Talk:Ethereum
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The repository linking to Go Ethereum in the infobox isn't quite right.
editGo-Ethereum is an implementation, client, or engine of the Ethereum Virtual Machine. The URL for the repository would be better as "www.github.com/ethereum". However this is compounded by the repository URL apparently being taken from the reference to the Go Ethereum repository for the license, being the only place that the reference occurs. Furthermore there are more licenses than GPLv3, LGPLv, others have been used such as MIT in many repos, Apache 2.0,[1] CC BY-SA 4.0,[2] MPL-2.0[3].(unsigned Talk page comment added by User:Jamesray1 on 2018-01-11T05:33:35)
References
- ^ https://github.com/ethereum/dopple.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ https://github.com/ethereum/yellowpaper/blob/master/LICENCE.md.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ https://github.com/ethereumjs/ethereumjs-vm/blob/master/LICENSE.
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Ethereum Max?
editThis has been highly reported recently, abetted by Kim Kardashian's pumping of it. Surely it should be on Wikipedia by now.
E.g. From
- He [Charles Randell, chair of the UK Financial Conduct Authority] then trained his attention on Kardashian, who, he noted, recently plugged "Ethereum Max" to 250 million Instagram followers.
- "In line with Instagram's rules, she disclosed that this was an #AD," Randell said. "But she didn't have to disclose that Ethereum Max — not to be confused with ethereum — was a speculative digital token created a month before by unknown developers, one of hundreds of such tokens that fill the crypto-exchanges."
- Randell acknowledged that he can't say whether this particular token is a scam. But he emphasized that regulators needed to do more to rein in this type of online activity. Platforms like Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR) and TikTok, he said, also need to "step up."
And:
- Kim Kardashian has been criticised for promoting an untested cryptocurrency on Instagram, by the head of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
- Charles Randell said Ms Kardashian had "asked her 250 million followers to speculate on crypto tokens" by promoting an advert for Ethereum Max.
- He called it "a speculative digital token created a month before by unknown developers".
- And he accused influencers of fuelling the "delusions of quick riches".
- Mr Randell was speaking to the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime.
- The FCA chairman said Ms Kardashian's Instagram post, which he noted had been correctly flagged as an ad, may have been the "financial promotion with the single biggest audience reach in history".
- The promoted token Ethereum Max was, he stressed, not to be confused with the Ethereum cryptocurrency.
- "I can't say whether this particular token [Ethereum Max] is a scam," he said.
Ethereum "History" section: CryptoKitties and ERC-721
editI've added a section in the history about the blockchain game CryptoKitties and the ERC-721 standard for NFTs. These inclusions are important for understanding the evolution of Ethereum and are not trivial mentions, especially given the significance of NFTs as a widely known and growing smart contract application. Their previous absence from the article’s history section may or may not have been a deliberate choice but I believe it's important to include them now given their historical significance.
The addition aims to enrich the article with notable developments in Ethereum's history. While CryptoKitties and the various instances of NFTs might seem unconventional, and there are varied perspectives on the value and legitimacy of NFTs, my focus is on their historical impact and technological significance. Including lead author William Entriken's contribution is essential when discussing the development of the ERC-721 standard on Ethereum. Similar to how Vitalik Buterin is recognized for first publishing the concept of Ethereum, Entriken played a crucial role in the formulation and adoption of the ERC-721 standard as a published EIP. His efforts in rallying stakeholders and guiding the standard to publication were instrumental in its success and have a place in Ethereum's history.
The notability of these topics is supported by credible and reputable sources, including mainstream outlets and scholarly literature.
I have introduced this information concisely, with encyclopedic prose, ensuring neutrality and adherence to Wikipedia's standards. I avoided sources from crypto-specific outlets to maintain a balanced perspective. Multiple sources are used within single footnotes, in a bullet list format, to support claims and provide comprehensive coverage of the topics. Codeconjurer777 (talk) 12:16, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
Updated chart of transactions over time?
editThere is a chart of "The number of daily confirmed Ethereum transactions as of April 2021". If someone has a chart updated to today (or at least mid-2023), that would help the reader understand whether there was a change in the rate of transactions after the Merge. Paulehoffman (talk) 20:03, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Article is completely missing any concept of Ethereum rollups and Ethereum layer 2
editThe article is completely missing explication of the concepts of Ethereum rollups and Ethereum layer 2 (L2) blockchains which make use of them. This seems odd given that Ethereum L2 chains now have billions of dollars transacting on them each day. Blockchains like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, StarkNet, etc. are all based on such rollup technology, of a few differnt types (optimistic rollups, ZK rollups). Article would be improved if this were added. N2e (talk) 03:05, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! Is this different from a token that operates on ethereum such as Tether (cryptocurrency). Thanks! Jtbobwaysf (talk) 06:04, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 22 May 2024
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Enterprise applications live on Ethereum Mainnet
Here are some of the enterprise applications that have been built on top of the public Ethereum Mainnet and L2s by and for traditional, non-blockchain based companies.
Brave Browser,pays users for their attention to advertisements and users can pay publishers to support them, via the Basic Attention Token.
City of Lugano, Switzerland(opens in a new tab) payment of taxes and other municipal services
EthereumAds, lets web site operators sell advertising space and get paid via Ethereum
hCaptcha, Bot prevention CAPTCHA system which pays web site operators for the work done by users to label data for machine learning. Now deployed by Cloudflare
Opera MiniPay, makes mobile payments more accessible and secure for people in Africa with a non-custodial wallet and leverages phone numbers for easy transactions
Roxpay, automates pay-per-use asset invoicing and payments
SAP Digital Currency Hub, cross border payments with stablecoins
Toku, payroll, token grant administration, tax compliance, local employment, benefits & distributed HR solutions
Xerof, facilitates fast and inexpensive international (cross-border) B2B payments Nicknti (talk) 07:22, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Not done - This list is counter to the purpose of Wikipedia, which does not host lists of external links or promotional lists of vendors. - MrOllie (talk) 11:47, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Nicknti: please discuss your proposed changes here. Be advised it is possible you will be banned if you continue to try to insert this content without consensus. You can work to get that consensus here on this talk page. Thanks! Jtbobwaysf (talk) 06:20, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi, I believe it is important to include information about the payments and enterprise applications showcased by the Ethereum Foundation on their site. Although I have removed the external links, this information is valuable for readers seeking comprehensive facts about Ethereum, particularly with the upcoming launch of the Ethereum ETF. Including this data will provide a more complete understanding of Ethereum's capabilities and real-world applications. Nicknti (talk) 07:02, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- We have in the past removed these use (likely proposed) use cases as they lacked WP:RS and we thus felt were WP:PROMO. You can find earlier discussions of this on this talk page (was a few years ago I recall). Could you see if you can find some high quality sources that cover this? I mean things sources like wsj, nyt, fortune, bloomberg, or forbes (no contributor pieces). We are not using blogs, WP:PRIMARY (things like the ethereum foundation), and cryptozines (like coindesk). Thanks! Jtbobwaysf (talk) 10:02, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi, I believe it is important to include information about the payments and enterprise applications showcased by the Ethereum Foundation on their site. Although I have removed the external links, this information is valuable for readers seeking comprehensive facts about Ethereum, particularly with the upcoming launch of the Ethereum ETF. Including this data will provide a more complete understanding of Ethereum's capabilities and real-world applications. Nicknti (talk) 07:02, 23 May 2024 (UTC)