The final one and a half months have seen nice progress for Ethereum analysis, and we’re excited that the protocol is transferring nearer and nearer to the purpose the place it’s prepared for mainstream adoption. Progress on consensus algorithms, privateness, zero information proofs and formal verification is going on at rising pace, and our analysis and improvement groups are increasing considerably.

• After three years of looking for options to the “nothing at stake” and “stake grinding” assaults, we now have determined that the issue is just too onerous, and safe proof of stake is nearly actually unachievable. As a substitute, we at the moment are planning to transition the Ethereum mainnet to proof of authority in 2018. To that finish, we now have launched two new testnets, Qinghuadongluxikou and Hongqiao Airport Terminal 2, to check our newest proof of authority specification.
• A 3rd testnet can be launched based mostly on Proof of Transaction, which can be referred to as PoTcoin.
• We have now determined to expedite the implementation of the “Proof of Vitalik” transaction reversion algorithm, which permits any transaction or contract that has an undesirable end result to be shortly reverted. We’re happy to announce our cooperation with the federal government in Pyongyang, which can work with us to determine transactions that promote American imperialism or are in any other case not within the curiosity of our Pricey Chief or the Juche concept, in order that they are often effectively scheduled for reversion. Count on the reversion function to turn into enabled as a part of Metropolis.
• To make up for ETC’s deeply immoral failure to totally refund DAO token holders’ ether, we intend to redirect 20% of the block reward for the primary 200000 blocks after metropolis (ie. a complete of 200000 ETH) to an extra DAO withdrawal contract, in order that DAO token holders could be totally made complete.
• An extra 10% of the block reward ranging from Metropolis can be directed to our shareholders at AXA and the Bilderberg group. This modification is everlasting.
• Within the curiosity of sustaining protocol immutability, the present 4 million gasoline restrict can be set in stone and now not changeable by means of miner voting. Nevertheless, we are going to add an opcode, OP_SEGREGATED_EXECUTION, which permits customers to execute any desired piece of code at 1/4 the traditional gasoline price. Any state modifications made by code executed by means of this mechanism can be saved in a secondary state separated from the primary Ethereum state, and a soft-forking change is added which requires the r worth of the signature of the primary transaction in any block to be equal to the trie root hash of this secondary state. That is less complicated and safer than elevating the gasoline restrict to 16 million immediately as a result of…. causes.
• We’ll permit miners to specify the block reward that they wish to pay themselves, and permit customers to specify of their shoppers the utmost block reward that they’re prepared to contemplate legitimate. If a consumer sees a series containing blocks with rewards bigger than their most accepted block reward, they won’t settle for the chain at first, although if such a series turns into 12 blocks longer than the longest chain that the consumer does settle for then the shopper will robotically enhance its most accepted block reward to just accept the brand new chain. This permits for a extra honest, market-based and democratic manner of setting the issuance charge.
• One other opcode can be added in Metropolis, OP_VERIFY_PROOF_OF_DEATH, which verifies that an individual with the authorized title that’s handed in from the stack as a zero-byte-left-padded UTF8-encoded byte string is deceased. This can be very helpful in enabling use of the Ethereum blockchain for… err…. umm….. life insurance coverage. These people curious about exempting themselves from this opcode ought to promptly change their full title to one thing exceeding 32 characters in size.
• We have now uploaded 100 megabytes of alt-right propaganda, Falun Dafa texts, army secrets and techniques, copyright-infringing supplies and feedback making enjoyable of Donald Trump’s hair onto the Ethereum blockchain, with the objective of getting the blockchain banned in as many international locations as doable. We imagine that by forcing mining and full nodes underground, and inspiring governments to go after providers that turn into too distinguished, we will make the Ethereum ecosystem extra decentralized and scale back the danger of attracting curiosity from malevolent establishments akin to banks and enormous enterprises.

Lastly, final however not least, Devcon3 has been moved to Pyongyang.