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I thought it was time to give an update on my side of things for those interested in knowing how we are doing on the Dutch side. I’m Jeff, the founder of Ethereum and one of the three directors (along with Vitalik and Gavin) at Ethereum. ÐΞVthe development entity that builds Ethereum and all its associated technologies.
Over the past months I have been searching for a suitable office space to host the Amsterdam Centre. Unfortunately, it’s more work than I initially expected and I don’t have anything to show for it yet. I performed these tasks for my dear friend and now colleague Maran. Maran will do everything possible to find the best suitable location for the Ams Center and Mist development. Those who use the Ethereum programming language Mutant You may want to switch to Serpent or the soon-to-be de facto programming language hardness. I made a sensible decision to focus my attention on more pressing matters such as protocol and browser development. Maybe in the future I will have time to continue developing it again.
ÐΞV Amsterdam
Finally, after two months, the lawyers were able to establish the company here in Amsterdam (ah, the Dutch and their bureaucracy, eh) and we found a bank willing to accept us as its loyal clients (… ). At the moment we have a few options for our office spaces and I will write about them as soon as I know something more specific.
the team
It’s time for the Ams to get a proper introduction. These guys are doing some serious good work!
The first to join the Ams team is Alex van de Sande (Also known as He abdicated the throne). Alex is a talented UX engineer and has been with us for a long time. It was only a matter of time before he became an official member of Team ÐΞV. Alex was a UI developer and UX expert who prototyped the latest Web3 browser.
The second one to join the team is… Victor Thrawn. Vik is a mad mathematician who is currently working on hacking and thoroughly testing the new DEVP2P. I have known Vic since the beginning of the project somewhere in January/February, he is a great guy and a real asset to this team.
The third one to join the team is… Felix Long. Felix is a hardcore gopher (yay!) and the first thing he pointed out was that I did a poor job of taking care of my routines and there were a lot of race conditions, very nice of him (-; Felix is going to do Whisper once the specs are officially finalized. Felix is a superstar and has the ability On becoming a real Ethereum Core developer.
The fourth person to join the team is Daniel Nagy. Daniel has a history in cryptography and security and his first tasks were to create comprehensive specifications for DHT implementation and development.
Last but certainly not least Maran Headsex. Maran has been in this team before but in a completely different role. Maran used to work on The Protocol but after producing A A crying, urinating, and defecating machine A new member of his family decided to take a vacation. Now his main role is to take care of the arduous task. Management of ÐΞV Amsterdam.
Although they are not on anyone’s team, I would like to thank Nick, Cactus and Joris for their continued efforts in developing our site. Building systems. I’d also like to specifically thank Nick for pointing out the discrepancies between our implementations: Nick, you really are a huge pain in my ass (-;
Onwards
As we move toward the next batch in proof of concept (PoC-7), we still have a lot of work ahead of us.
I recently started building a kit so we can test out Christoph’s (a member of the Berlin team) cool test suit. Christoph has put a tremendous amount of work into developing a suitable test suit for the Ethereum protocol. I never knew people could enjoy writing tests as much as you do, you have my utmost respect.
I also started a multi-executing JavaScript framework called ethereum.js. Ethereum.js is gaining rapid adoption from the rest of the Ether Hackers and is already in use with Go websocket & JSON RPC implementation, C++ JSON RPC implementation and Node.js implementation. Ethereum.js is a true cross-implementation team effort.
Our Polish partners at IMAPP (Paweł and Artur) have completed their first implementation of a JIT-compiled LLVM-based EVM and agreed to build a Go bridge so that Mist can benefit from the speed increase in running Ethereum contracts mentioned earlier in Java update.
Fin
I will try to continue writing the blog post with updates regarding Mist, the protocol, and ÐΞV in general, so stay tuned!
Jeff (jeffrey.spammenot.wilcke@ethdev.com)
