Yesterday was the first proper day of ÐΞVhub Berlin being open, following the first Ethereum internal developers’ symposium ÐΞVcon-0. I want to post a few images to let you gauge the mood here.
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From inside Ethereum ÐΞVhub Berlin
Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity
Proof of stake continues to be one of the most controversial discussions in the cryptocurrency space. Although the idea has many undeniable benefits, including efficiency, a larger security margin and future-proof immunity to hardware centralization concerns, proof of stake algorithms tend to be substantially more complex than proof of work-based...
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On Bitcoin Maximalism, and Currency and Platform Network Effects
One of the latest ideas that has come to recently achieve some prominence in parts of the Bitcoin community is the line of thinking that has been described by both myself and others as “Bitcoin dominance maximalism” or just “Bitcoin maximalism” for short - essentially, the idea that an environment...
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Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update III
I’m Gavin Wood, a co-founder of Ethereum and, along with Vitalik Buterin and Jeffrey Wilcke, one of the three directors of the Eth Dev, the NFP organisation that is managing the development (under contract from Ethereum Suisse) of the Ethereum blockchain. This is a small update to let you all...
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Scalability, Part 3: On Metacoin History and Multichain
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for much of the thinking behind multi-chain cryptoeconomic paradigms
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