267
          id: blog-devcon-is-back
      author: blog
       title: blog-devcon-is-back
        date: None
       words: 601
      flesch: 45
     summary: DevCon 1 will be held in London on November 9-13. It's been 100 days since the launch of the Ethereum network. The conference will take place over 5 days at the Gibson Hall. The first half of the week will focus on research and dapp development, and the second half on industry and mainstream audiences.
    keywords: development; ethereum
       cache: blog-devcon-is-back.html
  plain text: blog-devcon-is-back.txt

        item: #27 of 267
          id: blog-devcon-one-postponed-until-further-notice
      author: blog
       title: blog-devcon-one-postponed-until-further-notice
        date: None
       words: 170
      flesch: 43
     summary: devcon one postponed until further notice. Venue for devcon one in London was not able to be secured on the dates desired (October 5th-8th). Updates will be forthcoming on the Devcon one website. Sign up to receive notifications for protocol-related announcements.
    keywords: protocol
       cache: blog-devcon-one-postponed-until-further-notice.html
  plain text: blog-devcon-one-postponed-until-further-notice.txt

        item: #28 of 267
          id: blog-devgrants-help
      author: blog
       title: blog-devgrants-help
        date: None
       words: 1146
      flesch: 51
     summary: ÐΞVgrants is a new program that offers funding for contributions to both the Ethereum platform and projects based on it. Its goals are to provide developers interested in contributing to the ecosystem the opportunity to spend significant time on their project.
    keywords: ethereum; project; ðξvgrants
       cache: blog-devgrants-help.html
  plain text: blog-devgrants-help.txt

        item: #29 of 267
          id: blog-ether-purchase-troubleshooting
      author: blog
       title: blog-ether-purchase-troubleshooting
        date: None
       words: 689
      flesch: 67
     summary: Ether Purchase Troubleshooting is a blog post by Vitalik Buterin. It explains how to solve problems with the purchase of ether using a Python script. It also explains the most common potential issues with the ether purchase.
    keywords: /path; python
       cache: blog-ether-purchase-troubleshooting.html
  plain text: blog-ether-purchase-troubleshooting.txt

        item: #30 of 267
          id: blog-ether-sale-a-statistical-overview
      author: blog
       title: blog-ether-sale-a-statistical-overview
        date: None
       words: 1398
      flesch: 43
     summary: The first two weeks of the ether sale are over and we have received over 25,000 BTC from selling over 50 million ETH. This marks the largest cryptographic token sale to date. A total of 6670 transactions have been made, with values ranging from the minimum 0.01 BTC to a high of 500 BTC. The percentage of all BTC stored in multisig has shot up from 0.23% to 0.41% over the last two weeks.
    keywords: btc; ether; gini
       cache: blog-ether-sale-a-statistical-overview.html
  plain text: blog-ether-sale-a-statistical-overview.txt

        item: #31 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-and-oracles
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-and-oracles
        date: None
       words: 2591
      flesch: 50
     summary: Vitalik Buterin proposes a new way of implementing smart contracts on the blockchain. Oracles are a set of specialized entities called "oracles" that control the funds intended to go into the contract and execute the contract code. 
    keywords: blockchain; code; contract; ethereum; oracles
       cache: blog-ethereum-and-oracles.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-and-oracles.txt

        item: #32 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-builders-experiment
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-builders-experiment
        date: None
       words: 2035
      flesch: 56
     summary: Mihai Alisie proposes an experiment for the Ethereum community. The main idea is the making of a self organizing knowledge sharing network with potential ramifications in a variety of other areas. He will explore a few of the use cases towards the end of the article.
    keywords: ethereum; experiment; knowledge; project; things
       cache: blog-ethereum-builders-experiment.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-builders-experiment.txt

        item: #33 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-builders-supercharging-github
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-builders-supercharging-github
        date: None
       words: 2234
      flesch: 55
     summary: Mihai Alisie is vice president of the Ethereum Foundation and director of the ETH Switzerland. He has been researching and testing a number of collaborative tools in the last few months. He thinks there is a lot of untapped potential in the community, but the lack of a streamlined collaboration system makes it difficult for people to focus on their ideas.
    keywords: builders; community; ethereum; github; people; project
       cache: blog-ethereum-builders-supercharging-github.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-builders-supercharging-github.txt

        item: #34 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-comms-announcement
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-comms-announcement
        date: None
       words: 458
      flesch: 32
     summary: The foundation is in the phase of restructuring its communications activities. It will de-emphasize Skype and emphasize Gitter as a means of real-time communication for developers. The primary active Gitter rooms are:https://gitter.im/ethereum/cpp-ethereu,    and  
    keywords: ethereum; protocol
       cache: blog-ethereum-comms-announcement.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-comms-announcement.txt

        item: #35 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-community-survey
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-community-survey
        date: None
       words: 1658
      flesch: 61
     summary: There was a survey for the community of the Ethereum Foundation in November. There were 286 responses. There are 123 people living in North America, 114 in Europe, 30 in Asia, 10 in Asia-Pacific, 13 in Oceana, and 6 in South America. There is a map of all the current Ethereum meetups.
    keywords: community; ethereum; new; people; survey
       cache: blog-ethereum-community-survey.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-community-survey.txt

        item: #36 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-dev
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-dev
        date: None
       words: 690
      flesch: 26
     summary: Etihad ÐΞV asks Gavin Wood about the development of a new, robust, quasi-Turing-complete blockchain, known as "Ethernet". Gavin explains what they are doing at the moment. 
    keywords: development; ethereum; technology
       cache: blog-ethereum-dev.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-dev.txt

        item: #37 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-dev-update-2015-week-41
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-dev-update-2015-week-41
        date: None
       words: 449
      flesch: 48
     summary: The team is working towards the 1.0 release of the light client. The team is spending time polishing remaining bugs and bundling binaries for the various platforms. The Go and C++ teams have daily standups. The teams are preparing talks and presentations for DEVCON1.
    keywords: ethereum; protocol
       cache: blog-ethereum-dev-update-2015-week-41.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-dev-update-2015-week-41.txt

        item: #38 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-dev-update-2015-week-44
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-dev-update-2015-week-44
        date: None
       words: 414
      flesch: 48
     summary: Etherum released 1.0.0 of the C++ tools. Several Mix bugs have been fixed and the team is working on improving on the build/release process. Pyethapp is continuing to move forward. Swarm accounting & incentive mechanisms are being finalized. Initial integration of Swarm with IPFS as data store is beginning in the clients. New network protocols supporting fast sync are maturing and will be basis for future light clients. Devcon is a week away.
    keywords: ethereum; protocol
       cache: blog-ethereum-dev-update-2015-week-44.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-dev-update-2015-week-44.txt

        item: #39 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-development-process
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-development-process
        date: None
       words: 378
      flesch: 51
     summary: Gavin Wood documents the development of the codebase of the Ethereum protocol on the EFS blog. It's like a test-driven triplet-programming development. The goal was to have three fully compatible implementations and an unambiguous specification by the end of three days of substantial development.
    keywords: development
       cache: blog-ethereum-development-process.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-development-process.txt

        item: #40 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-foundation-is-hiring-an-executive-director
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-foundation-is-hiring-an-executive-director
        date: None
       words: 411
      flesch: 24
     summary: Ethereum Foundation is hiring an Executive Director. The successful candidate will have significant experience in corporate finance activities and/or operations. The Director will interact with and support several different divisions engaged in software development, communications and community outreach activities. 
    keywords: ethereum; foundation
       cache: blog-ethereum-foundation-is-hiring-an-executive-director.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-foundation-is-hiring-an-executive-director.txt

        item: #41 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-foundation-open-call-re-board-selection
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-foundation-open-call-re-board-selection
        date: None
       words: 762
      flesch: 28
     summary: Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood and Jeffrey Wilcke are looking for new board members for the board of directors of the Stiftung Ethereum, a non-profit organization registered in Zug, Switzerland. The foundation is legally controlled by a body known as the Foundation Council.
    keywords: board; ethereum; foundation
       cache: blog-ethereum-foundation-open-call-re-board-selection.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-foundation-open-call-re-board-selection.txt

        item: #42 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-in-practice-part-2-how-to-build-a-better-democracy-in-under-a-100-lines-of-code
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-in-practice-part-2-how-to-build-a-better-democracy-in-under-a-100-lines-of-code
        date: None
       words: 1315
      flesch: 68
     summary: This is the second part of a series on how to build smart contracts in under 100 lines of code using the current Ethereum tools. Alex Van de Sande explains how to create a Democratic organization that lives on the blockchain and that anyone holding a share token can vote on proposals.
    keywords: contract; ether; proposal
       cache: blog-ethereum-in-practice-part-2-how-to-build-a-better-democracy-in-under-a-100-lines-of-code.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-in-practice-part-2-how-to-build-a-better-democracy-in-under-a-100-lines-of-code.txt

        item: #43 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-in-practice-part-3-how-to-build-your-own-transparent-bank-on-the-blockchain
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-in-practice-part-3-how-to-build-your-own-transparent-bank-on-the-blockchain
        date: None
       words: 1175
      flesch: 63
     summary: This is the third and final post on a series on how to use the Ethereum Wallet to create autonomous organisations. In the first post we detailed how to create a token, and on the second we shown how to generate a digital democracy controlled by these tokens. Now we are going to modify the token contract to allow it to be minted by your DAO.
    keywords: address; code; contract
       cache: blog-ethereum-in-practice-part-3-how-to-build-your-own-transparent-bank-on-the-blockchain.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-in-practice-part-3-how-to-build-your-own-transparent-bank-on-the-blockchain.txt

        item: #44 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-launch-process
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-launch-process
        date: None
       words: 2849
      flesch: 59
     summary: Vinay Gupta is the newly minted release coordinator for the release of the new version of the Ethereum protocol. He will be 50/50 on comms and on release coordination. He was a 3D graphics programmer through the 1990s and has a strong grounding in financial cryptography.
    keywords: ether; ethereum; frontier; network; process; release
       cache: blog-ethereum-launch-process.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-launch-process.txt

        item: #45 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-launches
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-launches
        date: None
       words: 291
      flesch: 57
     summary: Stephan Tual announces the launch of Frontier, the first live release of the Ethereum project. The vision of a censorship-proof ‘world computer’ that anyone can program is now a reality. There is a new intro video to celebrate the release.
    keywords: ethereum
       cache: blog-ethereum-launches.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-launches.txt

        item: #46 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-messaging-masses-including-fathers-via-infographic
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-messaging-masses-including-fathers-via-infographic
        date: None
       words: 941
      flesch: 55
     summary: Anthony Di Iorio started evangelizing bitcoin and blockchain tech back in 2012. His father didn't understand the technology at the time, but he eventually came around. Anthony dropped everything in late 2013 and started bootstrapping the project with his co-founders Vitalik, Mihai, and Charles.
    keywords: announcements; ethereum; protocol
       cache: blog-ethereum-messaging-masses-including-fathers-via-infographic.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-messaging-masses-including-fathers-via-infographic.txt

        item: #47 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-now-going-public
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-now-going-public
        date: None
       words: 2088
      flesch: 41
     summary: Vitalik Buterin wrote the initial draft of the whitepaper for the first time in San Francisco in November. Vitalik had worked with several projects trying to implement colored coins, smart property, and various types of decentralized exchange on top of Bitcoin. He realized that the key to solving the problem was to create a Turing-complete programming language. 
    keywords: bitcoin; code; development; ecosystem; ethereum; projects; work
       cache: blog-ethereum-now-going-public.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-now-going-public.txt

        item: #48 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-project-update
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-project-update
        date: None
       words: 504
      flesch: 47
     summary: The development of the software platform for the Ethereum project is on track. The 5th installment of the proof of concept series will be released soon. The core activities include attention to legalities in different jurisdictions regarding the pre-sale, development and testing of the hot/cold wallet system, and development and tests of the sale web site.
    keywords: development; project
       cache: blog-ethereum-project-update.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-project-update.txt

        item: #49 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-protocol-update-1
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-protocol-update-1
        date: None
       words: 983
      flesch: 61
     summary: Stephan Tual announced the first Frontier patch for the Ethereum Protocol Update 1. The thawing pull request has been merged for the Go client and the Master branch has been updated. If you're still running branch release 1.0.0 please switch to Master. C++ users can also switch to master once merged. 
    keywords: block; protocol; update
       cache: blog-ethereum-protocol-update-1.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-protocol-update-1.txt

        item: #50 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-scalability-and-decentralization-updates
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-scalability-and-decentralization-updates
        date: None
       words: 2177
      flesch: 58
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has written a blog post on the topic of scalability and decentralization in the cryptocurrency. The Bitcoin blockchain is currently over 12 GB in size and it takes several days for a new bitcoind node to fully synchronize. The block size limit currently puts a cap on the growth of the Bitcoin network.
    keywords: block; proof; protocol; transaction
       cache: blog-ethereum-scalability-and-decentralization-updates.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-scalability-and-decentralization-updates.txt

        item: #51 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-the-first-year
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-the-first-year
        date: None
       words: 3267
      flesch: 62
     summary: Mihai Alisie is the Vice President of the Ethereum Foundation and the Director of the ETH Switzerland. He wrote a blog post about the first year of the project. It's the most intense ride of his life. 
    keywords: community; ethereum; genesis; project; sale; things; time; world
       cache: blog-ethereum-the-first-year.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-the-first-year.txt

        item: #52 of 267
          id: blog-ethereum-wallet-developer-preview
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereum-wallet-developer-preview
        date: None
       words: 1005
      flesch: 70
     summary: Ethereum Wallet is the first developer-preview of the app. The point of this release is to gather feedback, squash bugs and get the code audited. The developer preview doesn't come bundled with a node, so you still need to start by downloading the binary for your OS.
    keywords: developer; wallet
       cache: blog-ethereum-wallet-developer-preview.html
  plain text: blog-ethereum-wallet-developer-preview.txt

        item: #53 of 267
          id: blog-ethereums-unexpected-future-direction
      author: blog
       title: blog-ethereums-unexpected-future-direction
        date: None
       words: 466
      flesch: 45
     summary: Valve's Steam is heading for 100 million users, most of whom have serious graphics hardware at their disposal. They will get mining software on to the majority of those machines simply by making it available to users and asking them to download it in exchange for participation in the network and a little credit.
    keywords: ethereum; protocol
       cache: blog-ethereums-unexpected-future-direction.html
  plain text: blog-ethereums-unexpected-future-direction.txt

        item: #54 of 267
          id: blog-final-steps
      author: blog
       title: blog-final-steps
        date: None
       words: 1369
      flesch: 54
     summary: All systems are now 'Go' on the technical side and Frontier will be released this week. Users will need to generate, then load the Genesis block into their Ethereum client. The Genesis block contains all the transactions from the Ether sale and represents the first step to consensus.
    keywords: block; ethereum; genesis; release
       cache: blog-final-steps.html
  plain text: blog-final-steps.txt

        item: #55 of 267
          id: blog-frontier-first-100k-blocks
      author: blog
       title: blog-frontier-first-100k-blocks
        date: None
       words: 736
      flesch: 66
     summary:  Frontier passed it's 100,000th block earlier this week. First 50 blocks took 29 seconds, then 31 and 29 seconds for the next couple of blocks. After the first few hundred blocks, the difficulty adjustment algorithm is catching up. Biggest miners in first 100 blocks were 0.81% of the block size.
    keywords: blocks; power
       cache: blog-frontier-first-100k-blocks.html
  plain text: blog-frontier-first-100k-blocks.txt

        item: #56 of 267
          id: blog-frontier-is-coming-what-to-expect-and-how-to-prepare
      author: blog
       title: blog-frontier-is-coming-what-to-expect-and-how-to-prepare
        date: None
       words: 1469
      flesch: 62
     summary: Frontier is the first milestone in the release of the Ethereum project. It's intended for technical users, specifically developers. It will be followed by 'Homestead', 'Metropolis' and 'Serenity' throughout the coming year, each adding new features.
    keywords: block; ethereum; frontier; network
       cache: blog-frontier-is-coming-what-to-expect-and-how-to-prepare.html
  plain text: blog-frontier-is-coming-what-to-expect-and-how-to-prepare.txt

        item: #57 of 267
          id: blog-gavs-dev-update-ethereums
      author: blog
       title: blog-gavs-dev-update-ethereums
        date: None
       words: 2803
      flesch: 54
     summary: Gavin Wood is one third of the leadership of the organization that is responsible for the development of the Web Three software stack. Gavin is based in Zug, Switzerland, but has been involved most recently in putting together the Berlin side of things.
    keywords: berlin; development; ethereum; protocol; software; time; web; ðξv
       cache: blog-gavs-dev-update-ethereums.html
  plain text: blog-gavs-dev-update-ethereums.txt

