EtherWorld's weekly: September 09, 2018

(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

• Coinbase plots to become the New York Stock Exchange of crypto securities
• Google created a public Ethereum dataset using Parity Ethereum - Ethereum in BigQuery: a Public Dataset for smart contract analytics
• Iran, North Korea and Venezuela turning to cryptocurrency to bypass US sanctions, experts warn.
• IRAN RECOGNIZES CRYPTOCURRENCY MINING AS INDUSTRY.

Other blockchain news

• IOTA Co-Founder Dominik Schiener will be speaking to Germany’s minister of the chancellery; Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Bahn apparently into IOTA as well.
• Mark Nixon joins IOTA to head up the Smart City Program
• Ripple’s Trillion-Dollar Man - David Schwartz on Forbes
• Cardano update
• Waltonchain Whitepaper 2.0 Official Release Announcement.

Ethereum News

• Ethereum 2.0 — Who’s building it?
• Reddit thread clarification on difficulty bomb timings
• If you're in the San Francisco area Oct 5-7, consider volunteering at @ETHsanfrancisco!

Technology

Release
* Raiden Network released v0.8.0 "rising_edge" to the testnet.
* Trinity Ethereum Client v0.1.0-alpha.15 Release - "Dorothy Vaughan"
* Want to convert between Solidity timestamps and year/month/day hour:minute:second? BokkyPooBah's DateTime Library v1.00 Released. Medium.
* OpenZeppelin 2.0 RC 1

• web3.swift - Ethereum Swift API with support for smart contracts, ENS & ERC20.

• Plasma

  • Ethereum 2.0 Casper+Sharding Development Update # 12 — Prysmatic Labs
  • Plasma chains with enforced consistency between multiple parent chains - V Buterin

• Ethereum 2.0 Implementers Call 2 Notes

• Casper Standup Call # 66

• Sharding

  • Batched cross-shard transaction fee payment - V Buterin

Good Reads on Blockchain

• Why We Need Web 3.0 By Gavin Wood
• Amid the cryptocurrency bloodbath, is it time to give up as a retail investor?
• How to BUIDL on the Blockchain if You’re Not a Dev - ConsenSys Academy.
• ERC-998 and the Future of Blockchain Game Assets

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Ethereum Governance - Hudson Jameson's slide at ETHBerlin
• Interview with Lyn Ulbricht - WBD
• Kleros – Crowdsourced Arbitration for Blockchain Applications
• Livepeer´s path to scale video transcoding - Phillip Angele
• An overview of the Truebit architecture and incentive structure - Harley Swick

Projects

New Projects

• Membrana - TRUST MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL ASSETS
• mr.miner - Linux Mining OS to manage and monitor your mining farm

Project updates

• Choose your own Golem - Introducing Use Case Pipeline
• ShapeShift membership. A new loyalty program for our most foxy users.
• You can now send CryptoKitties (and other collectibles) with Opera’s cryptocurrency wallet
• How the winner got Fomo3D prize — A Detailed Explanation
• GörliTesnet team created a cross-client testnet at @ETHBerlin.
• Augur Weekly Report — September 5th. Augur on the Economist podcast
• Making Maker — September 4th

Miscellaneous

Vacancies

• Ethereum - Are you looking for a job as a #cpp software engineer in #Berlin or Europe? Do you have some formal training or even experience in compilers? Send your CV to solidity-jobs@ethereum.org!

Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs

• Coursera and ConsenSys Launch Certificate for Non-Developers

• WAVE 3 Devcon 4 Ticket Sale Details: MON September 10 at 4pm PT

• Applications for ETHSanFrancisco are closing soon

• September 14-15, 2018: Litecoin Summit

• September 14-16, 2018: Hack the North. Waterloo.

• September 15-16, 2018: Kiev DappDev hackathon

• September 17-21, 2018: Blockchain Technology Symposium. Toronto.

• September 21-23, 2018: EthAtlanta hackathon at Atlanta Tech Park.

• October 1-2, 2018: SWELL by Ripple. President Bill Clinton is one of the keynote speakers.

• October 3-4, 2018: CryptoSprings

• October 5-7, 2018: ETHSanFrancisco. Applications are officially open.

• October 5-7, 2018: TruffleCon 2018 in Portland, Oregon.

• October 11, 2018: Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)

• October 17-18, 2018: Crypto Games Conference at Minsk, Belarus.

• October 22–24, 2018 : Web3 Summit in Funkhaus, Berlin.

• October 26-28, 2018: Status hackathon (Prague)

• October 30, 2018 – November 02, 2018 : Devcon4 in Prague.

• November 14-16, 2018: Decentralized Divani Caravel, Athens, Greece. Registration Open.

• DECEMBER 7-9, 2018: THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED GOVERNANCE In ATHENS

• March 19, 2018 - Spetmber 30, 2018: Gnosis X by Gnosis - a recurring challenge inviting developers, creators, and businesses to build customized prediction market applications on top of the Gnosis platform.

ICO

• Membrana : Whitelist coming soon.

Ongoing

• C3C Protocol : August 25, 2018 - September 30, 2018
• Save Environment Token:Token sale September 05, 2018 - Nov 03, 2018.
• ORBIS : Onging Token sale till October 29, 2018.

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