The DAO, though not a product developed by the Ethereum Foundation, has been a hot topic as of late, both internally in the

We would like to congratulate the Ethereum community on a successfully completed hard fork. Block 1920000 contained the execution of an irregular state

The DAO soft-fork attempt was difficult. Not only did it turn out that we underestimated the side effects on the consensus protocol (i.e.

The foundation has committed to support the community consensus on the admittedly difficult hard fork decision. Seeing the results of various metrics, including

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

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

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

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

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