        item: #58 of 267
          id: blog-gavs-dev-update-iii
      author: blog
       title: blog-gavs-dev-update-iii
        date: None
       words: 1287
      flesch: 57
     summary: Gavin Wood is a co-founder of the Ethereum Foundation and one of the three directors of the Eth Dev, the NFP organisation that is managing the development (under contract from ETH Suisse) of the ETH blockchain. Gavin is sitting on an immaculate couch that has been zapped forward in time from the 1960s in the room that will become the heart of the C ++ Ethereum development operation. Anneka Rice, Sarah O'Neill and Roland are working around the clock to get the room ready for ÐΞVcon-0, their first developer symposium.
    keywords: berlin; development; ethereum; time
       cache: blog-gavs-dev-update-iii.html
  plain text: blog-gavs-dev-update-iii.txt

        item: #59 of 267
          id: blog-gavs-ethereum-dev-update-ii
      author: blog
       title: blog-gavs-ethereum-dev-update-ii
        date: None
       words: 952
      flesch: 55
     summary: Gavin Wood is the founder of the Ethereum Foundation and one of the three directors of the development entity building the technology. He spent the last week at his home in Zug, Switzerland. He has been working on Whisper, a secure identity-based communications protocol. Sarah has been busy with the builders getting the hub in Berlin ready.
    keywords: berlin; ethereum; network; team
       cache: blog-gavs-ethereum-dev-update-ii.html
  plain text: blog-gavs-ethereum-dev-update-ii.txt

        item: #60 of 267
          id: blog-gavs-ethereum-dev-update-iv
      author: blog
       title: blog-gavs-ethereum-dev-update-iv
        date: None
       words: 1099
      flesch: 58
     summary: Gavin Wood has updated his blog with the latest update of his research and development project, the Ethereum Foundation. Since the last update, a lot has happened, including the release of the website ethdev.com. Gavin has been between Switzerland, the UK and Berlin. 
    keywords: ethereum; protocol; security; time
       cache: blog-gavs-ethereum-dev-update-iv.html
  plain text: blog-gavs-ethereum-dev-update-iv.txt

        item: #61 of 267
          id: blog-gavs-ethereum-dev-update-v
      author: blog
       title: blog-gavs-ethereum-dev-update-v
        date: None
       words: 1419
      flesch: 54
     summary: Gavin Wood was in Zug, Switzerland for the last week. He was there to discuss the reform of the foundation and the release strategy for the new version of the protocol. He presented the strategy to the other members of the board.
    keywords: ethereum; protocol; release; week; ðξv
       cache: blog-gavs-ethereum-dev-update-v.html
  plain text: blog-gavs-ethereum-dev-update-v.txt

        item: #62 of 267
          id: blog-getting-to-the-frontier
      author: blog
       title: blog-getting-to-the-frontier
        date: None
       words: 1218
      flesch: 52
     summary: Vinay Gupta and Gav talk about the development of Frontier, the new version of the Ethereum protocol. They discuss the development process and the challenges they have to meet between now and Frontier's release, including security, network stability, mining and exchange. 
    keywords: development; frontier; process
       cache: blog-getting-to-the-frontier.html
  plain text: blog-getting-to-the-frontier.txt

        item: #63 of 267
          id: blog-how-to-build-your-own-cryptocurrency
      author: blog
       title: blog-how-to-build-your-own-cryptocurrency
        date: None
       words: 1440
      flesch: 70
     summary: Alex Van de Sande is the lead designer on the Ethereum foundation. He gives an overview of the tools they've built and how you can use them to build interesting things right now. Alex is working on bringing the Ethereum ecosystem to the next tier of users.
    keywords: contract; ethereum; token; wallet
       cache: blog-how-to-build-your-own-cryptocurrency.html
  plain text: blog-how-to-build-your-own-cryptocurrency.txt

        item: #64 of 267
          id: blog-how-to-make-a-purchase-in-the-ether-presale
      author: blog
       title: blog-how-to-make-a-purchase-in-the-ether-presale
        date: None
       words: 950
      flesch: 52
     summary: Ether pre-sale is an HTML/JavaScript web application that enables people and organizations to pre-purchase ether tokens with bitcoin. It will be displayed on the website at https://www.ethereum.org for the duration of the sale.
    keywords: address; ether; sale
       cache: blog-how-to-make-a-purchase-in-the-ether-presale.html
  plain text: blog-how-to-make-a-purchase-in-the-ether-presale.txt

        item: #65 of 267
          id: blog-implementing-vitaliks-vision
      author: blog
       title: blog-implementing-vitaliks-vision
        date: None
       words: 1246
      flesch: 51
     summary: There is a general release of a stable command line client for the new version of the Ethereum protocol. Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood, and Jeffrey Wilcke initiated the PoC (proof-of-concept) series in Python, C++ and Go last summer.
    keywords: console; development; geth; program
       cache: blog-implementing-vitaliks-vision.html
  plain text: blog-implementing-vitaliks-vision.txt

        item: #66 of 267
          id: blog-important-statement-regarding-the-ether-pre-sale
      author: blog
       title: blog-important-statement-regarding-the-ether-pre-sale
        date: None
       words: 336
      flesch: 33
     summary: Stephan Tual issues an important statement regarding the Ether pre-sale. He asks peercover.com to stop offering ether forwards until there is more information released on the Ether project and the potential value of the ether cryptofuel.
    keywords: ether
       cache: blog-important-statement-regarding-the-ether-pre-sale.html
  plain text: blog-important-statement-regarding-the-ether-pre-sale.txt

        item: #67 of 267
          id: blog-index
      author: blog
       title: blog-index
        date: None
       words: 6877
      flesch: 65
     summary: Secret Sharing and Erasure Coding: A Guide for the Aspiring Dropbox Decentralizer is a blog post by Vitalik Buterin. It's about incentivized decentralized online file storage system. Vitalik also discusses the importance of redundancy in a decentralized network.
    keywords: chunks; file; polynomial; proof; protocol; redundancy
       cache: blog-index.html
  plain text: blog-index.txt

        item: #68 of 267
          id: blog-information-theoretic-account-secure-brainwallets
      author: blog
       title: blog-information-theoretic-account-secure-brainwallets
        date: None
       words: 4082
      flesch: 59
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has written a blog post on the topic of "brainwallets". Brainwallets store funds using a private key generated from a password memorized entirely in one's head. The challenge is to create a brainwallet that is simultaneously memorable and secure.
    keywords: bits; entropy; number; password; time; use
       cache: blog-information-theoretic-account-secure-brainwallets.html
  plain text: blog-information-theoretic-account-secure-brainwallets.txt

        item: #69 of 267
          id: blog-inside-ethereum-devhub-berlin
      author: blog
       title: blog-inside-ethereum-devhub-berlin
        date: None
       words: 179
      flesch: 28
     summary: Yesterday was the first proper day of VHub Berlin being open. Gavin Wood has posted a few pictures from inside the place to gauge the mood here. Henning, Marek, Viktor, Felix, Aeron, Brian, Alex, Jutta, and the rest of the team are hacking in the lab.
    keywords: protocol
       cache: blog-inside-ethereum-devhub-berlin.html
  plain text: blog-inside-ethereum-devhub-berlin.txt

        item: #70 of 267
          id: blog-introducing-casper-friendly-ghost
      author: blog
       title: blog-introducing-casper-friendly-ghost
        date: None
       words: 2538
      flesch: 49
     summary: Vlad Zamfir has been working on the analysis and specification of the “proof-of-stake” blockchain architecture since September 2014. Vlad and Vitalik haven't agreed on all the details of the spec, but they have consensus on many properties of the proof of stake protocol. Formal verification and simulation of Casper’s properties is under way.
    keywords: blocks; casper; consensus; validators
       cache: blog-introducing-casper-friendly-ghost.html
  plain text: blog-introducing-casper-friendly-ghost.txt

        item: #71 of 267
          id: blog-introducing-ethereum-script-2-0
      author: blog
       title: blog-introducing-ethereum-script-2-0
        date: None
       words: 3742
      flesch: 68
     summary: Introducing the new version of the Ethereum scripting language, called "Ethereum Script 2.0". Vitalik Buterin is working on a major rework of the language. The CLL will stay the same as it is now.
    keywords: code; contract; push; stack
       cache: blog-introducing-ethereum-script-2-0.html
  plain text: blog-introducing-ethereum-script-2-0.txt

        item: #72 of 267
          id: blog-introduction-futarchy
      author: blog
       title: blog-introduction-futarchy
        date: None
       words: 4956
      flesch: 49
     summary: An Introduction to Futarchy is posted on the Etherum Foundation blog by Vitalik Buterin. Futarchy was originally proposed by economist Robin Hanson as a futuristic form of government. Under it, people would vote on a metric to determine how well their country (or charity or company) is doing, and then prediction markets would be used to pick the policies that best optimize the metric.
    keywords: ceo; company; futarchy; market; price; protocol; token; value
       cache: blog-introduction-futarchy.html
  plain text: blog-introduction-futarchy.txt

        item: #73 of 267
          id: blog-jeffs-ethereum-dev-update
      author: blog
       title: blog-jeffs-ethereum-dev-update
        date: None
       words: 1033
      flesch: 67
     summary: Jeff Wilcke is a founder of the Ethereum Foundation and one of the three directors of the development entity building the protocol and the associated tech. He's been looking for a suitable office space to host the Amsterdam Hub for 2 months. Maran will do all he can to find the best place for the Ams hub and the development of Mist. 
    keywords: development; ethereum; team
       cache: blog-jeffs-ethereum-dev-update.html
  plain text: blog-jeffs-ethereum-dev-update.txt

        item: #74 of 267
          id: blog-jeffs-ethereum-dev-update-2
      author: blog
       title: blog-jeffs-ethereum-dev-update-2
        date: None
       words: 704
      flesch: 65
     summary: Jeff Wilcke has updated his blog with an update on his side of things and that of the Go team. The audit is looming around the corner. PoC-7 has been released now for a week and has been stable. They are already hard at work to finalise PoC 8. 
    keywords: ethereum; protocol
       cache: blog-jeffs-ethereum-dev-update-2.html
  plain text: blog-jeffs-ethereum-dev-update-2.txt

        item: #75 of 267
          id: blog-juttas-update-bug-bounty-program-security-audit
      author: blog
       title: blog-juttas-update-bug-bounty-program-security-audit
        date: None
       words: 417
      flesch: 54
     summary: Jutta Steiner gives an update on the bug bounty program and security audit on the security side of the launch of the new version of the platform. The first round of work from security auditors is finishing in a couple of weeks and bug fixing is already well underway. 
    keywords: program; security
       cache: blog-juttas-update-bug-bounty-program-security-audit.html
  plain text: blog-juttas-update-bug-bounty-program-security-audit.txt

        item: #76 of 267
          id: blog-know-ethereum-secure
      author: blog
       title: blog-know-ethereum-secure
        date: None
       words: 1076
      flesch: 55
     summary: Jutta Steiner joined the team at the end of last year to manage the security audit of the protocols, clients and p2p-network of the Ethereum network. The audit started with the development of a general strategy for ensuring maximum security for the project. The analyses of the new protocols and algorithms covered topics like the security of the gas economics, ASIC-resistant proof of work puzzle and economic incentivisation of mining nodes.
    keywords: audit; end; security
       cache: blog-know-ethereum-secure.html
  plain text: blog-know-ethereum-secure.txt

        item: #77 of 267
          id: blog-launching-the-ether-sale
      author: blog
       title: blog-launching-the-ether-sale
        date: None
       words: 1430
      flesch: 56
     summary: Vitalik Buterin thanks the community for their patience regarding the launch of the ether sale. The team has been promising the sale would arise in two weeks for six months. In the intervening six months, they have been working on the development of the clients and the protocol.
    keywords: ether; ethereum; protocol; sale
       cache: blog-launching-the-ether-sale.html
  plain text: blog-launching-the-ether-sale.txt

        item: #78 of 267
          id: blog-light-clients-proof-stake
      author: blog
       title: blog-light-clients-proof-stake
        date: None
       words: 3078
      flesch: 60
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has written a blog post on the topic of "Light Clients and Proof of Stake". The main argument against proof of stake is that it's not easy to make a consensus algorithm light-client friendly.
    keywords: block; client; light; proof
       cache: blog-light-clients-proof-stake.html
  plain text: blog-light-clients-proof-stake.txt

        item: #79 of 267
          id: blog-long-range-attacks-the-serious-problem-with-adaptive-proof-of-work
      author: blog
       title: blog-long-range-attacks-the-serious-problem-with-adaptive-proof-of-work
        date: None
       words: 1301
      flesch: 55
     summary: Long-range attacks are a serious problem with adaptive proof of work. Vitalik Buterin explains the solution to this problem in a blog post on the EFS blog. The solution involves executing random contracts from the blockchain on the blockchain.
    keywords: blockchain; proof; range
       cache: blog-long-range-attacks-the-serious-problem-with-adaptive-proof-of-work.html
  plain text: blog-long-range-attacks-the-serious-problem-with-adaptive-proof-of-work.txt

        item: #80 of 267
          id: blog-merkling-in-ethereum
      author: blog
       title: blog-merkling-in-ethereum
        date: None
       words: 1843
      flesch: 59
     summary: Merkle trees are a fundamental part of what makes blockchains tick. Thanks to Merkle trees it is possible to build Ethereum nodes that run on all computers and laptops large and small, smart phones, and even internet of things devices such as those produced by Slock.it.
    keywords: merkle; root; transaction; tree
       cache: blog-merkling-in-ethereum.html
  plain text: blog-merkling-in-ethereum.txt

        item: #81 of 267
          id: blog-microsoft-to-sponsor-ethereums-devcon1-2
      author: blog
       title: blog-microsoft-to-sponsor-ethereums-devcon1-2
        date: None
       words: 305
      flesch: 39
     summary: Microsoft will sponsor and attend DΞVCON1, the premier Ethereum developer conference. It will be held from November 9th-13th at Gibson Hall in London, UK. Marley Gray, Director of Technology Strategy US Financial Services at Microsoft, is excited to work with Vitalik Buterin. 
    keywords: ethereum; microsoft
       cache: blog-microsoft-to-sponsor-ethereums-devcon1-2.html
  plain text: blog-microsoft-to-sponsor-ethereums-devcon1-2.txt

        item: #82 of 267
          id: blog-mining
      author: blog
       title: blog-mining
        date: None
       words: 6384
      flesch: 58
     summary: There has been a ruckus in the past week about the issue of mining centralization in the Bitcoin network. One mining pool, GHash.io, amass over 45% hashpower for many hours, and at one point even grew to become 51% of the entire network. Now, the situation has somewhat subsided, with GHash down to 35% network hashpower and the runner-up, Discus Fish, up to 16%.
    keywords: asic; bitcoin; block; electricity; ghash; hashpower; miners; mining; network; pool
       cache: blog-mining.html
  plain text: blog-mining.txt

        item: #83 of 267
          id: blog-more-thoughts-on-scripting-and-future-compatibility
      author: blog
       title: blog-more-thoughts-on-scripting-and-future-compatibility
        date: None
       words: 1920
      flesch: 55
     summary: Vitalik Buterin wrote a blog post introducing the new version of the Script 2.0. Sergio Damian Lerner, a Bitcoin security researcher, criticizes two aspects of the change: the fee system and the loss of the crypto opcodes.
    keywords: bitcoin; fee; protocol; sha256
       cache: blog-more-thoughts-on-scripting-and-future-compatibility.html
  plain text: blog-more-thoughts-on-scripting-and-future-compatibility.txt

        item: #84 of 267
          id: blog-more-uncle-statistics
      author: blog
       title: blog-more-uncle-statistics
        date: None
       words: 1652
      flesch: 52
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has collected uncle statistics for the first 280,000 blocks of the Ethereum blockchain. Uncle rates are low compared to Olympic. Larger miners have lower uncle rates. Uncle mechanic works with base block rewards only, not transaction fees.
    keywords: blocks; miners; uncle
       cache: blog-more-uncle-statistics.html
  plain text: blog-more-uncle-statistics.txt

        item: #85 of 267
          id: blog-nick-szabo-confirmed-as-keynote-speaker-of-ethereums-devcon1
      author: blog
       title: blog-nick-szabo-confirmed-as-keynote-speaker-of-ethereums-devcon1
        date: None
       words: 391
      flesch: 44
     summary: Nick Szabo is the Keynote Speaker of the DΞVCON1, which will be held from November 9th-13th at Gibson Hall in London, UK. Nick's keynote will focus on the history of the blockchain, smart contracts and assets on the blockchain. 
    keywords: ethereum; nick
       cache: blog-nick-szabo-confirmed-as-keynote-speaker-of-ethereums-devcon1.html
  plain text: blog-nick-szabo-confirmed-as-keynote-speaker-of-ethereums-devcon1.txt

