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    October 09, 2019

    Ethereum Devcon 5 LIVE Hall A1 [SlidesLive]

    Devcon 5 LIVE Hall A1 [SlidesLive]

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 07:31 PM PDT

    Devcon 5 LIVE Hall A2 [SlidesLive] :)

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 07:32 PM PDT

    Devcon 5 is a logistical and environmental disaster. Here's Why.

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 01:00 PM PDT

    Before I start. I would like to say Devcon 4 was AWESOME. Amazing Venue and amazing organization. Everything ran super smoothly. Please bring back those organizers for next year.

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    Now for Devcon 5....

    1. It seems like 80-90% of the attendees are from North America or Europe.

    It appears that EF did not do any research or diligence on the geographical location of the attendees and for some reason decided to host Devcon 5 on the other side of the world. This means that 4000-5000 people had to buy expensive plane tickets (thousands of dollars) to unnecessarily burn carbon and invert their timezones for a 3.5 day conference.

    The average flight from New York to Japan burns about 2.5 Metric Tons of carbon per person. A rough estimate would put the carbon cost for Devcon 5 at 8,000-12,000 Metric Tons of CO2 emissions!

    Can we please be responsible global citizens and do some basic research on the geographical location of attendees and chose a geographical location that will minimize the carbon cost of the conference next year? The Earth thanks you!

    2) There is no Wifi at the conference. This is simply unacceptable. 5000 tickets x 1000 euros is 5 million euros in revenue. And there's no Wifi. Whoever is responsible for this simply can not be in charge of next years devcon. We paid 1000 euros.

    3) The venue is not great (to put it mildly). It's far from main area of downtown, and it's in a mall with multiple entrances on multiple floors. There is a basement level and then elevators to floor 6 for other rooms. There is no security. There are no badges with names of attendees. There are only wristbands. Anyone can just walk into this conference easily without a ticket.

    4) They ran out of food tickets. People had to go and buy lunch themselves which were supposed to be included.

    5) There are Ethereum competitors speaking on the main stage. Will we invite EOS to Devcon 6? We paid 1000 euros to hear other blockchains shill their blockchains. Come on...

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    Other than that everything else is great. Lots of awesome talks, technical updates, great projects launching, etc.

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    Fatburger And Others Feed $30 Million Into Ethereum For New Bond Offering

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 08:25 AM PDT

    What is going on with DEVCON?

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 02:59 AM PDT

    There are many people not attending the conference that are closely involved with Ethereum in one way or another. DEVCON is clearly not meant for us. That is a real missed opportunity.

    There is a single livestream of one room that was setup as an afterthought that is not even on most of the time.

    If you missed it, there is not even a way to catch up the replay. Last year, it took weeks and weeks for the recordings to be uploaded, well after most of the media interest had waned. There is no indication that this time will be any different.

    Most of what we can rely on is a few random tweets and second hand accounts.

    How it is possible that the largest and most important blockchain tech conference in the world is performing this consistently poorly when it comes to online media (every year is the same story!)?

    We should be able to watch DEVCON like we can follow conferences such as E3 or Apple WWDC. DEVCON is the big event. It is the Woodstock of crypto. Instead, there is evidently very little to no energy being dedicated for people not physically present at the conference. Help!... That does not make any sense!

    What is going on here? How can this be the case when we are talking about a DIGITAL, ONLINE technology that is meant to support the values of OPENNESS, TRANSPARENCY, EQUALITY?

    How many people are attending? Thousands? Imagine then the number of people not attending that would love to or simply need to experience it online!

    Looking at the reactions on Reddit, it seems that instead of generating excitement, DEVCON is operating in a shroud of mystery and mostly generating frustration. This situation is incomprehensible. How can we get the EF/DEVCON team to DISTRIBUTE the news, the wisdom, the love?

    >Ethereum is a global, open-source platform for decentralized applications. - ethereum.org

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    A eth1 -> eth2 transition proposal -- Vitalik Buterin [ethresear.ch]

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 06:34 PM PDT

    Eth 1.0 to 2.0 Migration (Some documentation to help explain where ethereum is in the process and what proposals have come up entering 2.0)

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 11:08 AM PDT

    Here are a few different links that I have read through in my investigation to understand the process of where ethereum is headed.

