#Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin’s 7 Deadly Crypto Sins: Part 5. “Pow Is Burning Billions of Dollars per Year, Even More Than All Scams and Thefts Combined”

September 1, 2018 by Jefferson Nunn at Altcoins, Blockchain, Ethereum, News, Regulation

It’s hard to believe that in a remote town in rural Texas is transforming itself from the dirty coal mines of the 19th and 20th century to the clean digital mines of the 21st century. Bitmain is investing heavily into the town of Rockdale, Texas creating more than 300 jobs...

Vitalik Buterin’s 7 Deadly Crypto Sins: Mitigating 5 to 10 Second Blockchain Latency

August 23, 2018 by Jefferson Nunn at Altcoins, Blockchain, Cryptocyclopedia, Development, Ethereum

In the following series, BTCManager will be walking through, in detail, seven questions posed by the co-creator of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin. These seven questions are some of the most relevant features of this booming ecosystem. From latency, as in this week’s installment, to governance and everything in between. The series...

Demand for Blockchain and Crypto Developers Soar

Demand for Blockchain Skills Exceeding Supply, Big Companies Hiring Big Time

August 20, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Blockchain, Business, Development, News

Blockchain developers are now the most sought-after commodity in the job marketplace, with the number of job openings requiring the skill doubling since the beginning of the year. As the demand for experts in the field exceeds the supply, big companies are looking to implement the new transaction technology offer...

What Is Sharding?

August 18, 2018 by Alex Lielacher at Altcoins, Blockchain, Cryptocyclopedia, Ethereum, Tech

Sharding is a concept in database design, and as implied by its name, sharding involves creating smaller parts from a larger one. In the context of databases, sharding results in the creation of smaller partitions in the ledger. These partitions are thus referred to as shards. It is important to...

Vitalik Buterin’s Seven Deadly Crypto Sins: Account Security

August 15, 2018 by Jefferson Nunn at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Crime, Cryptocyclopedia, Ethereum

In the following series, BTCManager will be walking through, in detail, seven questions posed by the co-creator of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin. These seven questions are some of the most relevant features of this booming ecosystem. From security, as in this week’s installment, to governance and everything in between. The series...

Vitalik Buterin’s Seven Deadly Crypto Sins: Bitmain and 51% Attacks

August 1, 2018 by Jefferson Nunn at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocyclopedia, Ethereum, Mining

In the following series, BTCManager will be walking through, in detail, seven questions posed by the co-creator of Ethereum. These seven questions are some of the most relevant features of this booming ecosystem. From mining, as in this week’s installment, to governance and everything in between. The series was inspired...

Vitalik Buterin Terms Crypto ETF “a Distraction”

August 1, 2018 by Rahul Nambiampurath at Adoption, Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, Ethereum, Investment, News

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have witnessed higher than average trading volumes over the past two weeks. This is partly due to investor enthusiasm as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to announce its long-awaited decision on a crypto ETF. Amidst this discussion though, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has...

Ethereum: A Retrospective of the First 3 years

July 31, 2018 by Eric Czuleger at Altcoins, Business, Development, Ethereum, Finance, Mining, News, Platform

On July 30, 2015, Ethereum was launched by co-founders Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin. Three years on it has become the second biggest cryptocurrency in the world as well as creating an extensive blockchain landscape for all newcomers. A Constellation of Value Ethereum created a constellation of businesses branching off...

Vitalik Buterin Proposes a Shift to Uniform Price Auction for Ethereum Miner Compensation

July 10, 2018 by Rahul Nambiampurath at Altcoins, Blockchain, Development, Ethereum, Mining, News

Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin has published a proposal to improve how cryptocurrency miners are paid. He believes that the current compensation model can be adjusted to benefit both miners and users. To that end, he has published a rather extensive document detailing how a uniform price auction can replace the...

Vitalik Buterin: High Listing Fees of Cryptocurrency Exchanges a Major Problem

July 9, 2018 by Joseph Young at Blockchain, Commentary, Ethereum, Exchange, News

At TechCrunch Sessions: Blockchain, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin heavily criticized the multi-million dollar listing fees of centralized crypto exchanges that often require tokens and blockchain projects to pay a significant sum of money to enable investors to trade their cryptocurrencies. Buterin Criticizes Crypto-Exchanges In an interview with Jon Evans at...

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