        item: #86 of 267
          id: blog-olympic-frontier-pre-release
      author: blog
       title: blog-olympic-frontier-pre-release
        date: None
       words: 1171
      flesch: 49
     summary: Olympic is the ninth and last in the Proof-of-Concept IX series of the Ether-based protocols. The purpose of Olympic is to reward people who try to test the limits of the Ethereum blockchain during the pre-release period, spamming the network with transactions and doing crazy things with the state. There will be a total prize fund of up to 25,000 ether.
    keywords: account; number; transaction
       cache: blog-olympic-frontier-pre-release.html
  plain text: blog-olympic-frontier-pre-release.txt

        item: #87 of 267
          id: blog-olympic-rewards-announced
      author: blog
       title: blog-olympic-rewards-announced
        date: None
       words: 499
      flesch: 50
     summary: Olympic Rewards Announced by Vitalik Buterin on August 26, 2015. Top miners for blocks 300000-1000000 are entitled to receive 0.5 ETH per block. Top senders for blocks 600-1,000 get 250 ETH.
    keywords: block; eth
       cache: blog-olympic-rewards-announced.html
  plain text: blog-olympic-rewards-announced.txt

        item: #88 of 267
          id: blog-on-abstraction
      author: blog
       title: blog-on-abstraction
        date: None
       words: 4193
      flesch: 57
     summary: On Abstraction is a blog post by Vitalik Buterin, the founder of the Ethereum Foundation. It explains some of the reasons behind the development of the platform.    It also discusses some technical issues with the system. 
    keywords: code; currency; ethereum; gas; transaction; trie; value
       cache: blog-on-abstraction.html
  plain text: blog-on-abstraction.txt

        item: #89 of 267
          id: blog-on-anti-pre-revelation-games
      author: blog
       title: blog-on-anti-pre-revelation-games
        date: None
       words: 2232
      flesch: 49
     summary: On the Anti-Pre-Revelation Games blog, Vitalik Buterin explains why some proposed applications on top of the Ethereum protocol rely on some kind of incentivized, multi-party data provision. Augur is a prediction market based on a Schelling scheme. 
    keywords: scheme; users; vote
       cache: blog-on-anti-pre-revelation-games.html
  plain text: blog-on-anti-pre-revelation-games.txt

        item: #90 of 267
          id: blog-on-long-term-cryptocurrency-distribution-models
      author: blog
       title: blog-on-long-term-cryptocurrency-distribution-models
        date: None
       words: 3341
      flesch: 53
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has written a blog post on long-term cryptocurrency distribution models. The issue is still in its early stages of discussion. Long-term distribution in nearly every cryptocurrency now follows one of two strategies: nothing at all or mining.
    keywords: algorithm; data; distribution; mining; proof; work
       cache: blog-on-long-term-cryptocurrency-distribution-models.html
  plain text: blog-on-long-term-cryptocurrency-distribution-models.txt

        item: #91 of 267
          id: blog-on-public-and-private-blockchains
      author: blog
       title: blog-on-public-and-private-blockchains
        date: None
       words: 1888
      flesch: 39
     summary: On August 7, 2015 Vitalik Buterin wrote a blog post on the topic of public and private blockchains. He explains the difference between the two types of blockchains and explains the practical differences between them. He also explains the differences between the three types of database applications.
    keywords: blockchains; consortium; program; proof; public
       cache: blog-on-public-and-private-blockchains.html
  plain text: blog-on-public-and-private-blockchains.txt

        item: #92 of 267
          id: blog-on-slow-and-fast-block-times
      author: blog
       title: blog-on-slow-and-fast-block-times
        date: None
       words: 2789
      flesch: 49
     summary: On Slow and Fast Block Times, Vitalik Buterin explains why fast block times are desirable for the security of the blockchain. Centralization risks are the main reason not to push block times down to 1 second despite the benefits.
    keywords: block; blockchain; probability; security
       cache: blog-on-slow-and-fast-block-times.html
  plain text: blog-on-slow-and-fast-block-times.txt

        item: #93 of 267
          id: blog-on-transaction-fees-and-the-fallacy-of-market-based-solutions
      author: blog
       title: blog-on-transaction-fees-and-the-fallacy-of-market-based-solutions
        date: None
       words: 2314
      flesch: 58
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has written a blog post on the transaction fee structure of the Ethereum protocol. He suggests a flexible fee system that allows consensus-based human intervention after the fact would be best for the project. Bitcoin already has a ready-made solution: make the fees voluntary and market-based.
    keywords: fees; miners; protocol; set; transaction
       cache: blog-on-transaction-fees-and-the-fallacy-of-market-based-solutions.html
  plain text: blog-on-transaction-fees-and-the-fallacy-of-market-based-solutions.txt

        item: #94 of 267
          id: blog-p-epsilon-attack
      author: blog
       title: blog-p-epsilon-attack
        date: None
       words: 1941
      flesch: 51
     summary: The P + epsilon attack on SchellingCoin was conceived by Andrew Miller earlier this month. Schelling coins rely on untested cryptoeconomic security assumptions. The theory is that if everyone expects everyone else to vote truthfully, then their incentive is to comply with the majority.
    keywords: attacker; vote
       cache: blog-p-epsilon-attack.html
  plain text: blog-p-epsilon-attack.txt

        item: #95 of 267
          id: blog-programming-society-with-asm-gavin-wood-at-assembly-2014
      author: blog
       title: blog-programming-society-with-asm-gavin-wood-at-assembly-2014
        date: None
       words: 123
      flesch: 24
     summary: Programming Society with Asm: Gavin Wood at Assembly 2014 is on the blog of the E.E.F.C. Foundation. Sign up to receive email notifications for protocol-related announcements, such as network upgrades, FAQs or security issues.
    keywords: protocol
       cache: blog-programming-society-with-asm-gavin-wood-at-assembly-2014.html
  plain text: blog-programming-society-with-asm-gavin-wood-at-assembly-2014.txt

        item: #96 of 267
          id: blog-proof-stake-learned-love-weak-subjectivity
      author: blog
       title: blog-proof-stake-learned-love-weak-subjectivity
        date: None
       words: 3691
      flesch: 52
     summary: Vitalik Buterin explains the benefits of proof of stake in a blog post for the R&D department of the Ethereum Foundation. He also explains the disadvantages of the proof of work-based alternatives to proof of stake. 
    keywords: consensus; network; proof; security; set; stake; work
       cache: blog-proof-stake-learned-love-weak-subjectivity.html
  plain text: blog-proof-stake-learned-love-weak-subjectivity.txt

        item: #97 of 267
          id: blog-pyethereum-and-serpent-programming-guide
      author: blog
       title: blog-pyethereum-and-serpent-programming-guide
        date: None
       words: 3893
      flesch: 58
     summary: The tutorial is intended to apply to PoC5. Most of the instructions given below will not work in the older PoC4 implementations of AlethZero (C++) and Ethereal (Go). Vitalik Buterin has made a lot of changes to the Ethereum protocol in the last few weeks. Chen Houwu, Heiko Kees, Konrad Feldmeier and Konrad Houwu are the main Python developers for Pyethereum.
    keywords: code; contract; data; ether; pyethtool; serpent; storage; value
       cache: blog-pyethereum-and-serpent-programming-guide.html
  plain text: blog-pyethereum-and-serpent-programming-guide.txt

        item: #98 of 267
          id: blog-scalability-part-1-building-top
      author: blog
       title: blog-scalability-part-1-building-top
        date: None
       words: 3049
      flesch: 55
     summary: Vitalik Buterin is going to write a series of posts on scalability of the Ethereum network. He will discuss the fundamental problem with scalability and introduce solutions to specific problems. In later posts, he will discuss further generalizations of such mechanisms and apply them to the whole network.
    keywords: block; ethereum; transaction; value
       cache: blog-scalability-part-1-building-top.html
  plain text: blog-scalability-part-1-building-top.txt

        item: #99 of 267
          id: blog-scalability-part-2-hypercubes
      author: blog
       title: blog-scalability-part-2-hypercubes
        date: None
       words: 5633
      flesch: 57
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has written a blog post on scalability in the context of a Bitcoin-like currency called Hypercubes. The objective is to be able to process tens of thousands of transactions per second and provide a transaction fee of less than $0.001, while maintaining security against 25% attacks.
    keywords: block; chain; challenge; header; messages; miners; protocol; substate
       cache: blog-scalability-part-2-hypercubes.html
  plain text: blog-scalability-part-2-hypercubes.txt

        item: #100 of 267
          id: blog-scalability-part-3-metacoin-history-multichain
      author: blog
       title: blog-scalability-part-3-metacoin-history-multichain
        date: None
       words: 3779
      flesch: 50
     summary: Vitalik Buterin wrote a proposal for a general-purpose stack-based programming language that Mastercoin could include to allow two parties to make a contract on an arbitrary mathematical formula. Vlad Zamfir is responsible for much of the thinking behind multi-chain cryptoeconomic paradigms.
    keywords: bitcoin; block; blockchain; chain; ethereum; security; vote
       cache: blog-scalability-part-3-metacoin-history-multichain.html
  plain text: blog-scalability-part-3-metacoin-history-multichain.txt

        item: #101 of 267
          id: blog-schellingcoin-a-minimal-trust-universal-data-feed
      author: blog
       title: blog-schellingcoin-a-minimal-trust-universal-data-feed
        date: None
       words: 2863
      flesch: 55
     summary: SchellingCoin is a Minimal-Trust Universal Data Feed. Vitalik Buterin is working on financial contracts and derivatives in the context of Bitcoin. The concept of hedging has a number of legitimate uses, some of which help people protect themselves against the volatility of financial markets.
    keywords: btc; eth; protocol; schellingcoin; value
       cache: blog-schellingcoin-a-minimal-trust-universal-data-feed.html
  plain text: blog-schellingcoin-a-minimal-trust-universal-data-feed.txt

        item: #102 of 267
          id: blog-search-stable-cryptocurrency
      author: blog
       title: blog-search-stable-cryptocurrency
        date: None
       words: 5011
      flesch: 50
     summary: The Search for a Stable Cryptocurrency is a research topic for Vitalik Buterin. The research will likely go into either subcurrencies or independent blockchains. In the past 11 months Bitcoin holders have lost 67% of their wealth.
    keywords: coins; currency; estimator; price; supply; system; value; vol
       cache: blog-search-stable-cryptocurrency.html
  plain text: blog-search-stable-cryptocurrency.txt

        item: #103 of 267
          id: blog-secret-sharing-daos-crypto-2-0
      author: blog
       title: blog-secret-sharing-daos-crypto-2-0
        date: None
       words: 6115
      flesch: 58
     summary: Secret Sharing DAOs: The Other Crypto 2.0 is a blog post by Vitalik Buterin. The industry has been making progress in the past year developing blockchain technology. Bitcoin brings a unique set of tradeoffs with respect to financial privacy.
    keywords: = =; dao; point; protocol; secret; sharing; stack[stack_size
       cache: blog-secret-sharing-daos-crypto-2-0.html
  plain text: blog-secret-sharing-daos-crypto-2-0.txt

        item: #104 of 267
          id: blog-secret-sharing-erasure-coding-guide-aspiring-dropbox-decentralizer
      author: blog
       title: blog-secret-sharing-erasure-coding-guide-aspiring-dropbox-decentralizer
        date: None
       words: 6877
      flesch: 65
     summary: Secret Sharing and Erasure Coding: A Guide for the Aspiring Dropbox Decentralizer is a blog post by Vitalik Buterin. It's about incentivized decentralized online file storage system. Vitalik also discusses the importance of redundancy in a decentralized network.
    keywords: chunks; file; polynomial; proof; protocol; redundancy
       cache: blog-secret-sharing-erasure-coding-guide-aspiring-dropbox-decentralizer.html
  plain text: blog-secret-sharing-erasure-coding-guide-aspiring-dropbox-decentralizer.txt

        item: #105 of 267
          id: blog-security-advisory-eth-cpp-ethereum-potentially-vulnerable-if-running-with-upnp-enabled
      author: blog
       title: blog-security-advisory-eth-cpp-ethereum-potentially-vulnerable-if-running-with-upnp-enabled
        date: None
       words: 219
      flesch: 30
     summary: A vulnerability in the MiniUPnP library can potentially affect eth clients running with UPnP enabled. The solution is to only run eth (Cpp-ethereum) with UPNP disabled by passing --upnp off to eth.
    keywords: ethereum
       cache: blog-security-advisory-eth-cpp-ethereum-potentially-vulnerable-if-running-with-upnp-enabled.html
  plain text: blog-security-advisory-eth-cpp-ethereum-potentially-vulnerable-if-running-with-upnp-enabled.txt

        item: #106 of 267
          id: blog-security-advisory-implementations-bugs-in-go-and-python-clients-can-cause-dos
      author: blog
       title: blog-security-advisory-implementations-bugs-in-go-and-python-clients-can-cause-dos
        date: None
       words: 414
      flesch: 43
     summary: There are implementation bugs in Go and Python clients that cause DoS. The current stable version of Go-ethereum (geth) is 1.1.1, but if you are running 1.0 and using a package manager such as apt-get or homebrew the client will be upgraded.
    keywords: clients; security
       cache: blog-security-advisory-implementations-bugs-in-go-and-python-clients-can-cause-dos.html
  plain text: blog-security-advisory-implementations-bugs-in-go-and-python-clients-can-cause-dos.txt

        item: #107 of 267
          id: blog-security-alert-1-windowsalethzero-2
      author: blog
       title: blog-security-alert-1-windowsalethzero-2
        date: None
       words: 351
      flesch: 51
     summary: There is a security issue with the Windows version of AlethZero and Eth on the Windows platform. The issue affects users of version 0.9.39 and earlier. New hotfix has been released with changes to fix the issue.
    keywords: security; users
       cache: blog-security-alert-1-windowsalethzero-2.html
  plain text: blog-security-alert-1-windowsalethzero-2.txt

        item: #108 of 267
          id: blog-security-alert-consensus-issue
      author: blog
       title: blog-security-alert-consensus-issue
        date: None
       words: 539
      flesch: 54
     summary: There was a state database consensus issue in geth with deletion of account data. Miners switched to Eth or pyethereum as a temporary workaround. The issue was fixed before the announcement of the new release 1.1.0.
    keywords: fix; issue
       cache: blog-security-alert-consensus-issue.html
  plain text: blog-security-alert-consensus-issue.txt

        item: #109 of 267
          id: blog-security-alert-implementation-bug-in-go-clients-causing-increase-in-difficulty-fixed-miners-check-and-update-go-clients-if-necessary
      author: blog
       title: blog-security-alert-implementation-bug-in-go-clients-causing-increase-in-difficulty-fixed-miners-check-and-update-go-clients-if-necessary
        date: None
       words: 345
      flesch: 22
     summary: A bug in the Go client leads to a steady increase in difficulty independent of hashing power. Miners running earlier versions of Go are affected and advised to update as soon as possible. The bug was fixed in a recent update and release through commit.
    keywords: bug; increase
       cache: blog-security-alert-implementation-bug-in-go-clients-causing-increase-in-difficulty-fixed-miners-check-and-update-go-clients-if-necessary.html
  plain text: blog-security-alert-implementation-bug-in-go-clients-causing-increase-in-difficulty-fixed-miners-check-and-update-go-clients-if-necessary.txt

        item: #110 of 267
          id: blog-security-alert-implementation-of-blockhash-instruction-in-c-and-go-clients-can-potentially-cause-consensus-issue-fixed-please-update
      author: blog
       title: blog-security-alert-implementation-of-blockhash-instruction-in-c-and-go-clients-can-potentially-cause-consensus-issue-fixed-please-update
        date: None
       words: 346
      flesch: 33
     summary: Both C++ (eth) and Go (geth) clients have an erroneous implementation of an edge case in the Ethereum virtual machine. Erroneous implementation of BLOCKHASH can trigger a chain reorganisation leading to consensus problems. All geth versions up to 1.1.3 and 1.2.2 are affected, but pyethereum is unaffected.
    keywords: protocol; security
       cache: blog-security-alert-implementation-of-blockhash-instruction-in-c-and-go-clients-can-potentially-cause-consensus-issue-fixed-please-update.html
  plain text: blog-security-alert-implementation-of-blockhash-instruction-in-c-and-go-clients-can-potentially-cause-consensus-issue-fixed-please-update.txt

