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Vitalik Buterin Wears Dinosaur Costume and Outlines His Visions for Ethereum After the Merge

De University of Ethereum (UETH), the co-host of "Ethereum a New Era," is delighted to share that one of the last monumental Ethereum events prior to the Merge has been a roaring success. Over 1,400 attendees signed up to gather in San Francisco to...

ETH Calm A Day After Constantinople Delay

It is official, Constantinople is off. However, how the Ethereum Foundation and other developers failed to spot a weakness allowing Chain Security, to successfully split open the underlying code and expose potentially catastrophic errors begs more questions than answers. A level deeper and did...

Hackers Ramp up Attacks on Mining Rigs Before Ethereum Price Crashes Into the Gutter

Hackers have set off in motion a massive campaign that scans for Internet-exposed Ethereum wallets and mining equipment, ZDNet has learned today. Attackers are scanning for devices with port 8545 exposed online. This is the standard port for the JSON-RPC interface of many Ethereum wallets...

Vitalik Buterin Says IBM’s Corporate Blockchain is Missing the Point

Devcon, the annual Ethereum developers conference, was fairly subdued this year. Compared to its previous installment in the resort town of Cancún, the gathering—held in Prague from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, 2018—reflected tempered exuberance as cryptocurrency prices have returned to earth this year. Gone...

Vitalik Buterin Says Zk-Snarks Could Scale Ethereum

A form of cryptography pioneered by zcash might help scale ethereum, the founder of the platform Vitalik Buterin said on a research forum Saturday. Named zk-snarks, Buterin wrote that by using the tech, ethereum can potentially scale "by a huge amount," up to 500...

Ethereum’s Constantinople Hard Fork to Activate on Testnet in October

Ethereum's upcoming hard fork, Constantinople, will activate in a testing environment next month, core developers agreed on Friday. Speaking in a bi-weekly video call, developers said the upgrade will activate around October 9 on a cross-client testnet, named Ropsten, which mimics the conditions of the ethereum...