The community conference commenced today. Here’s what it’s about.
<h1>Distributed Digest: Tuesday, March 5, 2019</h1>
OmiseGO dishes on its developer program, Ren partners with AZTEC, and the Gitcoin Torch emerges.
<h1>Distributed Digest: Monday, March 4, 2019</h1>
A proposal for “dapplets” appears on the Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians’ forum, v1.0 of the watermelon protocol launches, and Flowerpatch allows players to grow cannabis on the Ethereum network.
<h1>2 Nevada Senate Bills Signal State Is Open For Blockchain Business</h1>
Blockchain-related bills SB162 and SB163 were recently heard in the Nevada Senate.
<h1>Distributed Digest: Friday, March 1, 2019</h1>
Constantinople goes live, the Plasma Group creates a general-purpose Plasma design, and a Google engineer outlines the five camps of crypto.
<h1>Distributed Digest: Thursday, February 28, 2019</h1>
Golem ditches Medium in favor of Ghost, the 0x Extensions feature enables different exchange types, and Set Protocol introduces Strategy Enabled Tokens.
<h1>Distributed Digest: Wednesday, February 27, 2019</h1>
ConsenSys announces a new partnership, PegaSys releases Pantheon 1.0, and MetaMask proposes an EIP related to app keys.
<h1>The (Crypto) Future Is Kid Stuff: Onboarding The Youth</h1>
ETHNews chatted with Mechanism Labs’ Alexis Gauba about user research and onboarding younger generations into the crypto ecosystem.
<h1>Distributed Digest: Tuesday, February 26, 2019</h1>
The Ethereum Name Service intends to expand DNSSEC integration, Kyber introduces the Waterloo EOS-Ethereum bridge, and Alpine embraces cartels for TCR Party.
<h1>Constantinople, For Real This Time</h1>
Barring any extraordinary events, the hard fork should occur on or around Thursday, February 28.
<h1>Distributed Digest: Monday, February 25, 2019</h1>
Aragon One releases its Aragon Agent beta, ETHBerlin comes back in August, and Gitcoin sees possible collusion in its liberal radical donation-matching experiment.
<h1>Ohio Businesses Can File Taxes Using BTC, But Only 2 Have Done So</h1>
The treasurer’s office is reviewing the initiative.
<h1>Distributed Digest: Friday, February 22, 2019</h1>
The Zcash Company becomes the Electric Coin Company, the Flyingcarpet Network is being built on top of Gnosis, and Maker’s Dai Stability Fee may increase.
<h1>Distributed Digest: Thursday, February 21, 2019</h1>
The Ethereum Foundation announces the next wave of grant recipients, prediction market platform Helena goes live on Ethereum, and Huobi Global supports the upcoming Constantinople hard fork.
<h1>Distributed Digest: Wednesday, February 20, 2019</h1>
Parity is working with the UN World Food Program, Afri Schoedon merges ProgPoW into the Parity Ethereum master branch, and Ethereum community members sign a statement to maintain positive communication.
<h1>Distributed Digest: Tuesday, February 19, 2019</h1>
PlasmaChain staking goes live, DutchX 2.0 smart contracts are deployed, and Afri Schoedon updates the Ethereum community.
<h1>Bitmain Gets Down With Energy-Efficient ASIC Mining</h1>
The mining giant has a new ASIC chip. Will it help the company turn its fortunes around?
<h1>Distributed Digest: Monday, February 18, 2019</h1>
Ethereum community members support Afri Schoedon, ETHDenver names hackathon finalists, and OmiseGO releases its alpha.
<h1>Distributed Digest: Friday, February 15, 2019</h1>
Ethereum community members vote on ProgPoW, Parity says all Parity Ethereum users should update their nodes, and Apprentio fundraises at ETHDenver.
<h1>ETC-ETH Cooperation Amid Blockchain Tribalism</h1>
Ethereum Classic and Ethereum have their differences, ideological or otherwise, but do these differences preclude collaboration between the two communities? Tracing my own journey with tribalism and misperception, I believe the two groups are better off unified than opposed.