        item: #111 of 267
          id: blog-security-alert-insecurely-configured-geth-can-make-funds-remotely-accessible
      author: blog
       title: blog-security-alert-insecurely-configured-geth-can-make-funds-remotely-accessible
        date: None
       words: 489
      flesch: 47
     summary: Insecurely configured Geth clients with no firewall and unlocked accounts can lead to funds being accessed remotely by attackers. The issue has been reported for C++ and Python, but only for nodes which leave the JSON-RPC port open to an attacker.
    keywords: rpc; security
       cache: blog-security-alert-insecurely-configured-geth-can-make-funds-remotely-accessible.html
  plain text: blog-security-alert-insecurely-configured-geth-can-make-funds-remotely-accessible.txt

        item: #112 of 267
          id: blog-security-alert-previous-security-patch-can-lead-to-invalid-state-root-on-go-clients-with-a-specific-transaction-sequence-fixed-please-update
      author: blog
       title: blog-security-alert-previous-security-patch-can-lead-to-invalid-state-root-on-go-clients-with-a-specific-transaction-sequence-fixed-please-update
        date: None
       words: 322
      flesch: 35
     summary: There is a bug in the Go client that can lead to invalid state on some Go clients with a specific transaction sequence. The fix has been posted on the EFS blog by Jutta Steiner. There is no effect on the expected chain reorganisation depth.
    keywords: protocol; security
       cache: blog-security-alert-previous-security-patch-can-lead-to-invalid-state-root-on-go-clients-with-a-specific-transaction-sequence-fixed-please-update.html
  plain text: blog-security-alert-previous-security-patch-can-lead-to-invalid-state-root-on-go-clients-with-a-specific-transaction-sequence-fixed-please-update.txt

        item: #113 of 267
          id: blog-serpent-upgrades-more-fun-stuff
      author: blog
       title: blog-serpent-upgrades-more-fun-stuff
        date: None
       words: 1382
      flesch: 66
     summary: Serpent upgrades have been made to the VM in the past two weeks. The new init/code mechanism allows to create new contracts via forwarding contracts. Transaction creation now has a fee of 500 gas and several other fees were updated. CODECOPY takes code_index, mem_index and len as arguments and copies the code to memory.
    keywords: code; contract; stack
       cache: blog-serpent-upgrades-more-fun-stuff.html
  plain text: blog-serpent-upgrades-more-fun-stuff.txt

        item: #114 of 267
          id: blog-silos
      author: blog
       title: blog-silos
        date: None
       words: 2914
      flesch: 45
     summary: There is an increasing amount of fragmentation in the cryptocurrency community. Sidechains proponents argue that this fragmentation is harmful to the Bitcoin ecosystem. Sidechain proposal is an effort to unite the community behind its most important ideas.    
    keywords: bitcoin; blockchain; cryptocurrency; ecosystem; ethereum; people
       cache: blog-silos.html
  plain text: blog-silos.txt

        item: #115 of 267
          id: blog-slasher-a-punitive-proof-of-stake-algorithm
      author: blog
       title: blog-slasher-a-punitive-proof-of-stake-algorithm
        date: None
       words: 1666
      flesch: 63
     summary: Slasher is a proof-of-stake mining algorithm. Vitalik Buterin proposes it as a replacement for Dagger as the main mining function of the current version of the Ethereum network. It has a number of advantages over proof of work mining.
    keywords: block; proof; stake; work
       cache: blog-slasher-a-punitive-proof-of-stake-algorithm.html
  plain text: blog-slasher-a-punitive-proof-of-stake-algorithm.txt

        item: #116 of 267
          id: blog-slasher-ghost-developments-proof-stake
      author: blog
       title: blog-slasher-ghost-developments-proof-stake
        date: None
       words: 5523
      flesch: 53
     summary: Vitalik Buterin and Vlad Zamfir are working on a proof-of-stake algorithm for the future development of the Bitcoin-like proof of work system. Vlad and Zack Hess have contributed to the development of Slasher Ghost and other proposals. 
    keywords: block; chain; proof; set; signers; stake
       cache: blog-slasher-ghost-developments-proof-stake.html
  plain text: blog-slasher-ghost-developments-proof-stake.txt

        item: #117 of 267
          id: blog-software-bounded-rationality
      author: blog
       title: blog-software-bounded-rationality
        date: None
       words: 5339
      flesch: 51
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has written a blog post on Software and Bounded Rationality for the Foundation blog. He explains that the ideal of incentive-compatibility in a cryptoeconomic algorithm is the idea that it should be in everyone's economic interest to follow the protocol.
    keywords: bitcoin; block; btc; case; model; protocol; software; system; users
       cache: blog-software-bounded-rationality.html
  plain text: blog-software-bounded-rationality.txt

        item: #118 of 267
          id: blog-stake
      author: blog
       title: blog-stake
        date: None
       words: 4945
      flesch: 53
     summary: GHASH.io, the Bitcoin network's largest mining pool, has for the past month directed over 40% of the network's hashpower. Vitalik Buterin proposes to abolish mining and replace it with a new model for seeking consensus.
    keywords: block; chain; cost; mining; proof; stake; transaction
       cache: blog-stake.html
  plain text: blog-stake.txt

        item: #119 of 267
          id: blog-state-ethereum-august-edition
      author: blog
       title: blog-state-ethereum-august-edition
        date: None
       words: 3227
      flesch: 55
     summary: The development of the project has been progressing very quickly this past month. Vitalik Buterin is working on PoC6, the next version in the series, which features a number of enhancements. The project is at a state roughly similar to Bitcoin in mid-2009. 
    keywords: code; contract; ethereum; gas; heap; time
       cache: blog-state-ethereum-august-edition.html
  plain text: blog-state-ethereum-august-edition.txt

        item: #120 of 267
          id: blog-state-tree-pruning
      author: blog
       title: blog-state-tree-pruning
        date: None
       words: 1794
      flesch: 52
     summary: The amount of data in each client's blockchain folder has ballooned to 10-40 gigabytes in the last month. This is due to the fact that users are incentivized to dump transactions on the blockchain paying only the free testether as a transaction fee.
    keywords: block; state; tree
       cache: blog-state-tree-pruning.html
  plain text: blog-state-tree-pruning.txt

        item: #121 of 267
          id: blog-stateful-turing-complete-policies
      author: blog
       title: blog-stateful-turing-complete-policies
        date: None
       words: 2148
      flesch: 46
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has written a post on the Stateful Turing-Complete Policies blog about the security of user accounts on the internet. He proposes replacing passwords with a single password to rule them all and a free market of solutions to manage user access control.
    keywords: access; code; complete; policy; security
       cache: blog-stateful-turing-complete-policies.html
  plain text: blog-stateful-turing-complete-policies.txt

        item: #122 of 267
          id: blog-stephans-ethereum-community-adoption-update-week-1
      author: blog
       title: blog-stephans-ethereum-community-adoption-update-week-1
        date: None
       words: 1598
      flesch: 54
     summary: Stephan Tual has been responsible for the adoption and education of the project since January. He is also leading the effort on the communication strategy at ÐΞV. He feels privileged to be able to lead the effort. 
    keywords: adoption; community; efforts; ethereum; meetups
       cache: blog-stephans-ethereum-community-adoption-update-week-1.html
  plain text: blog-stephans-ethereum-community-adoption-update-week-1.txt

        item: #123 of 267
          id: blog-subjectivity-exploitability-tradeoff
      author: blog
       title: blog-subjectivity-exploitability-tradeoff
        date: None
       words: 4172
      flesch: 51
     summary: The Subjectivity / Exploitability Tradeoff is a trade-off between security and profit potential of consensus systems. SchellingCoin is vulnerable to a P + epsilon attack in the presence of an attacker willing to commit to bribing a large enough amount.
    keywords: fork; mechanism; proof; protocol; schellingcoin; vote; work
       cache: blog-subjectivity-exploitability-tradeoff.html
  plain text: blog-subjectivity-exploitability-tradeoff.txt

        item: #124 of 267
          id: blog-superrationality-daos
      author: blog
       title: blog-superrationality-daos
        date: None
       words: 3393
      flesch: 53
     summary: Vitalik Buterin explains the advantages of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) in a blog post. The post contains some crazy ideas, but it is not meant to imply that Vitalik is certain that the idea is correct. 
    keywords: daos; gain; human; leaky; organizations; people
       cache: blog-superrationality-daos.html
  plain text: blog-superrationality-daos.txt

        item: #125 of 267
          id: blog-the-business-imperative-behind-the-ethereum-vision
      author: blog
       title: blog-the-business-imperative-behind-the-ethereum-vision
        date: None
       words: 4714
      flesch: 42
     summary: The Business Imperative Behind the Ethereum Vision is the topic of a blog post by William Mougayar. He explains why it's important for non-technical people to understand the business implications of the new technology, and why they need another global blockchain. 
    keywords: applications; bitcoin; blockchain; business; developers; development; ethereum; logic; network; software; technology
       cache: blog-the-business-imperative-behind-the-ethereum-vision.html
  plain text: blog-the-business-imperative-behind-the-ethereum-vision.txt

        item: #126 of 267
          id: blog-the-end-of-the-beginning
      author: blog
       title: blog-the-end-of-the-beginning
        date: None
       words: 610
      flesch: 51
     summary: As part of the tiered release process, we will soon be beginning the final phase prior to Frontier release. Proof-of-Concept IX testnet has been running smoothly for around a month with dozens of nodes around the world, well over 200,000 blocks and clients on several platforms. The usage of the PoC-IX testnet will be incentivised through a collection of prizes in ether.
    keywords: protocol; time
       cache: blog-the-end-of-the-beginning.html
  plain text: blog-the-end-of-the-beginning.txt

        item: #127 of 267
          id: blog-the-ethereum-project
      author: blog
       title: blog-the-ethereum-project
        date: None
       words: 1288
      flesch: 60
     summary: Mihai Alisie explains the ethos and motivation behind the project as a whole: the e.g. the ethereum project: learning to dream with open minds. The project started as an idea in Vitalik’s mind and has expanded into thousands of minds around the world thanks to the Internet. 
    keywords: ethereum; project; technology
       cache: blog-the-ethereum-project.html
  plain text: blog-the-ethereum-project.txt

        item: #128 of 267
          id: blog-the-evolution-of-ethereum
      author: blog
       title: blog-the-evolution-of-ethereum
        date: None
       words: 2414
      flesch: 27
     summary: Vitalik Buterin wrote a blog post about the development of the "web 3.0" according to Gavin Wood. The project is in a time of complicated transition. Vitalik developed four compatible versions of the project. 
    keywords: blockchain; development; ecosystem; ethereum; foundation; subsidiaries; work
       cache: blog-the-evolution-of-ethereum.html
  plain text: blog-the-evolution-of-ethereum.txt

        item: #129 of 267
          id: blog-the-issuance-model-in-ethereum
      author: blog
       title: blog-the-issuance-model-in-ethereum
        date: None
       words: 1039
      flesch: 59
     summary: Ether (ETH) is a currency that powers distributed applications on the Ethereum platform. It will be issued at a constant annual linear rate via the block mining process. The rate of growth of the monetary base (monetary inflation) is not constant, so ETH is disinflationary.
    keywords: eth; inflation; year
       cache: blog-the-issuance-model-in-ethereum.html
  plain text: blog-the-issuance-model-in-ethereum.txt

        item: #130 of 267
          id: blog-the-latest-evm-ethereum-is-a-trust-free-closure-system
      author: blog
       title: blog-the-latest-evm-ethereum-is-a-trust-free-closure-system
        date: None
       words: 2180
      flesch: 59
     summary: Vitalik Buterin and Gavin Wood have been meeting with the local community in San Francisco and Silicon Valley in the past two weeks. They agree on a large array of changes that will be integrated into the PoC 3.5 clients. 
    keywords: contract; ethereum; gas; transaction
       cache: blog-the-latest-evm-ethereum-is-a-trust-free-closure-system.html
  plain text: blog-the-latest-evm-ethereum-is-a-trust-free-closure-system.txt

        item: #131 of 267
          id: blog-the-problem-of-censorship
      author: blog
       title: blog-the-problem-of-censorship
        date: None
       words: 3161
      flesch: 47
     summary: The Problem of Censorship in decentralized cryptoeconomic systems is a necessary property in order to secure the effective operation of a number of different financial protocols. Vitalik Buterin wrote a blog post on the topic for the E.E.F. blog.
    keywords: block; blockchain; censorship; eth; price; transaction
       cache: blog-the-problem-of-censorship.html
  plain text: blog-the-problem-of-censorship.txt

        item: #132 of 267
          id: blog-the-question-of-mining
      author: blog
       title: blog-the-question-of-mining
        date: None
       words: 1334
      flesch: 55
     summary: There are interesting changes to the Ethereum protocol that will improve the power of the system. Vitalik Buterin proposes a Hashcash-based implementation of the mining algorithm similar to Bitcoin's SHA256 and Litecoin's scrypt. 
    keywords: ethereum; miner; mining
       cache: blog-the-question-of-mining.html
  plain text: blog-the-question-of-mining.txt

        item: #133 of 267
          id: blog-the-thawing-frontier
      author: blog
       title: blog-the-thawing-frontier
        date: None
       words: 795
      flesch: 60
     summary: The network will switch epoch in 2 hours and the 5k gas limit per block will be lifted within the next few days. AMD cards will require GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=95 to support the larger DAG size.
    keywords: gas; protocol
       cache: blog-the-thawing-frontier.html
  plain text: blog-the-thawing-frontier.txt

        item: #134 of 267
          id: blog-the-xbox-and-ethereums-dual-mandate
      author: blog
       title: blog-the-xbox-and-ethereums-dual-mandate
        date: None
       words: 1457
      flesch: 45
     summary: Joseph Lubin explains the need to build and launch an ecosystem on Genesis Day. On the day of the genesis block, many of the elements of the ecosystem will be in place, including the core infrastructure, mining network, user app browser and applications.
    keywords: development; ecosystem; ethereum; non; profit
       cache: blog-the-xbox-and-ethereums-dual-mandate.html
  plain text: blog-the-xbox-and-ethereums-dual-mandate.txt

        item: #135 of 267
          id: blog-toward-a-12-second-block-time
      author: blog
       title: blog-toward-a-12-second-block-time
        date: None
       words: 4332
      flesch: 63
     summary: There is a long delay before a transaction gets finalized on the Bitcoin network. Vitalik Buterin is working on a solution for this problem in the form of a 12-second block time on the decentralized platform called the "Ethernet".
    keywords: block; chain; mining; score; time; uncles
       cache: blog-toward-a-12-second-block-time.html
  plain text: blog-toward-a-12-second-block-time.txt

        item: #136 of 267
          id: blog-understanding-serenity-part-2-casper
      author: blog
       title: blog-understanding-serenity-part-2-casper
        date: None
       words: 4074
      flesch: 48
     summary: Vitalik Buterin explains the Casper proof of stake algorithm that is a key feature of the Serenity protocol. It is a new philosophy in the field of public economic consensus. It allows validators to bet against the protocol on which blocks are going to be finalized.
    keywords: bet; bets; block; chain; consensus; protocol; validator
       cache: blog-understanding-serenity-part-2-casper.html
  plain text: blog-understanding-serenity-part-2-casper.txt

        item: #137 of 267
          id: blog-understanding-serenity-part-i-abstraction
      author: blog
       title: blog-understanding-serenity-part-i-abstraction
        date: None
       words: 2989
      flesch: 43
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has released the first proof-of-concept release for Serenity, a new feature of the Ethereum protocol. It is intended to have two major feature sets: abstraction and Casper, our security-deposit-based proof of stake algorithm.
    keywords: account; block; code; contract; ethereum; serenity; transaction
       cache: blog-understanding-serenity-part-i-abstraction.html
  plain text: blog-understanding-serenity-part-i-abstraction.txt

        item: #138 of 267
          id: blog-visions-part-1-the-value-of-blockchain-technology
      author: blog
       title: blog-visions-part-1-the-value-of-blockchain-technology
        date: None
       words: 4664
      flesch: 45
     summary: Visions, Part 1: The Value of Blockchains, is a blog post by Vitalik Buterin. Vitalik believes there will be no "killer app" for blockchain technology, because there is no low-hanging fruit.
    keywords: applications; blockchain; data; key; people; reputation; use; world
       cache: blog-visions-part-1-the-value-of-blockchain-technology.html
  plain text: blog-visions-part-1-the-value-of-blockchain-technology.txt

        item: #139 of 267
          id: blog-visions-part-2-the-problem-of-trust
      author: blog
       title: blog-visions-part-2-the-problem-of-trust
        date: None
       words: 4547
      flesch: 49
     summary: Visions, Part 2: The Problem of Trust is a blog post by Vitalik Buterin from the R&D department of the Ethereum Foundation. It's about the "trust problem" of cryptocurrencies and blockchains. 
    keywords: blockchain; model; people; set; system; time; trust; world
       cache: blog-visions-part-2-the-problem-of-trust.html
  plain text: blog-visions-part-2-the-problem-of-trust.txt

