[ad_1] Testing a fork The Spurious Dragon hardfork is scheduled for the coming week; block 2675000 is likely to occur Tuesday evening (CET). The block number for the testnet “Morden” was scheduled at block 1885000. Performing the fork in the test network prior to performing it in the main network […]
Yearly Archives: 2024
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[ad_1] “The energy and digital transition will devastate the environment in untold ways. Ultimately, the environmental price of building this new civilization is so staggering that there is no guarantee you will succeed. Your power has blinded you to the point that you have lost the humility of the sailor […]
[ad_1] Security Alert Affected configurations: Geth Severity: High Summary: An issue has been identified with Geth’s journaling mechanism. This caused a network fork at block #2686351 (Nov-24-2016 14:12:07 UTC). The new Geth release 1.5.3 fixes the journaling issue and repairs the fork. Details: Geth was failing to revert empty account […]
[ad_1] 1. The Buffett Indicator Revisited: Market Cap-to-GDP and Valuations How useful is the Buffett Indicator really? Navin Vohra, CFA, shares his analysis. 2. GameStop or: Why the Short Sellers Win The GameStop short sellers might have left the market, Joachim Klement, CFA, observes. But don’t for a minute think […]
[ad_1] This week marks the completion of our fourth hard fork, Spurious Dragon, and the subsequent state clearing process, the final steps in the two-hard-fork solution to the recent Ethereum denial of service attacks that slowed down the network in September and October. Gas limits are in the process of being increased […]
[ad_1] Undiversified: The Big Gender Short in Investment Management. 2021. Ellen Carr and Katrina Dudley, CFA. Columbia University Press. Columbia Business School Publishing. The authors astutely grab their title from a core principle of investing — diversification. Readers immediately think of the consequences of undiversified investment portfolios and quickly get […]
[ad_1] The possibilities of zkSNARKs are impressive, you can verify the correctness of computations without having to execute them and you will not even learn what was executed – just that it was done correctly. Unfortunately, most explanations of zkSNARKs resort to hand-waving at some point and thus they remain […]
[ad_1] Private markets’ meteoric growth since the Global Financial Crisis has attracted the attention of regulators around the world, some of whom have reacted with urgency. Interestingly, the US courts recently vacated sweeping and controversial rules for private fund advisers that were adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). […]
[ad_1] Vitalik suggested last week that I share my basic research and design philosophy in a blog post, I agreed but complained that it was still changing. My friend Jon West told me that everyone would really appreciate it if I told everyone about my Casper research, I mostly agreed. […]
[ad_1] My Value Creation Journey: An Autobiography of My Work. Bartley J. Madden. 2023. Bartley J. Madden Foundation. My Value Creation Journey, by Bartley J. Madden, is a unique book that consists of a memoir, a primer on systems thinking and knowledge creation, and a call to reform the medical […]
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