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The DAO soft-fork attempt was difficult. Not only did it turn out that we underestimated the side effects on the…

The foundation has committed to support the community consensus on the admittedly difficult hard fork decision. Seeing the results of…

The primary expense that must be paid by a blockchain is that of security. The blockchain must pay miners or…

In 2009, Bitcoin was launched as a digital asset challenging the fiat currency. What started with almost no intrinsic value…

I’m joining Ethereum as a formal verification engineer. My reasoning: formal verification makes sense as a profession only in a…

Security Alert Affected configurations: Geth Likelihood: High Severity: High Summary: geth nodes running out of memory and crashing on block…

URGENT ALL MINERS: The network is under attack. The attack is a computational DDoS, ie. miners and nodes need to…

Today the network was attacked by a transaction spam attack that repeatedly called the EXTCODESIZE opcode (see trace sample here),…

During the last couple of weeks, the Ethereum network has been the target of a sustained attack. The attacker(s) have…

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 2463000, which will likely occur between 12:00 and…