Danny Masters, a commodities trader turned CoinShares chairman, has been a bitcoin believer since 2014, having recognized early the top cryptocurrency’s use cases as both a disrupter of gold and fiat money. Masters, who in a former life led the energy trading desk at JPMorgan and whose funds are having a “strong year this year,” told CNBC bitcoin
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Latest . Lane Rettig’s .My
tl;dr summary of ASIC discussion: the ASIC efficiency isn’t that great
so it’s not an emergency, nor are we yet sure what would break the ASIC.
Casper FFG is undergoing formal verification and should be ready in ~3
months, but could be rushed to production if necessary. It’s more or
less ready to be implemented by clients.Hudson Jameson summarizes the facts as well as the : virtual payment and state channel networksVB: More VB: proposal for development nowJustin Drake: Justin Drake: or Hsiao-Wei Wang: tl;dr on sharding this week: deprecated the previous phase 1 spec, research in a bit of flux, lots of new ideas.
Stuff for developers
Bernhard Mueller’s Mythril writeup:
A library for in Solidity from Nick Johnson.Implementing the Post a Video: Academic paper:
: execute transactions and sequences of transactions by proxythe mechanics of
Launches
Golem’s – you can buy gold backed tokens on Ethereum
Ecosystem
is May 7-11 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Talks due date: April 20.Dean Eigenmann: . The is also worthwhile.A walkthrough of Omaha Ethereum’s impressive on Etherscan from EtherscanA step-by-step
EIP/ERC/governance — this section by . Feedback on this section is welcome.
The first draft of , proposing changes to ethash to break existing ASIC miners, was merged.The first draft of , proposing addition of a new ECDSA signature verification builtin for Ed25519, was merged. Further updates are ongoing in .The first draft of ,
which specifies a standard interface for a registry contract storing
interface information for other contracts and accounts, was merged.The first draft of , proposing an in-protocol mechanism to reward client implementers, was merged.The first draft of , a proposed new token standard that utilises EIP 820 was (finally!) merged.,
specifying an introspection system used in ENS and other existing
interfaces, was translated from an issue and merged as a draft.Some discussion on , proposing a URL standard for token information.More discussion and reviews on , specifying a standard way of encoding data for signing by dapps.Some discussion and updates on , proposing a registry system for approving token transfers for regulatory purposes., a specification for Whisper, was finally merged as a draft.Some discussion on , proposing a way to structure error return data for use in Solidity and other compatible languages.More discussion on , suggesting a new opcode to permit cheap cloning of an existing contract’s storage. opened, detailing a proposed standard for “barter tokens”.A lot of discussion on , a proposed way of linking to avatar images for an account or contract.More discussion on the never-ending , a new proposed token standard.Discussion on recurring subscription models, and interfaces for them, in .Ongoing discussion of , Vitalik’s proposed hardcap.Process update: The now supports GitHub usernames.Process
update: A bot now facilitates automatically merging updates to drafts
if the PR is written by or approved by an author of the draft.
Project Updates
Omise signs an OmiseGo will use Dai and decentralized, embeddable video player and portal 10min video How Civil FOAM: the across space in a month?Chronicled: does ?
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Transmute’s with Corey Petty and Collin Cusce. on the Boost podcast.Taylor Monahan talks about the on Crypto101Jez San talk on at EEA London and identity
Tokens
Improving Brooklyn Project’s for token regulationsTexas regulators “ over a four-week period starting Dec. 18, 2017.”
General
: “First external transaction validated/finalised on a @polkadotnetwork chain”Why you can’t trust private testnets of new projects: .Traders tend to go where the volatility is, so the seems like the natural result of positive cash flow, strong balance sheet, and a generous Matthew Green’s illustrated was pretty interesting
on how web3 resembles the early days of the web
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
April 16 – in KievApril 24 – in Norway. 20% off with discount code EVANApril 25 – saleApril 27-29 – Eth hackathon in Washington, DCMay 3-5 – in TorontoMay 7-11 — in LjubljanaMay 10 – on finance (NYC)May 11-12 – (NYC)May 15 – saleMay 16-17 – (NYC) May 17-19 – in ZugMay 18-20 – hackathonMay 25 – 28th – hackathon
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