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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the blockchain++ dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday November 29 2017, @06:52PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 29 2017, @06:52PM (#603107) Journal

    Hubris is the currency of fools

    The US administration might disagree with that.

    Twitter might also disagree as long as Hubris brings in ad impressions.

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