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: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday November 29 2017, @06:53PM (2 children)
Don't worry!
They will get all of the problems with digital currency worked out. Just as Microsoft got all of the problems worked out with Windows 10!
Oh, wait.
Every performance optimization is a grate wait lifted from my shoulders.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @07:01PM
Look since it is totally possible to pay for things just using my completely secure bank card on the internet I am certain this won't be broken by design
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday November 30 2017, @07:16PM
So, naming the revision to fix all issues really a casting problem: b10 == 2.0