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, @06:47PM (3 children)
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(Score: 3, Funny) by edIII on Wednesday November 29 2017, @08:09PM (2 children)
Wow, really? They'll pay off those upfront costs, like the cost for a Tesla, in just no time at all. I think a Tesla gets something like 2 cryptocoins for every 100 miles right?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday November 30 2017, @03:11AM (1 child)
Is that the new measure of an electric car's economy?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Thursday November 30 2017, @07:10AM
They should replace proof-of-work with proof-of-miles. :-)
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