    The current proposal is that in phase 0, users on the Eth 1.0 chain will be able to lock their ether up in a contract and will be credited with that same amount of ether on the Beacon Chain in Eth 2.0. At that point, they can stake that ether and begin to earn rewards on the Eth 2.0 chain. However, there is also some community interest in creating a two way bridge for that ether between the 1.0 and 2.0 chains.

    Having a one-way bridge promises security, less complexity, but the lockup risk is significant as ether from Eth 1.0 is effectively burned. Transfers in phase 0 have been disabled since version 0.6.0 of the spec, with no current plans of being re-enabled. As resuming validator duties is tied to the transfer mechanism, this also means that if you decide to stop validating for a bit, you can't resume validating until such a time as the transfer functionality is implemented.

    Danny Ryan tells us more about why two-way bridge is not included in phase 0:

    "The more we encumber the 1.0 consensus with 2.0, the more we tie the development and fork processes which would likely slow down the shipping/iterating on 2.0. It is not technically infeasible. It would require 2.0 light clients to be run by all 1.0 clients and some changes to the 1.0 consensus rules allowing for a similar burn/receipt method in the opposite direction. If we were to create fungibility, the path would be (1) release 2.0 beacon chain, (2) once stable beacon chain and light clients exist then require 1.0 clients to be light clients of 2.0 and finalize 1.0 with 2.0 and expose beacon chain state root to 1.0 (3) add additional consensus rules to 1.0 and 2.0 to handle the reminting on 1.0 with proof of burn on 2.0.

    I think it would be detrimental to 2.0 development to demand fungibility out the gate. Over time as light clients are released and we begin to finalize 1.0 with 2.0 if the community wants fungibility, then we can assess proposals then.

    ...we can't prove things about the beacon chain until we force 1.0 clients to agree on the current state of the beacon chain (thus the light client requirement). That's why it logically falls after finalizing 1.0 if the community really wants it."

    Validators will also be able to sell their Eth 2.0 ether balance to another validator, presumably at some discount to the prevailing ether price due to the lock-up and risks. Nonetheless, anyone can exit with funds if they really need to. This is a nice feature that will hopefully encourage more participants to feel comfortable committing to staking.

    Using BETH on shard chains (for smart contracts) will be available in phase 2.

    SOURCE: https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-roadmap/ethereum-2.0/eth-1.0-to-2.0-migration/

    There is more info in the link regarding pros and cons of each proposal, as well as state changes that will occur.

    Here is another link for your perusing pleasure...

    https://ethresear.ch/t/work-to-natively-integrate-eth1-into-eth2/5573/2

    Figured I would share since I really just starting reading into it, asked a few questions myself, and have seen this question come up on many occasions. Hopefully this answers some questions for you...

    If you can add some info.. I wouldn't mind learning some more. Cheers!

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    Proposal to the Ethereum Foundation

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 10:23 AM PDT

    Please provide a clear representation of how and why the clear failures occurred at Devcon this year occurred. Show us why we should expect next year to be any different.

    If you are unable/ unwilling to be accountable, you are implicitly forcing the community to make up for your failures in leadership. In my mind at a minimum this means a community organized devcon next year. At the other end of the spectrum this means increased pressure on from the community for public accountability/ transparency on funding development and other initiatives (including devcon).

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    Making Smart Contracts Work for Business: How Chainlink, Zk-Snarks, & Sharding Finally Delivered the Holy Grail

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 05:34 PM PDT

    Vitalik: "Sharding will NOT break defi composability" w/ new ethresear.ch post

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 07:38 PM PDT

    folks at devcon v: don’t miss upcoming panel discussion on open hardware : 11:25 AM - 12:05 PM, location: Amphitheater Paul Gardner-Stephen, Cameron Robertson, Matthias Tarasiewicz

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 06:52 PM PDT

    Multi Collateral Dai November 18!! Way to go Maker Team!!

