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ethereum foundation blog posts

A comprehensive list of all Ethereum Foundation blog posts from 2013 to 2016, covering the early development period of the project.
Ethereum Foundation Blog Posts

A comprehensive list of all Ethereum Foundation blog posts from 2013 to 2016, covering the early development period of the project.

blog.ethereum.org
December 31, 2013

The Ethereum Foundation blog has been the primary communication channel for official project updates since December 2013. This page catalogues the blog posts from the early days of Ethereum (2013–2016). The full archive contains over 600 posts through to the present day.

Note: Blog post titles below are derived from URL slugs and may differ slightly from the actual published titles. Click through to see the original posts.

2013

Date Title
2013-12-31 Bootstrapping a Decentralized Autonomous Corporation Part 3 Identity Corp
2013-12-31 Bootstrapping a Decentralized Autonomous Corporation Part I
2013-12-31 Bootstrapping an Autonomous Decentralized Corporation Part 2 Interacting with the World

2014

Date Title
2014-01-15 Slasher a Punitive Proof of Stake Algorithm
2014-01-23 Ethereum Now Going Public
2014-01-29 Conference Alpha Testnet and Ether Pre Sale Updates
2014-02-01 On Transaction Fees and the Fallacy of Market Based Solutions
2014-02-03 Introducing Ethereum Script 2 0
2014-02-05 More Thoughts on Scripting and Future Compatibility
2014-02-08 Cryptographic Code Obfuscation Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are About to Take a Huge Leap Forward
2014-02-09 Why not Just Use X an Instructive Example from Bitcoin
2014-02-13 Important Statement Regarding the Ether Pre Sale
2014-02-18 Ethereum Scalability and Decentralization Updates
2014-02-24 Daos are not Scary Part 1 Self Enforcing Contracts and Factum Law
2014-03-01 Daos are not Scary Part 2 Reducing Barriers
2014-03-20 The Latest Evm Ethereum is a Trust Free Closure System
2014-03-20 The Question of Mining
2014-03-28 Schellingcoin a Minimal Trust Universal Data Feed
2014-04-10 Pyethereum and Serpent Programming Guide
2014-04-10 The Issuance Model in Ethereum
2014-04-30 Decentralized Protocol Monetization and Forks
2014-05-02 Serpent Upgrades More Fun Stuff
2014-05-06 Daos Dacs Das and More an Incomplete Terminology Guide
2014-05-14 What is Ethereum Project Platform Fuel Stack
2014-05-15 Long Range Attacks the Serious Problem with Adaptive Proof of Work
2014-05-15 The Xbox and Ethereums Dual Mandate
2014-05-24 On Long Term Cryptocurrency Distribution Models
2014-05-27 What if Ethereum Lived on a Treap or Blockchains Charging Rent
2014-06-05 Ethereum Project Update
2014-06-19 Mining
2014-06-30 Advanced Contract Programming Example Schellingcoin
2014-07-05 Stake
2014-07-09 How to Make a Purchase in the Ether Presale
2014-07-11 Toward a 12 Second Block Time
2014-07-14 The Ethereum Project
2014-07-22 Ethereum and Oracles
2014-07-22 Launching the Ether Sale
2014-07-23 Ether Purchase Troubleshooting
2014-08-06 Programming Society with Asm Gavin Wood at Assembly 2014
2014-08-08 Announcement on Planned Exodus Withdrawal
2014-08-08 Ether Sale a Statistical Overview
2014-08-16 Secret Sharing Erasure Coding Guide Aspiring Dropbox Decentralizer
2014-08-18 Building Decentralized Web
2014-08-21 Introduction Futarchy
2014-08-27 State Ethereum August Edition
2014-09-02 Crypto Renaissance
2014-09-02 Software Bounded Rationality
2014-09-17 Scalability Part 1 Building Top
2014-10-03 Slasher Ghost Developments Proof Stake
2014-10-17 Gavs Dev Update Ethereums
2014-10-21 Scalability Part 2 Hypercubes
2014-10-23 Information Theoretic Account Secure Brainwallets
2014-11-01 Gavs Ethereum Dev Update Ii
2014-11-02 Jeffs Ethereum Dev Update
2014-11-03 Stephans Ethereum Community Adoption Update Week 1
2014-11-11 Search Stable Cryptocurrency
2014-11-13 Scalability Part 3 Metacoin History Multichain
2014-11-18 Gavs Dev Update Iii
2014-11-20 Bitcoin Maximalism Currency Platform Network Effects
2014-11-25 Proof Stake Learned Love Weak Subjectivity
2014-12-02 Inside Ethereum Devhub Berlin
2014-12-05 Devcon 0 Recap
2014-12-15 Gavs Ethereum Dev Update Iv
2014-12-17 Ethereum Dev
2014-12-18 Call Bug Bounty Hunters
2014-12-26 Secret Sharing Daos Crypto 2 0
2014-12-31 Silos

