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Ethereum Classic community comes together at successful Hong Kong summit

Principles and plans for growth unite participants at event organised by Grayscale

22 November 2017 Jeremy Wood 10 mins read

Ethereum Classic community comes togeth

Since day one, Ethereum Classic has been driven by principles. What began as a disparate group of people who came together after the DAO hack and the consequent hard fork on Ethereum has now become a strong and growing community, united by a belief in immutability and that code is law. So it was tremendously exciting to see everyone gather at the first Ethereum Classic Summit…

Writing a High-Assurance Blockchain Implementation

Guest blog from Edsko de Vries, who is working on the high assurance implementation of the Ouroboros blockchain protocol

3 November 2017 Edsko de Vries 9 mins read

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Writing a High-Assurance Blockchain Implementation

In our previous blog post Cryptocurrencies need a safeguard to prevent another DAO disaster we discussed the need for high assurance development of cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchain protocols. We also sketched one way in which one might go about this, but we did not give much detail. In this follow-up blog post we delve into computer science theory a bit more…