        item: #140 of 267
          id: blog-vitaliks-research-and-ecosystem-update
      author: blog
       title: blog-vitaliks-research-and-ecosystem-update
        date: None
       words: 1709
      flesch: 30
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has been visiting China and Hong Kong for a series of back-to-back conferences and events including the "First Global Blockchain Summit" in Shanghai organized by Wanxiang on Oct 15-16. He and others from the Ethereum team and other projects and businesses including Maker, String/Dfinity and Consensys have been visiting them.
    keywords: blockchain; development; ethereum; protocol; research
       cache: blog-vitaliks-research-and-ecosystem-update.html
  plain text: blog-vitaliks-research-and-ecosystem-update.txt

        item: #141 of 267
          id: blog-what-if-ethereum-lived-on-a-treap-or-blockchains-charging-rent
      author: blog
       title: blog-what-if-ethereum-lived-on-a-treap-or-blockchains-charging-rent
        date: None
       words: 2498
      flesch: 61
     summary: What If  Blockchains Charged Rent? is a blog post by Vitalik Buterin from the R&D department of the Ethereum Foundation. It's about anti-bloat strategy that could be used to achieve substantial gains in scalability of the system.
    keywords: account; block; blockchain; node; treap
       cache: blog-what-if-ethereum-lived-on-a-treap-or-blockchains-charging-rent.html
  plain text: blog-what-if-ethereum-lived-on-a-treap-or-blockchains-charging-rent.txt

        item: #142 of 267
          id: blog-what-is-ethereum-project-platform-fuel-stack
      author: blog
       title: blog-what-is-ethereum-project-platform-fuel-stack
        date: None
       words: 1643
      flesch: 50
     summary: Etium is an open source, community-driven effort to create a next-generation distributed application platform intended to be maximally flexible and powerful. It is a platform for developing, offering and using distributed application services. The nodes on the network serve as miners whose purpose is to process and validate the transactions and computations on the system.
    keywords: end; ethereum; system; ðapp
       cache: blog-what-is-ethereum-project-platform-fuel-stack.html
  plain text: blog-what-is-ethereum-project-platform-fuel-stack.txt

        item: #143 of 267
          id: blog-why-not-just-use-x-an-instructive-example-from-bitcoin
      author: blog
       title: blog-why-not-just-use-x-an-instructive-example-from-bitcoin
        date: None
       words: 759
      flesch: 45
     summary: There is a design flaw in the Bitcoin protocol where it's possible for a third party to take a valid transaction of yours and mutate it in a way which leaves it valid and functionally identical but with a different transaction ID. OpenSSL accepts and makes sense of signatures with invalid encodings.
    keywords: development; protocol
       cache: blog-why-not-just-use-x-an-instructive-example-from-bitcoin.html
  plain text: blog-why-not-just-use-x-an-instructive-example-from-bitcoin.txt

        item: #144 of 267
          id: brody-ideologies-2021
      author: brody
       title: brody-ideologies-2021
        date: 2024-09-13
       words: 9796
      flesch: 52
     summary: Ideologies and Imaginaries in Blockchain Communities: The Case of Ethereum examines the ideologies and imaginaries surrounding the second most used blockchain technology after Bitcoin. The article claims that the design of the technology widens the ideological spec-trum of cryptocurrency while masking certain currency ideologies.
    keywords: bitcoin; blockchain; case; computer; currency; design; ethereum; ideologies; imaginaries; new; url; world
       cache: brody-ideologies-2021.pdf
  plain text: brody-ideologies-2021.txt

        item: #145 of 267
          id: buterin-ethereum-2014
      author: buterin
       title: buterin-ethereum-2014
        date: 2022-02-02
       words: 14153
      flesch: 50
     summary: Satoshi Nakamoto created the Bitcoin in January 2009. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer online currency without any backing, intrinsic value or central issuer. The proof of work-based blockchain allows for public agreement on the order of transactions.
    keywords: account; bitcoin; block; blockchain; code; contract; data; ethereum; ethereum.org; miner; mining; nodes; page; protocol; state; system; transaction; value
       cache: buterin-ethereum-2014.pdf
  plain text: buterin-ethereum-2014.txt

        item: #146 of 267
          id: vitalik-99_fault_tolerant
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-99_fault_tolerant
        date: None
       words: 2004
      flesch: 61
     summary: It's possible to achieve consensus with 50% fault tolerance in a synchronous network where messages broadcast by one node are guaranteed to be received by all other honest nodes within a known time period. The maximum achievable fault tolerance drops to 33% if you relax the synchrony assumption. If you add more assumptions, you can increase fault tolerance to 99%.
    keywords: consensus; nodes; time
       cache: vitalik-99_fault_tolerant.html
  plain text: vitalik-99_fault_tolerant.txt

        item: #147 of 267
          id: vitalik-On_Collusion_DE
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-On_Collusion_DE
        date: None
       words: 4109
      flesch: 48
     summary: Glenn Weyl, Phil Daian, Jinglan Wang and inlak16 are the authors of the Artikels. In the last few years, the interest in Anreize and Mechanismus-Design has increased. In jüngerer Zeit wird es in Vorhersagemärkten, "Token-kuratierte register" and other Zusammenhängen angewandt.
    keywords: aber; als; auch; auf; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; eine; für; gibt; haben; hat; ist; kann; können; mechanismus; mit; nicht; nur; oder; sehr; sich; sie; sind; system; token; und; von; wenn; werden; wie; wird; zum
       cache: vitalik-On_Collusion_DE.html
  plain text: vitalik-On_Collusion_DE.txt

        item: #148 of 267
          id: vitalik-On_Collusion_IT
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-On_Collusion_IT
        date: None
       words: 4319
      flesch: 49
     summary: In the last few years, there has been an increase in the use of incentivi economici and meccanismi deliberatamente to allineate the comportamento dei partecipanti in contesti. RadicalXChange has started a sperimentazione with tasse, harberg, vote quadratico, finanziamento, quadratico and altro. Bihu, una piattaforma cinese, has introduced a meccanismo bas on tokens.
    keywords: account; anche; che; collusione; come; con; cui; dei; della; donut; esempio; essere; giochi; gli; identità; meccanismo; modo; molto; nel; non; più; possono; problema; può; questo; sistema; sono; token; una; voti; voto
       cache: vitalik-On_Collusion_IT.html
  plain text: vitalik-On_Collusion_IT.txt

        item: #149 of 267
          id: vitalik-On_Collusion_Polish
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-On_Collusion_Polish
        date: None
       words: 3680
      flesch: 55
     summary: There were specjalne podziękowania dla Glena Weyla, Phila Daiana, Jinglana, Wanga, Dawida Kurdziela and bichvan2408. RadicalXChange zainteresowanie wykorzystaniem skonstruktowanych bodźców ekonomicznych and mechanizmów.
    keywords: aby; ale; bardziej; bardzo; być; dla; gier; głosowania; głosów; istnieje; jak; jest; jeśli; każdy; który; lub; mechanizm; mogą; może; można; nawet; nie; niż; poparcia; przez; również; się; społeczności; systemy; tak; tego; tożsamości; treści; tym; wiele; zmowy; łapówki
       cache: vitalik-On_Collusion_Polish.html
  plain text: vitalik-On_Collusion_Polish.txt

        item: #150 of 267
          id: vitalik-On_Collusion_Portuguese
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-On_Collusion_Portuguese
        date: None
       words: 4320
      flesch: 43
     summary: Blockchain is a technology that provides a platform for incentivizing participants in the system. In the last few years, there has been an increase in the use of incentivos baseados on tokens in various contextos, such as in mercados de predição.
    keywords: apenas; com; como; dos; eles; exemplo; fazer; identidade; jogos; mais; mas; mecanismo; moedas; muito; não; onde; para; podem; por; que; ser; sistema; suborno; são; também; uma; usuário; você; votos
       cache: vitalik-On_Collusion_Portuguese.html
  plain text: vitalik-On_Collusion_Portuguese.txt

        item: #151 of 267
          id: vitalik-a_note_on_charity
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-a_note_on_charity
        date: None
       words: 1130
      flesch: 60
     summary: A restaurant sells sandwiches for $7.50 and makes a profit of $6733.12. If they raise the price by 1%, their profit declines from $6750 to $67.575. The smaller the distortion, the more favorable the ratio. 
    keywords: prices; profit
       cache: vitalik-a_note_on_charity.html
  plain text: vitalik-a_note_on_charity.txt

        item: #152 of 267
          id: vitalik-backpack
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-backpack
        date: None
       words: 2887
      flesch: 73
     summary: Nomad has lived as a nomad for the last nine years, taking 360 flights and travelling over 1.5 million kilometers. He has optimized the luggage he carries along with him, from a 60-liter shoulder bag with a separate laptop bag to a 40-liter packpage with all the supplies he needs to live his life.
    keywords: backpack; bag; cm3; laptop; socks; uniqlo
       cache: vitalik-backpack.html
  plain text: vitalik-backpack.txt

        item: #153 of 267
          id: vitalik-biometric
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-biometric
        date: None
       words: 6782
      flesch: 55
     summary: Worldcoin is a biometric proof-of-personhood project co-founded by Sam Altman. It uses a piece of hardware called the Orb to scan the iris of its users.    It is intended to give everyone a Universal Basic Income. 
    keywords: graph; hardware; humanity; iris; orb; people; personhood; proof; system; worldcoin
       cache: vitalik-biometric.html
  plain text: vitalik-biometric.txt

        item: #154 of 267
          id: vitalik-bullveto
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-bullveto
        date: None
       words: 1253
      flesch: 43
     summary: The bulldozer vs. vetocracy political axis is defined by the bulldozer and the vetocracy poles. It is not the same as either authoritarian vs. libertarian or left vs right. It can be a combination of these two poles.
    keywords: bulldozer; people; vetocracy
       cache: vitalik-bullveto.html
  plain text: vitalik-bullveto.txt

        item: #155 of 267
          id: vitalik-cbc_casper
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-cbc_casper
        date: None
       words: 2427
      flesch: 65
     summary: Vlad Zamfir's CBC Casper is a versatile and abstract data structure. Vlad's descriptions of it can be found here, here and here. In order to help more people understand "the other Casper" I wrote an explainer on it.
    keywords: block; chain; rule; validators
       cache: vitalik-cbc_casper.html
  plain text: vitalik-cbc_casper.txt

        item: #156 of 267
          id: vitalik-central_planning
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-central_planning
        date: None
       words: 3494
      flesch: 46
     summary: There is an intuition that "central planning" is unappreciated and unhelpful. Some recent examples of the intuition being misapplied are: people arguing that relatively simple entitlement programs like Social Security are burdensome government intervention, while elaborate and often discretionary tax breaks conditional on specific behaviors are a good step towards less government.
    keywords: complexity; example; planning; property; simplicity; system
       cache: vitalik-central_planning.html
  plain text: vitalik-central_planning.txt

        item: #157 of 267
          id: vitalik-christmas
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-christmas
        date: None
       words: 972
      flesch: 69
     summary: It's Christmas time and we're supposed to be spending time with our families. This blog post offers some games that you can play with your friends that will help you have fun and understand some spooky mathematical concepts. 1.58 dimensional chess is a variant of chess where the board is set up like this, but there are only 27 open squares.
    keywords: hand
       cache: vitalik-christmas.html
  plain text: vitalik-christmas.txt

        item: #158 of 267
          id: vitalik-cities
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-cities
        date: None
       words: 3942
      flesch: 57
     summary: In the last year there has been a growth of interest in local government and in the idea of local governments that have wider variance and do more experimentation. MiamiCoin already exists, and "San Francisco Coin" is coming soon. There are also experiments with coin issuance and NFTs.
    keywords: blockchain; cities; city; coin; government; ideas; people; voting
       cache: vitalik-cities.html
  plain text: vitalik-cities.txt

        item: #159 of 267
          id: vitalik-collusion
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-collusion
        date: None
       words: 4230
      flesch: 47
     summary: There is an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives to align behavior of participants in various contexts. Bihu is a Chinese platform that has recently released a coin-based mechanism for encouraging people to write posts. The basic mechanism is that if a user of the platform holds KEY tokens, they have the ability to stake those KEY tokens on articles.
    keywords: collusion; identity; key; mechanism; system; user; voting
       cache: vitalik-collusion.html
  plain text: vitalik-collusion.txt

        item: #160 of 267
          id: vitalik-communitynotes
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-communitynotes
        date: None
       words: 4382
      flesch: 59
     summary: Community Notes is a fact-checking tool on Twitter. It was first rolled out as a pilot project in January 2021. The most rapid phase of its expansion coincided with Twitter's takeover by Elon Musk last year. Community Notes can be written and voted on by anyone, and which notes are shown is decided by an open source algorithm.
    keywords: algorithm; community; helpfulness; note; polarity; users; votes
       cache: vitalik-communitynotes.html
  plain text: vitalik-communitynotes.txt

        item: #161 of 267
          id: vitalik-complexity
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-complexity
        date: None
       words: 1481
      flesch: 57
     summary: The main goal of the protocol design of the Ethereum protocol is to make it as simple as possible, while still making a blockchain that can do what an effective blockchain needs to do. Complexity is difficult to define, but there are two types of complexity: encapsulated complexity and systemic complexity.
    keywords: complexity; signatures
       cache: vitalik-complexity.html
  plain text: vitalik-complexity.txt

        item: #162 of 267
          id: vitalik-concave
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-concave
        date: None
       words: 1866
      flesch: 56
     summary: Convex and Convex Dispositions are two different philosophical dispositions. People with convex dispositions prefer to find the balance between the two extremes in their decisions rather than compromise between the extremes. Convextors prefer to focus on the low-hanging fruit and avoid doing things that the opposing philosophy considers terrible.
    keywords: concave; convex; tax
       cache: vitalik-concave.html
  plain text: vitalik-concave.txt

        item: #163 of 267
          id: vitalik-control_as_liability
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-control_as_liability
        date: None
       words: 1253
      flesch: 56
     summary: The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed over the last decade. In the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially "why not?". Today, the most recent privacy law, the GDPR, has many parts, including requirements for explicit consent, requirement to have a legal basis to process data, and users' right to download all their data. Other jurisdictions are exploring similar rules. There's a growing concern about data being moved to countries that do not sufficiently protect it.
    keywords: control; data; users
       cache: vitalik-control_as_liability.html
  plain text: vitalik-control_as_liability.txt

        item: #164 of 267
          id: vitalik-coordination
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-coordination
        date: None
       words: 3323
      flesch: 51
     summary: Coordination is the ability for large groups of actors to work together for their common interest. It is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. It can be improved in many ways, such as faster spread of information, better norms and punishments, stronger and more powerful organizations, smart contracts, governance technologies, voting, shares, decision markets, etc. However, there is a dark side to coordination.
    keywords: collusion; coordination; decentralization; game; group; people
       cache: vitalik-coordination.html
  plain text: vitalik-coordination.txt

        item: #165 of 267
          id: vitalik-coordination_problems
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-coordination_problems
        date: None
       words: 2225
      flesch: 50
     summary: There was a spat between the Core and Unlimited factions of the Bitcoin community. Core believes that miners only have a limited role in the Bitcoin system and shouldn't have the power to determine anything else. Unlimited believes that they should have a very large role in Bitcoin's governance.
    keywords: chain; client; rules; users
       cache: vitalik-coordination_problems.html
  plain text: vitalik-coordination_problems.txt

        item: #166 of 267
          id: vitalik-cryptoai
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-cryptoai
        date: None
       words: 4604
      flesch: 54
     summary: In the last three years, there has been a rise of powerful AI and the rise of more powerful crypto. There are some promising applications of AI inside of the blockchain ecosystems, but it is important to be careful about how the AI is applied.
    keywords: ais; attacks; data; game; model; training; use
       cache: vitalik-cryptoai.html
  plain text: vitalik-cryptoai.txt

        item: #167 of 267
          id: vitalik-cypherpunk
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-cypherpunk
        date: None
       words: 3714
      flesch: 54
     summary: The Bitcoin Kiez was a region in Kreuzberg, Berlin, where there were a dozen shops accepting Bitcoin for payments. Room 77, a restaurant and bar in Room 77 served as a community center. PorcFest was a libertarian gathering in northern New Hampshire where the main way to get food was from small popup restaurants with names like "Revolution Coffee" and "Seditious Soups, Salads and Smoothies".
    keywords: chain; community; crypto; ecosystem; ethereum; people; space; stack; world
       cache: vitalik-cypherpunk.html
  plain text: vitalik-cypherpunk.txt

