The Subjectivity / Exploitability Tradeoff

Posted by Vitalik Buterin on February 14, 2015

One of the issues inherent in many kinds of consensus architectures is that although they can be made to be robust against attackers or collusions up to a certain size, if an attacker gets large enough they are still, fundamentally, exploitable. If attackers in a proof of work system have... [Read More]

The P + epsilon Attack

Posted by Vitalik Buterin on January 28, 2015

Special thanks to Andrew Miller for coming up with this attack, and to Zack Hess, Vlad Zamfir and Paul Sztorc for discussion and responses [Read More]

Superrationality and DAOs

Posted by Vitalik Buterin on January 23, 2015

Warning: this post contains crazy ideas. Myself describing a crazy idea should NOT be construed as implying that (i) I am certain that the idea is correct/viable, (ii) I have an even >50% probability estimate that the idea is correct/viable, or that (iii) “Ethereum” endorses any of this in any... [Read More]

Ethereum Community Survey

Posted by George Hallam on January 9, 2015

Back in November, we created a quick survey for the Ethereum community to help us gauge how we’re doing, what can be improved, and how best we can engage with you all as we move forward towards the genesis block release in March. We feel it’s very important to enable... [Read More]