EtherWorld's weekly: November 04, 2018
Sundar Pichai's son is mining Ethereum; PayPal may share your personal information; Devcon4 - Serenity is the next step for Ethereum; Bitcoin Whitepaper completing 10 years; Bitcoin Cash HF November 15 and more...
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News
World news
Sundar Pichai's 11-year-old son is mining Ethereum on a computer the Google CEO built himself
PayPal may share your personal information with third parties (other than PayPal Customers) with new policy update. snapshot. Get hold of your personal data
Bringing digital ledger interoperability to Nasdaq Financial Framework through Microsoft Azure Blockchain
HongKong Statement on regulatory framework for virtual asset portfolios managers, fund distributors and trading platform operators
Brazilian Tax Regulator Publishes Draft on Cryptocurrency Taxation
Blockchains L.L.C. Innovation Park will be a smart city with a decentralized, public blockchain infrastructure underlying all interactions. Video
Fabian Vogelstellar has come up with the idea of “reversible” initial coin offerings to prevent scams in the industry.
Other blockchain news
- Bitcoin - A journey from white paper to $100 billion industry in 10 years.. BTC.com Releases New Ethereum Block Explorer to Support Ethereum Community
- Bitcoin Cash price spiked, HF supported by Bitcoin.com & Binance, Ledger suspending services
- Siacoin's HF, Bittrex adding USD market for SC, market and price analysis
- Ripple released Q3 2018 XRP Markets Report this week.
According to the report, Ripple sells $163 million in XRP amidst rising volatility and volume in Q3 2018. - Monero - GUI v0.13.0.4 'Beryllium Bullet' released!
- Tether Banking Relationship Announced
- Announcing the EOS21 Protocol: Teleport Your ERC20 Tokens to EOS. A step toward #blockchain interoperability. Sidechains and Sister Chains on EOS: An Explainer
- NEM Jason Lee's Keynote on Security Tokens
- Welcome Lukas Tassanyi to the IOTA Foundation
Ethereum News
Vitalik Buterin talked about the future of Ethereum in Devcon4. Serenity is the next step for Ethereum - a term that's beginning to replace Ethereum 2.0 or Shasper to describe the upcoming integration of Casper and sharding. As the fourth development in the Etheruem roadmap, Serenity is helping the technology realize the potential of a world computer.
ConsenSys Acquires Planetary Resources
Launch of ConsenSys Grants in Devcon4! The program will distribute 500k to projects and teams building infrastructure, design, interoperability, and more. Grants will be distributed in increments of $10,000 - $25,000.
Ethereum Special Projects announces 15,000 ETC donation to Ethereum Classic Cooperative
EEA - Both the EEA Off-Chain Trusted Compute Specification V0.5 document AND the the Enterprise Ethereum Client Specification V2 document have been released!
Scam Alert!!

Technology
Introducing the "Minimal CBC Casper" Family of Consensus Protocols Draft v1.0
Ethereum Smart Contract Decompiler
EIP / ERC
Projects
New Projects
- BlockAction - Introducing web3 commands to browser
- web3x v1.2.0 - TypeScript port of web3.js released, for type safe contract interactions.
- Sobol - Advance your organization toward decentralized, humanistic work. Sobol is helping redefine what it means to be a “firm” to better reflect human behavior, enable productivity, and encourage growth.
- Bamboo: a morphing smart contract language
- Elph Plasma Chain - demonstrates the speed and scalability of our Plasma chain.
Project updates
Parity teams up with Zcash Foundation for Parity Zcash client
Connext Community Update #3
PegaSys, a ConsenSys company, announces Pantheon Core
Aragon 0.6 is live on Mainnet
Status Incubating Projects that are Building Web3
district0x Quarterly Report - Q3 2018
Quantstamp Partners with OmiseGo to Make Ethereum Ecosystem Safer by Securing Plasma MVP
State of the OMG Ecosystem
Developing with Truebit: An Overview
Open Sourcing the Law — The Release of OpenLaw Core
MetaMask at DevCon: Privacy Standards, Mobile, and More
Synopsis (2018 @metamask_io by the Numbers):
? 46 extension versions released
? 50k new lines of code
✅ 882 pull requests merged
? 1400 issues closed
? 100+ community contributors
? 18 full-time employees
Zeppelin
- Announcing the ZEP Token Private Beta
- Solidity Compiler Audit
Auditing OpenZeppelin 2.0
If you want to contribute a validator node to the Goerli v0.2 pre-testnet, please join Gitter
Miscellaneous
Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews
- Devcon4

- Reddit Devcon4 Live Stream Links + Agenda + Mega Thread
- Microsoft @ DevCon4
- Recordings devcon4 (day 1, day 2)
- Keynote - Vitalik Buterin - History and vision for Serenity
- Slides of Christian Reitwiessner - Less Gas, More Fun: Optimising
- Slides of Péter Szilágyi - Plugging the metadata leaks
in the Ethereum ecosystem - Slides Georgios Konstantopoulos - Talk on Plasma Cash.
- Justin Drake "Ethereum 2.0 randomness": RANDAO, VDFs and Foundation-sponsored open design ASICS to make sure delay proof generation cannot be highjacked.
- The Trinity Ethereum Client - A platform for blockchain applications
- ProgPoW Talk by the ifdefelse team

Great costume @hudsonjameson!!
Substrate: A Rustic Vision for Polkadot by Gavin Wood at Web3 Summit 2018
Interview with 0xBTC
Blockchain good reads
- 2FA on Ethereum
- JARVIS AND FRIDAY: STARK-FRIENDLY CRYPTOGRAPHIC PRIMITIVES
Wallets, Exchange, Trading & Mining
- Cryptocurrency Price and Market Analysis (November 01, 2018)
- Maker ( $MKR ) and Distributed Credit Chain ( $DCC ) are now available on Kyber Network.
- Binance Will Support the Upcoming Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork
- Ledger - Upcoming Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Fork: What Does This Mean For You?
- Bitfinex announces trading for DigiByte (DGB) against BTC and USD.
Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs
Announcing the Colony Network Bug Bounty Up to $20k for critical disclosures
October 30, 2018 – November 02, 2018 : Devcon4 in Prague.
October 30, 2018: Parity + Polkadot Prague Devcon Meetup
November 01, 2018: Blockchains LLC Global Launch Event at Prague
November 02, 2018: Metamask plans to release breaking change to commemorate the EIP proposing this change, EIP-1102.
November 3-4, 2018: PegaSys Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)
November 8-9, 2018: BLOCKCHAIN BUDAPEST, B-DAY 2.0 , Bálna, Budapest, HUNGARY
November 8-9, 2018: Stable Conf @ BLOCKCHAIN BUDAPEST - discussing only stable coin topics Bálna, Budapest, HUNGARY
November 9-13, 2018:Blockspot 2018, LISBON, PORTUGAL
November 10 - 11, 2018: EOS Hackathon
November 14, 2018 :BlockScout - Open Source EVM Blockchain Explorer
November 14-16, 2018: Decentralized Divani Caravel, Athens, Greece. Registration Open.
November 26 - Dec. 10, 2018: Settle Virtual Hackathon TWO
November 27 - December 01, 2018: BlockShow Asia 2018 Singapore
DECEMBER 7-9, 2018: THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED GOVERNANCE In ATHENS
DECEMBER 7-9, 2018: ETHSingapore
January 16-18, 2019: The North American Bitcoin Conference Miami, Florida.
January 29-30, 2019: AraCon — The Aragon Conference
February 15-17, 2018: ETH Denver.
May 13-15, 2019: Consensus by Coindesk. Register here.
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