Ethereum Community Survey | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Last November, we invited the Ethereum community to help us measure how we are doing, what we can improve, and how we can best communicate with all of you as we move toward the launch of the genesis block in March. We’ve created a simple survey for you. We believe it is very important to enable the community to interact with Ethereum as well as with Ethereum itself, and we hope to use the survey results as a guide to provide new and exciting tools to do so.
The survey itself consisted of 14 questions divided into two sections. Ethereum as an “organization” and Ethereum as a “technology”. There are a total of 286 answers. This corresponds to the current 7.8%. Ethereum returns population, or 2.4% of current @ethereumproject heeler.
Which country do you currently live in?
So this is where everyone lives. To summarize by continent, of the 286 respondents, 123 (43%) were from North America, 114 (40%) from Europe, 30 (10%) from Asia, 13 (5%) from Oceania, and 6 (2%). ) in South America. Not surprisingly, it shows how much work we, and the cryptocurrency space in general, have to do in the South. Brandt Line. One way to solve this is to start more international Ethereum meetups. You can view a map of all current Ethereum meetups. here (We have a total of 81 organizations worldwide, from London to New York to Tehran, with over 6000 participating members). If you’d like to get started yourself, please send us a message and we’ll be happy to provide further assistance. info@ethereum.org.
We understand that our transparency is very important to our community. To that end, we strive to make much of our internal work freely available on the Internet. As the chart shows, most people agree that we are doing just that. But you can always do more. We are currently ethereum.org This website is ready to launch Genesis Block. Expected to be completed by the end of January, expect much more content and information. In the meantime, take a look at: Ethereum GitHub repositoryOr go somewhere new ΞTH ΞV A website to better understand who brings Ethereum 1.0 to life and its truly amazing team.
We’ve always tried to provide our community with as much information as possible about our financial situation, and it seems like many of you agree. For more information on how Ethereum plans to use the revenue generated from Ether sales going forward, check out: roadmap and DΞV plan. To learn more about the Ether Sale itself, visit Vitalik’s Introduction to Ethereum Sale, Ethereum Bitcoin WalletOr that Ethereum Sales Statistics Overview.
While most people agree that Ethereum has clear use cases in society, we are not yet sure we have it all figured out. Every day we talk to developers and entrepreneurs via Skype or IRC (Sign up for your browser – #ethereum / #ethereum-dev) People who have come up with new and interesting ideas that we are trying to implement on top of Ethereum – many of them are new to us. Check out Stephan Tual’s recent presentation for a brief overview of some of the use cases we’ve encountered. NewFinance.
We are doing our best to keep everyone up to date with the numerous changes, updates and general progress on the project over recent months. In particular, Gavin Wood and Jeff Wilcke have written excellent blog updates on how things are going in their respective Berlin and Amsterdam ÐΞV hubs.
ΞTH ÐΞV’s Mission Statement It is now proudly featured on the ΞTH ÐΞV website for all to see. It details what needs to be achieved over time, but “communication and agreements between the parties are automatically enforced in a secure, decentralized and fair manner as best as possible.”
Like the cryptocurrency space in general, Ethereum can be a bit difficult to understand at first. Undoubtedly, our job is to make the process of gaining understanding and enabling participation as easy and intuitive as possible. As previously mentioned, the new look ethereum.org website will be a valuable tool to help people access the right information that they can apply to their knowledge and skills. Additionally, over time, we aim to create a Udemy/Codacademy like utility where people with different skills, from no technical skills to Jedi Masters, can learn how Ethereum works and how to implement their ideas. In the meantime, a good place to start for those looking to use Ethereum is Ken Kappler’s recent tutorial.
This was an important question because it gave us many perspectives on what aspects we should focus on before Genesis and what (although useful) we could develop after it. From a UI perspective, the Go team in Amsterdam is working to create Mist, Ethereum’s “Ðapp Navigator”. The initial design idea for Mist was presented by lead UI designer Alex Van de Sande. this video.
Ease of installation has a huge impact on user adoption. We can’t have people recompiling their clients every time a new update is pushed! So a binary with an internal update system is in the pipeline. Client reliability (bugs) are being acted upon by Jutta Steiner, Internal and External Security Audit Manager. we are Community Bug Bounty Project It’s scheduled to launch by mid-January, so stay tuned and get ready to win hefty 11-digit Satoshi rewards, leaderboards, and other “1337” prizes.
Developer tools are also coming soon. Specifically the project “Mix”. Mix supports some rather surprising features, including documentation, compiler, and debugger integration for writing information about code state, valid invariants, code structure and code formatting, variable values, and assertion truth annotations. This is a long-term project expected to be completed within the next 12 to 18 months. Currently we are very focused on perfecting the blockchain. Once complete, resources can be reallocated to other important projects. More information can be found here: mix presentation In ÐΞVcon-0. At this time, documentation is continuously being created. Ethereum GitHub Wiki.
Blogs and social media interactions will continue to provide Ethereum content on relevant channels with the goal of reaching the widest possible audience.
with More people own smartphones than computers Just imagine how prosperous they will already be. time goes on? This is especially the case in emerging markets such as India and Nigeria, where they are likely to see widespread adoption very quickly, to some extent beyond computers. mobile light client It will be critical to the usefulness of Ethereum. As part of a joint project between IBM and Samsung “versed“(not IoT Platforms currently being released CES 2015) is the Android version of ethereumj, the Ethereum Java client. Open source on GitHub. This will be a great help in getting Ethereum Mobile!
It’s interesting to see very mixed answers to this question. As I said before, the use cases for Ethereum are as broad as they are diverse, and it’s cool to see the different types of services people are trying to implement on top of Ethereum. The emphasis on governance-based apps highlights Ethereum’s ability to foster interaction between the digital and physical worlds and create self-governed communities that can compete with both governments and corporations. Primavera De Filippi and Raffaele Mauro looked into this in more detail. Journal of Internet Policy Review.
This chart shows a reasonably even distribution. We’ve done our best to make a variety of clients available on a variety of operating systems. You can find the Alethzero binary hereAnd the Mist binary here. However, these may become obsolete very quickly and may not be connected to the testnet as development continues. So if you’re considering using Ethereum before launch, it’s worth checking out: Client Building Tutorial To get the latest version of the client.
With Mist (Go), Alethzero (C++), Pythereum (Python) Node-Ethereum (Node.js), and Ethereumj (Java), Ethereum already has a large number of clients. that much yellow paper This book, written by Gavin Wood, is a great reference for the community to create their own clients, as seen in clients still in development, such as Clojure and Objective C iterations.
As Gavin Wood mentioned: Previous blog post, Mutan and LLL are not used as smart contract languages. Vitalik will continue to develop Serpent with Vitalik’s team, and Soldity will continue to be used as the primary development language for Ethereum contracts. you can try Browser robustnessor Recently Watched Vision and Roadmap Presentation by Gavin Wood and Vitalik Buterin at ÐΞVcon-0.
We would like to thank Alex Van de Sande for his help implementing the survey and chart graphics. Icons found in Icon 8. If anyone would like a copy of the original survey results, please feel free to email me. george@ethdev.com.
