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Ethereum Classic community comes together at successful Hong Kong summit
Principles and plans for growth unite participants at event organised by Grayscale
2017年 11月 22日 10 分で読めます
Since day one, Ethereum Classic has been driven by principles. What began as a disparate group of people who came together after the DAO hack and the consequent hard fork on Ethereum has now become a strong and growing community, united by a belief in immutability and that code is law. So it was tremendously exciting to see everyone gather at the first Ethereum Classic Summit…
Writing a High-Assurance Blockchain Implementation
Guest blog from Edsko de Vries, who is working on the high assurance implementation of the Ouroboros blockchain protocol
2017年 11月 3日 9 分で読めます
Writing a High-Assurance Blockchain Implementation - Input Output
In our previous blog post Cryptocurrencies need a safeguard to prevent another DAO disaster we discussed the need for high assurance development of cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchain protocols. We also sketched one way in which one might go about this, but we did not give much detail. In this follow-up blog post we delve into computer science theory a bit more…
Introducing the Cardano roadmap
Next steps of development are charted ahead of further information releases
2017年 10月 31日 9 分で読めます
Cardano has been an incredibly challenging and fun project to work on involving many teams throughout the world with different skills and opinions on design, process and quality. Our core technology team consists of Well Typed, Serokell, Runtime Verification, Predictable Network Solutions and ATIX, with IOHK leading them. Then we have external auditors such as Grimm, RPI Sec…
Designing a new virtual machine and universal language framework
Guest blog from Professor Rosu explains the work being done in a partnership between Runtime Verification and IOHK
2017年 10月 26日 8 分で読めます
Designing a new virtual machine and universal language framework - Input Output
The IELE and K team Mathematical rigor and good design of programming languages and underlying virtual machines are critical for the success of blockchain technologies and applications. Indeed, decades of accumulated evidence show that formal techniques and their early adoption in the design of computing systems can significantly increase the safety, security and dependability…
How Cardano's transaction fees work
The mathematician working on the protocol's incentives explains the research and IOHK's design
2017年 10月 19日 4 分で読めます
Why do we need transaction fees?
There are two main reasons why transaction fees are needed for a cryptocurrency like Cardano:
People who run full Cardano nodes spend time, money and effort to run the protocol, for which they should be compensated and rewarded. In contrast to Bitcoin, where new currency is created with each mined block, in Cardano, transaction fees are the only…