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Ethereum Founder Unveils Roadmap For Next-Gen Blockchain
At the "Beyond Block" conference in Taipei, Ethereum's founder, Vitalik Buterin, unveiled the plans for "Ethereum 2.0," the next-generation version of Ethereum.
[...] [The] network's rapid growth in recent years has [revealed] a few major issues within the network. According to Buterin, there are currently three major problems that need to be solved to push the Ethereum network to the next level: privacy, consensus safety, smart contract safety, and perhaps the biggest of them all: scalability.
[...] The Ethereum developers have already taken steps to address [anonymity] by implementing the same zero-knowledge proof privacy technology used by Zcash in a recent upgrade. The technology should enable distributed apps (such as voting apps, for instance) to have mathematically provable anonymity.
Buterin said that the privacy issue should be 75% solved already at the network-level, with the remaining 25% to be solved by apps that work on top of Ethereum which would need to actually implement those privacy features.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @06:29PM (1 child)
Is Zcash actually going to solve the privacy problem? Or will the NSA just become the sole tracker of transactions? Drug markets want to know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @03:58PM
yes, i think there's a good chance that all the zerocash based coins (zcash, zclassic and zencash) are all nsa/mosad honeypots. they are all dependent on the original 6 zcash keys. lots of little fishy things have happened in these projects too.
i'll be using eos instead of ethereum.