        item: #168 of 267
          id: vitalik-daos
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-daos
        date: None
       words: 4401
      flesch: 49
     summary: There is a lot of discourse around the idea that highly decentralized DAOs do not work. Karl Floersch and Tina Zhen gave feedback on earlier versions of this article. Decentralization is important for making better decisions in concave environments. It is also important for censorship resistance applications.
    keywords: daos; decentralization; funding; governance; need; optimism; oracle; order
       cache: vitalik-daos.html
  plain text: vitalik-daos.txt

        item: #169 of 267
          id: vitalik-deeperdive
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-deeperdive
        date: None
       words: 5153
      flesch: 64
     summary: In the Three Transitions, Yoav Weiss, Dan Finlay, Martin Koppelmann, and the Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Scroll and SoulWallet teams give their feedback and review. In this post Yoav explains why it's valuable to start thinking explicitly about L1 + cross-L2 support, wallet security, and privacy as necessary basic features of the ecosystem. The post will focus more directly on the technical aspects.
    keywords: chain; key; keystore; kzg; proofs; state
       cache: vitalik-deeperdive.html
  plain text: vitalik-deeperdive.txt

        item: #170 of 267
          id: vitalik-dont_overload
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-dont_overload
        date: None
       words: 2905
      flesch: 57
     summary: The consensus on the Ethereum network is one of the most highly secured systems out there. 18 million ETH ($34 billion) worth of validators finalize a block every 6.4 minutes, running many different implementations of the protocol for redundancy. There have been a number of ideas to also use the Ethereum validator set, and perhaps even the Ethereum social consensus, for other purposes.
    keywords: community; consensus; ethereum; oracle; price; risk
       cache: vitalik-dont_overload.html
  plain text: vitalik-dont_overload.txt

        item: #171 of 267
          id: vitalik-election
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-election
        date: None
       words: 5285
      flesch: 60
     summary: Prediction markets allow the public to make bets about future events and use the odds at which bets are made as a credibly neutral source of predicted probabilities. The 2020 US presidential election seems to be the first time prediction markets are finally entering the limelight. Jeff Coleman, Karl Floersch and Robin Hanson gave feedback and review to the post.
    keywords: bet; chance; dai; election; markets; people; prediction; trump
       cache: vitalik-election.html
  plain text: vitalik-election.txt

        item: #172 of 267
          id: vitalik-election_zhTW
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-election_zhTW
        date: None
       words: 188
      flesch: 11
     summary: Jerry Ho, Jeff Coleman, Karl Floersch, Robin Hanson, and Robin Hanson are discussing the Dark Mode Toggle in a series of posts from 21st February to February 18th 2020. They discuss the future of the world. 
    keywords: log(1
       cache: vitalik-election_zhTW.html
  plain text: vitalik-election_zhTW.txt

        item: #173 of 267
          id: vitalik-end
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-end
        date: None
       words: 5503
      flesch: 59
     summary: In the last two years, he has been speaking at hackathons, visiting hacker houses, and doing Zuzalu in Montenegro, and seeing people a decade younger than him taking on leading roles in all kinds of projects. Nicole Sun, 21, invited him to visit a hacker house in South Korea, where he was the oldest person there.
    keywords: crypto; ethereum; money; new; people; space; stack; things; time; world; years
       cache: vitalik-end.html
  plain text: vitalik-end.txt

        item: #174 of 267
          id: vitalik-endgame
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-endgame
        date: None
       words: 1581
      flesch: 59
     summary: Thanks to Optimism, Flashbots, Karl Floersch, Phil Daian, Hasu and Alex Obadia for feedback and review. The roadmap for distributed block validation is to add a second tier of staking with low resource requirements, split transactions into 100 buckets and randomly assigned validators. Secondary transaction channels would prevent censorship.
    keywords: block; production; rollup
       cache: vitalik-endgame.html
  plain text: vitalik-endgame.txt

        item: #175 of 267
          id: vitalik-endnotes
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-endnotes
        date: None
       words: 3964
      flesch: 58
     summary: 2020 has been a strange year because of these events, but also because of new technological discoveries that could open up a new chapter for humanity. It's also a good year to ponder the key question: How should we re-evaluate our models of the world?
    keywords: bitcoin; crypto; ethereum; people; supporters; time; world
       cache: vitalik-endnotes.html
  plain text: vitalik-endnotes.txt

        item: #176 of 267
          id: vitalik-ens
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-ens
        date: None
       words: 3551
      flesch: 63
     summary: ENS domains today are cheap. The cost to register and maintain a five-letter domain name is only $5 per year. ENS DAO is gathering far less revenue than it could, which limits its ability to act to improve the ecosystem.
    keywords: bid; domain; ens; fee; time; year
       cache: vitalik-ens.html
  plain text: vitalik-ens.txt

        item: #177 of 267
          id: vitalik-enshrinement
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-enshrinement
        date: None
       words: 6299
      flesch: 55
     summary: From the start of the project, there was a strong philosophy of making the core of the Ethereum protocol as simple as possible. Recently, there has been some cautious interest in enshrining more features into the core. This post will go into the philosophical reasoning behind the original minimal-enshrinement philosophy and some more recent ways of thinking about some of these ideas.
    keywords: account; code; enshrining; ethereum; evm; gas; protocol; transaction; users
       cache: vitalik-enshrinement.html
  plain text: vitalik-enshrinement.txt

        item: #178 of 267
          id: vitalik-excited
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-excited
        date: None
       words: 5722
      flesch: 50
     summary: There are a few categories of applications that are proving themselves already and are getting stronger. Money is the first and still most important app. Decentralized Amazon on the blockchain is not going to happen, but there are growing adoption of key applications that meet people's real needs.
    keywords: applications; chain; cryptocurrency; dao; decentralization; efficiency; governance; robustness; stablecoins; system; users
       cache: vitalik-excited.html
  plain text: vitalik-excited.txt

        item: #179 of 267
          id: vitalik-exploring_ecp
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-exploring_ecp
        date: None
       words: 3515
      flesch: 65
     summary: Elliptic curve pairings are a recent addition to a 30-year-long history of using elliptic curves for cryptographic applications including encryption and digital signatures. Elliptic curves themselves are a nontrivial topic to understand, so Vitalik recommends this article as a primer.
    keywords: \cdot; curve
       cache: vitalik-exploring_ecp.html
  plain text: vitalik-exploring_ecp.txt

        item: #180 of 267
          id: vitalik-fft
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-fft
        date: None
       words: 4163
      flesch: 68
     summary: Fast Fourier transforms are a key building block in many algorithms. Erasure codes are highly versatile. They are used in fault-tolerant data storage and recovery. They also have more advanced use cases such as securing data availability in scalable blockchains and STARTS.
    keywords: \cdot; domain; field; polynomial
       cache: vitalik-fft.html
  plain text: vitalik-fft.txt

        item: #181 of 267
          id: vitalik-forks_and_markets
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-forks_and_markets
        date: None
       words: 2030
      flesch: 60
     summary: There are two types of hard forks: strictly expanding hard forks and bilateral hard forks. Hard forks change the rules of a protocol by strictly reducing the set of transactions that is valid. Soft forks allow previously invalid transactions and blocks to become valid, so clients must upgrade their clients to stay on the hard-forked chain.
    keywords: chain; forks; rules
       cache: vitalik-forks_and_markets.html
  plain text: vitalik-forks_and_markets.txt

        item: #182 of 267
          id: vitalik-free_speech
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-free_speech
        date: None
       words: 2266
      flesch: 56
     summary: Theymos, the moderator of the /r/bitcoin subreddit, forbade arguments in favor of increasing the Bitcoin blockchain's transaction capacity via a hard fork. John Blocke catalogues the history of censorship in the Bitcoin community. 
    keywords: bitcoin; censorship; people; power; spaces
       cache: vitalik-free_speech.html
  plain text: vitalik-free_speech.txt

        item: #183 of 267
          id: vitalik-garbled
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-garbled
        date: None
       words: 1904
      flesch: 68
     summary: Garbled circuits are a simple form of general-purpose computation. Alice and Bob want to both learn the result of computing f. Alice encrypts a circuit and passes the encrypted data to Bob. Bob uses a technique called "1-of-2 oblivious transfer" to learn the form of his own inputs without letting Alice know which ones he obtained.
    keywords: alice; bob
       cache: vitalik-garbled.html
  plain text: vitalik-garbled.txt

        item: #184 of 267
          id: vitalik-gas_analysis
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-gas_analysis
        date: None
       words: 900
      flesch: 60
     summary: There are transaction fees in every block between 4710000 and 4730000. The gasprice market stays reasonably stable over the course of more than three days. The only exception is the highest gasprice transaction, which fluctuates wildly.
    keywords: gasprice
       cache: vitalik-gas_analysis.html
  plain text: vitalik-gas_analysis.txt

        item: #185 of 267
          id: vitalik-gini
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-gini
        date: None
       words: 2019
      flesch: 55
     summary: The Gini coefficient is a measure of inequality introduced by Corrado Gini in 1912. It is used to measure inequality of income and wealth in countries and in other contexts. In this post I talk about some of the limits of the Gini coefficients and propose alternatives.
    keywords: coefficient; gini; income; inequality
       cache: vitalik-gini.html
  plain text: vitalik-gini.txt

        item: #186 of 267
          id: vitalik-gitcoin
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-gitcoin
        date: None
       words: 2180
      flesch: 51
     summary: $163,279 was donated to 80 projects by 477 contributors and a matching pool of $100,000 for the next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding. Nearly half of the money came from contributions above $10,000. The other half came from smaller donations.
    keywords: funding; gitcoin; projects; quadratic
       cache: vitalik-gitcoin.html
  plain text: vitalik-gitcoin.txt

        item: #187 of 267
          id: vitalik-gpt3
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-gpt3
        date: None
       words: 1655
      flesch: 71
     summary: The GPT chatbot has been all the rage the last few days. It can be used to write code, but it can also fail to do some simple tasks. In this case, the chatbot was used to change the IPFS hash registered in the vitaliketh ENS record to make the new article on his blog viewable through ENS.
    keywords: base; hash; ipfs
       cache: vitalik-gpt3.html
  plain text: vitalik-gpt3.txt

        item: #188 of 267
          id: vitalik-halo
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-halo
        date: None
       words: 4257
      flesch: 67
     summary: ZK-SNARKs are based on checking equations where the elements going into the equations are mathematical abstractions like polynomials or in rank-1 constraint systems. Merkle trees, regular elliptic curves with pairings and trusted setup and IPA-based schemes lead to bulletproofs.
    keywords: \cdot; linear; polynomial; proof; prover
       cache: vitalik-halo.html
  plain text: vitalik-halo.txt

        item: #189 of 267
          id: vitalik-homomorphic
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-homomorphic
        date: None
       words: 5030
      flesch: 69
     summary: Fully homomorphic encryption has many applications, including in the blockchain space. It's a type of encryption that allows a third party to perform computations on encrypted data and get an encrypted result. It can be used to implement privacy-preserving light clients.
    keywords: \(p\; ciphertext; error; key
       cache: vitalik-homomorphic.html
  plain text: vitalik-homomorphic.txt

        item: #190 of 267
          id: vitalik-hybrid_layer_2
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-hybrid_layer_2
        date: None
       words: 2088
      flesch: 51
     summary: There is a resurgence of "semi-layer-2" protocols, which promises less extreme gains in scaling, but with the benefit of easier generalization and more favorable security models than "layer 2" protocols. The Plasma Group thanks the Plasma Group team for review and feedback.
    keywords: chain; data; plasma; rollup
       cache: vitalik-hybrid_layer_2.html
  plain text: vitalik-hybrid_layer_2.txt

        item: #191 of 267
          id: vitalik-institutions
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-institutions
        date: None
       words: 2264
      flesch: 48
     summary: Dennis Pourteaux proposes that the most important political divide of our present time is how we think about "institutions". The word "institution" in political discourse brings to mind things like national governments, the New York Times, universities and maybe the local public library. ChatGPT agrees.
    keywords: anti; elites; institution; people
       cache: vitalik-institutions.html
  plain text: vitalik-institutions.txt

        item: #192 of 267
          id: vitalik-l2types
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-l2types
        date: None
       words: 2479
      flesch: 60
     summary: The layer 2 ecosystem has been expanding rapidly over the last year. Some projects that are currently independent layer 1s are seeking to come closer to the Ethereum ecosystem, and possibly become layer 2s. Non-financial applications, like games or social media, want to be decentralised.
    keywords: chain; data; ethereum; security
       cache: vitalik-l2types.html
  plain text: vitalik-l2types.txt

        item: #193 of 267
          id: vitalik-layer_1
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-layer_1
        date: None
       words: 2035
      flesch: 43
     summary: In the long term, layer 2 will take on more of the burden of innovation and change than layer 1. Moxie Marlinspike's defense of Signal's centralized and non-federated nature is an example of this.
    keywords: base; blockchain; execution; layer
       cache: vitalik-layer_1.html
  plain text: vitalik-layer_1.txt

        item: #194 of 267
          id: vitalik-layer_3
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-layer_3
        date: None
       words: 2867
      flesch: 60
     summary: Starkware proposes a triple-layered architecture for scaling a blockchain. This post explains some of the details of what might and might not make sense to do in such an architecture. It also explains the difference between a layer 2 protocol and a layer 3 protocol.
    keywords: batch; data; layer; rollups; scaling
       cache: vitalik-layer_3.html
  plain text: vitalik-layer_3.txt

        item: #195 of 267
          id: vitalik-legitimacy
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-legitimacy
        date: None
       words: 4200
      flesch: 56
     summary: The Bitcoin and Etherum ecosystems spend more on network security than on everything else combined. The Bitcoin blockchain has paid an average of $38 million per day in block rewards to miners since the start of the year. The Etherum Foundation's annual budget is a mere $30 million per year. Bitcoin ecosystem R&D is funded by companies with $250 million raised so far.
    keywords: community; ecosystem; ethereum; funding; goods; legitimacy; people
       cache: vitalik-legitimacy.html
  plain text: vitalik-legitimacy.txt

        item: #196 of 267
          id: vitalik-legitimacy_ES
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-legitimacy_ES
        date: None
       words: 4496
      flesch: 50
     summary: Ecosistemas de bloques Bitcoin and Etherum gastan más seguridad de la red - objetivo de la minería - that en todo lo demás combinado. The I+D del ecosistema Bitcoin está financiada en gran parte by empresas.
    keywords: bienes; capital; como; comunidad; con; coordinación; del; ecosistema; este; esto; está; ethereum; hay; las; legitimidad; los; mucho; más; nft; para; pero; por; puede; públicos; que; qué; social; son; también; todos; una
       cache: vitalik-legitimacy_ES.html
  plain text: vitalik-legitimacy_ES.txt

        item: #197 of 267
          id: vitalik-limits
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-limits
        date: None
       words: 5028
      flesch: 48
     summary: Nathan Schneider has recently written an article on the limits of cryptoeconomic approaches to governance and what could be added to them to improve their usefulness. The world of cryptocurrency is very economic, neo and liberal. Critics have long warned against the expansion of economiclogics.
    keywords: collusion; cryptoeconomics; finance; financialized; governance; kleros; market; nathan; systems
       cache: vitalik-limits.html
  plain text: vitalik-limits.txt

        item: #198 of 267
          id: vitalik-marketmakers
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-marketmakers
        date: None
       words: 2792
      flesch: 63
     summary: Someone claims to have figured out how to create a source of unlimited free energy. The scheme is a total bollocks according to Newtonian dynamics. The solution is to dig deeply into the math and calculate the relationship between acceleration and deceleration.
    keywords: eth; maker; market; mkr; price
       cache: vitalik-marketmakers.html
  plain text: vitalik-marketmakers.txt

        item: #199 of 267
          id: vitalik-maximalist
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-maximalist
        date: None
       words: 3346
      flesch: 57
     summary: The future of the world won't be one major cryptocurrency, but many. Bitcoin is a boomer coin and soon will be followed by Ethereum. Mass users won't care about weird libertarian ideology or "self-sovereign verification". Mass users will be turned off by toxicity and anti-government mentality. Bitcoin maximalists understand that they are operating in a hostile and uncertain world.
    keywords: bitcoin; blockchains; cryptocurrency; money; people; vitalik; world
       cache: vitalik-maximalist.html
  plain text: vitalik-maximalist.txt

        item: #200 of 267
          id: vitalik-metcalfe
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-metcalfe
        date: None
       words: 1671
      flesch: 51
     summary: It's the split season for the Bitcoin Cash and the ETH/ETC split. It's useful to inform the discussion with some simple economic modeling. There are two projects A and B, and a set of users of size N. A has N_a users and B N_b users. 
    keywords: users
       cache: vitalik-metcalfe.html
  plain text: vitalik-metcalfe.txt

