After the successful upgrade of Constantinople, the leading cryptocurrency developers Ethereum began to discuss the question of who will coordinate…
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After the successful Constantinople upgrade, Ethereum's leading developers started discussing the question of who will coordinate further hardforks of the platform, and apparently came to a consensus that this task would be assigned to several people at once. The discussion about the need to coordinate further actions regarding the upgrades was held at the last Ethereum developer video conference. Her need was caused by the recent […]
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, like several other leading developers of the platform, does not see a serious security threat in the bug that was identified in the code of the upcoming Constantinople system upgrade. Earlier it was reported that the detected vulnerability affects some smart contracts with the possibility of self-destruction. In particular, the function called Create2, assigned to EIP-1014, can replace a self-destructed smart contract by simultaneously changing the ones specified in […]
Simex provided an opportunity for users to create their own tokens via the platform’s web terminal interface. About this magazine ForkLog told representatives of the company. Simex notes that creating tokens does not require special knowledge in the field of programming and a deep understanding of blockchain technologies. “Verification and recording of a smart contract in the Ethereum blockchain occurs automatically after confirmation of the data specified by the user. Thus, any person […]
Mining cryptocurrency is a process that checks the correctness of transactions and adds them to the blockchain registry. Let's talk…
Royal Bank of Canada analyst Mitch Steves said that the total income of the Nvidia corporation in the mining sector could be $ 1.95 billion, which is almost twice the official figures of $ 602 million. Business Insider reports. Steves appreciated the hashrate of Ethereum and several other cryptocurrencies, which are mined on video cards, for the period 2017-2018 and concluded […]
The New York blockchain startup Blockstack reported on the ongoing work on a new distributed protocol called Stacks, which uses the hash power of the Bitcoin network in combination with the Proof-of-Burn mechanism (PoB). The presentation of Stacks took place in January at an event organized by a startup in Hong Kong. An explanation of the principle of the new consensus algorithm is also available in the video posted by the lead developer of the project […]