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Scotland and Japan launch IOHK's research network

28 February 2017 Jeremy Wood 4 mins read

Scotland and Japan launch IOHKs research network - Input Output

L-R: Nikos Bentenitis, IOHK Chief Operating Officer; Aggelos Kiayias, IOHK Chief Scientist; Charles Hoskinson, IOHK Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder; Johanna Moore, Head of the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh; Jon Oberlander, Assistant Principal for Data Technology, University of Edinburgh Research is at the core of what IOHK does so I am extremely proud of…

A Joint Statement on Ethereum Classic’s Monetary Policy

27 February 2017 Alan McSherry 3 mins read

A Joint Statement on Ethereum Classic’s Monetary Policy

I'd like to thank everyone from the Ethereum Classic community for their support. I'm really excited to present the following statement which is in reference to monetary policy for the ETC platform. The Ethereum Classic community has grown substantially since its inception in July of 2016. In order to further Ethereum Classic’s vision, the community needs to adopt a monetary…

Mission one – Destination St Petersburg and Warsaw

22 February 2017 Jeremy Wood 3 mins read

Mission one – Destination St Petersburg and Warsaw - Input Output

Mission one – Destination St Petersburg and Warsaw

One of my first priorities after coming onboard with the Grothendieck team to take forward Ethereum Classic was to get out and meet colleagues and IOHK’s developers, wherever they might be. That meant making a trip to St Petersburg and to Warsaw, which was an excellent opportunity to meet face-to-face, and all the more valuable given that we are usually spread out around the…

Authenticated Dynamic Dictionaries, with Applications to Cryptocurrencies

20 February 2017 Alexander Chepurnoy 3 mins read

Our paper "Improving Authenticated Dynamic Dictionaries, with Applications to Cryptocurrencies" will appear at the Financial Cryptography 2017 conference in Malta in April. It was also presented at the Real World Crypto 2017 conference in New York and I highly recommend watching the impressive presentation from Leonid Reyzin, professor of computer science at Boston University…

A Proof-of-Stake lecture at Oxford university

16 February 2017 Jane Wild 3 mins read

A Proof-of-Stake lecture at Oxford university - Input Output

A Proof-of-Stake lecture at Oxford university

Mathematicians with a curiosity about the algorithms behind blockchain came to hear Aggelos Kiayias speak at Oxford university’s Mathematical Institute on Wednesday. Professor Kiayias, Chief Scientist at IOHK, had been invited to the university to give a talk on his work on Ouroboros, a provably secure Proof-of-Stake algorithm for blockchain.

It the first time such a…

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