Ethereum Dev Update 2015 / Week 44

[ad_1] With DEVCON1 a mere week away, the teams are excited and preparing to share all the great tools and technology the ecosystem has to offer. There will be hundreds of developers and dozens of talks including Nick Szabo, Vitalik Buterin, and Marley Gray from Microsoft. Tickets are limited and we anticipate selling out, so … Read more

Polygon spinoff Avail raises $27 million in seed funding to build Web3 infrastructure

[ad_1] Avail, a blockchain infrastructure project, raised $27 million in its seed funding round led by notable venture capital firms Founders Fund and Dragonfly, according to a Feb. 26 statement shared with CryptoSlate. The raised capital will fuel the development of Avail’s three fundamental products: Data Availability (DA), Nexus, and Fusion. These components, forming what … Read more

Ether’s (ETH) Bitcoin (BTC) Beating Rally Not Just Because of Potential ETF Approval: Bernstein

[ad_1] Ether (ETH), the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, has outperformed its larger rival bitcoin (BTC), with a 33% gain year-to-date. This rally is being driven by catalysts other than the potential approval of a spot exchange-traded fund (ETF), broker Bernstein said in a research report on Monday. Firstly, the ether supply is deflationary and has not … Read more

segregated witness – Bitcoin transaction malleability is it only for unconfirmed transaction?

[ad_1] TL;DR: Yes, once a transaction is confirmed, unless a chain reorganization makes it unconfirmed again, no forms of malleability are possible. SegWit specifically fixed TXID malleability of unconfirmed transactions, but other forms of malleability are possible. Transaction malleability in general refers to the possibility of a third party changing some parts of a transaction … Read more

Microsoft to Sponsor Ethereum’s DEVCON1

[ad_1] London, United Kingdom, October 28th – Ethereum is happy to announce that Microsoft will sponsor and attend DΞVCON1, the premier Ethereum developer conference. Marley Gray, Director of Technology Strategy US Financial Services at Microsoft said, “Microsoft is excited to sponsor and attend Ethereum’s DevCon1. We find the Ethereum blockchain incredibly powerful and look forward … Read more

Hard Fork Completed | Ethereum Foundation Blog

[ad_1] We would like to congratulate the Ethereum community on a successfully completed hard fork. Block 1920000 contained the execution of an irregular state change which transferred ~12 million ETH from the “Dark DAO” and “Whitehat DAO” contracts into the WithdrawDAO recovery contract. The fork itself took place smoothly, with roughly 85% of miners mining … Read more

Why is my transaction not getting confirmed and what can I do about it?

[ad_1] Here is a guide for as many wallets as I could figure out how to perform an RBF with. This is adapted from my bitcointalk post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1802212.0 A “stuck” transaction is a transaction which has remained unconfirmed for period of time which either the receiver or the sender is uncomfortable with. Stuck transactions can … Read more

To fork or not to fork

[ad_1] The DAO, though not a product developed by the Ethereum Foundation, has been a hot topic as of late, both internally in the organisation as well as within our community. The Hard Fork is a delicate topic and the way we see it, no decision is the right one. As this is not a decision … Read more