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 12:16 AM PDT

    So if we have been filing crypto taxes as LIFO what do we do now with the new IRS guidelines?

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 06:06 PM PDT

    Developers from Ethereal Summit promises better Scalability using Ethereum 2.0

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 05:56 AM PDT

    Developers from Ethereal Summit promises better Scalability using Ethereum 2.0

    Ethereum 2.0

    Ethereum is predicted to be heading into the new light, many major developers of this Blockchain giant discussed and empowered about this in the Ethereal Summit conducted at Tel Aviv on 15th of September, Daniel Kuhn from CoinDesk led the discussion in terms of solution using Ethereum Blockchain for the time ahead.

    Read More: TheCoinRepublic

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    UN Children's Charity Fund Announces a Pilot Program to Accept Bitcoin and Ethereum

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 02:07 AM PDT

    How to destroy my smart contract if it does not provide for self-destruction function?

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 04:21 PM PDT

    Maker Is Launching Interesting Earning MultiCollateral DAI November 18th!

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 11:34 PM PDT

    I'm not disagreeing with a lot of the discourse, but isn't it called "Devcon" and not "Ethcon"?

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 02:19 PM PDT

    Again - I agree, I wouldn't exactly appreciate hearing about other blockchains and their shills after paying to be there. Mostly because the perception is it should be an ETH focused conference since it is hosted/created by EF. However....it IS called Devcon.

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    We also have to realize - I don't think there is anyone on EF that is "business focused". Vitalik himself is probably more focused on defi and what blockchains can solve more than anything. That's something we've loved about him from the start is that he didn't have some hidden agenda. So in a way, any old schoolers here that weren't here from the start to get rich have ourselves to blame just as much as EF.

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    Your mind off Devcon - MetaGame, A Massive Online Coordination Game

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 01:23 PM PDT

    Your mind off Devcon - MetaGame, A Massive Online Coordination Game

    We started building this thing called MetaGame;

    Started as community guidelines, achievements and a map for MetaCartel - but grew wings.

    It's meant to be an open-source framework for digital-first socioeconomic systems - Simplest way to describe it is social media marries freelancing and are very much into role playing games...

    ​

    If you already know some people doing this - stop reading and just tell me.

    ​

    You join the game as a Player or a Guild - which is just any group of people with a long-term goal. Some are DAOs building cool projects, and some are existing agencies offering services and resources, for example:

    • Podcasts join by offering tokenized attention
    • VCs - funds
    • Co-livings...

    Some of their resources go to the MetaGame DAO - for which they get votes - and the rest they're free to sell or allocate inside the ecosystem themselves.

    Challenges, Quests, Epics, Raid Parties, Items, Achievements - has it all. (well, not yet)

    • Sure, you can say: "quest" is just a nicer phrasing of "work", but at least
    • this freelancing market is not about outsourcing, but simply sourcing - for DAOs.

    ​

    Some end goals:

    • A database of reliable services for anything people and ideas need to thrive.
    • Do for ideas what Henry Ford did for automobile production.
    • Spaceship Earth Dashboard
    • Built framework anyone can deploy to run their society no matter how big or small, if they so wish to.
    • MetaNet? - to keep track of all the forks, you know :'D

    Yeah, maybe naively lofty goals - but let's all try to be more like Musk, why don't we?

    ​

    If it picks your interest, there's a longer intro post pointin in our direction

    Also this GDoc of the Phases (MetaGame Mythology)

    ​

    Thank you for your time, here's something pretty;

    Player \"business\" cards - being distributed on Devcon

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    Upcoming Chess game which rewards crypto

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 08:52 AM PDT

    7 of the Best Ethereum Wallets [The Ultimate List]- Blockgeeks

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 12:33 PM PDT

    UNICEF launches Cryptocurrency Fund - Ethereum Foundation involved

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 01:35 AM PDT

    The first contributions to the UNICEF Cryptocurrency Fund will be received from the Ethereum Foundation.

    https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unicef-launches-cryptocurrency-fund

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