#also no v1.0.1 to my knowledge?

[catboyroycebracket]

oh i got access to the switch version of the games files (just the eshop ones... physical cartridge dump remains at large) and bizarrely the song file for she shines is loose and completely unused, same as in the steam version. there was a v1.0.2 update that corrected some typos. nothing interesting so far sadly 😿!

[weekinethereum]

January 8, 2017

News and Links  

Top

Status.im alpha is out and getting rave reviews

It's still buggy: blog post on known bugs (also: they're hiring!)

To understand how huge this could be, I recommend this FastCo article on WeChat in China

RELATED: Introduction of the Light Client for Dapp developers

Etherplay also went live on the mainchain, and people are talking about how they can't stop playing.

An interview with Ronan from Etherplay

Stuff for Dapp developers

EVM formalization for interactive theorem provers, v 0.0.1

More Yoichi Hirai: Measuring the VM Test’s Coverage with the Lem Model

Developers guide: Mobile account management by Péter Szilágyi

EthOn -- organized Ethereum knowledge. Very cool visual aids.

Hosting a DNS domain on Ethereum -- also worth reading the comment thread

Fully decentralized ENS tracking Dapp from the RexMLS team

Open Zeppelin v1.0.1 secure Solidity framework released

Ecosystem

Announcing MyEtherWallet v3.4: The Node Switcher

uPort is hiring 9 people -- looks like they closed a fundraising round?

Taylor Gerring's Windows Installer for Mist: test release 1

Shopping carts without servers on Ethereum

Ethereum is "the most likely candidate" to become the global payment network -- Coinbase's Brian Armstrong

Coindesk published an article about 'Enterprise Ethereum'

Joe Lubin: Meeting was of a "bunch of companies, large and small . . . [who want to] ensur[e] that core public Ethereum is strong and well resourced and that the roadmap towards 2.0 and beyond has the best talent available to execute it."

I feel like if you read this newsletter, you probably had a decent idea already that this was true.  

Go read the whole comment thread -- at least a couple of folks working on private chain corporate projects attesting to the fact that the long-term future will be public chains

Project Updates

"We put a Tesla on the Ethereum Block chain" -- Project Oaken put one of their ACORNs in a Tesla for a prototype of a toll road system that runs on Ethereum.  As they say, the use cases go far beyond tolls

If I were a VC, I'd be pretty much begging them to take my money (and let me lead the round too?)

uPort has sent out the first invites to its alpha

State Change podcast: uPort

Tendermint: why we're building Cosmos, the Internet of Blockchains

Arthur Falls talks to post-Christopher David Arcade City

FundRequest: The road to a self-sustaining platform

HackerGold's HKG token has a bug. It will need a reissue

OpenZeppelin's security review recommended changes that would've prevented the bug

Stuff for Beginners and Non-experts

How to explain Ethereum to web developers

Here's the video of the talk at TicketLeap I gave on Ethereum.  Slides are in the video description.

If you've wondered how Ethereum's block time is so low, /u/doloto gave a fantastic explanation of GHOST and uncles

Jez San had some interesting comments about PoW in this thread.

Nate Rush on gas accounting.

General

Building payroll system in Ethereum blockchain, what did we learn?

Pretty good overview of how to think about blockchains

VentureBeat: Blockchain could completely transform the music industry

Podcast interview of Cornell's Ari Juels: Using Hardware Enclaves to Provide Trusted Data to Smart Contracts

Jeffrey Berns files his response to legal chicanery by the IRS in the Coinbase case

Someone screwed up and paid nearly $8k to make a transfer in early December. Dwarfpool did the charitable thing and refunded.

Dates of note    

Jan 17 -- iEx.ec token sale begins

Jan 23 -- Intellisys private equity "Mainstreet fund" sale begins

Jan 27-29 -- Thomson Reuters "Hack the Valley" hackathon

Feb 6 -- FundRequest sale begins

Feb 15 -- Chronobank sale ends

Feb 15 -- Melonport sale begins (must check a box that you aren't US Citizen)

Feb 17-18 -- Ethereum Euro Dev Conference in Paris

[I aim for a relatively comprehensive list of Ethereum sales, but make no warranty as to even whether they are legit; as such, I thus likewise warrant nothing about whether any will produce a satisfactory return. This is not investment advice.]                                                                                                 

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