Vitalik’s Research and Ecosystem Update

Posted by Vitalik Buterin on October 17, 2015

Over the last five days, myself, our executive director Ming Chan, and several others from the Ethereum team and Ethereum-based projects and businesses including Maker, String/Dfinity and Consensys have been visiting China and Hong Kong, where there have been a series of back-to-back conferences and events most notably including the... [Read More]

Ethereum Dev Update 2015 / Week 41

Posted by Taylor Gerring on October 12, 2015

In an effort to bring the community more information about the going-ons at Ethereum, we’re planning to release semi-weekly updates of project progress. I hope this provides some high-level information without having to live on GitHub ;) [Read More]

Security Advisory [eth (cpp-ethereum) potentially vulnerable if running with UPnP enabled]

Posted by Gustav Simonsson on October 10, 2015

Affected configurations: Issue reported for eth (cpp-ethereum).</section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody">Likelihood: Medium</section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody">Severity: High</section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody">Impact: Potentially achieve remote code execution on a machine running eth (cpp-ethereum)</section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody"></section><section class="postbody">Details:</section>A vulnerability found in the MiniUPnP library can potentially affect... [Read More]

The Evolution of Ethereum

Posted by Vitalik Buterin on September 28, 2015

Many of you know that the Ethereum platform grew out of the realization that blockchains can go far beyond currency, together with a frustration with the limitations of previous projects. The core idea was simple: a blockchain with a built-in Turing-complete programming language, allowing users to build any kind of... [Read More]