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

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 2463000, which will likely occur between 12:00 and 13:00 UTC on

Mist leaks some low level APIs, which Dapps could use to gain access to the computer’s file system and read/delete files. This would

One of the important indicators of how much load the Ethereum blockchain can safely handle is how the uncle rate responds to the

Summary: In some situations, variables can overwrite other variables in storage. Affected Solidity compiler versions: 0.1.6 to 0.4.3 (including 0.4.4 pre-release versions) Detailed