2015

Date Title
2015-01-06 Jeffs Ethereum Dev Update 2
2015-01-09 Ethereum Community Survey
2015-01-10 Light Clients Proof Stake
2015-01-23 Superrationality Daos
2015-01-28 P Epsilon Attack
2015-02-14 Subjectivity Exploitability Tradeoff
2015-03-02 Gavs Ethereum Dev Update V
2015-03-03 Ethereum Launch Process
2015-03-05 Ethereum Development Process
2015-03-12 Getting to the Frontier
2015-03-14 Ethereum the First Year
2015-03-20 Ethereum Builders Experiment
2015-03-20 Juttas Update Bug Bounty Program Security Audit
2015-04-01 Ethereums Unexpected Future Direction
2015-04-02 Implementing Vitaliks Vision
2015-04-05 Bazaar Services
2015-04-05 Blockchain Scalability Chain Fibers Redux
2015-04-06 Ethereum Builders Supercharging Github
2015-04-07 Devgrants Help
2015-04-08 Ethereum Foundation is Hiring an Executive Director
2015-04-10 Ethereum Foundation Open Call re Board Selection
2015-04-13 Visions Part 1 the Value of Blockchain Technology
2015-04-27 Visions Part 2 the Problem of Trust
2015-05-02 The End of the Beginning
2015-05-09 Olympic Frontier Pre Release
2015-05-14 Announcing E%cf%80 Ethereum on Raspberry Pi Programme
2015-05-14 Announcing Eπ Ethereum on Raspberry Pi Programme
2015-05-24 The Business Imperative Behind the Ethereum Vision
2015-06-06 The Problem of Censorship
2015-06-15 Another Ethereum Dev Update
2015-06-21 Ethereum Messaging Masses Including Fathers Via Infographic
2015-06-26 State Tree Pruning
2015-07-05 On Abstraction
2015-07-07 Know Ethereum Secure
2015-07-22 Frontier is Coming What to Expect and How to Prepare
2015-07-27 Final Steps
2015-07-30 A Few Last Minute Notes
2015-07-30 Announcing New Foundation Board Executive Director
2015-07-30 Ethereum Launches
2015-08-01 Introducing Casper Friendly Ghost
2015-08-04 Ethereum Protocol Update 1
2015-08-04 The Thawing Frontier
2015-08-07 On Public and Private Blockchains
2015-08-07 Security Alert 1 Windowsalethzero 2
2015-08-08 Chain Reorganisation Depth Expectations
2015-08-18 Frontier First 100k Blocks
2015-08-20 Security Alert Consensus Issue
2015-08-26 Olympic Rewards Announced
2015-08-28 On Anti Pre Revelation Games
2015-08-29 Security Alert Insecurely Configured Geth can Make Funds Remotely Accessible
2015-09-02 Devcon One Postponed Until Further Notice
2015-09-02 Security Advisory Implementations Bugs in Go and Python Clients can Cause Dos
2015-09-03 A Message from Stephan Tual
2015-09-03 Security Alert Implementation Bug in Go Clients Causing Increase in Difficulty Fixed Miners Check and Update Go Clients if Necessary
2015-09-10 Security Alert Previous Security Patch can Lead to Invalid State Root on Go Clients with a Specific Transaction Sequence Fixed Please Update
2015-09-14 On Slow and Fast Block Times
2015-09-16 Ethereum Wallet Developer Preview
2015-09-18 Ethereum Comms Announcement
2015-09-24 Devcon is Back
2015-09-25 More Uncle Statistics
2015-09-28 The Evolution of Ethereum
2015-10-10 Security Advisory Eth Cpp Ethereum Potentially Vulnerable if Running with Upnp Enabled
2015-10-13 Ethereum Dev Update 2015 Week 41
2015-10-18 Vitaliks Research and Ecosystem Update
2015-10-22 Nick Szabo Confirmed As Keynote Speaker of Ethereums Devcon1
2015-10-22 Security Alert Implementation of Blockhash Instruction in C and Go Clients can Potentially Cause Consensus Issue Fixed Please Update
2015-10-28 Microsoft to Sponsor Ethereums Devcon1 2
2015-11-02 Ethereum Dev Update 2015 Week 44
2015-11-09 Stateful Turing Complete Policies
2015-11-15 Merkling in Ethereum
2015-11-24 Applications of Security Deposits and Prediction Markets you Might not Have Thought About
2015-12-03 How to Build Your Own Cryptocurrency
2015-12-04 Ethereum in Practice Part 2 How to Build a Better Democracy in Under a 100 Lines of Code
2015-12-07 Ethereum in Practice Part 3 How to Build Your Own Transparent Bank on the Blockchain
2015-12-24 Understanding Serenity Part I Abstraction
2015-12-28 Understanding Serenity Part 2 Casper

