Technical

Designing Safer Smart Contracts

In a short time Ethereum has turned into the world’s second largest cryptocurrency, with a market cap of $1B and thousands of nodes around the world running its code. Developers and companies in a number of industries are exploring its potential to improve existing…

Ethereum Isn’t Turing Complete and it Doesn’t Matter Anyway

Real Virtuality: The Birth of Public-Key Encryption

By 1975, hardware developments enabled cost reductions that brought cryptographic devices to remote cash dispensers and computer terminals, standardizing cryptographic systems in a way that required innovation. Because existing hardware…

The DAO Heist FAQ

Summary: The Ether held in The DAO was stolen. If the Ethereum community agrees to some form of fork, all Ether can be recovered. It is very important to note that this was not an error in the Ethereum platform itself or the smart contract programming language Solidity. It was purely a bug in a…

An introduction to Ethereum and Solidity with Dave Hoover

State Change #17 — Nick and Karl on Development Toolkits