Historical archive · 2016 · 11 briefings
11 original, source-linked historical crypto briefings published in 2016.
Bitcoin · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 29, 2016
BIP 143 specifies a new signature-hash algorithm for version-0 witness program spends, including more efficient commitment to transaction data.
Read the briefing →Bitcoin · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 24, 2016
SegWit’s activation in 2017 followed a prolonged period of proposals, signaling and competing approaches to Bitcoin’s scaling roadmap.
Read the briefing →Ethereum · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 29, 2016
EIP-137 defines a registry and resolver framework for mapping human-readable names to associated resources, including Ethereum addresses.
Read the briefing →Ethereum · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 25, 2016
EIP-155 altered the transaction-signing scheme to include a chain identifier, helping prevent transactions signed for one chain from being replayed on another.
Read the briefing →Ethereum · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 29, 2016
EIP-55 describes a checksum encoding that uses address capitalization to catch some errors when users copy or inspect hexadecimal addresses.
Read the briefing →Ethereum · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 25, 2016
Homestead activated at block 1,150,000 in March 2016 and included protocol and networking changes that prepared the chain for further upgrades.
Read the briefing →Ethereum · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 29, 2016
The November 2016 upgrade included measures addressing denial-of-service pressure and cleaning up problematic account state.
Read the briefing →Ethereum · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 31, 2016
The October 2016 fork changed gas costs for certain operations after network load exposed a mismatch between resource use and fees.
Read the briefing →Security · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 24, 2016
The U.S. Department of Justice says a 2016 intrusion led to approximately 120,000 bitcoin being stolen from Bitfinex; funds were later traced and seized in part.
Read the briefing →Security · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 26, 2016
In 2016 a vulnerability in The DAO’s contract logic enabled an attacker to divert funds into a child DAO structure, triggering an intense community response.
Read the briefing →Ethereum · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 27, 2016
After an exploit drained funds from The DAO contract, the Ethereum community debated how to respond; a fork created the chain that retained the Ethereum name.
Read the briefing →The archived publication dates for these retrospectives fall in 2016.