2016

Date Title
2016-01-07 2394
2016-01-08 Devgrants Update New Funding
2016-01-11 Last Blog Post
2016-01-15 Privacy on the Blockchain
2016-02-01 2458
2016-02-09 Cut and Try Building a Dream
2016-02-12 Ethereum Dev Update C Roadmap
2016-02-17 Btc Relay Included in Bounty Program
2016-02-17 Smart Contracts Courts not Smart Judges
2016-02-29 Homestead Release
2016-03-05 Serenity Poc2
2016-03-29 An Open Source Mining Pool Bounty
2016-03-30 Solidity Available in Visual Studio
2016-04-01 Ethereum Partners with R3cev on Lizardcoin Bringing Together the Best of Centralized Finance and Blockchain Technology
2016-04-05 Devcon2 and Blockchain Summit Shanghai September2016
2016-05-04 C Dev Update Announcing Remix
2016-05-09 On Settlement Finality
2016-05-17 Security Alert Geth Suffers from a Very Low Probable Dos Attack Vector Update Immediately
2016-05-31 Security Alert Cpp Ethereum Keeps Accounts Unlocked
2016-06-02 Go Ethereums Jit Evm
2016-06-03 Security Alert Cpp Ethereums Account Unlocking Problem not Yet Fixed
2016-06-10 Smart Contract Security
2016-06-14 Ethereum Welcomes Microsoft Devcon
2016-06-17 Critical Update re Dao Vulnerability
2016-06-19 Thinking Smart Contract Security
2016-06-24 Dao Wars Youre Voice Soft Fork Dilemma
2016-06-24 Security Alert Smart Contract Wallets Created in Frontier are Vulnerable to Phishing Attacks
2016-06-28 Security Alert Dos Vulnerability in the Soft Fork
2016-07-08 C Dev Update Summer Edition
2016-07-08 Devcon2 Site Now Live
2016-07-11 Taylors Summer Update
2016-07-12 Build Server Less Applications Mist
2016-07-15 To Fork or not to Fork
2016-07-20 Hard Fork Completed
2016-07-22 Hive Strived Clean Fork
2016-07-26 Onward from the Hard Fork
2016-07-27 Inflation Transaction Fees Cryptocurrency Monetary Policy
2016-09-01 Formal Methods Roadmap
2016-09-18 Security Alert Geth Nodes Crash Due Memory Bug
2016-09-22 Ethereum Network Currently Undergoing Dos Attack
2016-09-22 Transaction Spam Attack Next Steps
2016-10-13 Announcement Imminent Hard Fork Eip150 Gas Cost Changes
2016-10-18 Faq Upcoming Ethereum Hard Fork
2016-10-27 Security Alert Mist can Vulnerable Navigating Malicious Dapps
2016-10-31 Uncle Rate Transaction Fee Analysis
2016-11-01 Security Alert Solidity Variables can Overwritten Storage
2016-11-09 Analysis Storage Corruption Bug
2016-11-17 Whoa Geth 1 5
2016-11-18 Hard Fork no 4 Spurious Dragon
2016-11-20 From Morden to Ropsten
2016-11-25 Security Alert 11242016 Consensus Bug Geth V1 4 19 V1 5 2
2016-12-04 Ethereum Research Update
2016-12-05 Zksnarks in a Nutshell
2016-12-06 History Casper Chapter 1
2016-12-07 History Casper Chapter 2
2016-12-15 Swarm Alpha Public Pilot Basics Swarm
2016-12-19 Security Alert 12192016 Ethereum Org Forums Database Compromised
2016-12-31 December Roundup

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