        item: #201 of 267
          id: vitalik-moe
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-moe
        date: None
       words: 1862
      flesch: 65
     summary: The "network medium of exchange token" has become popular among recent token sale projects. The general pitch for this kind of token is that developers build a network and this network allows you to do new cool stuff. The token would be backed by the services provided by the developers.
    keywords: token; users; value
       cache: vitalik-moe.html
  plain text: vitalik-moe.txt

        item: #202 of 267
          id: vitalik-mvb
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-mvb
        date: None
       words: 1834
      flesch: 52
     summary: Blockchains should be maximally simple, because they are a piece of infrastructure that is difficult to change and would lead to great harms if it breaks. Layer 1 should be the site of stability and maintenance, with large changes only in emergencies. Once a layer 1 protocol has achieved a certain level of functionality, which I will term "functionality escape velocity", you can do everything else on top without further changing the base.
    keywords: data; layer; protocols
       cache: vitalik-mvb.html
  plain text: vitalik-mvb.txt

        item: #203 of 267
          id: vitalik-neoplasma
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-neoplasma
        date: None
       words: 2459
      flesch: 65
     summary: Plasma is a class of blockchain scaling solutions that allow all data and computation to be kept off-chain. The advent of validity proofs (aka ZK-SNARKs) gives us a reason to rethink the decision to supersede Plasma.
    keywords: chain; coin; plasma; state
       cache: vitalik-neoplasma.html
  plain text: vitalik-neoplasma.txt

        item: #204 of 267
          id: vitalik-networkstates
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-networkstates
        date: None
       words: 8053
      flesch: 57
     summary: On July 4, Balaji Srinivasan released the first version of his new book describing his vision for "network states". Network states are communities organized around a particular vision of how to run their own society that start off as online clubs, but build up more and more of a presence over time and eventually become large enough to seek political autonomy or even diplomatic recognition.
    keywords: balaji; communities; community; countries; governance; network; network states; new; people; society; startup; states; way; world
       cache: vitalik-networkstates.html
  plain text: vitalik-networkstates.txt

        item: #205 of 267
          id: vitalik-networkstates_zhCN
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-networkstates_zhCN
        date: None
       words: 412
      flesch: 41
     summary: Roy, Zik, Balaji Srinivasan, Greenpill, and Dark Mode Toggle are the people who have commented on the posts so far. The date of the last post is Jul 13th 2022.   
    keywords: dao; fda; prospera
       cache: vitalik-networkstates_zhCN.html
  plain text: vitalik-networkstates_zhCN.txt

        item: #206 of 267
          id: vitalik-nonfin
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-nonfin
        date: None
       words: 4358
      flesch: 56
     summary: There is growing interest in using blockchains for non-just-financial applications. Puja Ohlhaver, Glen Weyl, Kevin Yu, Kate Sills, Evin McMullen and myself have a podcast debating on-chain vs off-chain attestations.
    keywords: blockchain; chain; data; example; key; reputation; use
       cache: vitalik-nonfin.html
  plain text: vitalik-nonfin.txt

        item: #207 of 267
          id: vitalik-philosophy
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-philosophy
        date: None
       words: 3296
      flesch: 57
     summary: There are two main reasons why it's beneficial for a user to validate the chain. Validation maximizes the chance that the node can correctly determine and say on the canonical chain - the chain that the community accepts as legitimate. The canonical chain is defined as "the valid chain that has the most miners/validators supporting it".
    keywords: attack; block; chain; clients; default
       cache: vitalik-philosophy.html
  plain text: vitalik-philosophy.txt

        item: #208 of 267
          id: vitalik-plasma_vs_sharding
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-plasma_vs_sharding
        date: None
       words: 1665
      flesch: 55
     summary: Sharding is different from sidechains or Plasma. Plasma chains are less secure than regular sidechains. Tight coupling is a property of sharding, but not of sidechain chains. The validity of the main chain is inseparable from the validity of its child chains.
    keywords: chain; data; plasma
       cache: vitalik-plasma_vs_sharding.html
  plain text: vitalik-plasma_vs_sharding.txt

        item: #209 of 267
          id: vitalik-plonk
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-plonk
        date: None
       words: 4000
      flesch: 65
     summary: PLONK is a new general-purpose zero-knowledge proof scheme. PLONK requires a trusted setup procedure similar to that needed for the SNARKs in Zcash. The polynomial commitment it relies on is called a "Kate commitment".
    keywords: \cdot; commitments; constraints; equations; polynomial; set; wires
       cache: vitalik-plonk.html
  plain text: vitalik-plonk.txt

        item: #210 of 267
          id: vitalik-plutocracy
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-plutocracy
        date: None
       words: 2408
      flesch: 55
     summary: Vlad Zamfir and others don't think it's wise for Bitcoin or any base-layer blockchain to adopt a tightly coupled voting system. The delegate rewards in EOS are now so high (5% annual inflation, about $400m per year) that the competition on who gets to run nodes has become another frontier of US-China geopolitical warfare. Chinese nodes feel less represented in the community than US and Korean nodes.
    keywords: community; delegates; dpos; votes; voting
       cache: vitalik-plutocracy.html
  plain text: vitalik-plutocracy.txt

        item: #211 of 267
          id: vitalik-pos2020
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-pos2020
        date: None
       words: 1887
      flesch: 66
     summary: There are three reasons why PoS is a superior security mechanism compared to PoW. PoS offers more security for the same cost. It costs $486.67 per day to attack a network per $1 per day in block rewards. ASICs are a capital cost.
    keywords: cost; proof; stake
       cache: vitalik-pos2020.html
  plain text: vitalik-pos2020.txt

        item: #212 of 267
          id: vitalik-pos2020_zhTW
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-pos2020_zhTW
        date: None
       words: 316
      flesch: 45
     summary: Chih-Cheng Liang, Hsiao-wei Wang, Jerry, PoS and PoW are discussing the Dark Mode Toggle. The Toggle costs $1 per use of a computer graphics card. It is possible to turn on and off the toggle at any time.
    keywords: asic; gpu; pos
       cache: vitalik-pos2020_zhTW.html
  plain text: vitalik-pos2020_zhTW.txt

        item: #213 of 267
          id: vitalik-pos_design
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-pos_design
        date: None
       words: 1835
      flesch: 47
     summary: Vitalik Buterin has written a mirror of the post "A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy" on Dec 29th. Vitalik explains the difference between BitTorrent, Bitcoin, NXT, and Bitshares and a new class of cryptoeconomic organisms.
    keywords: attack; consensus; cost; proof
       cache: vitalik-pos_design.html
  plain text: vitalik-pos_design.txt

        item: #214 of 267
          id: vitalik-pos_design_TR
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-pos_design_TR
        date: None
       words: 1432
      flesch: 47
     summary: Vitalik Buterin wrote a post on Proof of Stake design philosophy on December 29th. He explains the difference between Bitcoin, NXT, Bitshares vb. and Bitcoin Cash. BitTorrent is a hard forklayamazsınız.
    keywords: ancak; bir; blok; büyük; daha; ekonomik; fork; hard; için; kadar; konsensüs; olan; olarak; proof; protokol; sosyal; temel; veya; çok
       cache: vitalik-pos_design_TR.html
  plain text: vitalik-pos_design_TR.txt

        item: #215 of 267
          id: vitalik-pos_faq
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-pos_faq
        date: None
       words: 8552
      flesch: 52
     summary: The Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm is a category of consensus algorithms for public blockchains that depend on a validator's economic stake in the network. In PoS, the algorithm rewards participants who solve cryptographic puzzles in order to validate transactions and create new blocks (i.e. mining). In PoW, participants solve puzzles and solve transactions. PoS exchanges pose a centralization risk.
    keywords: algorithms; block; chain; consensus; network; proof; stake; time; validators; work
       cache: vitalik-pos_faq.html
  plain text: vitalik-pos_faq.txt

        item: #216 of 267
          id: vitalik-prehistory
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-prehistory
        date: None
       words: 3172
      flesch: 52
     summary: The current version of the current Ethereum protocol has been stable for two years. Before the launch, the protocol went through a number of significant evolutions and design decisions. The history of Casper and sharding research is out of scope.
    keywords: contracts; ethereum; gas; gavin; protocol; time; transaction
       cache: vitalik-prehistory.html
  plain text: vitalik-prehistory.txt

        item: #217 of 267
          id: vitalik-prices
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-prices
        date: None
       words: 2794
      flesch: 66
     summary: Selling at below-market-clearing prices is common in the NFTsales and ICOs in the Ethereum ecosystem. It sacrifices revenue for the seller and harms the buyers. There are alternatives to this practice.  
    keywords: auction; item; market; people; price
       cache: vitalik-prices.html
  plain text: vitalik-prices.txt

        item: #218 of 267
          id: vitalik-progress
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-progress
        date: None
       words: 5179
      flesch: 51
     summary: In 2014, I made a presentation with a list of 16 hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space to reach maturity. In the last five years, much has changed in the last 5 years. The problems are broken down into three categories: cryptographic, consensus theory and economic.
    keywords: blockchain; problem; program; progress; proof; status; system; time; work
       cache: vitalik-progress.html
  plain text: vitalik-progress.txt

        item: #219 of 267
          id: vitalik-proof_of_solvency
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-proof_of_solvency
        date: None
       words: 3494
      flesch: 65
     summary: Every time a major centralized exchange blows up, a common question is whether or not we can use cryptographic techniques to solve the problem. In 2011, then-largest Bitcoin exchange MtGox proved that they had funds by sending 424242 BTC to a pre-announced address. In 2013, discussions started on how to prove the total size of customers' deposits.
    keywords: balance; exchange; merkle; proof; tree; user
       cache: vitalik-proof_of_solvency.html
  plain text: vitalik-proof_of_solvency.txt

        item: #220 of 267
          id: vitalik-qap
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-qap
        date: None
       words: 3179
      flesch: 67
     summary: Zk-SNARKs are challenging to grasp due to their complexity. The post explains the first half of the pipeline as drawn by researcher Eran Tromer. It assumes you know enough math to reason about things like polynomials.
    keywords: \cdot; polynomial
       cache: vitalik-qap.html
  plain text: vitalik-qap.txt

        item: #221 of 267
          id: vitalik-quadratic
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-quadratic
        date: None
       words: 4685
      flesch: 60
     summary: Quadratic voting, quadratic funding and attention purchase are buzzwords in applied mechanism design and decentralized governance. Small-scale tests of these ideas have already been done in Taiwan, Gitcoin Grants and the Colorado Democratic party.
    keywords: alice; article; cost; goods; people; vote; voting
       cache: vitalik-quadratic.html
  plain text: vitalik-quadratic.txt

        item: #222 of 267
          id: vitalik-radical_markets
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-radical_markets
        date: None
       words: 5377
      flesch: 49
     summary: Eric Posner and Glen Weyl's new book, Radical Markets, is an interesting way of looking at the subject of "political economy" and how markets and politics and society intersect. Posner is involved in the blockchain/crypto space heading up the Ethereum project and in some cases providing various kinds of support to projects.
    keywords: book; markets; people; posner; price; property; tax; value; weyl
       cache: vitalik-radical_markets.html
  plain text: vitalik-radical_markets.txt

        item: #223 of 267
          id: vitalik-recovery
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-recovery
        date: None
       words: 3691
      flesch: 58
     summary: Social recovery wallets are a new type of smart contract wallet. They provide a high level of security and better usability than previous options. They can be easily and widely deployed in the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem. Itamar Lesuisse from Argent and Daniel Wang from Loopring provided feedback. 
    keywords: funds; guardians; hardware; recovery; transaction; wallet
       cache: vitalik-recovery.html
  plain text: vitalik-recovery.txt

        item: #224 of 267
          id: vitalik-retro1
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-retro1
        date: None
       words: 4406
      flesch: 57
     summary:  Optimism ran their first round of retroactive public goods funding. They allocated $1 million to 58 projects to reward the good work of the Optimism and the ETH ecosystem. The process was transparent from start to finish, with a quadratic vote among 22 participants. 
    keywords: badge; funding; holders; projects; retro; round; vote
       cache: vitalik-retro1.html
  plain text: vitalik-retro1.txt

        item: #225 of 267
          id: vitalik-revenue_evil
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-revenue_evil
        date: None
       words: 2864
      flesch: 58
     summary: The Revenue-Evil Curve is a different way to think about prioritizing public goods funding. Public goods are non-excludable and non-rivalrous, so it's difficult to provide them through private property and market-based means. It's not a universal framework, but it can tell us a lot about how to approach funding public goods.
    keywords: curve; evil; goods; public; revenue
       cache: vitalik-revenue_evil.html
  plain text: vitalik-revenue_evil.txt

        item: #226 of 267
          id: vitalik-revenue_evil_zhCN
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-revenue_evil_zhCN
        date: None
       words: 172
      flesch: 51
     summary: Karl Floersch, Hasu, Tina Zhen, Carol, and Carol will meet on October 28, 2022, at GreenPill CN to discuss revenue-generating technology.    Karl Floerfsch, Zhen and Carol are discussing Dark Mode Toggle. 
    keywords: bob
       cache: vitalik-revenue_evil_zhCN.html
  plain text: vitalik-revenue_evil_zhCN.txt

        item: #227 of 267
          id: vitalik-road
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-road
        date: None
       words: 3167
      flesch: 64
     summary: In the early stages of the development of the Ethereum protocol, the development community made a lot of decisions that have had a large impact on the project's trajectory. The Gasper proof of stake that is soon going to merge to the new version of the protocol is a complex system, but a very powerful one. It has many properties, including strong single-block confirmations and predictable rewards.
    keywords: block; ethereum; evm; lot; proof; stake
       cache: vitalik-road.html
  plain text: vitalik-road.txt

        item: #228 of 267
          id: vitalik-rollup
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-rollup
        date: None
       words: 4638
      flesch: 62
     summary: Rollups are the key scalability solution for the future of the Ethereum network. The main challenge with this technique is that bigger blocks are more difficult to verify. The three major types of layer-2 scaling are state channels, Plasma and rollups.
    keywords: batch; chain; data; rollups; root; state
       cache: vitalik-rollup.html
  plain text: vitalik-rollup.txt

        item: #229 of 267
          id: vitalik-rollup_ES
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-rollup_ES
        date: None
       words: 4996
      flesch: 54
     summary: Rollups are a new type of ecosistema blockchain. They are intended to be the solución de escalabilidad clave for the future of the technology. The post will answer questions about their development and their practicalities.
    keywords: batch; bob; bytes; cada; cadena; con; contrato; datos; del; ejemplo; estado; esto; hay; las; los; más; para; pero; plasma; por; prueba; puede; que; rollups; root; solo; son; transacción; una
       cache: vitalik-rollup_ES.html
  plain text: vitalik-rollup_ES.txt

        item: #230 of 267
          id: vitalik-round4
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-round4
        date: None
       words: 3069
      flesch: 50
     summary: Round 4 of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just completed. The main difference between round 3 and round 4 was that in round 4 there were two categories, one with a $125,000 matching pool for tech projects and one with $75,000 for "media" projects. Tornado Cash, a smart contract-based Etherum mixer, got $31,200. Other winners were Dappnode, Sablier and DefiZap.
    keywords: ethereum; funding; good; public; quadratic; round
       cache: vitalik-round4.html
  plain text: vitalik-round4.txt

        item: #231 of 267
          id: vitalik-round5
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-round5
        date: None
       words: 2784
      flesch: 54
     summary: Round 5 of Gitcoin Grants has just finished, with $250,000 of matching split between tech, media, and the new category of "public health". In general, the mechanism and community are settling down into a regular rhythm. The stability of income is important if we want to support an ecosystem of "quadratic freelancers".
    keywords: contributions; people; projects; round
       cache: vitalik-round5.html
  plain text: vitalik-round5.txt

        item: #232 of 267
          id: vitalik-round6
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-round6
        date: None
       words: 1902
      flesch: 55
     summary: Round 6 of Gitcoin Grants has just finished, with $227,847 in contributions from 1,526 contributors and $175,000 in matched funds distributed across 695 projects. There are three categories: "tech", "community", "media" and the round-6-special category Crypto For Black Lives.
    keywords: community; ethereum; funding; round
       cache: vitalik-round6.html
  plain text: vitalik-round6.txt

        item: #233 of 267
          id: vitalik-round7
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-round7
        date: None
       words: 1674
      flesch: 54
     summary: Round 7 of Gitcoin Grants has successfully completed. $274,830 in contributions and $450,000 in matched funds distributed across 857 projects. The category structure was split between "dapp tech", "infrastructure tech" and "community". Defi joined the matching.
    keywords: defi; matching; projects; round
       cache: vitalik-round7.html
  plain text: vitalik-round7.txt

