EtherWorld's weekly: February 25, 2018 - Issue 43

(Blockchain eNewspaper)

Quote of the week

“Consensus doesn't require that everyone is happy and agrees that the chosen solution is the best one. Consensus is when everyone is sufficiently satisfied with the chosen solution, such that they no longer have specific objections to it.” Nick Johnson

News

World news

• Blockchain Research Institute (BRI) signs MoU with NASSCOM for blockchain innovation in India
  
• NASA, ESA Considering Innovative Applications of Blockchain Technology
• Swiss authority FINMA publishes ICO guidelines
• Saudi banks improve their payments infrastructure using Ripple
• Wyoming Senate Bill Proposes to Exempt Cryptocurrencies from Taxes
• Nebraska Legislature Takes Competitive Approach To Emerging Blockchain Technology
• Arizona SB1091, to allow tax payments with digital currencies, has passed the Senate and has been sent to the House
• Banks Replaced With Blockchain at International Food Program - Bloomberg
• Bank of America Admits Cryptocurrencies Are a Threat to Its Business Model
• Major Banks Partner With R3 Blockchain Alliance To Launch Pilot Trade Platform

Ethereum News

• 372 ether bounty has been paid for building the starting foundation of a Doge-Ethereum bridge
• Ethereum Community Fund: $100m from Cosmos, OmiseGo, Golem, Maker, Global Brain, and Raiden to support ecosystem infrastructure.
• If you study in The Netherlands, you can apply for a student grant (ticket + travel sponsorship) for Ethereum Community Conference in Paris
• Dicussion on r/Ethereum mods - [META] Mods need to do something about this spam

Technology

Developer's Update

• [Notes from Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #34 2/23/18
• Formalize EIP acceptance protocol #898
• Casper Research Call 40
• Geth v1.8.1 (Iceberg²): Non-critical hotfix release for v1.8.0
• Parity 1.9.3-beta
• EIP-867 pull request approved - not dead yet?
• ECIP Proposal (separation of contract interfaces) #896
• ERC 891: PPoW extension for ERC20 Reddit thread
• ERC892: Permission standard
• ERC900: Simple Staking Interface
• Espresso – Solidity test framework
• DRIZZLE: REACTIVE ETHEREUM DATA FOR FRONT-ENDS

Good Reads on Blockchain

• A signaling theory model of cryptocurrency issuance and value by Vitalik Buterin
• Ethereum Scaling Solutions and Tradeoffs by Matt Condon
• MODELS FOR SCALING TRUSTLESS COMPUTATION by KYLE SAMANI

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• ETHDenver: Creating Social Impact Through Community & Technology
  • Video
  • Winner
  • Recap
  • uPort Hackathon Projects
  • Aragon @ ETHDenver Recap
• Dom Schiener on Iota and Supply Chain at BOSCH CONNECTED WORLD 2018
• An Interview with Conrad Barski of Forward Blockchain

Projects

New Projects and White Paper

• Beige paper: a rewrite of the yellow paper for readability
• Healthureum - combines blockchain and healthcare.

Project updates and Press Release

• Raiden Network snapshot v0.3.0.
• The District Weekly - February 24th, 2018
• Web 3 Foundation - Investigating Short Term Scaling Solutions for Ethereum
• Status Alpha 0.9.14 Release Notes
• ICONOMI Weekly Update
• Introducing The Stable Fund, $45 million for the MakerDAO Ecosystem
• MyEtherWallet: The Reincarnation
• Firefly Hardware Wallet - CryptoKitties
• Introducing The Stable Fund, $45 million for the MakerDAO Ecosystem
• What if 0x could be used for decentralised real-time bidding advertising?
• Introducing Wownero: Monero's Latest Hard Fork.

Trading

• Ether added on Zebpay (India)
• Robinhood opens live crypto trading
• SegWit
  • GDAX
  • Bitfinex - Adopts SegWit
  • Coinbase - targeting Segwit support by next week
• Kyber Network exchange - on-boarding new users. Now supports $APPC $ENG $RDN $SALT.
• Ripple XRP on Coinbase: Over 22,000 Signatures Already
• Introducing the new TREZOR Bridge
• Ledger Hardware Wallet - Monero integration

Miscellaneous

Bounty, Contest and Hackathon

• The Bloom Meme Contest is On!

Hiring

• Consensys
• Coinbase

Events

• Feb 27, 2018 - ConsenSys Ethereum Meetup San Francisco - Blockchain 101
• Feb 27, 2018 - Blockchain Xplore
• Feb 28, 2018: IFZ FinTech Conference - Zug, Switzerland,
• Mar 1-4, 2018:Crypto Virtual Summit - Online
• Mar 8-10, 2018: Ethereum Community Conference - Paris
• Mar 10, 2018: Crypto Investor Show - London, UK
• Mar 15, 2018: Token Fest Conference, San Francisco, US
• Apr 25-26, 2018: Crypto World Journal
• May 3-5, 2018: EDCON in Toronto
• May 11-12, 2018: Ethereal Summit at the Knockdown Center in NYC.

ICO

• ICO or Token Sale Calendar
  

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