Protocol
– block reward reduced to .6 ETH for miners in hybrid PoW/PoS. Checkpoints every 50 blocks
Prysmatic Labs’
, “many proposers will just be dApp developers paying transaction fees on behalf of their users”
Stuff for developers
— now with MetaMask
— hack Solidity code challenges
Tutorial: with Ethereum/IPFS
— keep all your testnets in sync
Clearmatics releases code for a
— Truffle in PureScript
Loom is now letting some external users try its(reminder: scalability, but users must trust the dappchain operator)
Nick Johnson debuts the — an hour answering Solidity questions and debugging
— bidirectional payment channels deployed onchain using a JS client to call the contract.
EIP/ERC/governance
: cap Ether supply at ~120m, 2x what was sold in summer 2014. (Released on April 1st to see if people ).
Phil Daian says
Release
— with whisper v6 and drastic bandwidth reduction
Ecosystem
— “Add Metamask and Ledger support to your website in less than 5 minutes”
You can now
Tutorial on
— prediction market for r/EthTrader submissions. Interesting experiment; live on Rinkeby.
A in Tokyo
Project Updates
dev update
If you’re in Texas, you could be a .
Jaak: how the
An updated
on main net
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Corey Petty and Collin Cusce on their new Hashing It Out podcast
from Polychain with Laura Shin
FOAM’s on Epicenter
Print interview with Hugh Karp about how
Vitalik Buterin talk on at Deconomy
Software Engineering Daily with and
Video of the event in Tokyo
Tokens
FOAM:
SEC . This was the project about which Nathaniel Popper wrote
Ripple tried to
SEC Chairman says tokens can .
“”
A
General
Comparing
Vitalik’s at Deconomy.
: Vitalik calls Craig Wright out for fraud, but Joseph Poon had the real mic drop moment
Zeppelin’s
to start her own thing
An
“” from NYTimes’ Nathaniel Popper
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
April 9 – begins
April 11 – in Slovenia
April 17 – in Kiev
April 24 – in Norway. 20% off with discount code EVAN
April 25 – sale
April 27-29 – Eth hackathon in Washington, DC
May 3-5 – in Toronto
May 10 – on finance (NYC)
May 11-12 – (NYC)
May 15 – sale
May 16-17 – (NYC)
May 17-19 – in Zug
May 18-20 – hackathon
May 25 – 28th – hackathon
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