Weekly (16/09–22/09) News (Bitcoin, Dash, Ethereum, Stellar, Monero, Bitshares, Steem, EOS, NEM)
Bitcoin & Dash
In the news and blogs
- Bitcoin Core 0.15.0 Is Released: Here’s What’s New by Aaron van Wirdum
- U.S. Bill Would Ease Bitcoin Tax Regulations for Small Transactions by Josiah Wilmoth
- Russian Governor Invites Cryptocurrency Miners to Set Up Mining Farms in Leningrad by Kevin Helms
- Dash News Weekly Recap by Dash Force News
- Dash Conference in Venezuela Draws Over Double Projected Attendees by Joël Valenzuela
Ethereum*
In the news and blogs
- Byzantium Fork For Metropolis Is Live On Ethereum’s Ropsten Testnet by Jordan Daniell
- Ethereum’s Ropsten Testnet Verifies zkSNARKs Component Of Zcash Transaction by Matthew De Silva
- Bootstrapping Urbit from Ethereum by Curtis Yarvin and Galen Wolfe-Pauly
- Introducing Mainnet Ethereum Transactions on Toshi by Brian Armstrong
- µRaiden: Micropayments for Ethereum by Raiden Network
- The Shanghai Accord — Ethereum Scaling Agreement via Cosmos at Wanxiang Global Blockchain Summit 2017 by Chjango Unchained
Podcast
- The future of the blockchain: Interview with Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood by Andy
- Episode 12 of Governing the Future podcast: Jutta Steiner, Parity - interoperable blockchains and the role of regulation
- Interview with Luis Cuende of Aragon by Michael Karnjanaprakorn
- Ethereum DApp Creators // Issue #16 ETHLend
- William Mougayar talk at ICO Summit
- Brendan Eich podcast interview with Aaron Watson
- Episode 2 of An Ethereum Podcast: Doug Petkanics from Livepeer
- San Francisco Ethereum Meetup: Ethereum Scaling Solutions with Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Poon
- Silicon Valley meetup: Vitalik Buterin, Balaji Srinivasan, Joseph Poon, and Dan Boneh
- Naval Ravikant from AngelList interviews Vitalik at TechCrunch Disrupt
Protocol
- Alex Van de Sande explains what’s in the Byzantium hard fork on Reddit
- Ropsten testnet successfully hardforked to Byzantium
- Bug bounty doubled for issues related to the upcoming Byzantium fork
- Token Contracts on Plasma or: a Tale about Local and Global Invariants by Christian
- How To Decipher A Smart Contract Method Call by Howard
- Zero-knowledge proofs, Zcash, and Ethereum by Matt Luongo
Release
- Parity v1.7.2 released
Stuff for developers
- How to read Ethereum contract storage by Darius
- The use of revert(), assert(), and require() in Solidity, and the new REVERT opcode in the EVM by Maurelian
- Using Ethermint with Truffle by billy rennekamp
Ecosystem
- Matrix & Riot for Cryptocurrency Communities by Matthew Hodgson
- On-chain or Off-chain? by C. Brown
- The strategic alliance between Oraclize and Eidoo by Oraclize
New projects
- Props Project - A Decentralized Ecosystem of Video Applications. Video announcement. White paper
- EthRPS - play rock-paper-scissors for money
- Leverj - futures exchange with margin, supported by ConsenSys
- FansUnite - sports betting
- GitToken - earn tokens for your pull requests
- Ocean - Trent McConaghy’s decentralized data marketplace protocol
Project Updates
- Augur - Solidity Migration & What’s Next
- Ocean - 0x, The 0cean, and the High Performance Funnel
- Golem- developer tech news
- Bloom- weekly update
- Decentraland- Terraform Queue explained
- Digix - developer update
- district0x - developer update
- Status - development update
- TenX - card update
Done using materials from http://www.weekinethereum.com and http://dappdaily.com
Stellar
In the news and blogs
Monero**
In the news and blogs
- Cypherpunk Economics: What Monero Reveals About The Equifax Breach by Leigh Cuen
- Hedge Funds Are Hacking Blockchains to Guide Crypto Investments by Olga Kharif
- After a Long Wait, Monero Light (and Hardware) Wallets are Arriving by Jamie Holmes
- Monero: Private And Difficult to Use by Andreas Brekken
Protocol
- Priorities for Monero Research Lab by Brandon Goodell and Sarang Noether
- The Monero dev meeting summary and logs from 17 September released
Done using materials from http://monero-observer.com
Bitshares, Steem, EOS***
In the news and blogs
- The Bitshares testnet has successfully hardforked. The hardfork includes BSIP0018 and some minor consensus upgrades
- A new version of the Bitshares reference wallet (light client) released
- @Stan did an interview with radio host Kerry Lutz
- A weekly market update by @virtualgrowth
- This week’s Bitshares hangout recording available here
- Weekly Steem Stats Report by @penguinpablo
- Deployment Updates, Improved Power Downs, New Landing Page Copy by @steemitblog
- Dawn 1.0 Released and EOS.IO Storage White Paper Now Available! by EOS Blog
Done using materials from https://steemit.com/@steempower
NEM
In the news and blogs
- Tech Bureau offers mijin® to power Japan’s premier real estate hub, LIFULL HOME’S by Julian
- Episode 11 of Inside NEM Blockchain: COMSA + ICO + Blockchain Trends