        item: #234 of 267
          id: vitalik-round7_FR
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-round7_FR
        date: None
       words: 1725
      flesch: 57
     summary: Le septième tour des subventions Gitcoin s'est terminé avec succès. Tour a connu une augmentation de l'intérêt pour Gitcoin. Tour traduit par 274.830 $ de contributions and 450.000 $ en abondement répartis sur 857 projets.
    keywords: des; est; les; pour; projets; une
       cache: vitalik-round7_FR.html
  plain text: vitalik-round7_FR.txt

        item: #235 of 267
          id: vitalik-round9
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-round9
        date: None
       words: 2913
      flesch: 55
     summary: Gitcoin Grants Round 9 has just finished. $1.38 million was donated by over 12,000 contributors to 812 different projects. Over 15% of contributions were detected as probably fraudulent. The team has published a blog post on how to detect and respond to this.
    keywords: gitcoin; mechanism; projects; round; team
       cache: vitalik-round9.html
  plain text: vitalik-round9.txt

        item: #236 of 267
          id: vitalik-sales
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-sales
        date: None
       words: 4130
      flesch: 61
     summary: The last few months have seen an increasing amount of innovation in token sale models. Nearly every significant sale, including Brave's Basic Attention Tokens, Gnosis, upcoming sales such as Bancor and older ones such as Maidsafe, has been met with a substantial amount of criticism.
    keywords: market; price; sale; time; tokens; valuation
       cache: vitalik-sales.html
  plain text: vitalik-sales.txt

        item: #237 of 267
          id: vitalik-scaling
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-scaling
        date: None
       words: 3792
      flesch: 67
     summary: There are technical issues that limit the scalability of a blockchain. Just increasing the parameters won't solve all the problems, but it's crucial for decentralization for regular users to be able to run a node. There are solutions to some of these issues, but even with the solutions there are limits.
    keywords: blockchain; blocks; data; need; node; users
       cache: vitalik-scaling.html
  plain text: vitalik-scaling.txt

        item: #238 of 267
          id: vitalik-sharding
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-sharding
        date: None
       words: 4689
      flesch: 58
     summary: Sharding is the future of the scalability of the Ethereum platform. It is a concept that is misunderstood in the ecosystem. It has three properties: scalability, decentralization and security. Sharding has only two of the three properties.
    keywords: availability; block; chain; computation; data; sharding
       cache: vitalik-sharding.html
  plain text: vitalik-sharding.txt

        item: #239 of 267
          id: vitalik-sharding_faq
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-sharding_faq
        date: None
       words: 11943
      flesch: 53
     summary: Sharding is the idea of splitting transaction processing between smaller groups of nodes to increase a blockchain's total throughput. Plasma, state channels and other layer 2 technologies fit into the "scalability trilemma" discussed in this post.
    keywords: attacker; block; chain; data; majority; model; proof; security; shard; sharding; state; time; transaction; validators
       cache: vitalik-sharding_faq.html
  plain text: vitalik-sharding_faq.txt

        item: #240 of 267
          id: vitalik-snarks
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-snarks
        date: None
       words: 4692
      flesch: 66
     summary: Zk-SNARKs are general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proofs. They can be verified extremely quickly even if the underlying computation takes a long time to run. The proof can keep some of the inputs to the computation hidden. This has two applications: scalability and privacy.
    keywords: \(p\; check; computation; number; polynomial
       cache: vitalik-snarks.html
  plain text: vitalik-snarks.txt

        item: #241 of 267
          id: vitalik-soulbound
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-soulbound
        date: None
       words: 2053
      flesch: 64
     summary: In World of Warcraft, soulbound items cannot be transferred or sold to another player. Most powerful items in the game are soulbound and require completing a complicated quest or killing a powerful monster. Recently, Twitter started rolling out an integration that allows users to show off their NFTs on their picture profile.
    keywords: governance; items; nfts; proof
       cache: vitalik-soulbound.html
  plain text: vitalik-soulbound.txt

        item: #242 of 267
          id: vitalik-stable
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-stable
        date: None
       words: 2563
      flesch: 64
     summary: The recent LUNA crash has led to criticism of "algorithmic stablecoins" as a category. Many consider them to be a "fundamentally flawed product". However, some stablecoins are highly robust in theory and have survived extreme tests of crypto market conditions in practice.
    keywords: price; rai; stablecoin; system
       cache: vitalik-stable.html
  plain text: vitalik-stable.txt

        item: #243 of 267
          id: vitalik-starks_part_1
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-starks_part_1
        date: None
       words: 2929
      flesch: 68
     summary: ZK-SNARKs and ZK-STARKs are general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for verifiable computation and privacy-preserving cryptocurrency. They are more secure than ZKSNARK's, but the size of a proof goes up from 288bytes to a few hundred kilobytes.
    keywords: points; polynomial; proof; prover
       cache: vitalik-starks_part_1.html
  plain text: vitalik-starks_part_1.txt

        item: #244 of 267
          id: vitalik-starks_part_2
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-starks_part_2
        date: None
       words: 3161
      flesch: 64
     summary: In the last part of this series, we talked about how you can make succinct proofs of computation. In this part, we discuss the problem of proving that at least the great majority of a given large set of points are on the same low-degree polynomial.
    keywords: \cdot; degree; points; polynomial
       cache: vitalik-starks_part_2.html
  plain text: vitalik-starks_part_2.txt

        item: #245 of 267
          id: vitalik-starks_part_3
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-starks_part_3
        date: None
       words: 5456
      flesch: 60
     summary: This post is a followup to Part 1 and Part 2 of this series on STARKs. It explains how to implement a STARK and gives an implementation in python. The code has not been thoroughly audited and is written in Python.
    keywords: \cdot; degree; modulus; polynomial; proof; root; steps; values
       cache: vitalik-starks_part_3.html
  plain text: vitalik-starks_part_3.txt

        item: #246 of 267
          id: vitalik-stealth
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-stealth
        date: None
       words: 3348
      flesch: 63
     summary: The biggest remaining challenge in the Ethereum ecosystem is privacy. This post describes the mechanics and use cases of a tool that could improve the state of privacy on the platform. It's called stealth addresses and it's a different kind of privacy than the current system.
    keywords: address; alice; bob; key; stealth
       cache: vitalik-stealth.html
  plain text: vitalik-stealth.txt

        item: #247 of 267
          id: vitalik-story
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-story
        date: None
       words: 1158
      flesch: 71
     summary: Alice is in the basement. She thinks about the old days when voting in the World Collective Market was easy. Now it's not as easy, but it's still worth it, because of the billions of dollars in donations from now-deceased billionaires and preminers.
    keywords: alice; bob; key
       cache: vitalik-story.html
  plain text: vitalik-story.txt

        item: #248 of 267
          id: vitalik-techno_optimism
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-techno_optimism
        date: None
       words: 11201
      flesch: 56
     summary: Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist" manifesto has received a lot of attention. His own feelings about techno-optimism are warm, but nuanced. James Pethokoukis's "The Conservative Futurist" and Palladium's "It's Time To Build for Good" are similar.
    keywords: acc; century; defense; example; future; good; human; need; people; power; superintelligent; technologies; technology; things; tools; way; world; years
       cache: vitalik-techno_optimism.html
  plain text: vitalik-techno_optimism.txt

        item: #249 of 267
          id: vitalik-three_transitions
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-three_transitions
        date: None
       words: 3978
      flesch: 62
     summary: There are three transitions that the stack needs to undergo: L2 scaling transition, the wallet security transition and the privacy transition. Without the first, each transaction costs $3.75 ($82.48 if we have another bull run) and the mass market forgets about the chain and adopts centralized workarounds.
    keywords: address; addresses; contract; key; privacy; users
       cache: vitalik-three_transitions.html
  plain text: vitalik-three_transitions.txt

        item: #250 of 267
          id: vitalik-traveltime
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-traveltime
        date: None
       words: 1213
      flesch: 64
     summary: As an exercise in using ChatGPT 3.5, I wanted to explore how does the time it takes to travel from point A to point B scale with distance, in the real world. I used the GeoLife data set to do it.
    keywords: point; time; travel
       cache: vitalik-traveltime.html
  plain text: vitalik-traveltime.txt

        item: #251 of 267
          id: vitalik-triangle_of_harm
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-triangle_of_harm
        date: None
       words: 1295
      flesch: 54
     summary: Casper's incentivization philosophy is based on the principle of the "triangle of harm" diagram. For all four categories of attack, Casper wants to put an upper bound on the amount of harm suffered by the victims and the cost to the attacker.
    keywords: majority; protocol
       cache: vitalik-triangle_of_harm.html
  plain text: vitalik-triangle_of_harm.txt

        item: #252 of 267
          id: vitalik-trust
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-trust
        date: None
       words: 1516
      flesch: 63
     summary: Blockchain applications are never fully trustless, but some are closer to being trustless than others. Trust is the use of assumptions about the behavior of other people. There are different degrees of trust depending on the context.  
    keywords: trust
       cache: vitalik-trust.html
  plain text: vitalik-trust.txt

        item: #253 of 267
          id: vitalik-trustedsetup
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-trustedsetup
        date: None
       words: 2323
      flesch: 69
     summary: Trusted setup ceremonies are used in cryptographic protocols like Samsampling and ZK-SNARKs. The Zcash ceremony in 2016 was the first example of a trusted setup ceremony. This article explains how the KZG setup works and explains the future of trusted setup protocols.
    keywords: g_2; points; secret; setup
       cache: vitalik-trustedsetup.html
  plain text: vitalik-trustedsetup.txt

        item: #254 of 267
          id: vitalik-using_snarks
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-using_snarks
        date: None
       words: 3743
      flesch: 69
     summary: ZK-SNARKs are a powerful cryptographic tool and an important part of the applications that people are building both in the blockchain space and beyond. Barry Whitehat and Gubsheep gave feedback and review to the previous post explaining ZK- SNARKs. This post focuses on applications of SNarks for preserving privacy.
    keywords: chain; post; proof; reputation
       cache: vitalik-using_snarks.html
  plain text: vitalik-using_snarks.txt

        item: #255 of 267
          id: vitalik-ux
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-ux
        date: None
       words: 1796
      flesch: 64
     summary: In 2013, a sushi restaurant beside the Internet Archive in San Francisco accepted bitcoin for payments, but the transaction did not go through. In 2021, he tried to pay for tea for himself and his friends at a coffee shop in Argentina, but his first transaction of 0.003 ETH did not get accepted. In 2022, the default transaction from his mobile wallet sent with only 21000 gas, and the receiving account required extra gas to process the transaction.
    keywords: time; transaction; wallet
       cache: vitalik-ux.html
  plain text: vitalik-ux.txt

        item: #256 of 267
          id: vitalik-ux_zhCN
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-ux_zhCN
        date: None
       words: 157
      flesch: 66
     summary: Wonder @ GreenPill CN wrote about her experience with Dark Mode Toggle in 2013 and with personal user experiences with it in 2022.   “Dark Mode Toggle” is an extension of the “Toggle’s” default mode. 
    keywords: eth; gas
       cache: vitalik-ux_zhCN.html
  plain text: vitalik-ux_zhCN.txt

        item: #257 of 267
          id: vitalik-verkle
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-verkle
        date: None
       words: 2664
      flesch: 70
     summary: Verkle trees will be an important part of the upcoming scaling upgrades of the Ethereum network. They are similar to Merkle Patricia trees, but they are much smaller and more efficient in proof size. They require less than 150 bytes to make stateless clients viable in practice.
    keywords: node; proof; tree; verkle
       cache: vitalik-verkle.html
  plain text: vitalik-verkle.txt

        item: #258 of 267
          id: vitalik-voting
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-voting
        date: None
       words: 4053
      flesch: 53
     summary: Vlad Zamfir argues that "tightly coupled" on-chain voting is overrated and that the status quo of "informal governance" as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought.
    keywords: blockchain; coin; coordination; governance; layer; protocol; vote; voting
       cache: vitalik-voting.html
  plain text: vitalik-voting.txt

        item: #259 of 267
          id: vitalik-voting2
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-voting2
        date: None
       words: 4419
      flesch: 55
     summary: Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed people but underrated among informed people, according to Karl Floersch, Albert Ni, Mr Silly, CNet, ArsTechnica, Bruce Schneier, and researchers at MIT are against it.
    keywords: blockchain; coercion; key; resistance; security; vote; voting
       cache: vitalik-voting2.html
  plain text: vitalik-voting2.txt

        item: #260 of 267
          id: vitalik-voting3
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-voting3
        date: None
       words: 5221
      flesch: 57
     summary: There is a growing interest in decentralized governance in the blockchain space. Decentralized governance in some contexts is both necessary and dangerous. We need to move beyond coin voting governance as it exists in its present form, as I argue in this post.
    keywords: chain; coin; decision; funding; governance; protocol; time; vote; voting
       cache: vitalik-voting3.html
  plain text: vitalik-voting3.txt

        item: #261 of 267
          id: vitalik-zk_snarks
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-zk_snarks
        date: None
       words: 2480
      flesch: 62
     summary: This article is the third in a series explaining the technology behind zk-SNARKs. It will focus on the Pinocchio protocol by Parno, Gentry, Howell and Raykova from 2013. The key cryptographic assumption is the knowledge-of-exponent assumption.
    keywords: \cdot; points; setup
       cache: vitalik-zk_snarks.html
  plain text: vitalik-zk_snarks.txt

        item: #262 of 267
          id: vitalik-zkevm
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-zkevm
        date: None
       words: 2383
      flesch: 58
     summary: There are different types of ZK-EVM projects. Polygon, Zksync, Scroll, MatterLabs and Starkware are working on them. They are all based on the ZKSNARK technology, which makes it easier to make cryptographic proofs of execution of transactions.
    keywords: ethereum; evm; evms; type
       cache: vitalik-zkevm.html
  plain text: vitalik-zkevm.txt

        item: #263 of 267
          id: vitalik-zkevm_TR
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-zkevm_TR
        date: None
       words: 1963
      flesch: 59
     summary: "ZK-EVM" is a project of Polygon, Polygon Hermez, Zksync, Scroll, Matter Labs, and Starkware. It is based on ZK-SNARK, a kriptografik based on Bitcoin.
    keywords: ancak; bir; birçok; bunu; daha; dengi; dostu; ethereum; evm; evm'ler; farklı; gibi; ile; inşa; için; kanıtlayıcı; olarak; tam; tip; veya
       cache: vitalik-zkevm_TR.html
  plain text: vitalik-zkevm_TR.txt

        item: #264 of 267
          id: vitalik-zkevm_zhTW
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-zkevm_zhTW
        date: None
       words: 540
      flesch: -37
     summary: PSE, Polygon Hermez, Zksync, Scroll, Matter Labs, Starkware, ZK-EVM, Dark Mode Toggle and ZKSync 2.0 are among the posts summarizing the posts.
    keywords: evm; snark
       cache: vitalik-zkevm_zhTW.html
  plain text: vitalik-zkevm_zhTW.txt

        item: #265 of 267
          id: vitalik-zkmulticlient
      author: vitalik
       title: vitalik-zkmulticlient
        date: None
       words: 3143
      flesch: 57
     summary: Ethereum's multi-client philosophy is important to the security and decentralization of the network. ZK-EVMs will become a third type of client in the future. SNARKs proving EVM execution have been under development for years and are already being used by layer 2 protocols called ZK rollups.
    keywords: client; ethereum; layer; multi
       cache: vitalik-zkmulticlient.html
  plain text: vitalik-zkmulticlient.txt

        item: #266 of 267
          id: wbnns-ethereumbook-2021
      author: wbnns
       title: wbnns-ethereumbook-2021
        date: None
       words: 4479
      flesch: 52
     summary: Ethereum is an open source, globally decentralized computing infrastructure that executes programs called smart contracts. It uses a blockchain to synchronize and store the system’s state changes and a cryptocurrency called ether to meter and constrain execution resource costs. Unlike Bitcoin, it is designed to be a general-purpose programmable blockchain.
    keywords: bitcoin; blockchain; computer; consensus; ethereum; machine; purpose; state; turing
       cache: wbnns-ethereumbook-2021.txt
  plain text: wbnns-ethereumbook-2021.txt

        item: #267 of 267
          id: wood-etherium-2024
      author: wood
       title: wood-etherium-2024
        date: 2024-09-02
       words: 26832
      flesch: 70
     summary: Etherum is a programmable blockchain. Gavin Wood and Gavin Wood are the founders of the project. They discuss its design, implementation issues, the opportunities it provides and the future hurdles they envisage. They also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the technology.
    keywords: account; address; appendix; array; bit; block; byte; code; contract; data; ethereum; execution; fee; function; gas; hash; instruction; ledger; machine; memory; message; mod; number; operation; order; set; shanghai; size; state; storage; transaction; trie; value; version; µs[0; µs[1; µ′s[0
       cache: wood-etherium-2024.pdf
  plain text: wood-etherium-2024.txt